Epic Agincourt Wargame 

really neat idea making the french nobles compete for VP

>Crowd throwing garbage >One spans a crossbow Thats a slight escalation in violence! Good show by the way.

the hundred years war was also our favourite period thats why we kept it going for so long

One element of the Hundred Years War worth mentioning is that it happened in the context of an estimated 1/3 of the population dying of the Black Death during the most crucial early period of 1340's-1350's. With manpower in such short supply it is amazing that the dying feudal system was still able to exert itself so much to allow competing Aristocracy to essentially play very bloody power games. Such is life.

Hey guys, great job and I love your videos. Regarding your opinions regarding why the English won, let me say from having had the opportunity to visit the actual Agincourt battlefield, what I saw there and my opinion from what I've read, I will say you are both right and both wrong in your assessment. First, while Henry and the English were repeatedly outmaneuvered by the French in their march to Calais, given the fact the French knew the terrain better and outnumbered the English, it's not surprising the French constantly outmaneuvered them. Second, while you can argue back and forth who chose the battlefield, it appears that Henry did set the conditions for victory, or at least the conditions for a draw through his thoughtful disposition of of his weaker force. He arrayed his forces to maximize the advantages of the longbow and through the excellent placement of the stakes to break up and blunt the French use of their cavalry. Third, the conditions of the muddy ground certainly acted as a force multiplier in by further hindering the French cavalry. While I believe Henry was counting on the muddy field to slow the French advance, I am not as certain that he nor anyone else expected it would play as significant part in the French demise. Fourth, while the French could've been better organized and even have feigned a frontal attack while sweeping wide around both of the English flanks, given their numerical and qualitative troop advantage, it's not unreasonable to think a frontal assault should not have swept through and over the English ranks to a swift victory. Fifth, let me say that given the number of troops involved, the battlefield is small, actually very small. The forces truly were compressed together once in contact. And yet, it's not one single factor listed above but the combination of all of them that gave the English their victory. The English [Henry] had deployed in a manner that took advantage of the terrain and concentrated the firepower of their best weapon, the longbow, into an area that was set up to be a killing zone. The French advanced to engage the English, were halted due to the dense longbow fire and the stakes, and were further compressed and hampered due to the eagerness of the rear French ranks to press forward into the killing zone. The mud literally mired the French in place at this point and the relentless attacks by the English slowly wore away the French both in numbers and in morale. Regarding the heaping of praise and glory on King Henry V, that is nothing new. I hope this helps and keep up the great work.

From Agincourt to Waterloo it appears the British and their allies have never actually won a battle against the French, the French merely handed over victory to their enemy because they are apparently just so nice.

Awesome video! I'd love to see more info about the game mechanics and how they effected the battle, maybe added in post production? Like "Ok, Player A is in a tight spot he needs his unit to hold the line but has to beat Player B's high roll of 8 with a +2 modifier thanks to the terrain." then cut back to the action, something like that. Nitpicks aside, LOVED the video!

Really impressed with your production quality guys and those figures were wonderful. Just wondering on the rules, is there not some sort of army breaking point or grander morale system? When the French player said he had lost 22 of 27 units I’d be very surprised to see that army continuing its fight ! Keep up the great videos guys. 👍

This game demonstrates my own luck in wargaming - "I need to roll anything but a 1...............doh!!"

No French, "Eh! No great loss." :)

Henry's "brother" the Duke of York? He was distant cousin. Henry's brothers were Thomas, Duke of Clarence, John, Duke of Bedford and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.

Awesome! The end was particularly good. Lol!

Like all of your'e videos this was really well done! Very entertaining to watch. I have been sitting down to watch these after I get home from work and put the family to sleep. My wife always chuckles at me when she gets up and sees me smiling while watching you guys. Keep them coming!

Very impressive, love the explanations and your beautiful armies...Congrats!

I thought you were going to end with the defiant French yelling at the English ..... "Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!" Nice vid & battle.

I like these short form videos. Just the right length of time for fitting in at lunch break. Agree with Joseph Bloc as well though about wanting to see a more involved battle report, perhaps two videos might be in order? Like the way you guys use the informal style, really just reminds me of a good club night.

Love the Shakespeare ending lol

I know it's an old video, but I've been reading a book on the Wars of the Roses that touched on this battle. Upon seeing the name Agincourt, it felt familiar enough to search and sure enough a video was found for it. A fun watch, glad it was here as a little bonus.

My experience with historic wargaming is very limited but sure love epic wargaming. Great, great video. I wish the fantasy and science-fiction videomakers will take notes!

Would love to see Towton played out

I really like this channel. Glad I found you

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."

