1. Battle Strategy

2. To protect

3.  Effective against sharp points and blades of
spears, swords, axes, etc.
 Helps the skin from being cut, which lowers
risk of infection
 Advantages--easy to move in, easy to repair.

4.  Is worn on entire body
 Made out of large metal plates
 Covers chainmail

5.  Plate armor also protected war animals, such
as horses and elephants.
 This plate armor was made of leather and
steel

6.  Specially trained and bred for battle,
and to be a battle horse
 Over 24 hands tall
 Easily trample people
 All of Goldenlake’s knights have a destrier
▪ Allows them to be above almost all fighters,
giving them height advantage.
 Armored

7. To defend.

8. POLEARMS
BATTLEAXE  (spears, pike, glaive,
 Close contact
partisans, et cetera)
 Single/double-hand
 Razor-sharp blade on
axe staff between 4 and 14
 Could be hurled as a
ft. long
missile

9. MACE/FLAIL CLUB
 Close contact weapon BATON
 Either wood or metal QUARTERSTAFF
 Simplest of weapons
 Cheap to produce
HOT OBJECTS
•Could be poured/dropped on attackers
•Very painful. Will seriously injure, if not kill
• Could be water, oil, rocks, sand, tar
•Oil and tar will stay on victims and make
them flammable

10.  Lord is equipped with at all  When Fighting:
times:  Mace/Flail
 Dagger  Glaive or other
▪ Small knife, easily hidden polearms, if not
▪ Used to stab and slice mounted
 Sword  Battleaxe
▪ Lord Roslyn favors a double-  Warhammer
edged sword
 Sword
▪ made of steel
 sharply honed edge  Lance
 flexibility not to shatter in use  Spear
 Fists/Feet/Arms etc.
▪ Portable
▪ Accessable
▪ Useful against unarmoured and
unarmed opponents

11.  May use all serfs’ weapons  Chainmail Armor
 Sword  Plate Armor
 Polearms  Shields
 Spear
 Pike  Kite shields
 Glaive  Rounded at the top of the shield and
 Partisan tapered at the bottom providing body
cover
 Halberd
 Heater Shields
 Poleaxe
 Smaller, suited to horseback
 Quarterstaff (if dismounted)  The Buckler
 Dagger
 small round, metal shield which could
 Lance be hung from a belt.
 Mace  reserved for hand-to-hand combat
 Flail  The Pavise ( Wall Shields)
 provided protection when reloading
crossbow
 The Targe (or Target shields)
 traditional Scottish round shield

12. CASTLE ON HIGH LAKE
GROUND  Easily hide traps with
 Allows full view of plants
surrounding land for  Bog near Lake slows down
attackers attackers from the west
 Nearest forest is far  Trenches around castle
from castle; not close prevent spread of fire and
enough for attackers limits people entering; only
to hide two entrances to castle,
 Easier for archers to well guarded
defend  Trenches around farmland
prevent spread of fire and
people entering

13.  Developed in the 12th and  The space between the first two
13th Centuries and offered walls was known as the 'death
the best protection against hole'
attack.  Being trapped within the walls
 Main feature were walls. (3) would almost certainly result in
death for attacker
 Inner wall made of thick  The entire castle surrounded
stone with turrets for guard with a deep and wide trench
lookouts filled with sharpened stakes
 Surrounded by equally thick  Entry would be across a
but lower walls drawbridge
 This is so archers on the inner
 Curtain walls allow for
monitoring of siege attackers
walls can fire over the archers
on the outer wall

14.  Round  Portcullis
 No corners for attackers to hide in  heavy grilled door that dropped
 Only two entrances and exits vertically down
 Allows entry to be monitored  Nearly impossible to break through
closely  Barbican
 Moat/drawbridges  Loops around to the two main
 Moat filled with pointed stakes and entrances with multiple gates
surrounded with abatis eventually leading back into the
 Drawbridges raised prevent easy barbican
entrance  From loop holes in the walls, can
 Moat at the bottom of hill- castle fire arrows
at top.  Only small amount of men needed
▪ If attackers surpass the moat, we can to defend
see them coming  Murder holes
▪ From above, can pour boiling oil or
water on attackers or drop stones
▪ Can be women doing this job

15.  Chapel built into  Once breached, the
gatehouse attackers will find
 Attackers would be firing themselves attacked by
on the house of God archers protected by
▪ Thus God is on the crenellations
side of the
defenders
 Defended by a portcullis
 Contains loopholes and
murder holes

16.  The Lord wears a button blessed by the Pope. It is
a tooth of Jesus Christ, Our Savior
 The original Crown of Thorns is in the Manor
church (verified by the Pope himself)
 Every soldier carries a wooden or metal cross

17. Used to Attack

18. TREBUCHET SIEGE TOWER
 Flings projectiles at
 To protect
extremely high speeds attackers
into enemy territory  Missiles launched
 Far more accurate and
from top
efficient than other  Height allows
medieval catapults attackers to enter
 Capable of hurling 200-
over the wall
pound boulders instead of through
it
SIEGE WEAPONS CAN KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

19.  Ballista  Springald
 similar to a giant crossbow  Works like ballista
 worked by using tension  Giant catapult
 designed to aim huge  Missiles fired included
wooden, iron-clad darts or ▪ Poisoned darts
arrows ▪ Arrows
 Highly accurate, but less ▪ Bodies or body parts
range than that of ▪ Diseased or rotting carcasses
Trebuchet
 Treachery  Starvation
 bribing a traitor to turn  An effective siege strategy
against the inhabitants of
their manor  a particularly unpleasant
method used when placing
a castle under siege

