TOWTON 1461

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The Lancastrian twin victories at Wakefield and Second St. Albans in late 1460 and early 1461 had not been enough to crush the Yorkist challenge. One last great effort was required. It came on 29 March 1461 at Towton. With well over forty thousands combatants and more than twenty thousands slain, it was a battle of superlatives: the largest ever fought on English soil and the biggest one day death toll in English history.

Designer's notes:

Archers are not modelled as independent units but as rear ranks of infantry. Because of the famous wind advantage, they are MF rear rank for Yorkists and LF rear rank for Lancastrians.

Towton was a slugfest with the two battle lines going at one another for 4 to 5 hours, maybe longer, and resulting in about 10000 casualties on each side (the following rout/pursuit added up to 8000 more to the butcher's bill): to prevent them from collapsing too quickly, the front ranks are superior. Also each side has 3 'rally points' at the rear. And last but not least, 'positive points' are used to extend army break points.

Sources: they are plentiful as with most battles of the Wars of the Roses.

117 moving BGs, 18 turns.

[fogman]

updated with small changes: notably, yorkist break points are up; lancastrian retreat route funnelled towards the stream.

[Micha63]

Thank you.