With sufficient resources a player can easily create many of these units to overwhelm an enemy faster than it normally would have taken for, say, espadachines to be created by a Burgundian player. Doppelsöldner are thus the ultimate medium infantry unit which can be used in a variety of roles — either as support units if your lines of pikemen falter, or as an assault unit. Ideally, their strong anti-mercenary attack means that they can be used to crush mercenary spam by factions such as the Moors, Scotland or Burgundy which are heavily dependent on mercenaries to bolster their armies in the Imperial Era.
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| - With sufficient resources a player can easily create many of these units to overwhelm an enemy faster than it normally would have taken for, say, espadachines to be created by a Burgundian player. Doppelsöldner are thus the ultimate medium infantry unit which can be used in a variety of roles — either as support units if your lines of pikemen falter, or as an assault unit. Ideally, their strong anti-mercenary attack means that they can be used to crush mercenary spam by factions such as the Moors, Scotland or Burgundy which are heavily dependent on mercenaries to bolster their armies in the Imperial Era.
- (Double-paid mercenary) were Landsknechte in 16th-century Germany who volunteered to fight in the front line, taking on extra risk, in exchange for double payment. The stated ratio was that one in four would be a . A small number of the of each company were usually issued with ranged weapons, such as a crossbow or an arquebus.
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*Upgrade of Palatinate Burgmänner
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*Resource cost: 40link=Resources#Food|Food; 40link=Resources#Timber|Timber
*Ramp cost: 1link=Resources#Food|Food; 1link=Resources#Timber|Timber; 1link=Resources#wealth|Wealth
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| - (Double-paid mercenary) were Landsknechte in 16th-century Germany who volunteered to fight in the front line, taking on extra risk, in exchange for double payment. The stated ratio was that one in four would be a . A small number of the of each company were usually issued with ranged weapons, such as a crossbow or an arquebus. Likewise, schooled in the use of the Zweihänder (two-hander), a two-handed sword, were entitled to double pay and thus qualified as . The fencing guild of the Brotherhood of St. Mark had the monopoly on the use of the after Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor granted it to them in 1487. The was allegedly used by the to break through formations of pikemen, especially Swiss pikemen, by either being swung to break the ends of the pikes themselves or to knock them aside and attack the pikemen directly. The veracity of this tradition is disputed, but at least as a legend, it appears to date to at least the 17th century.
- With sufficient resources a player can easily create many of these units to overwhelm an enemy faster than it normally would have taken for, say, espadachines to be created by a Burgundian player. Doppelsöldner are thus the ultimate medium infantry unit which can be used in a variety of roles — either as support units if your lines of pikemen falter, or as an assault unit. Ideally, their strong anti-mercenary attack means that they can be used to crush mercenary spam by factions such as the Moors, Scotland or Burgundy which are heavily dependent on mercenaries to bolster their armies in the Imperial Era. It was the duke of Austria, Maximilian I, who first introduced the Landsknechte regiments, of which the Doppelsöldnern were a component, to fight on the side of the Empire. Initially consisting mostly of men hailing from southern Germany, the ethos of the Landsknechte — characterised by garishly coloured and excessively elaborate "uniforms" — nevertheless spread far and wide to the extent that not all Landsknechte were truly German. Being mercenaries, Landsknechte naturally did not stay on as the main preserve of the Empire, and some even fought on the side of other powers, most notably France, Spain, and the Dutch for the next 200 years or so.
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