Agincourt (game)

Agincourt, subtitled The Triumph of Archery over Armor, 25 October 1415, is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) that simulates the Battle of Agincourt, with one player commanding the English and the other the French. It was designed by Jim Dunnigan with artwork by Redmond A. Simonsen. The lead of its source gives 1978 as the year of publication while its publication history section gives 1979, so the exact year is left unresolved here. The game uses a full-colour contour map of the battlefield on a hex grid scaled to 34 yards per hex and 270 counters, 45 of them military units, 32 French and 13 English, with a twenty-sided die. Each turn counts as three minutes of game time, archery fire follows movement, morale is checked and melee is resolved with the die, while dead soldiers and randomly moving fugitives are tracked on counters. Victory turns on the ratio of French to English casualties, with a threshold of seven to one.