5 Hegemons vs New Kingdom Egyptians

Opening deployment of the armies. The Lshape deployment of my infantry was to prevent the Tsu from getting hit too early. In MeG, there is a 1BW follow through into combat rule.
My Chariots wheel to face off Lawrence's Chariots and Bow unit on the flank. The Chinese infantry move closer and closer to the rough.
Same photo as the previous one.
The Skirmishers are about to earn their shooting stripes.
Lots of action here. The Chinese Chariots advance forwards while the Egyptian Chariots on Lawrence's right fall back. The 6 of Chariots on his left meanwhile charge the Skirmishers, catch them, and suffer 3 wounds from white dice shooting. I do however have Chariots behind my infantry. Ugh.
The Skilled Nubians were scoring a steady trickle of damage, but not quite enough to break the unit if Polearms facing it. The Libyans are behind the Nubians ready to charge next turn.
In the end, I lose a Polearm unit, a 6 base Chariot unit and the Skirmishers. However I've taken out 2 Chariots, an archer unit, the Egyptian Close Fighters, and the camp. One 6 base Chariot unit took out the latter 3 without breaking. Also, we agreed that as my Devastating Chargers were on their last wound from breaking, and the Egyptians scored 2 Ss on a yellow and a red dice, which shouldn't have happened, that the Devastating Chargers were broken. So in the end, the score was 15-7 in favour of the Chinese.

I saw one mistake that the Egyptians made. I think they should have waited for the Nubians to take out the Polearms, at the very least, before charging with the Libyans. 
Very good game and thanks to my opponent, Lawrence Greaves.

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