Already posted this on the Yahoo list, but perhaps some who won't see it there will enjoy it here.
Sometime in the mid-15C, the Grand Vizier took a pause from extinguishing the last sorry remnants of the Roman Empire for a springtime invasion of Wallachia. He was opposed by some obscure Bela Lugosi-lookalike.
The Grand Vizier himself commanded the centre, of janissary and azab archers (Bw), who spent the morning digging a ditch across the central part of the field. On the right, there was a subgeneral with a bunch of sipahi and one element of qapiqulu, who'd try and go around the big rocky hill on that part of the field to fall the deplorable infidels in the flank. One the left, more sipahi and a bunch of akinci, plus a few handgunner poised to seize the wood on that part of the field.
Opposing these were a big block of Wallachian archers facing the Turkish archers and part of the hill, to the left of these a mixture of Wallachian boyars and "crusader" mercenaries (facing the sipahis of the Ottoman left), and on the extreme right wing a big wodge of viteji. The wannabe thespian was with the archers.
The attempt by the Ottoman right to circle the hill was thwarted by some unexpectedly expeditious marching by a group of Wallachian bowmen, and the Turkish riders turned back for fear of being knocked back over the edge of the world. Nothing of that command would play a further role in the battle, except for the qapiqulu who had stayed behind to protect the janissaries' flank.
On the other flank, the akinci and handgunners (who had first rushed through the woods) launched a cunning attack - all the Turkish commanders emphatically agree on its extraordinary cunningness - on a column of viteji that were trying to go round the woods. Allah was evidently asleep, however, and the Wallachian general shrugged off a rear attack while the viteji mostly survived various combinations of hardflanks and blocked recoils, instead chasing away the akinci (being killed when attacking 2QK:0 sucks!).
In the centre the Wallachians had advanced into the space between the wood and the hill, but then declined to come into bow range. Seeing that things weren't looking too sunny on the flanks, the Grand Vizier - mostly dashingly - decided to leave the ditch behind and advance into bow range. Archery proved fairly indecisive, however, producing mostly recoils, the Turks destroying two elements of curteni for the loss of one of azabs over several bounds.
Meanwhile, the boyars and mercenaries, joined by some viteji, attacked the Ottoman cavalry left of the archers, while another group of viteji, which had originally detached from the main group to protect the left flank of the army from the attempted envelopement by the Turkish right, interpenetrated the curteni to hit the janissaries. The later were repulsed, but the former inflicted enough casualties to, in combination with the losses of akinci, dishearten the Turkish left. However, one of the crusader elements also went down, exposing the flank of the Wallachian subgeneral.
Seeing that the left was about to collapse, and with the bulk of the right still not in a position to help, the Grand Vizier decided that it was time for desperate measures. The Wallachian subgeneral was promptly hardflanked while the Grand Vizier himself, with exemplary bravery, charged his opposite number, the qapiqulu charing alongside him into some curteni. Allah evidently having woken up, the subgeneral obligingly went down, and, with a 6-2 split on the dice, so did the stake fetishist. This broke their respective commands and therewith the Wallachian army, the Grand Vizier's decisiveness having transformed a distinctly pear-shaped situation into a 22-3 victory.
Some photos were taken during the game, but I haven't seen them yet. If I get hold of them, and they're any good, I'll post them here for your delectation.
