Your not alone, I know I tried to copy the kirby one as a kid since it looked so good.

Janson is canon as he is named in Empire. His lore just doesn’t exist anymore.

Ahh the days of please insert next disk... insert next disk. Wait... where is the next disk.

You did see the 17 years bit, yeah?

Two hand great sword like zweihanders and their ilk were used to disrupt pike formations. The germans had Landsknechte who would directly engage pike formations to distrupt them. Your statement above about plate forget that the average soldier wouldn’t be able to afford plate. As for firearms you have several hundred…

I couldn’t agree more.