[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Steve Teale wrote:
>> I should think that 20 men with decent automatic rifles would have
>> been enough for Agincourt. That way more gentlemen could have laid
>> abed in England and not felt so guilty.
> 
> Another battle won by superior technology (longbows).

Well that was more like simple-minded tactics on the part of the 
assailant. Longbowmen can and have been beaten by cavalry; just a little 
tactics is needed. What the French essentially tried was "let's just run 
through as fast as we can". :o)

Andrei