Medieval dreamteam

Mongols weren't known for their Horse Archery, but rather by their horsemanship.

Khitais, Manchus, Huns, Jurchens, Magyars, Saracens all used the horse archery to the same degree as the Mongols. The bow itself wasn't special either.

this is about the medieval age
vienna was in the early modern age

>Mongols weren't known for their Horse Archery, but rather by their horsemanship.
And their generalship.

>polish cavalry
>when the glory days of the common wealth are post renaissance
>not having Norman cavalry
>using pikemen on the open field before the evolution of the Ribaulkin or thunder arrow
>using gothic knights rather than Edward hammer of the Scots knights
>not having an advance line of crossbows to pierce armour of any charging cavalry and heavy infantry

Oh right, he said generalship. Pretty lucky considering Dynasties often fold after the second generation.

>terciario
Why the ario part? And fire arms aren't mass produced yet so the Tercio of the Italian wars isn't that cool
>tfw people still haven't modded shogun 2 to have half pike half shotte units

>implying the Bromans are French

General: Mongol
Bowmen: English Longbow
Pikemen: Swiss Guard
Cavalry: French
Infantry: Varangian Guard

Can you guys answer the English bow thread?

Basically the English archers developed a system of utilizing their longbows that maximized their effectiveness. They weren't some magical innovation that let the English dominate the battlefield like a lot of people claim it is, but the people who shit on it are most likely just butthurt about "muh eternal anglo"

longbow isn't a complex or secret weapon, it was just that england had a king who got shot in the face with a welsh bow and decreed everyone should practice for like 3 hours a week. this tradition was continued for like 500 years.
french didn't look down on the longbow but more the peasants who shot them because french specialized heavily in mounted noble knights and anglos were horselets forever.

basically no one had enough people that trained with the longbow so much and other kings didn't care enough to make laws like england.

>General: french
you mean corsican* lmao

Swiss pikes
French heavy cavs
Mongol horse archers
Welsh archers
Viking infantry

Before 13thC? Sure. After that Polish cav was superior.

>Spanish pike
They are basicly a meme

That battle is a meme too.

English Navy
Portuguese Naval Leaders
:^)

Total war historians.

There was pretty much no difference between Germans and Frenchmen.

It should also be noted that the french indeed used longbowmen, just like there were archers guilds in Flanders, and many kings and nobles practiced with longbows. The longbow wasn't superior to the crossbow, it was more complementary (The longbow was vastly superior in field battles, but inferior to the crossbow in naval engagement or siege warfare, and siege warfare was more prevalent in the middle ages than open field battles).

The longbow could not penetrate a knight's armor, and not even an infantryman's gambeson. It could however kill horses, and hurt the lightly-armed infantrymen (It's like being hit by a bullet while wearing a bulletproof vest ; You'll survive but it still hurts). Also, since the longbowmen could fire 12 arrows a minute, and you have to multiply that with every archers firing, which in the case of England's army could reach several thousands, you have to imagine a continuous rain of steel which had an incredible psychological effect that many, many historians and strategists alike tend to ignore while psychology often determines the issue of a battle.

The english longbow wasn't a superior weapon, but it was superior in term of recruitment, which was a well-oiled machine ; The King of England arranged himself, with laws and assizes, to always have at his disposition a large corps of experienced longbowmen to follow him in his chevauchées in France. It should also be noted that the longbowmen were proefficient soldiers ; At Azincourt, since they couldn't kill the knights with their bows, they dropped them and charged with axes and maces once the weary, tired and covered in mud frogs reached their lines.

This but with with Swiss pikemen instead of Spanish and some Norsemen to soften up the area through raiding before the main force arrives.

well posted

>using pagans in your army
Ducking heretics

>rain of steel
BROTHA ARE YOU PINNED HERE

And their rapesmanship

It's not a meme but it wasn't shining in the medieval period. It's golden age was in the early modern era.

That was hundreds of years before the tercio

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>General: french
why?

USA doesn't have a history, you don't get to play, LARP as an Irish kern or whatever X-American you are

Tons of great medieval generals were French (Charles Martel, Guilliam le Basterd, Guilliam le Marschal, Godefroy de Bouillon, Richard Lionheart...etc)

>AMERICA HAS NO HISTORY
>LOL STOP LARPING AS A EUROPEAN, AMERIMUTT
Well? Which is it, Euros?

Most of this is wrong, English started widely using the longbow in the early 14th Century, using it against the Scots in the Wars of Scottish Independence, most notably at Halidon Hill in 1333. After this it was firmly cemented in English tactics for further battles with the Scots and French. The future King Henry V would not be shot in the face till much later in 1403 at the Battle of Shrewsbury, fighting English rebels, not Welshmen. The encouragement by law to practice archery also came much earlier then Henry V.

The longbow was also not used by peasants, but rather by the yeomanry, farmers owning their own relatively small areas land, a sort of middle class. Younger sons of the knightly class could also be found quite commonly as longbowmen in English armies.