October 25, 2009 | Posted by Mark If you have read any of my previous posts about Agincourt you’ll know that I’m slightly cynical about the overwhelming effect of the longbow commonly attributed by historians and novelists. The famous longbow, at 6 foot in length required great strength and skill to draw and use properly and is usually seen as the weapon [...]
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July 16, 2009 | Posted by Mark I thought it would be interesting to see what were the most popular post topics on my blog. After looking at Google Analytics I have been able to put together a top five: 1. Snowflake method – stumbling across the snowflake method! 2. Mind Mapping software to brainstorm plot issues 3. Medieval Men-at-Arms vs Archers [...]
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February 7, 2009 | Posted by Mark I did about 30 rough html docs and may do some more today while watching the rugby – which should be a walkover for England, but you never know, could be embarrassing! Getting the first version of the outline done for the Agincourt gamebook was quite exhausting, and I have been yearning to get back [...]
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February 4, 2009 | Posted by Mark I have now completed the initial plan for the Agincourt gamebook. I decided to keep things simple by only doing the writing for the initial historical deployment and actions of Henry V’s army – so they will start with the same formation and advance towards the French. I have started planning out alternatives to these [...]
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February 3, 2009 | Posted by Mark I’ve decided that I really need to grind out the content for the Agincourt gamebook as swiftly as possible to keep up the momentum – more sweat and less prevarication and distraction from things like blogging is required!! I found when I put together www.marklord.info over the weekend, that I was able to get this [...]
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February 2, 2009 | Posted by Mark … before the rise of infantry armies in the 14c. I was reading an article by Clifford Rogers on revolutions in Medieval warfare, and I found a few statistics here quite illuminating. This was part of my research for the Agincourt gamebook, but this musing might come in useful perhaps at a later date. The [...]
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January 30, 2009 | Posted by Mark I have just been scanning through a number of descriptions of Hundred Years War battles over at Wikipedia (so not necessarily 100% accurate), and as I expected it seems that in no cases were dismounted men-at-arms sent against archers. However, in later years the French did start to perfect the tactic of charging the English [...]
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January 30, 2009 | Posted by Mark To continue my debate about why men-at-arms on foot would not attack archers, there is another reason as well, which I believe is the one that Anne Curry might support – that they would be put off by the hail of arrows coming from the archers. This might be analogous to the problems that infantry [...]
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January 29, 2009 | Posted by Mark I have been thinking again about some what ifs for the Agincourt gamebook. For example What If the English men-at-arms had not repulsed the French attack. Would Henry have ordered the English archers to join the melee? Would he have had a reserve of some sort that he could deploy? It seems unlikely, because of [...]
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January 28, 2009 | Posted by Mark There it is I’ve named it, my top secret project. Well we’ll see how it goes. After having started work on this I’m not that worried that anyone will actually come and steal the idea of creating a gamebook surrounding the role of Henry V at the battle of Agincourt. I have now pretty much [...]
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