"SIEGE OF HARFLEUR -- LIVE VIDEO LINK!!!" Topic

Well, now we are certifiably insane…

(It's a big file -- about 30 megs -- so will take some time to load)

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I get an "Object expected" and "Invalid character" Error. Poop.

Kewl! Thanks!

I went a little overboard with the description -- it's not really live, just pre-recorded… still, pretty nice.

NEWS FROM THE HARFLEUR FRONT:

Harfleur has fallen.

101 French KIA

300 English KIA

Leaving 60 French effectives, 180 English effectives

On turn 16 the besieged French garrison failed their second ARMY BREAKPOINT CHECK while the English attackers passed their first check.

Two wall sections were breached, with English troops pouring through one and in the midst of fighting their way through barricades erected by the defenders atop the rubble of the other.

A hard-fought battle with heavy casualties on both sides, ending in a clear victory for the English attackers.

English siege engines suffered rather badly, with one bombard misfiring and blowing itself up, their large trebuchet destroyed by enemy artillery on the very first turn, medium trebuchet destroyed by enemy catapult fire towards the end of the battle and one of their two siege towers destroyed by the sole French trebuchet. Both English rams and one siege tower, as well as several other bombards, survived.

Now it will be on to Agincourt for the victors…

(But we'll have to put all the castle parts away first for that to occur -- and I don't think it's going to happen -- we all had too much fun attacking and defending the walls!)

Pics to come as fast as our photo guy can manage. Despite his loss, the French commander is obsessed with getting photographic evidence of the destruction of one English siege tower on the permanent record…

O Fortuna!

That was cool, were definitely going to need to see more stuff like that.

Thanks much!

Clear victory indeed – NOT. More like a Pyrrhic victory. France will not accept this insult.

48 of our gallant knights died in an audacious charge because of incorrect rule interpretations causing only 32 English longbow casualties. So 50% of the French casualties occurred early in the game outside of the walls. 112 French troops killed 268 English and destroyed a siege tower and many enemy artillery pieces suffering a mere 53 casualties.

One third of the city walls could not be defended with artillery for no apparent reason other than the English demanding certain positioning. The French had one bombard, one medium catapult and an organ gun. The bombard blew up during its first use and the organ gun could only be used inside the castle once breached. The only crow employed did nothing. However the grand tradition of superb French artillery was established here…by our brave and lone medium catapult.

Tactica siege rules are a bit murky but enjoyable once the kinks are worked out.

Revanche… this coming weekend the flower of French chivalry will teach the syphilitic English the meaning of fear…and the meaning of a clear victory by French arms of course…

We shall drink our wines from the skulls of our enemies…

Our bombard blew up on the second use – it destroyed the English heavy catapult first…

The defenders also dumped 400000000 metric tons of rocks onto the drunken English… for they, the English swine, need drink to face even our weakest troops.

English aggression shall be punished…

Special thanks to the English propaganda machine for recording the French triumph…and officiating under difficult circumstance for the forces under Mad Guru lose 95% of the time…

Where is that skull? I need more wine…

I choose not to engage at Pigbull's level in blow by blow disputations regarding the effect of devastating flank attacks or the impossibility of mounting heavy gunpowder weapons on standard castle battlements, as opposed to atop large towers or gatehouse rooftops. I would rather focus on the many improvements which the citizenry of Harfleur shall begin to enjoy, now that they are ruled over by a wise and benevolent -- as well as militarily triumphant -- English monarch. We wish the French well in drinking all their wine -- no doubt it makes it easier to swallow defeat.

So say all fearful conquerors…

Soon we shall empty our bladders on the corpses of the English…again.