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Quote from: Nick Harbud on April 21, 2024, 10:39:18 AMThis is on the western side of Hook, Hampshire for those who cannot be bothered to look it up. 

Which assumes you know where Hook is without looking it up 

Alun Mackrill, a member of the Society, but not of this Forum, has asked me to let you know about this event that is taking place between 10:30 and 18:00 at


This is on the western side of Hook, Hampshire for those who cannot be bothered to look it up.  Anyone interested in booking a table should go to the website.

An optional donation of £5 for game participants and £3 for other attendees is requested to offset event costs.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/medieval-dog-names

Brilliant

 

I liked that they painted the arrows in different colours depending on the nastiness they contained.

Also, Tod's long-suffering wife had to wind up the trebuchet again!

Quote from: Erpingham on April 18, 2024, 01:09:57 PMTod has been at it again.  He has been experimenting with fire arrows, so we don't have to.

https://youtu.be/xNCU4WndtYk?si=pnxa3N1ZaEMdGAy9

One word of caution - this video has really annoying ads every few minutes 

Fascinating and probably worth putting up with the adverts 

Tod has been at it again.  He has been experimenting with fire arrows, so we don't have to.

https://youtu.be/xNCU4WndtYk?si=pnxa3N1ZaEMdGAy9

One word of caution - this video has really annoying ads every few minutes 

Horse Archers is a very vague term...

There are extensive primary and ancient sources in less accessable languages (eg chinese, persian, arabic). These detail several different tactics and show that individual troops would choose between tactics in different circumstances.
some key points:
1. All horse archer types wore as much armour as they could get - including horse armour.
2. The key advantages over foot archers are mobility AND lots more arrows.
3. Dismounting was a common practice.  In bad terrain, fortifications, boats, etc. Also for 'shower shooting' tactics.
4. The most effective shooting was at very short range. heavy arrows, powerful bows, ranges 10m or less. This was typicaly when galloping across the enemy front or at a point charge before contact or withdrawal.

next tactics..

Thanks. It is fascinating

And keep it going Dave...it does inspire me to do more 6mm