A Knight To Remember - the aftermath

A toy-soldier pack well worth looking out for

ONCE again, playing with toy soldiers produced a fun scenario that neither of us took too seriously.
My opponent said, given the same circumstances, he would choose to defend the river crossing rather than picking the Black army.
He had correctly realised the rules make mounted knights very powerful - more powerful than I expected - but that was not enough to overcome the disadvantage of having to cross a river to get to grips with the enemy.
Of course there was a lot of luck involved, as exampled by the eventually wonderful dice-throwing of my crossbowman compared with the worse-than-mediocre results of his opposite number.
The one thing that surprised both of us was the relatively poor shooting of the engines. We were expecting them to dominate the battlefield, but instead they turned out to perform much more like their real-life counterparts. I guess it is a case where pre-battle practice would have made a big difference.
All in all, excellent value for money since the only new things I bought for the scenario were the playset itself, which cost well under £5, and the £1 pack of willow edging from Poundland.