Only 2 more volumes left. I don't want it to end. 😭

Conniptions!

Ok, I‘ve read all available chapters and I all I can say: a history book in manga form. It‘s just too boring. The mangaka doesn‘t know how to engage his readers.
Hawkwood is like Kingdom - except that it‘s vastly inferior in every single measurement.

But big praise to Hokuto No Gun. They once again did an amazing job. One of the absolute best scanlation groups.

@SystematicChaos
I don't think I've ever been so impressed by a translation. Well above and beyond. I think that means it's time to go donate to Hokuto no Gun.

@x754
The original is rendered in the same kind of Japanese, but horizontally instead of vertically, which is how text in a different language is generally rendered in manga. I chose to render it in Middle English to provide a means of differentiation between the English translation which is diagetically French, and the "English tongue". I may have been able to get the same effect with just a different font, but I thought this would add a layer of authenticity. I mostly used this as a resource: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary
Someone who actually studied Middle English in university might have been able to do a better job than me, but I feel I did the best I could.

@SystematicChaos
Who is responsible for translating and editing the English dialect that the English footmen are speaking? How is it rendered originally - in Middle/Old English, or in an old form in Japanese? I want to go digging through the same sources, to build some old English dialogue for tabletop RPG purposes.

@KappaNanpa Don't think too hard.
There are simply too many inaccuracies to worry about a mere lucky shot or their way to represent CoAs.
Like the fact that the French are using longbows rather than the crossbow, or the fact that everyone is wealthy enough to be in chains and/or plates while barely anyone is wearing the gambeson, or the fact that they are using jousting lances (rather than war lances) that also isn't long enough to be crouched under the arm as intended.
Suspension of disbelief, my dear, suspension of disbelief.

EDIT: If you want a good, solid, medieval manga, Wolfsmund is miles better.

The map is so wrong Ch3 p6 Paris cant be on this map
Why they use capes and not surcoats ?
There is no way that the archer putted arrows on a armour's weak spot on moving target on horse. An arrow has a flight time and an horseman is moving during that same time, also arrows wont pass trough armour if they are out of weak spot so trying too shoot a weak point on a moving guy that is lets say 50 m away its like trying to win lottery
"Catapults" were not used , just have a look at this nice video about it from Shadiversity on Yt

whoa??!! I assume the content is great.. tho I haven't read it

This is really good a shame it's not very popular

If you play Eu4 as England:
1. Ally Aragon and Burgundy. CTA them with promise of French land.
2. Marry everything, don't let War of the Roses break your personal union.
3. Don't give your allies any land in the peace deal, you have another great power as your PU subject, Aragon and Burgundy can fuck off.

When does this arc end? After the battle of Crecy leading to the fall of Calais to the English or after the battle of Poitiers ten years later and the closing of the Edwardian phase of the HYW?

An excellent series in every respect. Historically accurate for the most part (more full plate armor than was common at the time, I think), good characters, and it does a decent job of retelling history as a story. 9/10

This arc will end with the Battle of Crecy won't it? IIRC the crossbowmen from Genova will be cut down by the French because they let their bowstrings get wet, and then the English archers will just kill most of the French. I think the Black Prince's position almost gets overrun at one point, but his father decides not to send him aid and they somehow make it but I think the blind king of Bohemia dies. Then it's onward to Calais?

As a CK2 player, I approve of starting a game as a mercenary band and raiding goddamn Francia every time I get the chance.

@DanYHKim

There are varying accounts for how the archers engaged back then. The English scholar Roger Ascham notes in his book Toxophilus that the term for English longbowmen was "loose." The French chronicler Enguerrand de Monstrelet notes for the Battle of Agincourt that Sir Thomas shouted "nestrocque" which translates to "strike now". The term "loose" is probably the best translation, since you don't actually use "fire" for the weapon.

that's Hawkward..
It's Awkward.
That's what i said...

Well well one of the few manga/anime where people actually wear armour and helemets that isnt sliced in 2

This is just lesser Berserk.