The Last Light at Ashford
Battlefield: a dense pine forest · 9 Oct 2026 · Ranked
Crusader Knights
150 heavily armoured knights in full plate on barded warhorses with lances and longswords, supported by 300 crossbowmen behind large pavise shields.
Mongol Horde
600 Mongol horse archers with composite bows and spare horses, using feigned retreats and constant movement, backed by 100 lancers in lamellar armour for the final charge.
ROUND 1 OF 4
Crusader Knights loose a crossbow volley from behind the pavises. Across a dense pine forest, Mongol Horde wheel across a dense pine forest at a gallop, arrows already in the air.
ROUND 2 OF 4
Crusader Knights hack through Mongol Horde with longswords from the saddle. Mongol Horde see horses brought down in the press.
ROUND 3 OF 4
Mongol Horde shower Crusader Knights with arrows from every side, never letting them close. Crusader Knights see unhorsed knights swarmed in the melee.
ROUND 4 OF 4
Mongol Horde circle and shoot, circle and shoot, bleeding Crusader Knights white. Crusader Knights are finally dragged from the saddle one by one.
» The lancers hit like a hammer and Crusader Knights disintegrates.
THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT
A genuinely close fight. Crusader Knights brings crushing lance charge, while Mongol Horde answers with constant horse archery. Terrain and nerve on a dense pine forest could swing it either way.
- Crushing lance charge
- Arrows eventually run out
- The battlefield: a dense pine forest
MVP: A teenage horse archer who never missed
Mongol Horde holds a dense pine forest, bloodied but victorious. Crusader Knights is finished as a fighting force.