Britain

**Space_Ed** · March 16, 2010, 03:02 PM

For British historical battlefields and landscapes...

**brennas** · March 20, 2010, 10:25 AM

Stirling Bridge

The main items of the battlefield would be a PSF (already on the map plan, I think), the river, and a wooden bridge.

The actual bridge:

Reconstruction of the battle (take a look on the bridge):

**PyrrhusofEpirus** · April 26, 2010, 11:47 AM

Stirling - the site of the battle of Stirling bridge in 1297, when the scottish forces led by William Wallace caught the English army crossing the Forth and trapped them in a meander of the river, routing their army.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

It was hard to find out what the castle used to look like, but I used the fortified house model here as the castle settlement model looked too big and caused the river to disappear when I placed it.

**Resurrection** · April 26, 2010, 01:03 PM

Wow, that looks pretty good!

**Walkman810i** · April 26, 2010, 01:03 PM

Haha was about to post the same

I like it very much!

**Meister Röhrich** · April 26, 2010, 01:36 PM

Very good work my friend, I like especially the farmlands with the hamlet, it looks very naturally!

**PyrrhusofEpirus** · April 27, 2010, 12:29 PM

Thanks for the compliments.

**Copperknickers II** · April 29, 2010, 04:41 AM

In the actual battle of stirling bridge, William Wallace let half of the enemy cross the bridge the burned it, trapping the English in between his schiltrom and the fire, forcing them into the river. Not sure if we can include that though.

Bannockburn should be included though.

**PyrrhusofEpirus** · April 29, 2010, 05:13 AM

Didn't Bannockburn involve the English knights getting stuck in the marshy ground? This would be difficult to represent in a historical battle, so I'm not sure if that would work.

**Copperknickers II** · May 10, 2010, 01:09 PM

Yes, you could make parts of the ground in between the Scots and English impassable though so they had to zigzag through it, which would tire them out.

**Alkidas** · May 10, 2010, 05:16 PM

I recall that the Scots had dug ditches and pits at Bannockburn (one of them was called Bannockburn btw). This was a rather common infantry tactic whenever the infantry could prepare the battlefield. It usually didn't have an important effect on the charge and the English cavalry charged just fine at Bannockburn, although they can affect the width of the charge, making numbers less significant. But above all they make regrouping for another charge more difficult if the charge fails to break the infantry. The retreating horsemen can simply fall to their death into the pits. This happened on a large scale at Courtrai and iirc also at Bannockburn. Anyway, the main cause of the defeat of the English was that they were attacking a well-prepared infantry frontally.