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- EMPIRE II - THE ART OF WAR
-
- Welcome to the demo version of Empire II, The Art of War. This is a playable
- demo which shows most of the features of the commercial game. The game itself
- may be purchased at your local software store or direct from New World
- Computing at P.O. Box 4302, Hollywood, CA 90078.
-
- Installation:
-
- Empire II, The Art of War requires an IBM 386 or greater, some hard drive
- space, 4MB of RAM, SVGA, CD ROM Drive and a mouse.
-
- Insert the CD into your computer. Type the letter of the drive and a colon
- (i.e. D: or E:) and press ENTER. You then need to enter the Empire II
- directly by typing 'cd empire2' and ENTER.
-
- Type 'install' and press ENTER one more time. This will lead you to the
- installation program which will lead you through installing the demo on your
- hard drive.
-
- About the Demo:
-
- The demo of Empire II, The Art of War is designed to show you most of the
- features of the commercial game including allowing the play of an actual
- scenario. Many of the features such as saving files, modem and network play,
- and play of other scenarios not included have been disabled.
-
- The scenario included with the demo is The Battle of Agincourt. Below is a
- brief description of both the battle and the scenario.
-
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-
- Agincourt, 25 October 1415
-
- Background:
-
- During the 100 Years War, the English developed a tactic of chevauchΘe, the
- sending of forces through French territory to inflict damage, win plunder and
- undermine the French KingÆs authority. In 1415, a generation after the last
- major conflict between England and France, a young King Henry V organized
- another chevauchΘe into France. On 13 August, HenryÆs forces landed near
- Harfleur France and surrounded the city. What should have been a simple
- conquest turned into a drawn out siege costing Henry both time and many men
- (mainly to disease). Finally the city was take on September 23.
-
- On October 8, Henry took off with 6000 men, what was left of his already
- decimated army, from Harfleur with the intent of marching to his base at
- Calais. A French army of 25,000 under the constable Charles dÆAlbret began
- pursuit, finally placing itself in HenryÆs way at the village of Agincourt.
-
- The Battle:
-
- The battlefield was a narrow set of muddy fields bounded by forest. To which
- Henry set up a strong position protected by English longbow men, possibly the
- most powerful combat force man for man in Europe. The French, being forced
- into the narrow front, were forced to deploy into three sequential lines.
- Henry moved his men into longbow range of the French, set up defenses of
- stakes and started firing.
-
- The French cavalry plodded forward under the deadly fire. They reached
- HenryÆs front lines only to be repulsed when HenryÆs archers exchanged bows
- for axes and swords. Again and again they struck against HenryÆs lines to be
- repulsed once more. Finally, the French could not take the carnage anymore,
- and retreated in disarray.
-
- Aftermath:
-
- The French suffered 7,000 casualties, including dÆAlbret. English losses were
- about 1600. Henry then proceeded to Calais. Encouraged by his victory, Henry
- returned to France two years later to conquer much of Normandy.
-
- Scenario Notes:
-
- The stakes used by the English archers proved to be quite effective against
- the French cavalry. As such, the English longbow men are given the
- entrenchment capability.
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