When I was a kid I tried to walk across the corner of a farm field. It was wet and the mud stuck to my feet. Walking with pounds of mud on your feet is very hard and you lose your balance. Easy to end up on your face. Getting pounded with arrows would have been hell.
For real. I know obviously many things about Agincourt were overemphasized to make Henry's victory grander, but I never understood the skepticism around why the French were delayed so badly in Agincourt. I know firsthand from reenactment that any amount of sufficiently protective armor saps your energy quick when footslogging. Plus a horse-churned, muddy, plowed field would be like walking through a mile of pizza dough. Add the potential death or injuries/innate human reaction to flinch at projectiles caused by a storm of arrows and I'm not surprised the French broke as quickly as they did. Humans aren't built for that sort of overwhelming sensory bombardment.
Totally agree with you Phillip! You described perfectly my thoughts as well! The French in my opinion where forced to charge.. they were not ignorant the new that the field was disadvantageous for them. Thank you for watching and commenting my friend!
Very nicely done my friend. A very clear and succinct description with an excellent consideration of the various aspects of the battle. And of course beautifully illustrated with your fine collection of figures. Very well done indeed.
one thing to add that might give your argument even more weight would be the mindset of the dismounted French nobility. I think they would have realized very quickly prior to being within close charging distance but too late to stop that their situation was grave; which could justify the amount of losses taken given that any form of retreat would have caused even more casualties from the amount of assumed English longbowmen. I think that the French would have doubled down on their decision and attempted to push through given it was most likely their "best option" at that point. especially considering they would have still had significant reinforcements still in reserve. just a thought! absolutely beautiful video my good sir, hope to see more.
Very good video about the battle. One thing that is also important is the complete different mindset which the French army had: They were still fighting following a strict chivalric code and in their mind their fathers and grandfahters had lost the battles of Crecy and Poitiers because the didn´t charge in a chivalric way. They were not brave and death defying enough. Part of the time before the battle was spent with negotiations between envoys. There are two views to this: 1. Henry V. saw himself obliged as Christian king to prevent bloodshed or 2. the French wanted to buy time to get more troops on the battlefield. Also the English army was exhausted from the siege of Harfleur and the march to Agincourt. Supplies were running low for the English and for a medieval army it could become a precarious situation to stay at one place for a longer period of time because of supplies. In the beginning of the HYW was a situation when the English waited 3 days on a battlefield for the French to arrive which didn´t happen. In his letters Edward III. is near desparation because the armies supplies and moral were very low because of a battle that didn´t happen and he also had to pay a lot of his allies from Flanders and also Germany in this phase of the war. Maybe French hope was that English soldiers start deserting the army, when they waited for a longer period of time, because the French army at least the nobles were well supplied and also in their own country.
Great video. I liked everything about it. Good point about why Henry thought it necessary to kill noble prisoners (a war crime by their standards) - implying a continued threat of even more French.
Thank you my friend glad you enjoyed the video! Yes that was my point exactly..we are not historians but using logic one must deduct that Henry had no reason killing all these high ranking prisoners that meant huge amounts of money in ransoms if there was no threat for his army..and by threat I mean more troops waiting to engage..if the numbers where almost equal as some historians suggest and already the English killed and routed most of the French divisions that would have meant that the French should have been fewer than the English on the battlefield..I don’t believe so..Again thank you for watching my friend!
A Very interesting and descriptive account .. The power of the longbow even if not penetrating armour would be immense ! I can imagine the French would have been Punch drunk by the time they got there ... Interesting about the step back, having done early medieval 're enactment we used to practice stepping forward with our line into the enemy at point of contact .. This had a devastating effect of knocking people down even on good ground, on a wet field the effect would be far worse!
Really you have been a reenactor of Medieval Battles??!! Fantastic i am so envious!;) Glad you enjoyed the video Ray the step back i read in Agincourt: The King; the Campaign; the Battle by Juliet Barker. I think from the books i read is the best by far or at least i enjoyed the most. If you like these videos let me suggest a few of my older but favorite videos ''Medieval Battle Tactics'' 3 parts - Agincourt By Bernard Cornwell - The Epilogue and the Road to Crecy. The last one i think was my master piece.. the narration is not very clear (to low) at the beginning my editing skills where very basic then but stay with it it will improve.. In General i would suggest almost everything in the ''Medieval Battlefields and History'' Playlist. Let me know what you think if you manage to watch any of them. Thank you for watching my friend!
