I won't give a full after action report from the game I played a couple weeks ago. The photos below convey the gist of the skirmish in which three mounted Nahorn scouts met six Kru dog faces on foot. The Kru's objective was to get someone on the high ground to observe the Nahorn outpost and return off their own board edge with the information. The Nahorn objective was to prevent the Kru from returning with intelligence that the outpost was inadequately defended.
In similar scenarios I've played, the Kru always split up and every dog face fends for himself--leaving them to face the riders alone. This time, the Kru leader kept his warriors together. However, the line formation he used was vulnerable at each end, which is where the horse scouts targeted their attacks. The Nahorn men waited for the Kru to clear the rough and brushy ground before striking. The mounted spearman above took out two Kru in one pass--slaying them both.
One of the dog faces did get to the high ground and howled the intelligence back to the leader, who almost escaped with it. The Kru captain couldn't outrun the horses, and, on 4th and goal, a Nahorn blade put him down permanently only inches shy of the end zone.
Two riders were pulled from their mounts, but they survived. The dismounted riders chased the last dog face into the brush and treated him to multiple rounds of that popular game "Spear point, axe head, who's got the wound." The Kru refused to go down easily. He succeeded in catching wound after wound until he finally lost consciousness
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