Agincourt, 1415. England's Longbowmen vs France's Steel Cavalry — The Battle That Made England, Refought On Your Board
A museum-grade chess set where every piece is a real warrior from the battlefield — digitally sculpted from period sources, hand-painted, and mounted on a solid wooden board.
- 32 hand-painted pieces — two full armies, historically researched
- Solid 50×50cm wooden board, built to be displayed
- Battle Chronicle included: the story behind every piece
- Hand-made in our European atelier, shipped tracked & insured
In stock — this month's batch: 23 sets remaining
One board. Three legendary battles.
Choose the battle you'll command
Switch battles anytime — the entire page changes with your choice. Collect all three to own the full England-vs-France saga.
01
October 25th, 1415. St Crispin's Day.
Henry V's exhausted army of 6,000 stood in the mud of northern France. Facing them: 30,000 French knights in shining armour. Every sensible man expected a massacre.
02
The arrow storm.
Then the English longbowmen drew. Seventy-two thousand arrows a minute darkened the sky. The pride of French chivalry drowned in mud and iron.
03
The pawn beats the knight.
Farmers with bows defeated noblemen in armour. It remains history's greatest underdog victory — and it's the exact logic of chess: the humble pawn topples the nobility. Now it's your move.
Every piece is a warrior
Meet the two armies on your board
Outnumbered five to one. Exhausted, starving, and about to make history.
Full stories of all 32 pieces in the included Battle Chronicle booklet.
Most chess sets are soulless plastic
You already know how to play. But what you play with says everything.
Mass-produced plastic sets
Injection-moulded in seconds, identical in every home, worth nothing to look at. You hide them in a drawer.
'Luxury' decor sets
Beautiful marble nobody dares to play with. All show, no story — and your guests can't tell a rook from a pawn.
Generic 'themed' sets
Dragons and film franchises, cheaply cast and badly painted. A novelty gift that's forgotten by February.
A chess set should be three things at once: a game you play, a story you tell, and a piece you display. That's exactly what we build.
Sculpted from history
Each army is digitally sculpted from period sources — armour, weapons, heraldry — and finished to a museum-grade standard. No two armies in our collection share a single piece.
Painted by hand, one warrior at a time
Every set passes through our painters' hands in our European atelier. Expect brushwork, not factory spray — and tiny differences that make your set genuinely one of a kind.
A board built to be displayed
Solid 50×50cm wooden board with a satin finish. When the game ends, it doesn't go in a cupboard — it goes on the shelf, and it starts conversations.
Why collectors choose us
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Choose your Agincourt set
Hand-made in batches. When this month's batch is gone, it's gone.
The Agincourt Armies
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32 hand-painted pieces — two full armies, historically researched
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The Complete Agincourt Set
The full experience
Everything in The Armies + solid wooden board + Battle Chronicle booklet
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Want the full saga? The Trilogy Bundle (all 3 battles) unlocks at checkout — save 15%.
What collectors say
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★★★★★
214 verified reviews
96% would recommend to a friend
★★★★★
My father cried. Genuinely.
“Bought the Complete Set for Dad's 70th. He's been an Agincourt obsessive his whole life, and he read the Chronicle cover to cover before we'd even set up the board.”
★★★★★
The centrepiece of my office
“Clients always ask about it. The longbowmen pawns are extraordinary, you can see individual bowstrings. It's a conversation before it's a game.”
★★★★★
We actually play it
“I was worried it would be too precious to use. It's not. The pieces are weighty, stable and a joy to move. Friday night chess has become a ritual.”
★★★★★
Club player, honest verdict
“Proper Staunton proportions, so it plays like a tournament set. But when someone castles with the palisade stakes, the whole club leans in.”
★★★★★
I teach history. This teaches better.
“My students learned more about 1415 from one game on this board than from a week of my slides. The Chronicle booklet is genuinely well researched.”
★★★★★
Our anniversary gift to ourselves
“One of us plays England, one plays France, loser makes dinner. The hand-painting is visibly hand-done, with tiny variations that make it ours.”
From our atelier to your board
“We grew up on chess and history books in equal measure. When we couldn't find a single set where the pieces meant something, where the knight was a real knight from a real battle, we decided to build it ourselves. Every set leaves our workshop in Portugal painted, checked and packed by people who care about the story you're about to put on your shelf.”
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Play it, display it, love it — or send it back
If your set doesn't become the favourite object in the room within 90 days, return it for a full refund. No questions, no quibbles. We can offer this because fewer than 2 in 100 sets ever come back.
Questions, answered
Up to 30% off — this month's batch only
23 of 50 sets left in the July batch
★★★★★ 4.8 from 214 verified reviews
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