Alan Snider  - Oct 15, 2005 6:41 pm (#10971 Total: 11030)  
On the Playtest Table: Khyber Pass Games' "The Battle of the 
Little Bighorn"; and announcing the "Northern Knights Wargaming 
Group" in Vancouver, Canada with a retail store of it's own at 
http://www.stalag17wargames.com/ 	 

GAMEDAY, OCT 14: (This is crossposted from a post by Terence Co aka
joserizal in the Khan folder) 

Just played Khan the other night with Alan Snider this is a summary of
what happened. 

The first three turns looked bleak for the Kingdoms player. The Mongols
managed to pacify the Uiguhrs, Xia Xia and Chin with little effort and
loss by turn 3, they built their great capital by turn 2, built a
Khanate capital in Chin by turn 3. By this turn, the Kingdoms player
only had 3-4 stratagem chits, only had Mien under his control and zero
treasury points. 

Then on turn 3 or 4 it turned with the mongols and kingdoms player
rolling revolt events which brought most of the muslim regions(except
for the Delhi Sultanate) on the Kingdoms player side, along with France,
Crusader states and Tartary coming later. The Kingdoms player used his
huge income in treasury to buy more stratagem chits and build up the
miliaries of some regions especially the Kwarizm. 

The Mongol player sensing this attacked the Kwarizm empire in the
process attacking Tartary(with the purpose of controlling them later).
While the Mongols managed to temporarily control samarkand and sacked
Bokhara, the enraged Tartars struck back in turn 4 aided by levies and
Kingdoms monies, they launched a massive offensive towards Mongolia,
killing Genghis Khan, Borte, one other leader, destroying several Mongol
Toumens in the process(due to the play of a few military advantage
chits, gunpowder chit and treachery) and reaching the gates of
Kharakorum itself(the Tartars almost pillaged Kharakorum but did not
have the Operations points to attack the capital itself even though a
garrison was only defending it). The Kwarizm while losing and gaining a
leader in the process managed to eject the Mongols from their territory.
In the death of the Great khan(Genghis), the Mongols lost all their
stratagem chits which is a temporary advantage for the Kingdoms player. 

In turn 4, the Mongols struck back, destroying the Tartars besieging
Kharakorum but sensing the game was about to end the next turn took
positions to protect Kharakorum with three stacks of Mongol toumens
forming interlocking ZOCs. The Mongols also settled back and did not
really spend their treasury points. 

The Kingdoms player on the other hand spend half of their treasury to
buy more stratagem chits and buy more units for their regions. The
Tartars made another but sensing that they did not have enough
operations points to reach and besiege Kharakorum again made a stab
towards Xia Xia destroying a few units in the way but managing to lose a
unit due to force march. They do however capture a city in the process. 

The last turn(turn 5), had the Mongols not attacking but protecting
their conquests, the Kingdoms player played a lot of chits this
turn(paper money, some diplomacy attempts, playing Crusades etc.).
Playing Crusades managed to bring France into the Kingdoms fold and in
the process, the Ayubbids evacuated Jerusalem and the Crusader states
took it over thereby getting the Kingdoms player extra stratagem chits.
The Tartars made a renewed dash towards Kharakorum only to be destroyed
in the process and the lone Tartar force in Xia Xia managed to capture a
city within Chin itself but failing to reach and pillage the Khanate
capital there which was the goal. 

In the end, it was a victory for the Mongol player with 98 VPs compared
to the Kingdoms 97 VPs.