Do you game this period very often? I'm a big fan of the Hundred Years War and Wars of the Roses era
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Edward
aka 'The Black Prince'
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Again no expert but I concur.azeroth wrote:Far from an expert myself as far as i recall:
1. The Scottish guns were siege pieces, whereas the English had light field guns in the army, giving them a faster rate of fire and quickly silencing the Scots guns, also the Scots master gunners were with the fleet. The Scots also could not depress the guns far enough to properly engage the english army.
Yep. It must have been a terrible shock after all that preperation.2.The English guns were slicing through the pike blocks of the Scots, and the english army didn't seem in a great rush to attack uphill.
This is the intesting bit. The Scots were actually way ahead of the English in terms of weaponry and tactics. Indeed, the English were still clinging on to what really amounted to Late Medieval tactics which were already a long time outdated. James IV had employed a few continental Landschnect captains to train the Scots army. This was largely unachieved by the time that tactical manouvreing and marching had begun. However, at the end of the day, so's to speak the Scots still had a very solid positon on the hill. Textbook stuff really for the day.3. Two of the Scots pike divisions were stalled when they hit a small stream at the botom of the hill, this with the mass of following pikemen meant their advance was broken up and the marshy ground disordered them.