Thank you so much my friend! Glad you enjoyed the video although a bit long it has some fun information about the battle. Hahaha very good and very true hahaha knightmare..😂😂
Fantastic video, really interesting. Another reason why I think the casualties were so high is because the archers had nothing to lose, because they knew they would be killed by the French, for being low born so for the archers it was kill or be killed
Very good point Lioheart my friend! This is also the reasons Henry V used archers to kill the prisoners because his Nobles where not willing to do so! Thank you for watching and commenting my friend!
So kind of you to say so my friend! Hope you enjoyed the video although a bit long has quite a few interesting information about the battle. Thank you for watching!
@@MedievalWargamer I watched the entire video my friend, very interesting! Your use of beautiful miniatures made it come to life in a very visual way. I’m not an expert on this battle, but I also thought there was some disorder in the French high command, with the highranking nobles not sticking to the plan of their commander Boucicaut. Whereas the English of course had one man who was clearly in charge.
Interesting video. Have you checked out the blogg Historian in Harness? He (Rob Jones) has a post about re fighting Agincourt using his rule set Blood and Horse Droppings. The rules are really interesting and also free. Maybe you could interview him, he has a lot of ideas about how to integrate medieval thinking/culture norms in to war games.
Thank you for the suggestion my friend! Just checked his page looks very interesting I will ask him for sure if he would be interested to chat . Thank you for watching my friend!
When I was a kid I tried to walk across the corner of a farm field. It was wet and the mud stuck to my feet. Walking with pounds of mud on your feet is very hard and you lose your balance. Easy to end up on your face. Getting pounded with arrows would have been hell.
For real. I know obviously many things about Agincourt were overemphasized to make Henry's victory grander, but I never understood the skepticism around why the French were delayed so badly in Agincourt. I know firsthand from reenactment that any amount of sufficiently protective armor saps your energy quick when footslogging. Plus a horse-churned, muddy, plowed field would be like walking through a mile of pizza dough. Add the potential death or injuries/innate human reaction to flinch at projectiles caused by a storm of arrows and I'm not surprised the French broke as quickly as they did. Humans aren't built for that sort of overwhelming sensory bombardment.
Exactly. Imagine wearing an armour being shot at by 70,000 arrows per minutes and walking along with another 8.000 men in close order...nightmare..
Totally agree with you Phillip! You described perfectly my thoughts as well! The French in my opinion where forced to charge.. they were not ignorant the new that the field was disadvantageous for them. Thank you for watching and commenting my friend!
Very nicely done my friend. A very clear and succinct description with an excellent consideration of the various aspects of the battle. And of course beautifully illustrated with your fine collection of figures. Very well done indeed.
Thank you for you kind words my friend! Really appreciate it! Thank you for watching!
one thing to add that might give your argument even more weight would be the mindset of the dismounted French nobility. I think they would have realized very quickly prior to being within close charging distance but too late to stop that their situation was grave; which could justify the amount of losses taken given that any form of retreat would have caused even more casualties from the amount of assumed English longbowmen. I think that the French would have doubled down on their decision and attempted to push through given it was most likely their "best option" at that point. especially considering they would have still had significant reinforcements still in reserve. just a thought! absolutely beautiful video my good sir, hope to see more.
Thank you my friend! Good points you mention there I totally agree with you!
Very good video about the battle. One thing that is also important is the complete different mindset which the French army had: They were still fighting following a strict chivalric code and in their mind their fathers and grandfahters had lost the battles of Crecy and Poitiers because the didn´t charge in a chivalric way. They were not brave and death defying enough.
Part of the time before the battle was spent with negotiations between envoys. There are two views to this: 1. Henry V. saw himself obliged as Christian king to prevent bloodshed or 2. the French wanted to buy time to get more troops on the battlefield.
Also the English army was exhausted from the siege of Harfleur and the march to Agincourt.
