Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: > > Steve Teale wrote: > >> I should think that 20 men with decent automatic rifles would have > >> been enough for Agincourt. That way more gentlemen could have laid > >> abed in England and not felt so guilty. > > > > Another battle won by superior technology (longbows). > > Well that was more like simple-minded tactics on the part of the > assailant. Longbowmen can and have been beaten by cavalry; just a little > tactics is needed. What the French essentially tried was "let's just run > through as fast as we can". :o) > > Andrei
To answer you and Walter at the same time, A) longbows were pretty primitive compared to the bows in Asia, so not superior technology, but used by a crew who were professional and quite bold. B) Tactics require an examination of the ground, which the French clearly didn't do, since they advanced into a funnel and got themselves into a traffic jam where they were easy meat for the arrows. I love military history. All the mistakes we can make now, programming and otherwise, have been made before somewhere on a field of battle.
