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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sword-dancer" data-source="post: 1530602" data-attributes="member: 1491">A Standing Army didn`t exist.. Every Vasall comes in with the number of Lances and troops he had to provide.Every Knight with fief had to provide a lanceMeaning the knight himself, with Weapons, Armor and Destrier1 o more squires with more or less the same equipment2 The serjeants or men at arms More or less equipped as the knight only lighter Armor, and less quality horsesArchers in effect lighter armed footsoldiers than the serjeants, thy may but they don`t have to use the (long)bowNon fighting part of the lanceThe Page or more and the servant(knecht)The knight had a riding horse, the destrier was only ridden for battle.Then their was the citiy militia recruited or drafted from the guilds.Mostly infantery medium to "heavy" armed and armoured with what they could pay and what was available.Crossbows were an obvious choics as the godendaeg or polearms.Free farmers Equipment would be the same as the miltias of the towns, like the swiss or the frisians.Not really the same butSquires i believe learnt their fighting skills as PAges, and the fineshied them as squires, and would be then knighted.Men at armes would get their trainig as the retinueThe miltia would be trained at the chartered days.The english Longbowmen, howq much of them really used the longbow and how much the bill is not really certain, trained after each sundays mass, for one or two hour IIRC. Equipment, trainig and orders from their captains, Bannerets or marschals.Knight have fought on foot in siege or when ordered in battle.They lived at their home where their craft or trade was.Yes it was, see above and the farmers had trainign from their liegelords, AFAIK organiced as 2 days Formation 2 hours defend and 30 min attack.When his time of contracted service ends, only 40 days a vasall was forced to saerve hios lord in the field.Yeomanry is the english word for the free farmers and craftsmen and so on.The discipline of a medieval army depend on the qualities of their leaders.Barbarossa enforced a very strict discipline i his crusading forces.then there were the Knightly ordersWho were Standing armies in their own right.The mercenary companies like the bands of france, the Genuese Crossbowmen, or the swiss.and the household troops of the Royalty and the great lords.</blockquote>

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