There is something that is often ignored when battles are depicted in movies and books with a Medieval setting, and that is the military logistics that are needed to support the armies in battles and wars.
The logistics (the art of delivering enough food, water, weapons and other supplies to your forces) is crucial for a military force to be successful, and yet very little importance is given to this when describing battles in Fantasy or Historical fiction stories...
I mean, the movie Troy depicts like hundreds of thousands of warriors that travel to invade the city of Troy with unprecedented forces, and yet it's not explained what resources were behind to support the daily needs of food, shelter, water, disposal of waste and other things that would be necessary for such a huge army.
The same happens in other similar movies and Fantasy stories: It's just like they raise an army, lead it marching to the battlefield and that's it!!
The art of disrupting your enemy's logistics is a decisive way to win a war, and I believe that it would be interesting to see an accurate description of military logistics in a Fantasy story.
What do we know about what the logistics were like in real-world Medieval warfare??
The logistics (the art of delivering enough food, water, weapons and other supplies to your forces) is crucial for a military force to be successful, and yet very little importance is given to this when describing battles in Fantasy or Historical fiction stories...
I mean, the movie Troy depicts like hundreds of thousands of warriors that travel to invade the city of Troy with unprecedented forces, and yet it's not explained what resources were behind to support the daily needs of food, shelter, water, disposal of waste and other things that would be necessary for such a huge army.
The same happens in other similar movies and Fantasy stories: It's just like they raise an army, lead it marching to the battlefield and that's it!!
The art of disrupting your enemy's logistics is a decisive way to win a war, and I believe that it would be interesting to see an accurate description of military logistics in a Fantasy story.
What do we know about what the logistics were like in real-world Medieval warfare??