Message #5749

[Vellos]

I have not more than skimmed any of these. But, for your reading pleasure:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-nicea.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-antioch.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-jlem.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulk2.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cde-letters.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1187ernoul.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1187hattin.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1187saladin.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-poitiers732.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/einhard-wars1.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1066malmesbury.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart1.html

http://www.r3.org/bosworth/ballad.html

Also, a later Medieval battle in the War of the Roses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth_Field

Bosworth Field has had some fairly significant archaeology done on it, if I remember correctly.

Textual evidence for Medieval battles isn't as abundant as we might like. Fighting manuals exist for later-Medieval German and Italian swordsmen.

For the most part, the fighting BM simulates is pretty accurate for simulations of major battles in, say, the Crusades, or the Hundred Years War. The only thing BM does not simulate well is siege warfare. But, once Dwilight gets heavily settled, maybe we will see some of that, what with the ring-regions.