Slitherine

i'm no expert but is it right to make the english armies of edwards I and I I so longbowtastic?

was under the impression that weapon only came into its own during the hundred years war.

Eques wrote:i'm no expert but is it right to make the english armies of edwards I and I I so longbowtastic?

Oh yes - Edward I had something like 8000+ at Falkirk for example.

Certainly - after duffing up the Welsh by Castling, he took a whacking great wodge of Longbows up north to play north of the border.
Used the same tactic with the Welsh as he did against the Scots;
Wall of spears - massed close range archery, then the Knights went & creamed the remainder.

whitehorses wrote:Certainly - after duffing up the Welsh by Castling, he took a whacking great wodge of Longbows up north to play north of the border.
Used the same tactic with the Welsh as he did against the Scots;
Wall of spears - massed close range archery, then the Knights went & creamed the remainder.

Typical english dirty tricks. Good thing William Mel Gibson Wallace invented Napalm or Scotland would never have been free...oh its not. Its part of that German Battenburg Monarchy.

hazelbark wrote:

whitehorses wrote:Certainly - after duffing up the Welsh by Castling, he took a whacking great wodge of Longbows up north to play north of the border.
Used the same tactic with the Welsh as he did against the Scots;
Wall of spears - massed close range archery, then the Knights went & creamed the remainder.

Typical english dirty tricks. Good thing William Mel Gibson Wallace invented Napalm or Scotland would never have been free...oh its not. Its part of that German Battenburg Monarchy.

Ah but for how long?

david53 wrote: Ah but for how long?

Yeah, that English man in charge now is sure to cause a revolution north of the border 'cos he's so rubbish