069.Azincourt_b - Variant - WDS Age of Longbow Volume I
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| Turns: | 20 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | Side_A (ALB1) |
| Second Side: | Side_B (ALB1) |
Date: 25 October 1415 - Size: Small / Medium - Location: Azincourt, St. Pol, now Pas-de-Calais, France
Scenario Briefing: Variant - After capturing Harfleur, despite the heavy English losses during the siege and the subsequent build up of French forces at Rouen, Henry V decided to follow in his ancestor Edward III's footsteps in marching his army to Calais. Finding the Blancetaque ford well-guarded and Pont Remy bridge dismantled, the English were forced to march further and further away from their objective until they finally managed to cross the Somme at Bethencourt.
However, on 24th October, Henry V found a large French army blocking his line of march to Calais. Although the English army may have been outnumbered as much as 6:1, its flanks were protected by dense woods and the French numbers actually worked against them, as men attempting to force their way into the front line caused disruption and confusion. The muddy ground also gave the English a further advantage, as it slowed down the French advance and caused those men in heavy armor to become exhausted even before they reached the English line.
This 20 turn variant scenario has a larger map which would enable the French to outflank the English position in strength although, historically, just a small raiding party attacked the English baggage. However, to give the English a better "fighting chance", instead of basing the strength of the armies on the most reliable contemporary sources, the ratio is reduced to 2:1, with some 15,000 French against 7,500 English, figures which some - but by no means all - modern historians accept as potentially feasible. In fact Anne Curry (2005) puts the French at just 12,000 based on the surviving, but incomplete, administrative records, but most other historians believe this is too low a figure. In this scenario, the Breton troops led by Arthur de Richemont are represented as a separate force rather than part of the French army. Historically, the cumbersome English siege guns had been left behind at Harfleur, but some have been included in the OOB for possible inclusion in a "what if" scenario.
Recommended Rules: [Default] + Column Movement Restriction ON
Note: Side A = French, Bretons and Genoese mercenaries, Side B = English, including, as usual, Welsh troops in English service as an integral part of the "English" army.
Best played as the English against the French A/I or else Head-to-Head.
Scenario Briefing: Variant - After capturing Harfleur, despite the heavy English losses during the siege and the subsequent build up of French forces at Rouen, Henry V decided to follow in his ancestor Edward III's footsteps in marching his army to Calais. Finding the Blancetaque ford well-guarded and Pont Remy bridge dismantled, the English were forced to march further and further away from their objective until they finally managed to cross the Somme at Bethencourt.
However, on 24th October, Henry V found a large French army blocking his line of march to Calais. Although the English army may have been outnumbered as much as 6:1, its flanks were protected by dense woods and the French numbers actually worked against them, as men attempting to force their way into the front line caused disruption and confusion. The muddy ground also gave the English a further advantage, as it slowed down the French advance and caused those men in heavy armor to become exhausted even before they reached the English line.
This 20 turn variant scenario has a larger map which would enable the French to outflank the English position in strength although, historically, just a small raiding party attacked the English baggage. However, to give the English a better "fighting chance", instead of basing the strength of the armies on the most reliable contemporary sources, the ratio is reduced to 2:1, with some 15,000 French against 7,500 English, figures which some - but by no means all - modern historians accept as potentially feasible. In fact Anne Curry (2005) puts the French at just 12,000 based on the surviving, but incomplete, administrative records, but most other historians believe this is too low a figure. In this scenario, the Breton troops led by Arthur de Richemont are represented as a separate force rather than part of the French army. Historically, the cumbersome English siege guns had been left behind at Harfleur, but some have been included in the OOB for possible inclusion in a "what if" scenario.
Recommended Rules: [Default] + Column Movement Restriction ON
Note: Side A = French, Bretons and Genoese mercenaries, Side B = English, including, as usual, Welsh troops in English service as an integral part of the "English" army.
Best played as the English against the French A/I or else Head-to-Head.
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