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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2269312" data-attributes="member: 26473">True - a redoubt, trenches, mantlets I can see, but not fighting from trenches a la the Western Front...However, from Steel_Wind's subsequent post, I don't think that's what he was necessarily referring to, either.I always go back to Crecy and Poitiers as English longbows were the decisive technology in those battles as well, long before Agincourt - however, those same archers and their bows were less successful in the English defeat at Castillon when they were effectively thrown off the Continent by the French.I think it's closer, but Castillon was also the first battle to introduce concentrated heavy cannon in Europe - I think that's an interesting battle to study to get a sense of how evocation magic might impact the conduct of a fantasy battle of pseudo-medieval armies.Exactly.I've considered that as fantasy armies engage you may see more skirmishers than in a tradition medieval army, but ranks of soldiers protected by abjurations will still dominate the battlefield in the end.</blockquote>