Medaeval War Tactics

[Watchman]

Steppe-nomad fighting techniques tended to be a little murky for most people who didn't have the misfortune of living next to the troublesome buggers. Those who did, of course, by necessity tended to understand them quite well and came up with countermeasures in quite short order.

But yeah, there's the general problem that even if one brackets "Medieval" as between around the 11th to 15th centuries AD, and in the most common geographical definition of "Europe", there's still immense variations in tactics in both different times and places over it. Few people anywhere made war in the 15th century in the same manner as it had been made in the 11th; and the Bretons were different from the Normans, the Celtic Fringe from the Brits, the Scandinavians from the Germans, the Hungarians from the Austrians, the Russians from the Byzantines, the diverse Iberians from just about everyone else, the Venetians and Genoans from the Sicilians, all according to the vagaries of local geography, economy and sundry as well as the enemies they had to fight.