I feel like this needs to be an album cover with those 3 songs and have it be prog as fuck. I need to listen to Renaissance again.
Those fancy colors were used specifically so that nobility could be identified, reason being that European knights had come to an agreement that knights would be taken hostage instead of killed during battle, mostly because at a person to person level, most knights and nobles were actually friends or family of any knights and nobles they were likely to come across in a battle.
The most direct malice one noble would exercise towards the other within the average is making them serve the drinks during any post battle feasting.
I fucking love it when the nobility meet determined non-noble resistance
Agincourt I’d say is the most famous example of European combatants hitting the “Long trained soldiers vs cheaply equipped and drilled randos” wall.
“The flower of french nobility wilted at agincourt.”
Translation,
“A bunch of inbred morons in heavy armor forgot that heavy things sink in the mud and become easy targets for massed arrow fire.”
[off topic?]
From the 1960s film ‘Waterloo.’
The Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic era cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics so that the USSR could compete with Hollywood.
