 GAJO GamesGAJO Happenings and Ramblings Blog2019 - Number 80 |
GAJO GamesGAJO Happenings and Ramblings Blog2019 - Number 80 |
 Nervous Onlookers |
WW3 Team Yankee / December Action
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 The Franco-Scottish-Genoese host some 4,400 strong approaches the 4,000 stout-hearted Englishmen |
 Atop the ridge, David The Gray Prince awaits |
 Genoese mercenary crossbows, wisely deployed just out of range of the feared English longbows |
 Scottish pikes and some local peasant levy on their ill-fated sortie against the English right |
 Arrows start to fall among the peasants throwing them into even greater disorder than usual |
 The Scots deploy into line and press forward |
 As the English right shifts across the knights in the French center move forward seeing a gap open up |
 The longbows quickly remove a base of Scots |
 The much-reduced Scots are forced to make panic tests before even reaching the English line. They pass and plough on supported by a detachment of French knights sent to reinforce |
 The English reserve battle made up of mounted knights move down off the ridge to face their French counterparts |
 More French knights from their right flank move to join the imminent clash |
 The attack on the English right, having been savaged by bow fire, makes little impact |
 The flower of Anglo-French nobility clashes in the center |
 More French knights pour forward... |
 ...and numbers begin to tell |
 The English center buckles |
 As elements of the English right turn to help the beleaguered center, a small band of French knights launch a charge that finally catches the enemy archers and rides them down. |
At this point the English center and right broke almost simultaneously and their left, having spent the day launching arrows at the Genoese hiding behind their pavises, retreated from the field |