Roleplaying the English Army - a tactics thread!

[econ21]

I try not to use dismounted knights as it is awfully demeaning for the poor fellows to go on foot.

In general, I would agree but not when roleplaying the English army. I don't think they had hang-ups about fighting dismounted and in fact became renowned for it.

Longbowmen have a better melee attack than ranged.

Good point, although with M2TW, the attack stat does not always tell the whole story. The speed with which the unit attacks is also important. However, given the sedate speed at which longbowmen shoot, I suspect factoring this in might favour melee even more. Against that, the ranged attack is AP - I am not sure the melee one is.