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Message: <blockquote data-quote="daTim" data-source="post: 169122" data-attributes="member: 1797">In Midieval times a peasant always pledged loyalty to his lord, and part of that pledge was that he would give the lord a certain ammount of time to military service, generally 50 days out of the year if necessary. The Lord would rarely supply arms or armor for his men, as you were expected to have your own anyway, or even pay them, since the Lord would protect you the other 315 days 50 days of military work wasnt so bad. Also, in the course of war you could pilliage, rob and steal pretty much anything you wanted from your enemy. Knights nearly always supplied their own armor and weaponry as it was all custom made for each knight. The only thing a Lord would have to pay for is his castle, a small standing army of regulars to guard his kingdom, and possibly mercenaries to suppliment his army if he desperatly needed it. With taxes, trade and slavery it wasnt too difficult... though the reason some kingdoms would go to war in the first place is they ran out of money <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> sort of a catch 22.Roman armies were very different than a mideival army. Romans paid the regular soliders to have matching armor and weaponry, trained them, and housed them. Rome was very different though in that it controled nearly an entire continent and had limitless resources and people to draw from, there was little they couldnt afford to do. European armies were paid for and manned by small kingdoms and so were less equiped, smaller and not very well trained.</blockquote>

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