Simon Chick's Battle of Agincourt Game at Salute 2015 (From La Journee Blog)

For me, this was easily the best put together and most striking game of Salute 2015.

If any of you know me personally it will come as no surprise that I chose Simon Chick's Battle of Agincourt game as my favourite of the show at Salute in 2015. For anyone who knows Simon from his Harness and Array and Je Lay Emprins will know that Simon shares my fascination with Late Medieval history. The game at Salute was heavily based on Professor Anne Curry's latest research and reflected the fact that in all likelihood the French  were not present at the battle in the numbers many military historians usually prescribe. Rather there was significantly less of the French Nobility and their retinues present at the time of the struggle. Still, they were present in numbers enough to foul up the carefully laid plans of Boucicault and D'Albret and the essential flank attacks simply did not take place making victory for the French at Agincourt an impossibility. In hindsight it is surmise what might have happened had these two cavalry attacks on the English flanks taken place and I'm very surprised that no-one has played the game with the English flanks open to a conclusion. The result may still be a victory for the English(?). Maybe not.

Simon et al were using Hail Ceasar for the game. I'm not sure if there were any amendments to the rules.