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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1521850" data-attributes="member: 1014"><p>Just an aside on training (the below is not intended for use in any history course, quiz show, or to impress people you find physically charming)</p><p></p><p>For the foot troops the training was pretty much "beat up those guys over there with whatever it is you have in your hands and if you try to run away I'll kill you myself". Thus ended the military tutorial for the majority of the forces.</p><p></p><p>England was a little different for a brief period of time (about a hundred years or so). The peasants and whatnot were encouraged to practice with a longbow. This worked out pretty well. Any idiot can use a crossbow (I've used one and hit a target) but long/shortbows take skill. Once you've put in the three years or so of training though, you can do all kinds of funky archery that the English were infamous for. However, there was one problem with this practice: it was a huge pain in the butt. </p><p></p><p>You may think this sounds trivial, but it wasn't seen so at the time. In the runup to the American War for Independence, Ben Franklin suggested that the fighting men be trained in the longbow because it was far superior to the guns of the time. He was right but nobody wanted to call up England and ask for a three year time out. Learning how to use a bow is hard.</p><p></p><p>But back to the middle ages. The Swiss were starting to do some groovy formations with spears/halberds/long-pointy-things in response to the presence of armored knights on the battlefield. This was pretty late in the middle ages though when there was enough wealth floating around to afford this kind of thing. But it didn't last long. Someone figured out how to make guns better than crossbows and then the buzzclock sounded on the middle ages and western history started into the renaissance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 1521850, member: 1014"] Just an aside on training (the below is not intended for use in any history course, quiz show, or to impress people you find physically charming) For the foot troops the training was pretty much "beat up those guys over there with whatever it is you have in your hands and if you try to run away I'll kill you myself". Thus ended the military tutorial for the majority of the forces. England was a little different for a brief period of time (about a hundred years or so). The peasants and whatnot were encouraged to practice with a longbow. This worked out pretty well. Any idiot can use a crossbow (I've used one and hit a target) but long/shortbows take skill. Once you've put in the three years or so of training though, you can do all kinds of funky archery that the English were infamous for. However, there was one problem with this practice: it was a huge pain in the butt. You may think this sounds trivial, but it wasn't seen so at the time. In the runup to the American War for Independence, Ben Franklin suggested that the fighting men be trained in the longbow because it was far superior to the guns of the time. He was right but nobody wanted to call up England and ask for a three year time out. Learning how to use a bow is hard. But back to the middle ages. The Swiss were starting to do some groovy formations with spears/halberds/long-pointy-things in response to the presence of armored knights on the battlefield. This was pretty late in the middle ages though when there was enough wealth floating around to afford this kind of thing. But it didn't last long. Someone figured out how to make guns better than crossbows and then the buzzclock sounded on the middle ages and western history started into the renaissance. [/QUOTE]
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