10 heavy cavalry vs some troops & mages

[Taqwus]

*shrug* I was thinking that the sages were the high-value target here, because if these are ALL that either side has (and by the conditions, neither side is going to get more troops -- assuming unrest is 200+ so tax=0 + patrol is going to take too long) --


* killing all the enemy commanders prevents his attack, and forces him to rout (giving you his province if you're on the attack, keeping your province if you waited to defend for initiative reasons)

* losing most/all your HC but leaving at least one enemy commander alive, some of the HI, plus the xbowmen probably guarantees that you lose your province to his attack -- you have no reserves/pd

From that I figure you pretty much have to shoot the moon. *shrug*