Royal Armouries Agincourt film clip

[bodunchar]

was their armor really that shiny?

[temp54]

@bodunchar Yep. You wanted to look good.

[cupboardyful]

@bodunchar Look at contemporary medieval art, armour was usually blackened.

[hello123456ification]

err shut up

[crysisman14]

english bastards...

[NICKarrowman]

@crysisman14 I'd rather say "French losers"...it was the English who were more effective at last.

[crysisman14]

@NICKarrowman the english always says ohh man the 100 years war... well what about the Norman conquest of england?.. that dont count?

[NICKarrowman]

@crysisman14 Don't be ridiculous...that's a completely different war. And, by the way, the Normans were no French, but of Norse descent...and by the time of the 100-year war, the English had Norman leaders themselves...so I wouldn't describe them as belonging to the French side.

[Weston1968]

@crysisman14 Yeh we sure kicked your ass though!

[crysisman14]

@Weston1968 yeah by breaking all the rules of chivalry :p in the end you gained... nothing :p

[Weston1968]

@Weston1968 Agincourt ended with a War Crime that is true! But the English defeated the French fair & square uo until that point. But the Spanish weren't involved in this battle. I was referring to the Armada!

[etelonlongbows]

I f the longbow was infective against armor why did the English win AGAINST OVERWHELMING NUMBERS

[CJLinton]

@etelonlongbows The arrows killed the horses, the horses killed the men by throwing them from their saddles, kicking and trampling them in their death throws.. (I presume your talking about Agincourt?) Any knights surviving that were hacked to bits by the archers daggers, swords and mallets, the knights had trouble moving in the boggy ground, as most of the archers were naked from the waist down (due to a bad case of the runs) they could traverse the mud easier.

[PlantagenetKnight]

There were and handful of welsh archers, but most of the army was pure English. Fucking Welsh will try and take credit for anything!

[nevanovna]

The Welsh were the Archers who saved the day at the Battle of Agincourt

[lxgiwylgta]

it was actually the mud what killed the french knights at the battle

[Saxe333]

@lxgiwylgta No the mud slowed them , it was the tens of thousands of arrows plus the axes,mallets, mauls and swords which killed them.

[mercedescl]

@Saxe333 In fact, in the later part of the Hundred years war, longbows could no longer penetrate the newly design steel armors of the French heavy cavalry. It was improper crowd control and the following chaos that killed the French army.

[MrStarbuck123]

@mercedescl It couldn't go through the new milanese armour, but the blow was poerful enough to knock a man over or knock a man off his horse, it could also go through the week points, such as the neck, underneath the arm etc

[MrStarbuck123]

@mercedescl also the archers ran out of arrows, and joined the hand to hand fighting using, pickaxes, mallets, hammers, even rocks they found on the floor to fight the frenchmen

[jzippo]

errm no agincourt is famous because their was very few foreign troops in the english army. their wewre some at poitiers and even some at crecy but there was 98 percent of the english army at agincourt was english

[Saxe333]

@nevanovna Yes what would the English have done without a few Welshmen to watch the baggage train.

[0benche0]

Does anyone know what movie this is from?

or is it just a custom act...

[FinalFreek]

by the looks of things it's just a custom act.