Agincourt

[Bobthehero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Patay

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[AlfalphaCat]

I am in all senses sorry and apologize in advance, I am afraid I did not read the thread.

The battle of Aginhearts was won my mud...that was from my own strangled perspective.  We faeye have been known to be wrong.   

[Paul]

Patay

1500 frenchmen defeating 5000 english. Damn archery nerf...

[Roran Hawkins]

Nope, the English were taken by suprise when trying to start their favorite tactic.

[FICO]

"hey, la hire! it's five o' clock we should return home from scouting. you never know where those longbowmen are... wait! wait! aren't those guys on hill english longbowmen?! what are they doing? they're all sitting on ground and babbling... let's surprise them!"


excavations done at that hill in 2010. recovered among longbows, knives, helmets and swords also broken pottery and tea leafs. with further chemical analysis it was discovered that some pots contained milk

[Centurion]

At agincourt 3 totally un armoured archers armed with knives could take down the best armored knights

[Xant]

Find out how many kills the archers actually made at Agincourt. It was a ridiculously small amount considering the number of archers and shot arrows.

[Siiem]

At agincourt 3 totally un armoured archers armed with knives could take down the best armored knights

Lies, they used spoons as blunt weapons.

[Furax]

today when uniformity of armies is something common and US army is well known of their uberbulletproof vests and helmets you have still dead US soldiers killed by gunfire AND wearing vests and helmets

Hah, yeah makes you think, in the future will people be randomly discussing "could AK's penetrate kevlar"?

[Adamar]

Guys just remember that although the STEEL plated french knights were made almost invulnerable to arrows with IRON arrowheads, at that time their horses weren't. That coupled with shitty terrain explains the cav fail at agincourt.

[owens]

Maybe the French couldn't afford there upkeep and had to resort to using sumpter horses and practice shields. Unable to couch because of the incline their yellow and blue toy shields broke and they were slaughtered by the archers whose light Armour made upkeep reasonable.

The moral of the story is to sit in NA servers with a shortened spear and straw hat until you earn some dough

[Korgoth]

English Win

Archer Spam is a valid Tactic

[Merten]

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[Arrowblood]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOG_DdhlX8
hear the sound of the pulled bows and the flying arrows, a second before  the deathly rain comes down and remember what the french men at Agincourt must have thought.

[Butan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOG_DdhlX8
hear the sound of the pulled bows and the flying arrows, a second before  the deathly rain comes down and remember what the french men at Agincourt must have thought.

This tells us that if you want to survive against a 40 man archer squad, you have to be the size of an owl.