Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Hyphenated_Gorilla t1_izx3dus wrote

Reply to comment by Snoo-81723 in How many knights in Armor would be on a battle field? by autism_guy_69

Estimates are incredibly high even at 40k, no where near that would have been fully armored, mass production simply did not exist.
The Teutonic were the better armored and probably about 10-15k .

People forget that life was generally meaningless to the common man and cannon fodder was common.

6

Snoo-81723 t1_izxddi5 wrote

both sides uses probably same weapons and aromours . Teutonics must adapt to fight in Samogitia forests and using lightly armors and shorter pikes . Lithuanian and russian forces were using that same. Polish knights were armed in western way. As for mass production Teutonic have big manufacture were produce weapons on big scale - in Malborg castle were over 100000 crossbow tip in stock.

2

TheLateHenry t1_izzg7lx wrote

There were about 66,000 combatants total in that battle. There is NO WAY that nearly all of them wore full plate armour. I agree with the previous poster - 10-15k is more likely.

5