Tough shields, those.
Or weak bolts
(I am leading a mercenary Xbow company, not upgrading them to tier III until I have tier IV grade equipment myself
)
Hmmm...
Something's wrong in there... Could this be...
BALTS?
Hur hur, actually, I was only luring them into the open...
(PL forests are soooo beautiful...)
This prussian guy was probably possessed by one of the demons those foolish pagans call their gods:
after having felled me, he proceeded to charge my crossbowmen line alone...
Killing one...
two...
Actually, he felled five of my men before they could kill him, sending his tainted soul back to the hell where it belonged.
Do they know it's Christmass?
Well, no they don't, they're pagans... And anyway, it's summertime, strangely enough.
Anyway: like any more than half-sensible mercenary captain, I deploy my men somewhat on the side and rather behind my teutonic employers (love the new gambissons, btw)
leaving them to storm the hill suported by somewhat indiscrimnant volleys of bolts from my men...
After a brief but violent melee, all is well that ends well... (guess which group are my men...
)
Apprently, most of those guys have already killed 3 papas smurf during their crusading time, as their kill count proudly displayed on their shields show.
More seriously, Prussia and the Baltic is HELL on earth for good Christians: after 55 days the Lithuanians have taken Thorm and Königsberg, and this is the kind of rebellion we have to cope with:
Well, that THEY have to cope with, in any case, not payed nowhere near enough (even though I'm turning a 700 denars profits each payday: must have reflexively lied about the number and quality of my men when I drew the contract or something
) to go risking my lay hide to save their priestly ones . They should like martyrdom, anyway... But there are so many Pagans around, I once spend 4 days shut in a castle, waiting for 2 lithuanian armies and 4 warbands, each one bigger than my own party, to stop circling around the walls...
Oh, and Halych just declared war to the Order...
But as long as I keep moving cleverly around, I'm doing fine, even if my profits are for the moment undercut by the fact I've had to buy a new hunter twice, those javelins having an uncanny ability of crippling my mounts.