Originally Posted by
Sharpandpointies
I'm not seeing any place named, which makes it Khazan, 100' starting distance (ugh, this really favours the cavalry), Khazan big enough to accommodate both sides.
Rough call.
The 100' distance favours the cavalry - they'll cross that pretty quickly, enduring less arrows in the doing. If they can hit the elves and break their formation, it won't matter if there are more Elves (depending on just how MANY more there, obviously there's a point where the numbers will tell); the Amazons are a superior force in-close, and they'll be riding in on horses after a successful cavalry charge against footsoldiers. Especially since, in Khazan, there's nothing preventing the cavalry from riding to attack the flanks before the footsoldiers can adjust their enormous formation.
However, the Elves have some advantages themselves.
1. They have the correct equipment - spears, armor, and loads of archers - to fight off a cavalry charge;
2. They're fast enough to start with the arrows before the cavalry arrives, and their archers are like...movie-archer good;
3. If the Amazons try flanking, it's just going to get them hammered by the archers that much longer.
I'm tempted to say the Amazons take this. Numbers aren't THAT different, the Amazons are physically superior, and it's only 100' distance. Lemme see...
*goes and watches fight sequences from the movie*
Well. That was something. Now my current feeling is that the Amazons take this. They're doing stuff like loosing arrows accurately while bungee jumping, loosing arrows while from the middle of a cavalry charge with sufficient accuracy to punch a guy in the heart and enough power to send him flying off his feet a meter backward. They're leaping dozens of feet in the air and throwing knives while doing so to kill multiple people simultaneously. It's almost movie-Legolas crap, and these are no-name, mook Amazons.
I figure they charge the Elven formation while loosing arrows at the front ranks. The Elves loose back. The Elves are going to do more damage than the Amazons, here, due to having better armor, but not so much that it matters - the first wave of Amazons arrives and either powers in (assuming they can get their horses to do so) or leaps off their horses, over the first rank of Elves, and starts fighting. They're not going to last, but the Elven spear wall formation collapses, the rest of the cavalry charge hits, and things just go downhill from there.
Mileage may vary, and I'm curious to hear other people's opinions.