The Hundred Years' WarExpansion eras
1337–1453
The Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). You start as Foot soldier and could rise all the way to Marshal, if you survive. This era covers 25 historical battles.
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- Foot soldier
- Veteran
- Vintenar
- Centenar
- Knight
- Knight banneret
- Marshal
Historical battles
| Year | Battle | Est. casualties |
|---|---|---|
| 1340 | Battle of SluysEnglish longbowmen shot down into the French fleet from their ships. Of the two French admirals, one was killed and the other hanged from his own mast. | ≈25% |
| 1346 | Battle of CrécyIt rained in the afternoon. The Genoese crossbowmen's strings got wet; the English archers had kept their bowstrings dry under their caps. The French knights charged fifteen times, and every time they went down under the arrows. | ≈12% |
| 1347 | Siege of CalaisAfter eleven months Calais surrendered. Six burghers came out with nooses around their necks to beg for mercy. Only the queen's pleading saved their lives. | ≈6% |
| 1356 | Battle of PoitiersThe Black Prince's army was hemmed in among the hedgerows. The French knights dismounted to fight on foot and were too exhausted to lift their swords by the time they reached the English line. King John II of France was captured. | ≈12% |
| 1358 | Battle of MeauxRebel peasants attacked the market fortress at Meaux and were scattered by a handful of knights. For weeks afterward the countryside was full of hanged peasants. | ≈20% |
| 1364 | Battle of CocherelThe Breton knight Du Guesclin won his first victory for the French king, beating the army of the King of Navarre. | ≈5% |
| 1367 | Battle of NájeraThe Black Prince crossed the Pyrenees and defeated Du Guesclin and the army of Castile in Spain. | ≈10% |
| 1370 | Siege of LimogesLimoges went over to the French. When the city fell, the Black Prince ordered a massacre. | ≈30% |
| 1372 | Battle of La RochelleThe war galleys of France's ally Castile burned the English fleet off La Rochelle. | ≈15% |
| 1382 | Battle of RoosebekeKing Charles VI's knights crushed the Flemish rebels at Roosebeke. The rebel leader's body was hung from a tree. | ≈3% |
| 1388 | Battle of OtterburnThe Scots attacked by moonlight. The English commander, Henry "Hotspur" Percy, was taken prisoner. | ≈10% |
| 1396 | Battle of NicopolisFrench knights went on crusade against the Ottomans. They wouldn't wait for the infantry and fought to be first into the charge. The whole army was destroyed. | ≈30% |
| 1403 | Battle of ShrewsburyThe Percys rose in rebellion. Both sides had English longbowmen, and the arrows fell on each other like rain. Prince Henry took an arrow in the face and refused to leave the field. | ≈10% |
| 1415 | Siege of HarfleurHenry V besieged the town for five weeks and it surrendered. But a third of the English army had come down with dysentery. | ≈10% |
| 1415 | Battle of AgincourtThe freshly plowed field had been turned to mud by the rain. The French knights sank in their heavy armor, and the English archers dropped their bows and went at them with mallets. | ≈15% |
| 1418 | Siege of RouenThe city drove its old and weak out of the gates, and the English wouldn't let them through. Trapped in the ditch between the walls and the English lines, they starved one by one through the winter. | ≈20% |
| 1421 | Battle of BaugéScottish reinforcements and the French beat the English at Baugé. The king's brother, the Duke of Clarence, was killed. | ≈15% |
| 1424 | Battle of VerneuilThey called it "a second Agincourt." More than six thousand French and Scots died. | ≈20% |
| 1429 | Battle of the HerringsThe English were escorting herring for Lent. They circled their wagons and beat off the French attack. The ground was covered in herring. | ≈8% |
| 1429 | Siege of OrléansA seventeen-year-old farm girl from Lorraine rode in armor into Orléans, which had been under siege for half a year. Nine days later, the English lifted the siege. | ≈10% |
| 1429 | Battle of PatayThe French cavalry charged before the English had formed up. The longbowmen had no time to plant their stakes and were cut down in swathes. Talbot was captured. | ≈20% |
| 1430 | Siege of CompiègneJoan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians outside Compiègne and sold to the English. | ≈8% |
| 1436 | Liberation of ParisThe people of Paris opened the gates to Charles VII's army. | ≈6% |
| 1450 | Battle of FormignyTwo French cannon pounded the English archers' position. The longbowmen rushed out to seize the guns and were broken by Breton cavalry from the flank. Normandy was lost. | ≈20% |
| 1453 | Battle of CastillonOld Talbot thought the French were retreating and ordered an attack. The cannon in the French camp opened fire all at once. Talbot's horse was shot from under him, and he was killed with an axe. | ≈20% |
Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.
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