>tfw you'll never fight in a big battle with sword and shield
Why live
>>29204879
>get skewered by a pike from a guy 10 feet to your right that you didn't even see
>fall to the ground and either bleed out, get trampled, or drown in a mixture of blood, gore, and muck
yeah sounds really heroic and romantic
>>29204879
>implying we'd be able to afford swords and shields
only chad/ rich kids get swords and shields
we'd be the peasants armed with farming implements going up against roman legionnaires/ housecarls/ knights or the fucking clerks who have to wait with the camp followers
>>29204965
>implying you couldn't just sell your land to buy shit tier weapons
>go to war with shit tier weapons
>be lucky, win battle and survive
>rush towards dead enemy for war spoils
>get rich in a day
Or
>die in battle fighting for something you believe in
>Chaddeus Thundercoq obliterates you with a single strike from his enormous sword he can use thanks to his heavy lifting job back home
>he goes back home and tells his wives, who are listening in awe, how he devastated countless worthless peasants
>oh mine dear Chaddeus, how strong thou art!
>oh and he also raped your sister and butchered your family in the afterbattle pillaging/pubcrawl
Only roaches fight in wars. I would be controlling the battle from a safe location.
>>29204879
>sword and shield
Polearm or go home
>>29204879
>giving your life for some blueblood jews
>giving your life for some insane pope
>giving your life for someone else
good plebeian
