This time something called a training scroll appeared. I hadn't even seen it in the shop, but if I used it, could I get double the training effect for a week? I should put it to use in gunner training.
"My lord, those men are Scottish mercenaries and Saxon mercenaries."
"Is that so? Their dress is distinctive, but can you tell from that alone?"
"In the mercenary business, knowing your competitors is basic."
The mercenary business was a leading trend among medieval startups, and there were a great many competitors to match. The Essenbach dragoons cursed the Scottish mercenaries as low quality, but as men who wouldn't hesitate at dirty work.
They scorned the Saxon mercenaries as womanizers. Pensler, the Beren Lance Cavalry commander, was a former Saxon mercenary, a philanderer who was very fond of widows, so the dragoons' assessment made sense.
But these men were all the same.
Savage bastards who loved their legal plunder.
