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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?
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