Quote Originally Posted by Death the destroyer of worlds
You were warned about the 'killer skirmishers' in the FAQ. My objective analysis is that you were too reckless. I won quite easily when I played it yesterday, but I was lucky with my starting deployment. Yours was slightly less fortunate. Cavalry should never be used to fight it out, especially not with skirmishers.
It wasn't that I was reckless, I just lost track of my cavalry and before I knew it they were halfway down the mountain, in a wood, fighting 3 units of peltasts.

I no-longer play with the pause button (except for screenies) - I weaned myself off it a long time ago on MTW in order to make the game more challenging. In RTW where things happen so much quicker, a few seconds inattention and before you realise, you've lost a unit. In a big battle like this one with lots of units to control its