3 different sets of Agincourt just posted at the Hollywood Brigadiers site:
(1) A bunch of pics titled "Agincourt 2009 – Early morning." These show the tabletop terrain we laid out for the battle, along with a handful of units from both armies.
(2) A small group of pics titled "Agincourt in Art." All these pics were treated in a special way in an effort to make them look more like painted "art" than photos. Whether or not this worked is up for debate, but I do think the treated pics look pretty cool.
(3) A lot of pics of our first refight of the battle, titled "Agincourt 2009 – Day one." This battle resulted in a decisive French victory. As usual we used our favorite TACTICA MEDIEVAL rules, however, unfortunately for the English we did NOT use the special "MUD" rule, which would have limited French movement and forced the French heavy units to suffer additional longbow volleys prior to closing with the English troops.
Some day soon we will hopefully post pics from our second refight, for which we DID use the "mud" rules, and which resulted in a narrow English victory.
hollywoodbrigadiers.com/gallery
With regard to the rules… lately there seems to be a lot of discussion of medieval rules sets here on TMP. I know "Tactica Medieval" is about 20 years old but that doesn't keep me from saying it's hands down my favorite set for the period. It's not perfect -- what commercially printed rules set is (TSATF is the only one I can think of!) -- but the basic system lends itself to maintaining its integrity while leaving room to be customized in areas where you decide it needs it (for instance, fighting in built-up areas or using gunpowder artillery for field battles). Plus the rule book also includes an excellent set of siege rules.
In the interests of full disclosure I'll add that It's true we have large armies and like to fight big battles with them and stick to historically accurate opponents and "Tactica Medieval" was pretty much taylor-made for us in both cases!
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