A single volley by the archers at Agincourt amounted to about 5,000 shafts, each weighing 2.5 ozs, a total weight of 781 lbs; the total weight of all the arrows that fell upon the French on that day, assuming that each archer loosed all his stock of 48 shafts, was nearly 17 tons. In this battle there is little doubt that by far the greater proportion of the 6-7,000 French dead lost their lives in close-quarter melee-fighting - by concussion, cuts or stab wounds; yet, English archers probably loosed 240,000 shafts during the course of the battle! Generously allowing that they killed 25% of the total French dead - it took 150 arrows to kill one man. However, that is far from the true effect and long-term potential of the arrow-hails that darkened the skies during the 100 Years War. More Talking Wargaming Agincourt and Archery Effectiveness Hint of the Month: Dead Figures The Art of War Rule of the Month Problem of the Month Military Quiz of the Month Answers to Military Quiz of the Month Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter #210 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1979 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com