Agincourt (game)
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Agincourt, subtitled "The Triumph of Archery over Armor, 25 October 1415", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the Battle of Agincourt.
Components
Agincourt is a 2-player wargame in which the English and French forces face each other at the Battle of Agincourt.
- a full-colour contour map of the battlefield using a hex grid scaled to 34 yards (31 m) per hex
- 270 counters
- 45 cardboard counters representing military units (32 French and 13 English)
- other counters representing dead soldiers and survivors from battle
- rulebook
- player reference sheets
- twenty-sided die
Gameplay
Each player sets up their forces at either end of the board. Each turn counts as three minutes of game time. Each player takes turns moving, after which the opponent can use archery fire. After movement is finished, units are checked for morale. If any units are adjacent to an enemy unit, melee combat is resolved with a 20-sided die, and damage uses a step-reduction system, with each damaged unit generating dead and fugitives. Fugitives move randomly, and units encountering them lose the rest of their movement.[1]
Victory conditions
The French player wins by inflicting casualties at a rate of less than 7 French to 1 English. The English player wins by raising the casualty rate to 7 to 1 or greater.[2]
Publication history
Agincourt was designed by Jim Dunnigan,[1] with artwork by Redmond A. Simonsen, and was published as a boxed set by SPI in 1979.[3]