Friday night Hail Caesar

Dave's crusaders v. Jim's Muslims, 390 pts.

The Infidels are on the far side.   Both sides have 3 divisions.

 The Muslims tried to advance but only their left actually did.

The Muslim cavalry was no match for the Crusaders & their left flank was broken before the rest of their army advanced much at all.

The Muslim left & centre finally got moving, trying to pull something off before the Crusader cavalry could smash into the left flank.

The Muslims got a break when the Crusader cavaly blundered backwards, but then discovered that their foot was outclassed & soon broken.  Their right flank cavalry did have some success, but it was too late to save the day as the loss of 2 divisions meant they failed their Army Break Test.

This an example of how crude the Hail Caesar points system is.  The armies were evenly matched according to the HC points, but clearly not so on the table.  The main deficiency is they give equal weight to each parameter, but they are not equal, in particular the morale value is far more important than the others.