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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 430616" data-attributes="member: 834">I do know a bit about the medieval period, knowledge that is spurred by a friend who is pursuing a History degree.He assures there hasn't been a month in the medieval period without a war of some sort somewhere on the european continent during most of the period.  They didn't wait for a coalition before settling their difference, and frequently vassals would fight each other while the sovereign closed his eyes as long as the disruption wasn't too great (but even if the disruption became great, he didn't always have the power to do something about it).  The Crusades involved Warriors from just about every christian feudal states and has nothing in common with normal medieval warfare. What do you think were the numbers on any of the petty border conflicts that occured ever years?  You know, these conflicts that are discussed only in awfully specialised history books worth 70$, never translated from their original language and based on the archive of any given minor city?1,200 VS 500 are good numbers for such battles.  Heck, sometime you'd barely have dozens of people taking the field.  Five or six knight with their men at at arms.  That was the everyday reality of medieval warfare.   The Major Conflicts were exceptions motivated by unusually serious political crisis or somesuch.  They make the highlights of the medieval wars in a general history book but they hardly are the bulk of it.  But obviously, the major conflicts are the only one we have any chance to learn about with a cursory look at medieval history. EDIT: And obviously I'm talking about medieval Europe.  Not that Medieval has much meaning as a time period when discussing other cultures, of course.</blockquote>

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