Call for ideas

I'm up to the point in the next-to-last novel where Jame has to fight Death's-head against a Central Lands warrior.  He has a war-horse clad with full scale armor ( see cataphract). He himself has mail armor and at least a spear, maybe with a crow's-beak hook, maybe a mace, axe, or sword for close work.  Jame only has the shield that Gaudaric made for her.  At least this time she remembers to wear her helmet.    This, she reflects, is not really her fighting  form.  On the whole, she is depending on the rathorn to fight for her, as the Commandant said he would.

Thoughts about how this could go?