The Life of a Soldier

The life of a soldier was actually quite an attractive one. For those commanding the regiments and in some cases paying for the regiments, it was potentially very profitable. The age of the war lord had arrived. Suddenly all kinds of people who would have been simply arrested find themselves in positions of great responsibility. By the time the war reached magdeburg in 16 31, a small conflict in bohemia had sucked in spain, denmark, the netherlands and most notoriously, gustavus adolphus, king of the swedes. And they were monsters, horrific.