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sauf que par fossé, on ne parle pas d'un trou d'un mètre de profondeur, mais une ou plusieurs lignes de quelques 20 cm de fond sur autant de large, avec en prime le petit talus de terre que cela crée. C'est rapide à mettre en place quand c'est prévu par tes troupes de sapeurs. Ce qui est décrit dans plusieurs batailles, je ne vois pas pourquoi ils auraient fait différemment ce coup-ci.

Les chevaux ils y aiment pas. obligé de sauter par dessus, la charge est cassée. Ça ne prend rien pour casser une charge. Et d'ailleurs une charge ne se fait jamais sur 300 mètres. Surtout quand tu augmentes le nombre de cavaliers. Ils partent au trot et finissent en charge sur les 50 derniers mètres. Les formations ne pouvant pas être gardée sur des distances trop longues. Reconstitutions à l'appui.

C'est la faute au poids des armures, mais en fait non, rien à voir.
Reste qu'ils répétent deux fois que c'est la faute aux archers gallois, mais en fait c'est la boue.

Reste que ça n'arrête pas une charge de cavalerie qui porte. Les charges de cavalerie ne se faisaient pas sur 300 mètres. Faut arrêter la charge des rohirims, c'est de la fiction.

Les archers anglais avaient creusé devant eux des petits fossés. pas besoin d'être profond, ce qui casse une charge et l'empêche d'aboutir.

The army had about 700 yards of rain-soaked ploughland to cover. At a slow walk (no medieval army marched in step, and no modern army would have done so over such ground – the ‘cadenced pace’ followed from the hardening and smoothing of the surface of roads), with halts to correct dressing, it would have reached its new position in ten minutes or so, though one may guess that the pace slackened a good deal as they drew nearer the French army and the leaders made mental reckoning of the range. ‘Extreme bowshot’, which is the distance at which Henry presumably planned to take ground, is traditionally calculated at 300 yards. That is a tremendous carry for a bow, however, and 250 yards would be a more realistic judgement of the distance at which he finally halted his line from the French. If, however, his archer flanks were thrown a little forward, his centre would have been farther away; and if, as one chronicler suggests, he had infiltrated parties of bowmen into the woods, the gap between the two armies might have been greater still. Something between 250 and 300 yards is a reasonable bracket therefore.
  There must now have ensued another pause, even though a short one. For the archers, who had each been carrying a stout double-pointed wooden stake since the tenth day of the march, had now to hammer these into the ground, at an angle calculated to catch a warhorse in the chest. Once hammered, moreover, the points had to be hastily resharpened. Henry had ordered these stakes to be cut as a precaution against the army being surprised by cavalry on the line of march. But it was a sensible improvisation to have them planted on the pitched battlefield, even if not a wholly original one. The Scots at Bannockburn, the English themselves at Crécy and the Flemings at Courtrai had narrowed their fronts by digging patterns of holes which would break the leg of a charging horse; the principle was the same as that which underlay the planting of the Agincourt archers’ fence. Though it is not, indeed, possible to guess whether a fence was what the archers constructed. If they hammered their stakes to form a single row, it supposes them standing for some time on the wrong side of it with their backs to the enemy. Is it not more probable that each drove his in where he stood, so forming a kind of thicket, too dangerous for horses to penetrate but roomy enough for the defenders to move about within? That would explain the chronicler Monstrelet’s otherwise puzzling statement that ‘each archer placed before him a stake.’ It would also make sense of the rough mathematics we can apply to the problem. Colonel Burne, whose appreciation has not been challenged, estimates the width of the English position at 950 yards. Given that there were 1,000 men-at-arms in the line of battle, ranked shoulder to shoulder four deep, they would have occupied, at a yard of front per man, 250 yards. If the 5,000 archers, on the remaining 700 yards, planted their stakes side by side, they would have formed a fence at five-inch intervals. That obstacle would have been impenetrable to the French – but also to the English archers;4 and their freedom of movement was, as we shall see, latterly an essential element in the winning of the battle. If we want to picture the formation the archers adopted, therefore, it would be most realistic to think of them standing a yard apart, in six or seven rows, with a yard between them, also disposed chequerboard fashion so that the men could see and shoot more easily over the heads of those in front: the whole forming a loose belt twenty or thirty feet deep, with the stakes standing obliquely among them.

BaKouneT a écrit:

Ça m'a rappelé Au delà du réel, le côté cheap en moins.

C'est bienvendu. Je prends la saison 1 de suite.

Kek, je pense aller au Maroc bientot (dans deux semaines). Par contre ce serait plus pour aller (apprendre a) surfer. Ca vaut le coup ? Pas trop cher ? Il faut passer quelques nuits a marrakech ou alors on s'en tape ?