Summing Up Our Refight Of Charles Grant's Battle Of Kadesh

THIS was a decisive victory for the Hittites, with the Re corps swept from the battlefield, much as its real-life predecessor was in 1274 BC.

In the real battle, fighting continued, with the Hittites attacking Pharoah's camp and the Amun corps, both sides eventually claiming to have triumphed.

But that part of the action was not in Grant's scenario, which ended rather indecisively with the Hittites having lost more than a third of their chariots, although Re also suffered many casualties.

My opponent and I agreed our refight was a lot of fun, and, although it may be immodest of me to say so, my modified version of Neil Thomas's biblical rules from Ancient & Medieval Wargaming resulted in what felt to us to be a realistic encounter, considering the situation of the two forces, and an enjoyably fast-paced one.

Battlefield at the end, with two of the four remaining Egyptian units facing imminent elimination