The Landsknechte of Heiligensturm Faehnlein are most recently returned from their triumphant defense of Vienna, where for months, they repelled the continued onslaught and siege of the Turkish Host, saving ALL of Europe from enslavement at the hands of the Heathen Turks. Once known as the Scourge of GOD, the Landsknechte are responsible for some of the most heinous acts of brutality and horror in the time period, putting down countless peasant rebellions, and even bringing forth the beginning of end of the Renaissance with our Siege and Sacking of Rome in 1527.
Using Koroneburg as a recruiting station for the regiment they are attached to, the Landsknechte under Hauptmann von Schoenvortz pick and choose the cream of the Koroneburg youth (as well as those attending the good Baron's Festival) for training to become soldiers in the latest developments of the Italian Wars.
The armies they recruit for have participated in dozens of battles over the decades, fighting back French expansion into the Holy Roman Empire, Turkish Invasion, as well as various other engagements both for the Empire, and for those able to pay their fees when not actively campaigning for their Emperor.
We are now in the year 1532, gathering soldiers to take to the great Diet of Regensburg, where we prepare to defend our beloved Empire from yet a second Turkish invasion, and find ourselves in a wholly new theatre of war - the Hauptmann's own backyard! Once soldiers are mustered, the whole Regiment shall march to Regensburg to prepare to meet the Turk in War once more! As the Hauptmann von Schoenvortz is a vassal of the Prinz of Regensburg, we are defending our own homelands this time, not some odd chunk of Italian dirt!
Yet somehow, the Spanish will claim this to be "THEIR" war.
PLUS ULTRE!!! <sarcastically>
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Dieter Freiherr von Schoenvortz
Hauptmann Heiligensturm Fähnlein
As long as I offend, entertain, educate, or amuse at least one person per day, I consider my day complete.
Hauptmann Heiligensturm Fähnlein
As long as I offend, entertain, educate, or amuse at least one person per day, I consider my day complete.