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Here is a full list of the armies available on Storm of Arrows, they covers Western Europe from 1300-1500 AD. Pick the one you prefer or build your own through the powerful D.A.G. (Digital Army Generator).

Hundred Years War English (Continental)
This covers the period from 1320 to 1455 on the Continent. This period was dominated by the Hundred Years’ War, which lasted from 1337 to 1453, with intermittent pauses.
The weapon of choice for the English was the longbow. The arrangement of heart and sapwood meant that they used the same principle as eastern composite bows. Surviving 16th century examples from the Mary Rose had draw weights of 72-82 kgf. In comparison a modern longbow draws some 27 kgf. In order to draw their weapons, archers had to train constantly and skeletons from the Mary Rose show the extreme muscular development required. The longbow had the advantage of a high rate of fire when compared with the crossbow, the crossbow, however, required little training. Although the arrow storm of the English archers was extremely effective, the English invariably formed up in defensive positions securing their flanks with natural obstacles and difficult terrain.

Hundred years war English (Britain)
This covers the English armies in Britain from 1320 to1455.
Troops were raised for short specific campaigns and would thus have little time to come up to drilled standards. Possible exceptions were mounted longbow men and men-at-arms, and any who had seen service in foreign wars. Men-at-arms were mostly on foot, with a small cohort mounted.

Wars of the roses English
This covers English armies from the start of the Wars of the Roses in 1455 until 1500.
The Wars of the Roses were a series of conflicts between supporters of the Lancastrian and Yorkist lines of descent from Edward III. They were characterised by bloody battles, treachery and the ruthless execution of the opposition’s nobles whenever they were captured.

                         
HYW English (cont.)                          HYW English (brit.)                  War of the Roses English

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Medieval Welsh
This covers the army of Owen Glendower and his supporters during the period from 1400 to 1409. During this period, Wales rebelled against English rule. The Welsh rebels captured or destroyed most of the English-held castles and lands in Wales and formed their own parliament and made alliances and treaties with foreign powers. There were several battles, most relatively small, but nonetheless significant. Wales was lacking in arms and armour at the beginning of the revolt. As the revolt grew though funds became available through raiding and captured equipment was added to the Welsh arsenal.

Later Medieval Scots (Britain)
This covers the Scots armies in Britain between 1300 and 1500.
At the start of this period men-at-arms mostly fought on foot in the front ranks of the spearmen – they are assumed to be included among the spearmen. Scots contingents in France were made up along similar lines to the contemporary English armies. This indicates a change in the structure increasing the importance of archers. These reforms rapidly collapsed upon the death of James I in 1437 and armies eventually reverted to mainly spearmen.

Later Medieval Scots (Continental)
This covers the Scottish mercenary armies operating in France and Burgundy from 1418 to 1429.
Unlike the Scottish “home” armies, these contingents were made up along the lines of contemporary English armies with archers outnumbering men at arms by 2:1. Fighting was undertaken on foot. Discipline in Scots contingents appears to have been variable. It is assumed that large Scottish armies include a French allied contingent.


Medieval Welsh              Later Medieval Scots (brit.)      Late Medieval Scots (cont.)
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Later Scots Isles and Highlands
This covers the period from 1300 to 1493, when the last Lord of the Isles was executed.
The commonest weapon of the Isleman was the two-handed axe, but some Isles and most West Highlands grave effigies show spear and sword instead. Wealthier Highlanders were equipped with mail, bow, targe, sword and/or axe. Lesser followers, equipped only with targe, sword or knife made up the rear ranks.

Later Anglo –Irish
This covers the period from 1300 to 1500. The title of the English governor changed over the period from Justicar to Lieutenant and then to Lord Deputy.
Justicar’s hobilars were primarily mounted infantry but could always dismount and act as defensive spearmen.

Medieval Irish
This covers Irish armies from 1300 to 1500.
Galloglaigh (foreign warriors) as they were known, were originally from the Western Isles and the West coast of Scotland serving under their own Chieftains. Several clans of galloglaigh settled permanently in Ireland. By the 15th century galloglaigh came to include native Irishmen.
As solid infantry, with a reputation for steadiness, galloglaigh were at the forefront of the Irish revival in the 15th century, allowing the Irish to match the heavier troops of the Anglo-Irish.


Later Scots Isles                    Later Anglo-Irish                    Medieval Irish
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Medieval French
This covers the period from 1300 to 1445.
The period was dominated by The Hundred Years war between England and France. This was between 1337 and 1453 with pauses. At the height of Angevin power, in the late 12th Century the King of England held larger territories in France than the King of France did. By the start of the Hundred Years war these domains had been reduced to Gascony and its capital Bordeaux. A disagreement as to the proper succession to Charles IV led to the English King Edward III fighting the French Philip VI for all of France.

Ordonnance French
This covers the French armies from the Ordonnance reforms of 1445 until 1500.
The Ordonnance of 1445 decreed the rising of 15 ordonnance companies, each consisting of 100 lances. Each lance consisted of 6 mounted men (a man at arms, a coustillier, a page and two or three archers and avalet de guerre). Coustilliers were lightly equipped cavalry that filled the ranks behind the men at arms. Archers usually rode to battle and fought on foot. From 1480 the Kings of France regularly employed Swiss mercenaries, numbering around 6,000 throughout the reign of Louis XI.

Free Company
This covers the Free Companies of unemployed soldiery arising during the various peaceful intervals in the Hundred Years’ War (between 1357 and 1444) and operating in France, Spain and Italy. Individual companies usually numbered no more than a few hundred men, but army-sized conglomerations numbering over 10 000 were not uncommon, usually in the service of an employer, but occasionally, as in the case of the 16 000 strong Grand Company in the early 1360’s, operating independently.


