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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 8772650" data-attributes="member: 55149"><p>It's a brief overview of general categories. Historically a feudal army might employ some mercenaries, but the bulk of it was feudal. In some cases, they employed no mercenaries. Based on type size, "raiders" seems to be almost a sub-category of "noble retinues". A religious order might fight with a feudal army as well, but the orders maintained the ability to make war on their own. Mercenaries might be the backbone of an army, but there might be, for example, some feudal levies included. Across the broad sweep of history there are numerous specific circumstances that dictated army compositions.  This article is too short for the gritty details to be part of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>