Landsknecht myth busting: the Doppelsoldner

“Where’s the Doppeldsoldner?!“ “What is a Doppelsoldner?!“ “Why is a Doppeldoldner?!“ On one hand Iike doing context videos: they are super interesting and add a lot of knowledge to a very noisy YouTube. On the other hand, well, damn, they take a lot of work. At least I had some fun shooting some background footage with a bunch of Florin tokens to represent Sold and Doppelsold, including a cameo of a fan favourite: Emma the Maine Coon. Just like with the Messer, I wanted to make a myth busting video to deal with some of the most persistent ideas surrounding Doppelsöldner. Especially with games like Elden Ring recently coming out, a lot of people seem interested in great swords and of course the same old stories about Landsknechte, “zweihanders“ and pikes are going to pop up as a result. I hope to add some well researched information this way. P.S. I did actually try out some anti-pike fighting with a greatsword last weekend at Winterkamp and it went even worse than I expected. When both formations had