Unit:		LandsKnecht
Creator:	Marc Angstadt  Kinboat
Contact Info:	angstadt@ptd.net
Tools Used:	Poser 4 and Jasc PSP7...  Moenir's Flicster and Steph's Storyboard Creator

Included Files:
	Civilopedia Large and Small
	LandsKnecht_Units_32.pcx



Notes:		LANDSKNECHT, a German mercenary foot-soldier of the 16th century.  The name (German for "man of the plains ") was given to mark the contrast between the force of these soldiers, formed by the emperor Maximillian I about the end of the 15th century, and the Swiss, the men of the mountains, at that time the typical mercenary infantry of Europe.  After the battles of Marignan and Pavia, where the military reputation of the Swiss had been broken, the Swabian landsknecht came to be considered the best fighting troops in Europe.  Though primarily a German force and always the mainstay of imperial armies, they served in organized bodies as mercenaries elsewhere in Europe; in France they fought for the League and for the Protestants indiscriminately. In fact Landsknecht, and more particularly its French corruption lansquenet, became in western Europe a general term for mercenary foot-soldiers.  It is owing to the lange Spiesse (long pike or lance), the typical weapon with which they were armed, that the corrupted French form, as well as a German form, lanzknecht, and an English lanceknight came into use. 

"LANDSKNECHT." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia. © 2003, 2004 LoveToKnow.
http://80.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LA/LANDSKNECHT.htm

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Credits:	Well credit obviously goes to Firaxis for the game, and Moenir for making Flicster.  And now Steph and his wonderful Storyboard Creator, without which I might never have gotten the time or energy to paste this together.