20. LONGBOW CROSSBOW
 As tall as archer
 Can be launched from
 Faster than any
up to 400 yards from
previous bows; 10-12 target
arrows per minute
 Allows for archers to
(depending on archer) attack without being in
 Especially effective shooting range
against plate armor  Easy to use
 Accurate

21.  Potent Incendiary
 Ignites on contact with water
 Launch from a trebuchet with a flaming branch; when it
lands, will set fire to crops of other manor
 This will cause them to try to douse smaller fire with water
▪ Water will ignite the Greek Fire; Greek Fire spreads in all directions
and will destroy most or all of defending manor
 Potent Psychological Weapon
 Our lake is close enough to retrieve water in case of
fire, but far enough away that if the enemy has Greek
Fire as well, our people and arable land will be safe

22. Strategy

24.  Serf children catch nonvenomous snakes by the
lake; these snakes are very similar in likeness to
extremely venomous snakes
 Contact Allies; request assistance in battle
 Hornwood Manor
▪ winner of their battle
 Oakwood Manor
 Construct Siege Weapons
 Locate and obtain stores of gunpowder
 Create more Greek Fire (recipe unreleased to the public)
 Find entry spots in defending manor (sapping)

25.  Try to work out a truce or surrender according
to Chivalric Code
 Give 30 days to allow for truce or surrender
▪ 30 for the 30 pieces of silver for which Christ was sold
 If refuse to surrender, negotiate
▪ Safe conduct: castle inhabitants could leave unharmed
▪ Weapons: Higher classes may keep weapons
▪ IF the opposition should decide against such a
surrender, no promises given

26.  Launch Trebuchet of Greek Fire with burning branch
into other manor’s farmland, causing distraction
 Serfs will try to douse the fire using water, igniting the
Greek Fire
 During distraction, a small group of knights will enter
castle through sapping tunnel; release snakes for
distraction; find the lord; disarm and capture him. If
situation becomes desperate, the knights may injure
or otherwise maim their captive
 Other soldiers will locate the castle treasury and loot
all valuables. Escape using sapping tunnel. Set fire to
sapping tunnel once everyone is through

27.  From Siege Tower, launch flaming arrows at
threats
 Retreat back to Goldenlake or other allied manor
until fire burns out; then divide land and loot
between the three through a parley of lords
 Keep other manor’s lord in dungeon with a small
array of guards until any survivors pay a ransom.
Otherwise, take all valuables on his person and
make him a serf working the fields

28. In case of a Surprise Attack

29.  Create 2-meter sharpened stakes for archers to carry
 Create Abatis (medieval barbed-wire)
 Tree branches driven into the ground with ends sharpened and
pointing outward; place around base of inner wall of castle
 Train often; once every fortnight train serfs
 Ditches around farmland, castle, serf housing; keep out people
and fire (drawbridges for everyday use)
 Sentry towers watch surrounding area
 Surplus supplies stored
 Create traps
 Contact Allies; request assistance in battle (once intentions made
known)
 Hornwood Manor
▪ winner of their battle
 Oakwood Manor

30.  When attackers are spotted, send out Calvary to
meet attackers
 Behind Calvary, archers and other foot soldiers
 Calvary peel off once attackers make known
intentions
 Archers put stakes in V formation line
 Impenetrable and hard to take out
 Horses will either spook or, if jump, impale both
horse and rider
 Spaced so that only foot soldiers can get through

31.  Foot soldiers drive in stakes with lead mallets that can
be swung to use as weapons
 Foot soldiers can attack from the safety of the stakes
 The archers need protection– can retreat behind to
attack
 The stakes are barriers, keeping attackers out and
giving archers mobility on the battlefield
 In the case that the enemy chooses to sidestep the
archers and their stakes…
 Battlefield littered with trou de loup. Foot soldiers, serfs,
and knights have trained among them– will not fall in

32.  If attackers penetrate stakes, serfs will battle
 If attackers near castle, women and children
pour boiling oil on attackers from outer wall
while archers from inner wall attack
 Knights defend castle inside death ring and in
barbican
 Lord and his/her children as well as young
children of other classes in innermost ring of
castle

33.  If under siege:
 Set fire to siege engines using arrows
 Volley arrows through loopholes
 Fire crossbow bolts
 Hurl rocks (using slingshots for
children)
 Drop hot rocks, tar, sand, water, or oil
on attackers

34. This should not happen.
Siege should be
negotiated by the rules
of the Chivalric Code
The Knights’ Code of Chivalry as described in the Song of Roland
To fear God and maintain His Church To guard the honour of fellow knights
To serve the liege lord in valour and faith To eschew unfairness, meanness and
To protect the weak and defenseless deceit
To give succour to widows and orphans To keep faith
To refrain from the wanton giving of At all times to speak the truth
offence To persevere to the end in any enterprise
To live by honour and for glory begun
To despise pecuniary reward To respect the honour of women
To fight for the welfare of all Never to refuse a challenge from an equal
To obey those placed in authority Never to turn the back upon a foe

35. Goldenlake rides into battle, declaring
its presence by flying its cornflower
flag depicting a slice of golden sun. The
enemy is well prepared. But so are we.
Who will win? It’s up to you.

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