Medieval French               Ordonnance French               Free Company
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Navarrese
This covers the armies of King Charles the Bad of Navarre during the Hundred Years’ War from his accession in 1350 until 1378 when the loss of his Norman holdings forced him to capitulate to the king of France. The forces of the Kingdom of Navarre itself were small compared with those of its neighbours. Charles supplemented his Navarrese forces with troops from his Norman possessions, and with English and Gascon mercenaries.

Later Low Countries
This covers the armies of the Low Country communes from 1300 to 1477, and also the armies of Maximilian of Austria in the Low Countries from 1478 to 1500. Low Countries communal armies could win frontal battles against mounted men at arms when terrain secured their flanks. They won thus against the French at Courtrai (1302). If, however, the enemy were able to threaten them from several directions, they could pin them in position. Like the Scots, they were then very vulnerable to archery.

Medieval Burgundian
This covers the Burgundian armies from 1363 to 1471, when Charles the Bold applied his Ordonnance reforms. In 1362, Philip de Valois was granted the Duchy of Burgundy, he married Margaret, Countess of Flanders, thus uniting these two rich territories. During his reign, Philip added many territories to his ancestral domain, including Namur, Hainault, Holland, Frisia, Brabant, Limburg, Antwerp and Luxembourg. He died in 1467, succeeded by his son Charles the Bold – who would attempt to consolidate his legacy into a kingdom, with fatal results for himself and his inheritance.


Navarrese                        Later Low Countries             Medieval Burgundian
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Ordonnance Burgundian
This covers the armies of Duke Charles the Bold from 1471 till his death in 1477. Duke of Burgundy from 1467 till his death, Charles appears to have had two main ambitions: To consolidate his scattered territories into a Kingdom of Burgundy between France and Germany, and to have the best and most modern army in the world. He almost succeeded in both. Unfortunately, Charles’ generalship did not match his organisation skills. In 1476 and 1477 he suffered a series of three disastrous defeats at the hands of the Swiss. In the last of these, at Nancy, he was killed. His possessions were divided between France and the Holy Roman Empire, and fought over for the next two centuries.

Swiss
This covers Swiss armies from 1291, when the Forest Cantons – Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalten – formed the Everlasting League, until 1500. For the first hundred years of the period, they relied on their murderous halberds and their native terrain. Around the turn of the century, they began to replace their halberds with pikes, which appear to have been more effective against both mounted and dismounted men–at-arms in open ground. By the time of Arbedo (1422), about a third were armed with pikes, the remainder still having halberds. By the mid-15th century, the Swiss had largely switched to pikes, attacking rapidly in huge columns. From the early 15th century, the Swiss hired themselves out, en bloc, to neighbouring states as mercenaries.

Later Medieval German
This covers armies of the Holy Roman Empire from 1340 to 1500, apart from those fringes covered by their own army lists.


Ordonnance Burgundian                  Swiss Later                  Medieval German
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Later Medieval Danish
This covers the armies of the Kingdom of Denmark from 1300 until the Union of Kalmar in 1397 when Denmark, Norway and Sweden were officially united under one crown, and then Union armies until 1500.

Later Medieval Swedish
This covers the armies of the Kingdom of Sweden from 1300 until the Union of Kalmar in 1397 when Denmark, Norway and Sweden were officially united under one crown, and then anti-Union Swedish armies until 1500.

Condotta Italian
This list covers Italian armies from 1320 to 1500. It differs from other lists in having special sections to represent the additional options available to the major Italian states.


Later Medieval Danish            Later Medieval Swedish                Condotta Italian
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Medieval Crown of Aragon
This covers the mainland armies of the Crown of Aragon from the coronation of Pere IV of Aragon in 1336 until dynastic union with Castile in 1479. The Crown of Aragon ruled over a proto-federal state that reached its maximum expansion during this period. It included the Kingdom of Aragon, the Principality of Catalonia, the Kingdom of Majorca, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Sicily, Sardinia and the Kingdom of Naples, each one of them with its own independent political and juridical status. This list covers only its mainland armies.

Medieval Portuguese
This covers the armies of the Kingdom of Portugal from the accession of Pedro I in 1357 until 1500. It covers Portuguese campaigns in Morocco. Castilian allies represent Juana la Beltraneja’s supporters during Alfonso V’s intervention in the second Castilian civil war.

Medieval Castilian
This covers the armies of the Kindom of Castile from the accession of Pedro I the Cruel in 1350 until the reform of the army and the creation of the Santa Hermandad Nueva by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476.


Medieval Crown of Aragon              Medieval Portuguese             Medieval Casitilian
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Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian
This covers the armies of Castile from the creation of the Santa Hermandad Nueva in 1476 until its disappearance with the ordinance of 1497, which for the first time reorganized the infantry into thirds of differently equipped troops, starting a series of reforms that would end up with the Tercios that began modern warfare. This was the army that finally conquered Granada, the last Moslem state in Spain, in 1492.

Later Grenadine
The Kingdom of Granada was the last surviving remnant of Moslem rule in the Iberian peninsula. This list covers Granadine armies from 1340 until tehe fall of the Kingdom in 1492. Ruled by the Nasrid dynasty, Granada was a major entrepot fro trade with North and Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the gold trade. Granada was rich and heavily populated. Its borders were mountainous and protected by a chain of fortresses.


Medieval Castilian                  Later Grenadine
 

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