Colin was CORRECT….the dreaded Zanj were even more awesome than I thought (the results sheet for round 4 was found to have had the armies reversed…round 4 was a ‘use your opponent’s army’ round, so Simon W won with Zanj , not Dacians, as I had recorded).
Try again…
Here are the armies and their game results. W = win, D = draw, L = lost, X = army arrived after start time, missed a game.
Zanj Revolt - WWWWW D
Neo-Elamite - WWWWW L
Dacian+Sarmatian ally - WWWW LL
Samurai - WWW D LL
Spartacus - WWW D LL
War of the Roses- WWW D LL
Wu Chinese - WWW LLL
Golden Horde - WWW LLL
Arab Indian - WWW LLL
Anglo-Norman- WW DD LL
Alans - WW LLLL
Timurids - WW X LLL
Later Hungarian- WW LLLL
Early Egyptian- WW LLLL
Thracians- W LLLL (+ X, but lost fill-in game)
Gallic- W LLLLL
So best armies were indeed the dreaded Zanj.
Neo-Elamite and then Dacian with Sarmatian Ally were best of the rest.
Paper and pencil is foolproof unless some fool (sounds like me) doesn’t fill his result sheet in correctly!
Al Ibn Muhammad can now rest easy.
Colin