I have read a couple of Tranter novels and Shipway's the Paladin, all worthwhile!!

Norwich is sorely missed.

Reading the Halsall book myself, very interesting and some new perspective on the late Romans and their neighbors.

Bosworth must have been very close didn't Richard III die within a few yards of Henry VII?

Peter Darman has written a series of books about the Catalan Great Company as well!! Pretty interesting work, he has done some research about the almogovars.

Weren't the Scots supposed to have used pits or some sort of man traps at Bannockburn?

Joch you are correct, I got hasty, but it is sort of well sourced that the French knights rode down some of the Genoese.

The French at Agincourt(?) are supposed to have ridden down some Genoese crossbowmen. That is pretty well attested in the sources.

The Arsuf battle was sort of atypical though, It wasn't usual for the Hospitallers to be doing the rear guard. The crusader armies had to use a different set of formations because of so much cavalry opposition, so I think you can't make any large generalizations from Arsuf, because they were attacke...

I just downloaded the file from the Slitherine site and unzipped after getting the error message a couple of times. Worked!!

Templars, meh, the Knights of St. John of the Hospital are still around. Bosworth must have been the proverbial near run thing. I think you could do a neat campaign with the Catalan company.

Ivan the Terrible's dear old mother was a Glinskii. So that would be early 16th century. A non sequitor but why teach history for years if you can't pontificate now and then.