Unit Concept/ Research

**King Ragnar** · 05-01-2005, 13:15

Pavise Handgunner:

**kreig** · 05-01-2005, 13:17

intresting, the only problem with this is, How to implement

**Duke Malcolm** · 05-01-2005, 13:39

Other mods have mad fire-arms. We could just ask to use their thingy, and change the models.

**ShadesWolf** · 05-02-2005, 16:47

The English army

Most English armies of this period were made up of vast numbers of Longbows.(Which I assume most of you already know)

Below I will detail a few historical notes, for use to discuss

Until the 17th century there was no such thing as a standing army in england. The campaigns of the 14th and 15th century saw the raising of temporary armies which were disbanded on the completion of operation.

An archer served in one of these armies by either having been conscripted into the Levy, raised by 'Commission of Array' or recruited into a Retinue of a member of the nobility or gentry in a force raised by 'contract of indenture'

The Commission of Array

The CoA was a lagacy of the feudal obligation whereby every man between the ages of 16 and 60 was to serve his country in the time of need. Counties were assessed as to the number of men they were to supply and arrayers toured their respoctive counties selecting from the manpower assembled at various designated muster points.

The Contract of Indenture

Contracts were drawn up between the king and his chief commanders which stipulated the size of the army required, its purpose and the terms and length of service.

Depending on the number needed, the commander would supplement the men of his own indentured retinue with subcontracted men from other nobiliyt or gentry. (this can get complicated so I wont go any further than to say these armies were kind of the lords household and leave it as that)

The Levy

In the 14th century CoA and CoI were used in combination to raise armies for service in Wales, Scotland, Flanders and France. However after complaints by parliament CoA were only allowed for service in England, Scotland and Wales.

therefore, throughout the 15th century every army that left England to serve aboard was raised entirly by contracts of indenture. However it must be said that not every levied archer was mobilised to serve in a field force. The duty ofarrays north of the river trent was to remain on stnadby ready to repel any scottish incursions

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So from this we can see that we will need two types of soldier for each, ie a levied and a retained one and after 1400 only retained should be fighting in mainland europe. Except for units/soldiers recruited from the natives, ie Gascony etc.,

OK now its time to discuss

**The Blind King of Bohemia** · 05-02-2005, 17:13

After my 2nd year exams in june i'll be happy to help you Shades with hisitorical research as this period of history is my favourite as you probably know already