What was their life like in times of peace? Did they go around trying to start shit out of boredom or necessity?
>>1426349
They could be garrison or occupying troops.
France had many swiss mercenaries on hire for protection duty, even in times of peace.
>times of peace
>Europa
There was no time of peace.
The thirty year war was utterly apocalyptic and the most dangerous and horrible thing you could encounter as a peasant or civilian were dismissed mercenaries/Landsknechte who needed money and food because they blew their money on fancy cloth and gambling (As was totally logically because they could die everyday) and the food was scarce because so mayn people died that fieldwork was disrupted in many places.
Dehumanisation and roving bands of raiders searching for human prey or another warlord or passing army to offer their skills were the result.
Read Peter Hagenstolz's Diary if you want to know more.
>>1426585
>http://www.petesdiary.com/
This is what showed up.
Three words: gay pride parades.
They don't get more fabulous than that.
