I'm watching the series of programs called: 1066 Battle for Middle Earth on Channel 4. It's very good and is interesting but the narrator on the second program raised an interesting point. He said that the Norman's couldn't swim very well, and that many men drowned; but he then says "If only some more had been cast to the depths where they belonged."
Now my WI is that, what if the weather had been rougher and more Norman's had been killed; say some 2000 men, of which 1500 were cavalry and 500 were missile troops.
I know this may seem like a large amount of men but the Norman's were not a naval race and possibly worse weather may've actually killed a lot more men than OTL.
With the force down to just 6400 men now, while the Anglo-Saxons had 7500 men would this have definitively tipped the balance to allow the Anglo-Saxons to defend their land again from the Norman's as they did with the Vikingr from the North?
Would our small island nation have been left alone then as we would've fought of two invading forces in quick succession of each other? Would King Harold have ordered a better army to face of any future foes?
Discuss.
Now my WI is that, what if the weather had been rougher and more Norman's had been killed; say some 2000 men, of which 1500 were cavalry and 500 were missile troops.
I know this may seem like a large amount of men but the Norman's were not a naval race and possibly worse weather may've actually killed a lot more men than OTL.
With the force down to just 6400 men now, while the Anglo-Saxons had 7500 men would this have definitively tipped the balance to allow the Anglo-Saxons to defend their land again from the Norman's as they did with the Vikingr from the North?
Would our small island nation have been left alone then as we would've fought of two invading forces in quick succession of each other? Would King Harold have ordered a better army to face of any future foes?
Discuss.