Medieval Weapons circa the start of the hundred years warArming Sword/shortsword: Stabby sword, designed to penetrate mail; English archers usually carry them.

Long Sword: Big, two-handed, choppy sword, useful against people wearing chainmail or boiled leather; needs a lot of space.

Falchion: heavy bladed sword; a favorite of men-at-arms and archers; it'll cut your arm off right through your armor; not that long, but really heavy.

Flanged Mace: another preferred weapon of the men-at-arms (and some knights): nice for breaking bones right through armor.

Morningstar: see Flanged Mace, but heavier.

War hammer: it's a hammer. Like, a hammer for pounding nails, but the crowbar end has been replaced with a spike.

Flail: pointy weight on a chain.

Poleaxe: an archer's favorite hand weapon; between 5 and 8 feet tall; English archers take them from the French and cut them down to 5-6 feet; it's got a hammer head, an axe head, and a nasty nasty spike (which goes through armor and visor slits alike).

Danish Axe: a nasty axe that cuts right through armor; the English are especially god with this, since many of their Knights are descended from Danish vikings; extra nasty in a shield wall (there's a swordman in front distracting you while an axeman behind him hooks his axe around your shield and pulls it down).

Stiletto: archers are expected to carry a dagger like this to stab men-at-arms right through their visors after knocking them down; they also can go through armor joints.

Billhook: another archer's favorite; a farmer's tool for cutting wheat, but, when sufficently sharpened, you can cut an armored man's arm off right throuh his armor (especially if you're as strong as an archer).

Shields are still in use right now (though that won't be true by the end of the war).

The English Archer keeps his arrows stuck on the ground in front of him for quick loading. Arrows: Fletched with goose feathers (from ONE wing), 30 in long. English Longbow: an ENORMOUS bow; as tall as a man (or more) with 150-160 pound pull; English Archers (in this army) can fire 10 aimed arrows a minute, with perfect accuracy from 150 paces, for two hours (300ish feet/sec at launch). Arrowheads: come in many nasty flavors: the main two are the swallowtail (aka fleshcutter, which has to be cut out to remove it), and the bodkin-tip (steel, needle-point, reinforced with heart of oak, for piercing armor at 150 paces (100 for helmets)). Do NOT fuck with an English archer. Edward III banned his knights from wearing their own heraldry so they wouldn't get confused, so they all wore the Cross of St George over their armor.

Crossbow: The english don't use these (they steal 'em and give it to their women, though); more range, but a longbowman can fire 10 shots while they reload, so they use a shield called a Pacise to hide behind while they reload (the fanciest stand on their own, but less fancy ones need someone else to hold them up).

Chain mail (or just mail): it's freaking chain mail.

Bascinet: a helmet with a pointed visor/nose/thing (at the time, the French wore one with a pig snout for the visor).

Knights have nasty steel-tipped lances for stabbing 1 person on the charge and then dropping.