Mundane medieval warfare was since it really wasn’t often grand scaled. Post Roman Europe was mostly small skirmishes with occasionally large scale warfare, but it was few and far between until probably Charlemagne (citation needed. I am NOT a military history guy.)
Brutal. There was no even match up. It was either a one sided slaughter or the battle didn’t happen.
Point two is important. When your force is so small that a single pitched battle is pretty much it for either side, you don’t really want to roll those dice unless you really like your odds
The Last Kingdom did such a good job showing how
Mundane medieval warfare was since it really wasn’t often grand scaled. Post Roman Europe was mostly small skirmishes with occasionally large scale warfare, but it was few and far between until probably Charlemagne (citation needed. I am NOT a military history guy.)
Brutal. There was no even match up. It was either a one sided slaughter or the battle didn’t happen.
Point two is important. When your force is so small that a single pitched battle is pretty much it for either side, you don’t really want to roll those dice unless you really like your odds