During the age of religious wars, leading to the Renaissance, warfare drastically
changed. Strategies, weapons; the whole art itself was reshaped by the contact
with other peoples and the strive to attain more power. Before this time, fighting
was restricted to all the Medieval straitjacket would allow. 'Wars' consisted mostly
of the small forces of feudal nobles in their squeamish attempts to obtain more land.
Once the Crusades occurred, everything changed. Alliances were formed and broken, new
weapons unveiled, huge strategies deduced, and suddenly people weren't just trying to
defend th…
