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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2303716" data-attributes="member: 3146">Lack of cannons was also something that made peasant rebellions a lot less successful than they might otherwise have been. In Germany, for instance, during the revolution of 1525 (the bundschuh rebellion shortly after the Reformation that Luther denounced) the peasant armies were organized along the same lines as the noble armies. A lot of the peasants were or had been mercenaties and they trained and organized their armies like mercenary armies. (Though they had to rotate men as people would return to their villages to harvest crops). They had similar weaponry etc to the noble armies too. What they didn't have were canons. They had a few from the odd towns that joined the rebellion and they tried to buy a few more once the revolution started, but they never had the number of canons or of trained cannoneers to compete with the princes' armies.IIRC (though my knowledge here is a lot more spotty), proper use of canons was also what won the English civil war for Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces.</blockquote>