"Agincourt demo game at Salute - Lance & Longbow Soc" Topic

The Lance and Longbow Society will putting on a demo game of Agincourt at the Salute show this Saturday. We are located at table GN11 – near the rear of the hall when you enter Excel. So do come straight down and ignore all the seller's wonderful wares!!

We are planning to array the French according to their pre battle plans, which were discovered in a document in the British Library; with a screen of crossbowmen and wings of mounted men at arms, to counter the English longbow. The rule will be Hail Caeser, with some minor adaptions.

Some of the 28mm figures being prepared can be seen at link

Do come along and say hello, visit the Society stall, and see how the French are progressing…or not…

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I am guessing that the French will not be allowed to win.

Brogile – oh, it'll be a fair fight – depends on the skills of the French leaders and the luck of the dice….

Please do tell about the document found in the library. I am very interested in learing more about it. Any web page links?

Nice pictures, I need to do a base for the herald (in the background picture of Henrey V).

For those who will not be at Salute this weekend but might be in the Seattle WA area, I will be putting on a Agincourt Game using Hail Caesar at The Panzer Depot. This game is in prep for the Enfilade Convention at the end of May.

Chris

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The document was found in 1984 and is covered in an article in English Historical Review – link here, but not free access.
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There's plenty of reference to it in Anne Curry's Agincourt books and Bennett's Osprey Agincourt book. Best of luck with your game in Seattle!
Simon.

Painterman, thanks for replying so quickly. I have Anne Curry's book and I will have to do a refresher reading. When I read her book last time I was more focused on the battle and not so much on the French initial planning.

Good luck to you and please, if you take pictures, post them here. I enjoy all the eye candy pictures and they do give me motivation to paint up more figures.

Chris

Nice! I'd like to see that.

Oooooh! Lovely toys!

Very pretty troops.

The original French OB depended on troops arriving that apparently did not arrive entirely, so it had to be altered. The cavalry wings did not provide the numbers that the OB proposed. The archers and crossbows will take up frontage that the battlefield at Agincourt denied them because the MAA filled the space between the woods. It seems to me that the OB could not work at Agincourt, and was a plan for a relatively unrestricted field, hypothetically one chosen by the French beforehand? Neither side would have chosen the muddy hell of Agincourt, but both were stuck with it on the day of battle….

Have a great day I wish I could pop along and say hello but illness may prevent me

please give my regards to Dave L, Thanks

John Colwell