010. St Omer - Historical - WDS Age of Longbow Volume I
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Date: 26 July 1340 - Size: Medium - Location: St Omer, Artois, N. France
Scenario Briefing: Historical - Although the French had not anticipated an attack on St. Omer, the slow progress of Robert d'Artois' mostly Flemish army gave Philip VI time to rush several thousand men under Eudes IV de Bourgogne into the town before the enemy arrived. Since the main French army under Philip VI was approaching, Bourgogne preferred to avoid open battle, as the Flemings wouldn't have time to place St. Omer under siege and would need to make a risky assault if they hoped to capture the town. However, a number of rash and insubordinate French knights decided to launch a sortie against the Flemish right flank and were driven back. But when the Flemings abandoned their defenses and pursued the retreating French over open ground, the French leader organized a successful mounted counter-attack.
Meanwhile, another French sortie under Armagnac managed to outflank the Flemish left flank and launched a devastating surprise attack, which routed the Flemings and inflicted heavy losses. All this time, some Flemish troops and also their English allies - about 1,000 archers and an unknown number of men-at-arms - who were deployed in the center of the line, had remained inactive behind their defenses and were able to retreat unmolested from the battlefield.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Note: Side A = French, Side B = Flemish and English
Best played as the French side against the Flemish / English A/I.
Scenario Briefing: Historical - Although the French had not anticipated an attack on St. Omer, the slow progress of Robert d'Artois' mostly Flemish army gave Philip VI time to rush several thousand men under Eudes IV de Bourgogne into the town before the enemy arrived. Since the main French army under Philip VI was approaching, Bourgogne preferred to avoid open battle, as the Flemings wouldn't have time to place St. Omer under siege and would need to make a risky assault if they hoped to capture the town. However, a number of rash and insubordinate French knights decided to launch a sortie against the Flemish right flank and were driven back. But when the Flemings abandoned their defenses and pursued the retreating French over open ground, the French leader organized a successful mounted counter-attack.
Meanwhile, another French sortie under Armagnac managed to outflank the Flemish left flank and launched a devastating surprise attack, which routed the Flemings and inflicted heavy losses. All this time, some Flemish troops and also their English allies - about 1,000 archers and an unknown number of men-at-arms - who were deployed in the center of the line, had remained inactive behind their defenses and were able to retreat unmolested from the battlefield.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Note: Side A = French, Side B = Flemish and English
Best played as the French side against the Flemish / English A/I.
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