I personally believe that the English victory happened not because of just one reason, but all of it. The terrain, the longbows being OP. and Henry inspiring his men by being at the thickest of the battle all ultimately contributed to their victory

This channel is freakin' awesome. It also does two things, makes me feel old (I'm not old...), and also makes me think being old is just being young but with more competence, more money, and less cartilage.

Great video. The pelting of garbage was hilarious!

As a frecnh, it took me 4 years to watch it. Worth it - just started a 6mm Breton war of succession army, this is great inspiraton

That's a lovely bottle of a Dalmore you've got there. Cheers!

Just found this channel! So cool!

That French accent is somewhere between Clousseau and Bombay!!!😂😂😂😂😂

Fantastic stuff guys! Steve you should have been awarded victory points simply for wearing the Brendan Shanahan jersey 😀

Fantastic gaming table with Brilliant painted figures, the end of the video's great

Great video! Had so much fun watching it, as much as you guys seemed to have doing it!

Dalmore in a damp cold field. As a Scot I approve this message.

This is amazing.

This was really good!

Very well done, once again.

I remember sharing a venue with some bowls players. "What are you doing"?, one of them asked. "We are playing a 30 Years War wargame", I answered. "Strewth. There was a war that went on for 30 years"? he asked incredulously. Do I tell him about the 100 Years War, I wondered🤣🤣

This is a really intriguing channel idea... subbed.

Awesome video guys. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!

Just discovered your channel. Super interesting, thank you!

"The French had a chaotic command & control structure, at Agincourt"...... Something they repeated again in 1940.

Very enjoyable episode. Wouldn't be disappointed if the game was a bit longer. Nice bit of history thrown in for good measure.

The bit at the end had me laughing for ages

Another great video. The thought, time and effort you put in creates a quality product. Keep it up.

Great stuff! Perfect dinner time entertainment!

I wonder what do historical wargamers think of Warhammer players.

This is awesome

What great fun - enjoy - GO HENRY!!!

weird idea; what if Charles D'Albret sent his dismounted men at arms to march on the archers on each flank and then charged down the centre with his cavalry when the archers were engaged?

You're doing nice videos, keep up the good work!

English longbows could not penetrate plate even at a relatively close range. Look at a channel called Todd's workshop for maybe the most accurate experimental recreation up to date. What happened is that the French knights got bogged down in the mud, their horses shot so that they were exposed to enemy volleys for hours and then finished off in hand to hand combat.

Great video. Henry won because he made the best job of reading the ground and the condition of the weather. It rained for days before the battle. The biggest problem was French incompetence

I personally prefer the battle of Castillon. A matter of taste I presume... ;)

Nice work. Great site!

Some poor soldier onthe battlefield getting slayed by a literal enemy king in full armor mustve been a crazy albeit short lived experience

I think you underplayed the role of henry. It does take personal magnetism and ability to get things in position to work out and maintain moral and cohesion in the moment.

very good video.

«- Well here goes our french audience. - not a great loss !» Ah well, I'm unsuscribing then. Joking lol, I'm not that kind of people.

I enjoyed that, nice job :-)

Subbed, God bless I found this channel

1:57.. His eyes in the portrait are crossed..lol

As a member of Clan MacKenzie, The Dalmore is a fine choice!

like a massive crowd disaster for the French...i read that some of the Feench Noblemen stayed up all night so they didn't get mud on there coat of arms etc.

remember also that the armour in 1415 was arrowproof. the longbowmen did not shoot down the armoured knights, they beat them in melee after having shot at them all the way across the fields.

Common Englishmen defeat French aristocrats. You can qualify it all you like, but the fact that this battle has reverberated down the centuries, gives evidence to the calamity it was... for the French. "On, on, you noblest English..."

Worth it even if to just see the performance at the end! 🍿😆🤮

Next week: how we won the Vietnam war, WW2 started in 1941 and the Lancaster didn't carry several times the bomb-load of a flying fortress.

It is probably all of those, not just one.

By the way, I gave a thumb up 👍despite of the pain.

Great game, great club 👌👌

1337 is when it "officially" started; Edward III declared himself King of France, but fighting (between the French and English themselves, I mean) was relegated to minor skirmishes in the south of France, and up with the Scots a tiny bit (who were still sort-of allies of the French) because both sides were preoccupied with dealing with crap at home. There was fighting between I guess we could call them proxies in what is now The Netherlands, and maybe into Belgium IIRC but I can't remeber the precise areas that had armed conflict beyond minor skirmishes. PROBABLY some of this spilled over from Flanders and Picardy into France proper, but only slightly. There was minor conflict in Burgundy at the time too I believe, but that was only tangentially related.

Listening to this guy say Agincourt is horrifying.

