Agincourt demo at Salute - Lance and Longbow Soc. PICS ADDED - 27/4.

[painterman]

The Lance and Longbow Society will putting on a demo game of Agincourt at the Salute show this Saturday. We are located at table GN11 – near the rear of the hall when you enter Excel. So do come straight down and ignore all the seller's wonderful wares!!

We are planning to array the French according to their pre battle plans, which were discovered in a document in the British Library; with a screen of crossbowmen and wings of mounted men at arms, to counter the English longbow. The rule will be Hail Caeser, with some minor adaptions.

Some of the 28mm figures being prepared can be seen at http://harness-and-array.blogspot.co.uk/  

Do come along and say hello, visit the Society stall, and see how the French are progressing…or not…






 

[Burnin Coal]

Looking forward to seeing these up close...some great looking units there

[Atheling]

I cannot wait!!!!!!!!!

to be honest, if this game wasn't on i very well might not have made the arrangements to go down to Salute this year.....

Very happy that I'll get to see it and take lots of pics... I'll likely pop over every hour or so to take pics as the game progresses Simon.

Darrell.

[Captain Blood]

Looks great. That's a fine body of plastic longbowmen 
See you there.

[Dalauppror]

Will be grate to see it !!! 
 
and not long from out table at GL05:)

best regards Michael

[painterman]

I have put up the first blog post - with photos of the game and a brief report.







More pictures are here: http://harness-and-array.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/agincourt-at-salute-2015-pics-i.html
Thanks to LAF folk who came along to say hello!

Somehow we managed to sneak off with 3 prizes on the day for the game!
Cheers
Simon.

[Ray Earle]

Excellent.  What a great looking game.

[skip]

very nice table and congrats on the awards

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid work Simon, and good to see you for however so briefly 

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

Splendid-looking game as ever Simon, and good to have a quick chat with you and Stuart.
Shame the French won Agincourt this time, but you can't have everything
The muddy centre of the field really worked well. So simple but effective.
Well done on the prizes.

Richard

[Atheling]

Having hovered by the game for a while early on I kept returning to get some snaps which I'll post up later (typically I'm having problems with Picassa- It downloaded the full size files and the reduced and I can't tell which from which! Yeah, I know!). It looked marvelous and having gone with the Prof. Anne Curry version, which delighted me as having read heavily over the years on this battle her version, having worked out just who of the French nobility was where on the days leading up to the battle is much more akin to how I see the battle personally. One individual from another table tried to give me a lecture on the merits of Barkers version which is very mainstream and has the French numbers at the conventional 3-1 at least! I listened politely and walked away rolling my eyes. for some reason so called revisionist historians are going out of fashion yet surely the job of a historian is to update history with any new evidence that comes to light?

So, [steps off soapbox] the game had a great visual impact that was immediately striking. The mini's were all very well painted and the project had the vibe of being a thing of love and attention the detail that it deserved. As I mentioned before, it's really important for a demo game to have an immediate visual impact in order to engage the 'punters' and this game certainly had that with all the heraldry on display. I also liked the manner in which the units were quite large which not only added to the visual appeal but also showed that the French after their failed flanking manoeuvre were forced into doing.

I think the game richly deserved all three of the trophies that it won  .

I should perhaps also add that Simon has inspired me to move away for my Impetus style basing, but keeping the theme of interaction between my mini's, I'm going to re-base my HYW collection to fit his base sizes- so another trophy of sorts to Simon  .

Darrell.

Splendid-looking game as ever Simon, and good to have a quick chat with you and Stuart.
Shame the French won Agincourt this time, but you can't have everything
The muddy centre of the field really worked well. So simple but effective.
Well done on the prizes.

Richard

[Dalauppror]

Indeed stunning looking game Simon !

[von Lucky]

Yeah, pretty damn stunning and lush. Love it.