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Worldbuilding – Recruiting a Medieval Army
Historical medieval armies were a complex affair. While some fiction may bring the impression that the medieval armies consisted of a handful of pampered knights in their shiny white armor and mass…
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Historical medieval armies were a complex affair. While some fiction may bring the impression that the medieval armies consisted of a handful of pampered knights in their shiny white armor and masses of dirty, despondent peasants in torn rags and armed with broken and rotting agricultural implements, this was really far from the truth. A medieval army was often a very complex affair, and consisted of many different elements.
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Of course, things in actual history were even more complex than this.
Fact is wierder than fiction and all that.
