So I was playing a video game called Mount and Blade: Warband, and basically you're this character who comes to this land called Calradia, full of internal strife and medieval warfare and bandits and whatnot. You can almost immediately just kinda get a few peasants to volunteer to follow you and all of a sudden you're a minor warband.
Obviously this is wildly unrealistic, but really how easy would it be to make a minor bandit group, or peasant rebellion (I know those are very different things) or something to that end in medieval Europe?
I imagine it would depend on the place. A high-density rural region like Denmark it would be harder to hide in the wilderness (but also harder to notice a few serfs missing?) Meanwhile in Italy the semi-urbanized regions would be hard to live like that in.
Any ideas on what I'm going for?
Obviously this is wildly unrealistic, but really how easy would it be to make a minor bandit group, or peasant rebellion (I know those are very different things) or something to that end in medieval Europe?
I imagine it would depend on the place. A high-density rural region like Denmark it would be harder to hide in the wilderness (but also harder to notice a few serfs missing?) Meanwhile in Italy the semi-urbanized regions would be hard to live like that in.
Any ideas on what I'm going for?