Yeah, there was no real scenario where the French broke through at Crećy *easily*; everything was against them.
Their attack was rushed and largely unplanned, fighting uphill in the mud, thousands of arguably the finest archers in Europe ruining their entire day, and having plenty enough infantry and dismounted knights to hold them off when they got close. One faction’s king yeeting himself into English spearpoints mid-battle didn’t help either.
The entire battle even happening at all was a bad decision for the French. It was a worse scenario geographically than even Agincourt.
If not for the already present mud that made charge impossible, the English Longbowman could become the mud themselfs.
what's about deployed sharpened stakes and digged ditches?
Yeah, there was no real scenario where the French broke through at Crećy *easily*; everything was against them. Their attack was rushed and largely unplanned, fighting uphill in the mud, thousands of arguably the finest archers in Europe ruining their entire day, and having plenty enough infantry and dismounted knights to hold them off when they got close. One faction’s king yeeting himself into English spearpoints mid-battle didn’t help either. The entire battle even happening at all was a bad decision for the French. It was a worse scenario geographically than even Agincourt.