El Cid AAR

Tonight we had our first game of El Cid using Hail Ceaser. I did a bit of extra painting to ensure we had enough figures, in particular the man himself needed to be finished.


Spanish standard bearer from Gripping beast.

El Cid campeador, again Gripping Beast character figure, love the cloak.

The forces were fairly even but the Christians had much more heavy Cavalry whilst the Moors had an abundance of light cavalry.


The Moors had 5 units of light javelin armed cavalry and one of horse archers, plus 3 units of mercenary knights, add this to five units of medium foot an 3 units of archers.


The Christians had 5 units of heavy knights and two of light javelin armed cavalry plus 5 units of heavy foot and 2 of medium foot and three units of crossbows plus one of slingers.


The Christians had the edge in quality and numbers but the Moors had a more flexible force.

The Moors tried to use their light cavalry to get behind the Christians on each flank, whilst the Christians wanted to hold off the Moorish light horse and force a decision with their infantry in the middle. The Moors had wisely kept El Cids mercenaries in the middle to bolster their foot.


The Moorish Horse drove off the Christian light cavalry on the right flank and pushed back the crossbows, they were however unable to make any headway on the left against a force of Christian Knights.


Meanwhile in the middle the battle swung back and forth with the main foot forces and the remaining Christian Knights taking on El Cids Merenaries.

After loosing a unit of Mercenary horse and Christian foot things were evenly balanced as the night drew to a close, the Moors were able to hold the Christians on the wings and in the last Melee of the night El Cid destroyed a unit of Christian Knights and followed up to the remaining unit punching through in the centre to achieve a hard fought victory.




A fun first outing for the Spanish forces ad a very enjoyable game. Thanks Andy, Chris C, Chris F, and Mark.


Partizan on Sunday. See some of you there I hope on our Bagamayo game.