Thanks Very much have you dun Stalingrad or the Battle of the Bulge. Thanks a lot.

To hell with the chairs boys, you left your drinks in the field!

Such good videos guys! Thank you for these! The longbow was such a powerful weapon, so much so that Wellington considered reinstating them for the Iberian Peninsula war due to their stopping power and accuracy, but due to the strength required in drawing them had to drop the idea due to not.enought men being able to handle them.

I know this comes very late but the longbow theory kinda falls apart with battles like patay were the French cavalry destroyed them.

There was a recent movie that ended with victory at Agincourt and the battle looked phenomenal being very well done and looking very realistic though I wish they would’ve spent a little time going into the importance of the British Long Bow.

FYI In Europe the fall leaves primarily only turn yellow not orange and red .

You guys seem to be the perfect mix of history buffs, wargamers, booze enthusiasts, and just plain silly dudes. I'm a bit jealous, because I cannot even find decent opponents for the most simple 2 player board wargames.

Tony setting up a crossbow floored me I never noticed that before lol

Your drinking Dalmour. I'm jealous.

This is a French civil war where the English "win"... by ending the war and ceeding that lineages claim to the French throne.

15 of my ancestors fought at this battle. 9 on the English team, 6 on the French... all the French were killed or captured. 1 English ancestor confirmed killed... may have been more but records are sketchy and it was a long time ago!!

Hundred Years' War started in 1337 not 1340

At the time it was just called the war. 120 years in the end,,,

And a portion of your American audience.

The idea of longbows killing knights in plate armor from far away is completely false. If you look at tests on longbows, at optimal conditions of close range shooting head on perpendicular, a longbow shot only makes a small hole on non-hardened plate armor and does not penetrate into flesh. At long rage parabolic angles, long bow arrows bounce off plate armor. It is a medieval tactic for longbows to hold their fire and wait until close range to shoot at knights head on. At Agincourt , French knight pushed back the English foot knights at the center, thus allowing Long bowmen on the flanks to shoot point blank into their back where there is much less areas being covered by plate. Battle of Crecy is much different because it happened at an earlier time where maille was still the primary type of armor, plate pieces were much smaller and were used to supplement maille if it was used at all by an individual as it is not as common as the 15th century. Longbows penetrated maille much easier than plate.

I like Tony he has a good personallity.

Greetings from 🇫🇷 France 🇫🇷 😁👍

Leadership was a key factor, ehich I think you handled well with the French side. Henry was a true warrior, a great leader capable of great inspiration. He eschewed all that aloof medieval class snobbery with his troops. This was the original Band of Brothers, and they loved him for it. The other factor of success was the English/Welsh dagger in close combat in the hands of the archers. Mounted knights entering combat at walk speed had no chance. Unhorsed, their armour weak spots were no match for a slender dagger. The French nobility were prised apart like lobsters by procacious English Yeomen.

Another great video chaps. Looking forward to the bonus video on the figures. Really liked the idea of the three French players competing amongst themselves. Unfortunately it seems the rules are no longer available as the website has closed. However I got mine from eBay which still has copies of 1st Edition and 2nd Edition from time to time.

Great video as always. Looking forward to the rules review not a set I'm familiar with. What make are the figures?

ha ha ha ha!! Loved the ending

Is there a listing of seasons and episodes for each? I'd like to watch how your shows progressed and want to make sure not to miss the rules discussion and all the other goodies you've produced. Thanks! Love your shows!

One of my favorite periods of war. I tend to think the heavy rain is to blame with creating the effect that the English longbow was able to take advantage of. Mud was likely much larger of a factor than you show on your war table, it was heavy rain so the whole field was likely muddy. The English long bow may have reached upwards of 300 meters or almost 1000 feet long. How accurate are the shooting rules of Days of Knights 2E? People forget when using rules, how far are we shooting, how often are we shooting, or should we be firing more? We do not see the actual play but makes me wonder what changes you might have needed to make to better replicate the scenario. Days of Knights 2E uses 10 inches range for long bow. The rules say crossbow shoots the same as the longbow so I would have had each long bow unit fire twice. These minor tweaks might improve the battle more if trying for more historic accuracy IMHO.

It’s a wonderful re-creation. The only issue is that the French nobles are allowed not to be idiots. Which was not historical😉

I'm English....after hours of both armies just staring at each other...it was the English who marched forward in the mud...to get into longbow range..the English then proceeded to start the battle with a hail of arrows...this so infuriated the French knights..that they charged without plan or purpose...the rest as they say...is history!!!

I wish I could play these boardgames. Sadly I am broke as funk.

Over confidence and bad luck on the French side but the longbow and stakes in defence worked well as usual .

Nice Blues Jersey! LGB!!!!!