Supplies were running low for the English and for a medieval army it could become a precarious situation to stay at one place for a longer period of time because of supplies. In the beginning of the HYW was a situation when the English waited 3 days on a battlefield for the French to arrive which didn´t happen. In his letters Edward III. is near desparation because the armies supplies and moral were very low because of a battle that didn´t happen and he also had to pay a lot of his allies from Flanders and also Germany in this phase of the war. Maybe French hope was that English soldiers start deserting the army, when they waited for a longer period of time, because the French army at least the nobles were well supplied and also in their own country.
Very good points my friend totally agree with you!
Great video. I liked everything about it.
Good point about why Henry thought it necessary to kill noble prisoners (a war crime by their standards) - implying a continued threat of even more French.
Thank you my friend glad you enjoyed the video! Yes that was my point exactly..we are not historians but using logic one must deduct that Henry had no reason killing all these high ranking prisoners that meant huge amounts of money in ransoms if there was no threat for his army..and by threat I mean more troops waiting to engage..if the numbers where almost equal as some historians suggest and already the English killed and routed most of the French divisions that would have meant that the French should have been fewer than the English on the battlefield..I don’t believe so..Again thank you for watching my friend!
A Very interesting and descriptive account ..
The power of the longbow even if not penetrating armour would be immense ! I can imagine the French would have been Punch drunk by the time they got there ... Interesting about the step back, having done early medieval 're enactment we used to practice stepping forward with our line into the enemy at point of contact .. This had a devastating effect of knocking people down even on good ground, on a wet field the effect would be far worse!
Really you have been a reenactor of Medieval Battles??!! Fantastic i am so envious!;) Glad you enjoyed the video Ray the step back i read in Agincourt: The King; the Campaign; the Battle by Juliet Barker. I think from the books i read is the best by far or at least i enjoyed the most. If you like these videos let me suggest a few of my older but favorite videos ''Medieval Battle Tactics'' 3 parts - Agincourt By Bernard Cornwell - The Epilogue and the Road to Crecy. The last one i think was my master piece.. the narration is not very clear (to low) at the beginning my editing skills where very basic then but stay with it it will improve.. In General i would suggest almost everything in the ''Medieval Battlefields and History'' Playlist. Let me know what you think if you manage to watch any of them. Thank you for watching my friend!
Hehe, a "knightmare". Great video. Love this stuff. Cheers.
Thank you so much my friend! Glad you enjoyed the video although a bit long it has some fun information about the battle. Hahaha very good and very true hahaha knightmare..😂😂
Fantastic video, really interesting. Another reason why I think the casualties were so high is because the archers had nothing to lose, because they knew they would be killed by the French, for being low born so for the archers it was kill or be killed
Very good point Lioheart my friend! This is also the reasons Henry V used archers to kill the prisoners because his Nobles where not willing to do so! Thank you for watching and commenting my friend!
Enjoyed miniatures and information
Thank you dear Mark! Glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for watching my friend!
I am a simple man. I see a Mediëval Wargamer video, I click
So kind of you to say so my friend! Hope you enjoyed the video although a bit long has quite a few interesting information about the battle. Thank you for watching!
@@MedievalWargamer I watched the entire video my friend, very interesting! Your use of beautiful miniatures made it come to life in a very visual way.
I’m not an expert on this battle, but I also thought there was some disorder in the French high command, with the highranking nobles not sticking to the plan of their commander Boucicaut. Whereas the English of course had one man who was clearly in charge.
Interesting video. Have you checked out the blogg Historian in Harness? He (Rob Jones) has a post about re fighting Agincourt using his rule set Blood and Horse Droppings. The rules are really interesting and also free. Maybe you could interview him, he has a lot of ideas about how to integrate medieval thinking/culture norms in to war games.
Thank you for the suggestion my friend! Just checked his page looks very interesting I will ask him for sure if he would be interested to chat .
Thank you for watching my friend!
Really great video nic
Thank you dear Justin! A bit long but in order to explain a battle like that you need time. Thank you for watching my friend!
Are those 20x20 or 25x25mm bases??
Hi my friend these ones are 20x20. Thank you for watching!