BACKGROUND

This battle occured in the year 1150. It was fought where the Alsatians (French) invaded Auxerre (Normandy), which was an Anglian colony. The Anglian commander was Chuck Hasek, who is acting as a land keeper for the King of Anglia. The Alsatian commander is Max Alexander, the young King of Alsatia. They used a set of homemade rules called Mittwoch 1150.

THE BATTLE

The Anglian force was comprised of 550 knights, 800 Serjents, 1300 armored archers, 2000 unarmored archers, 2000 militia spearmen.

The Alsatian commander had 2000 knights, 2000 Serjents, 250 militia crossbowmen, 2000 archers, 6000 spearmen, and 1000 m i I itia spearmen.

The set-up for starting is attached.

INTRODUCTION

The Alsatians have a defeatist attitude because it is his first miniatures battle, and his opponent is quite experienced.

1 figure equals 10 men.

Move 1

(Anglian) armored archers move 45 degrees off to side and let 3 volleys go at long range.
(Alsatian) takes 390 spearmen as casualties and 40 knights. He moves everyone forward to attack at the slow walk.

Move 2

(Anglia) - stays still and fires and loses as casualties 80 armored archers to crossbow and 40 to archers.
(Alsatia) - everyth ing moves; loses 100- 140 horses and about 60 knights.

Move 3

(Alsatia) - still moves forward and loses all the horses from under his left flank of cavalry. Kills 60, dismounts 15 and 17 are wounded. Loses from cavalry on right 23 wounded; kills one-half of the horses; 10 unwounded, 45% casualties. By far the most casualties of any turn yet; median range for archers. Funnels through the center.
(Anglia) - stays in place and fires three vollies; loses 20 men to archer fire, retreats cavalry from the sides.

Move 4

(Anglia) - knights halt, bowmen on sides fire on dismounted knights in the center. The Anglians' center archers fire on Alsatian spearmen, lose no casualties.
(Alsatia) - turns and flees and lets 770 knights that are wounded and dismounted be captured.

Move 5

(Anglia) - archer skirmishes in front pursuit, everything else halts.
(Alsatia) - flees in good order out of range of Anglia's archers.

Move 6

(Anglia) - continues to pursue with all becoming disorganized.
(Alsatia) - turns and with spearmen and archers, fights a rearguard while the cavalry gets away.

ANALYSIS

(Alsatia) - The Alsatian commander did okay by my standards, although he did lose the battle and used questionable tactics (funneling his cavalry, using his crossbowmen in a block so that only the front rank could fire) he did get the majority of his cavalry away to fight another day. Not trying to make any excuses or anything but the Alsatian had going into this battle a defeatist attitude, was inexperienced, and had a lesser quality of troop, which unfortunately does enter into this type of battle. Also, what can 6000 spearmen do against 3300 archers whose fire became deadlier as the troops advanced?

(Anglia) - The Anglian commander used a general type of hedgehog defense because the defense set up first and he didn't know what kind of offense the other was planning. Originally he was going to have his cavalry counterattack through the center but his archers got there first, the reason in turn four of his cavalry retreating back to the center, his infantry was then supposed to split and go to the flanks, but as said before, the archers got there first! He took 8740 men as prisoners, 90 were crossbowmen, 1600 archers, 1000 municipal spearmen, 5210 peasant spearmen and 840 knights and serjents. The figures we used were about 80% Arif ix with the other 20% Scruby. The colors were terrific due to the fact that there were hardly any uniforms there and they all wore their native dress.