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10mm Kara Koyunlu Sultan's Guard as an ally for MeG Aq Koyunlu

Six bases of Kara Koyunlu Sultan's Guard. Also know as Black Sheep Turkomen, an allied unit for my White Sheep Turkomen. Threatening Mix of browns and blacks, with white flashes and horn details on some. TB line Islamic lancers. Lovely figures, great fun to paint, They will be used as Kurdish lancers in MeG, so one unit is majority yellow, the other majority green. Lemon-ish and Lime-ish Kurd-ish! To be added to my mongols when they pretend to be Ak Koyunlu (White Sheep Turkomen) Top view Off they trot My view CHARGE! Quote Quick Edit More...

Mortem et Gloriam - Ak Koyunlu (White Sheep Turkoman) vs Seljuk Turks

 Okay, slight historical mismatch, but it was an army I knew I could put out straight away against Neil's beautifully painted Seljuks. It's roughly the same patch of land, it will do, only 350 years out... Oh, and it's a chance to use this true Legend as my Legendary CinC! This is, along with my Tudors, is one of my least successful armies. I am useless with horse archers and mounted skirmishers. I am not a horse lord like Nik nor Paul, so this was going to be tight. My list, only 9 unit, squeak! Well, after a strategic intercept. this is also a good start. I was attacking, on the plains, in 'Nomral' terrain, and I'm not used to this many scouting cards. White/Black =0%, Green = 10%, Yellow is 20% and Red is 40%. So Neil scores 100, I score 140, so rather outscout him by 40%. Neil heads to the safety of a hill on the right, avoiding the terrain on the left, and basically we both ignored the left-hand side of the table! He deployed in two lines, lights to the fro...