/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9425378
>not Amtgard, put down your pitchforks

Nothing wrong with the game itself, but the toxic culture developed within.

>Anyway, getting to the point. What kind of tactics did people use historically to outfit, train, and then lead into battle, a group of untrained villagers? I know levies were a thing, but I don't know where to start researching how they actually fought.

Pike and musket, with a side order of musket and pike. From 1540 on, those will become the predominant battlefield force, and both with training manuals designed to best train recruits to fight with them. For light infantry levees, armour, if any, was typically a quilted or buff jack, and maybe a simple helmet like a cabbaset or morion.

Professional troops would get more substantial armour, typically in a breastplate (not always with a back), helmet, and possibly faulds and pauldrons, as they would take the front ranks, supported by the levees. Targeteers would be commonly in half or demiharness, and officers would be all over the spectrum. Officers commonly carried polearms.

Even without muskets, were you able to pull off a tercio of pikemen with a modicum of drill, you would probably turn some heads. There are many manuals reprinted with step by step picture guides, exactly for training levees.

>>9425390
If you can spend all that time and effort in designing and assembling a costume, and getting decent boots for it, you can take three seconds to use a seam ripper and remove the tag. Readmiww is capable of such. To not do it is lazy.

>>9425401
Maybe a wrong thread.