Ceidonians vs Pyrates

I played another game with the Ceidonians the other day. This time they were facing the Pyrates.

The Pyrates have a ton of warband, which is good news for the Ceidonian knights and behemoth, but also have an airboat, some shooter and artillery, so are not necessarily a pushover.

I switched the Ceidonians to five knights, two spears, two hordes, the behemoth and the hero. The Ceidonians defended.

The Pyrates massed their warband on the one flank for a flanking move through the hordes and into the wood. The Ceidonians responded by switching the behemoth and hero to that flank, as well as swinging the knights across (risking fire from the Pyrates' cannon)

The Pyrates crashed into the hordes.

Some of them had been diverted by the Ceidonian knights in the centre, though.

The Ceidonians' knight-wedge was pushed back by a band of cut-throats, and then destroyed by fire from the cannon.

There was action everywhere now.

The Ceidonians lost a knightto warband! This was not going well.

On the other flank their knights were obliged to charge some Pyrate musketeers,

The results were inevitable.

The Ceidonians started to get their act together, taking out one band of Pyrate warband.

The giant accounted for some more, before teaming up with the hero to take out another group.

The Pyrate musketeers shot down some of the Ceidonian spearmen, but it wasn't enough. The Pyrates lost 13-10