"Recommended Reading for WotR?" Topic
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Deucey  | 19 Oct 2025 2:25 p.m. PST |
What books do you all recommend? |
| robert piepenbrink | 19 Oct 2025 5:36 p.m. PST |
If you're looking for wargame-useful information, I worked it for years with no success, but someone on TMP claimed that The Lance & Longbow Society's publication--The Hobilar--had at least informed guesses. I'm waiting for their website to be restored. Serious. DECADES of buying books titled "Battle of…" some WOTR battle never turned up more OOB, force composition, deployment or tactics than you could get out of AH Burne's Battlefields of England, Phillip Warner's British Battlefields or David Clark's Battlefield Walks. I finally kept those, chucked all the expensive failures, disposed of every casting under 25/28mm and stacked those with my fantasy armies. My worst failure in almost 60 years of reading military history. The Hobilar--if I can buy a CD or access it on line--is going to be my last throw of those particular dice. Interesting politics and personalities, but as a wargame period, its not even informed guesswork. [I kept some stuff on the new location of Bosworth, but it's pretty much only interesting from a archeology standpoint. They still don't know the frontage, and they aren't publishing maps to keep off detectorists. I bet they're doing a much better job of discouraging tourists.] |
 Silurian | 19 Oct 2025 5:36 p.m. PST |
A good succinct read with tons of gorgeous, historically accurate (as best we can) paintings would be "The Wars of the Roses" by Graham Turner.
Otherwise, a really well-written account is "The Wars of the Roses" by Dan Jones. |
| Silurian | 19 Oct 2025 5:46 p.m. PST |
With respect Robert, you're right, there is a lot we still don't know, but there is a lot we do know. I wouldn't paint the picture as quite so dire. We know what the armies looked like even if their exact numbers and ratios are a little murky. We can distinguish the armor of nobles between 1st St Albans in 1455 and Hexham in 1464 for instance. |
| RittervonBek | 20 Oct 2025 1:01 a.m. PST |
It might be worth your time rooting about on this blog: link |
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looks at a fast-assembly naval kit for the Age of Sail.