"mortimer cross-medieval warfare" Topic
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| PIPERS | 19 Jun 2014 5:09 a.m. PST |
Hi. I want to play this scenatio and i would know what are the best measures. Thanks |
| olicana | 19 Jun 2014 5:19 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure I understand the question. But there is quite a good account of the battle in "The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses" by P A Haigh. It's a good book all round. |
| MajorB | 19 Jun 2014 9:54 a.m. PST |
It's a good book all round. Although some of the maps in it are rubbish and (unsurprisingly, given the publication date) he has Bosworth in the wrong place … Some more information re Mortimer's Cross here:
TMP link Estimates give ~2000 for the Yorkists versus 2000 – 3000 Lancastrians. |
| PIPERS | 19 Jun 2014 11:49 a.m. PST |
Excuse me for muy english. I want know TVE best measures of the table. TVE map un The boom of terry gire medieval warfste looks very good |
| MajorB | 19 Jun 2014 12:22 p.m. PST |
Excuse me for muy english. I want know TVE best measures of the table. TVE map un The boom of terry gire medieval warfste looks very good With armies of the size quoted above, you are only going to need a table area equivalent to about a mile square, with the River Lugg on the Yorkist left flank and a small stream running across their front. The Lancastrians approach up the road from the south.
- though whether the armies were big enough to be arrayed in three battles one behind the other as shown on this map is debateable. If the Yorkist army had 2000 men and it was deployed in 4 ranks then with approximately 1yd per file it would only have a frontage of ~500yds. |
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