Tactics – Episode 12: Middle Ages

Forget the fairy tale. Medieval warfare wasn’t just knights in shining armor—it was a brutal chess game played with blood and steel.

In Europe, feudal armies clashed for kings and castles, where terrain and siegecraft often mattered more than valor. In the East, the Mongols rewrote the rules entirely, unleashing speed, deception, and psychological terror to build the largest land empire in history.
Victory wasn’t about honor. It was about understanding the battlefield—and the enemy—better than anyone else.