I think the French were dominated by crossbowmen, who they left behind in the initial attack.
I just did the calculations. At 170fps initial release, a warbow at 45 degrees would shoot nearly 300m but take 7.5s to reach the target. That is plenty of time for a 2nd shot.
That’s what I like about FR.
We really get to the bottom of things here.
Tested, calculated and re-tested. Nice.
The course of the battle never allowed much scope for the French longbow men. It’s too complicated to rehearse the entire battle here, but the French did just about everything wrong, and the English did just about everything right.
***I think the French were dominated by crossbowmen,***
Genoese mercenary crossbowmen. At Agincourt a rain came up, the English bowmen unstrung their bows and kept their strings from getting wet.
The crossbowmen did not, and their crossbow strings became slack. The French then rode down their own crossbowmen because they could not shoot with slack strings,
or so I’ve read.
I have read that the French did equip several companies of long bowmen who were just as good as the English.
The problem was, when the serfs were trained and given bows, they considered themselves to be FREE MEN, and were not willing to go back to being serfs after the war was over.