"Meet the Landsknechts – Wild Facts About the Most " Topic
5 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Renaissance Discussion Message Board
Areas of InterestRenaissance
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Top-Rated Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article The Editor tries out a boardgame - yes, a boardgame - from battle-market magazine.
Featured Book Review
|
| Tango01 | 13 Jun 2019 9:50 p.m. PST |
….Murderous Mercenaries of the Renaissance. "DURING THE 16th Century the most feared soldiers on Europe's battlefields were the landsknechts. These German mercenaries had such a reputation for unprincipled, ruthless violence one chronicler remarked that the devil refused to let landsknechts into hell because he was so afraid of them. This infamy was not undeserved as it was not unknown for entire regiments of landsknechts to swap sides in the middle of a battle if they were offered more money or to desert en masse when there was no more gold to pay them. So who were these flamboyant soldiers-of-fortune who terrorized Christendom for more than a century?…."
Main page
link Amicalement
Armand |
| Choctaw | 14 Jun 2019 8:38 a.m. PST |
This is a topic I know almost nothing about. They seemed to be the frat boys of their time. |
| Tango01 | 14 Jun 2019 12:02 p.m. PST |
|
| Griefbringer | 16 Jun 2019 1:13 a.m. PST |
|
Puster  | 16 Jun 2019 1:11 p.m. PST |
Same article, same arguments… I assume that still no report of a unit to "swap sides in the middle of a battle" showed up, so judging from there I am not keen to read Andertons historical novels. |
|
