070.Azincourt_c - Variant, 40m Scale - WDS Age of Longbow Volume I
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Date: 25 October 1415 - Size: 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.
Variant scenario starting an hour earlier before the English archers advanced and deployed their stakes within a bow shot of the unprepared and disorderly French army. The scenario uses a 40m scale map with 10 minute turns and modified OOB and pdt files with reduced stacking and increased weapon ranges.
Note: This scenario follows the most reliable contemporary sources - the Gesta Henrici V and Jehan de Waurin - for the strength of composition of the armies, but with a modified OOB to add a battalion level command structure and additional leaders, rather than just representing the traditional three divisions or "Battles". This OOB restructing should still favour the English side, since the French leaders are lower quality and the French have more units assigned to each "brigade"
Although the French appear to have at least some gunpowder weapons at Agincourt, they seem to have been of very limited effectiveness. 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.
Suitable for playing either side against the 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.
Variant scenario starting an hour earlier before the English archers advanced and deployed their stakes within a bow shot of the unprepared and disorderly French army. The scenario uses a 40m scale map with 10 minute turns and modified OOB and pdt files with reduced stacking and increased weapon ranges.
Note: This scenario follows the most reliable contemporary sources - the Gesta Henrici V and Jehan de Waurin - for the strength of composition of the armies, but with a modified OOB to add a battalion level command structure and additional leaders, rather than just representing the traditional three divisions or "Battles". This OOB restructing should still favour the English side, since the French leaders are lower quality and the French have more units assigned to each "brigade"
Although the French appear to have at least some gunpowder weapons at Agincourt, they seem to have been of very limited effectiveness. 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.
Suitable for playing either side against the A/I or else Head-to-Head.
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