Drill Befehle

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Being of training for combat in unified formations.

All Drill commands will be in "High-Gothic" to the dialect closest to that used in Kassel, or "Lowland German".  A simple series of standard formations will be for beginner level.  Advanced commands will be implemented as each bit is learned.  

The militia calendar followed six-month stipends.  Every six months the militia and citizens of the city were required to assemble in the town center for Drill and training.  These mandatory classes on the use of weaponry was in no way lax.  Classes were taught before any handling of weaponry occurred.  

The Holy Roman Empire was well-known for the level of quality in the Mercenaries hailing from the Empire and the stout effectiveness of its citizens in defending their homes.  The citizens worked well together, something that was lacking in many other medieval countries or kingdoms.  

This was just beginning to become a problem within the Empire, as many peasant revolutions were beginning to take place in the 1470s.  These would last well into the 1520's where a unified front banded together beneath the banner of the Bundshuh, demanding the edicts of the heretic Martin Luther be allowed and religious pamphlets and education open to the lower-classes.  The Peasants' War of the 1520s can be greatly attributed to the cohesive military knowledge being dispensed throughout the Empire to its peoples of all classes and castes.

Clepsydras, or water-clocks were common in Cathedrals by now and mechanical clocks are becoming into wide-spread use among the fashionable and the Churches.  The hours of the day were rang on the Church bells, at the interval nearest what we now know as every three hours.  Originally, daylight was the trigger for these tolls, meaning the summer hours would be much longer than the winter hours, but with the use of much more modern and accurate time-pieces, these hours are steady.

The morning begins early for some as the first bell rings at Mette, called Matins in England and France, denoting a couple of hours before Dawn or Midnight.  

The next toll is Laudes, also called Latins, roughly three in the morning.  Shop owners head to work to get ready for the day and preparations for the day are made by everyone.

At dawn, the ringing of Prime sounds.  The night guards are off duty and often now have to aid in training all-day.  These are the harshest task-masters.  Shops open and the burgers assemble for the sermon beginning the day.  As the Cathedral also serves as the town hall, once the parish is finished, the appropriate assembly remains to begin their classes.

Roughly three hours of classes takes place, then the third hour tolls:  Terz or Tierce, roughly nine in the morning by our standards.  The Rottmeister preps the assembly for the din of battle by shouting "Raustreten!" and ushers everyone out of the Church at a scramble.

Sext was originally midday, but by now the noon hour is referred to as Mittag "Midday", or Nones in England and France.  The assembly breaks for a brief half-an-hour lunch and continues until Vesper, now at our three-o'clock.  

Komplet or Compline, was the final toll for the day, detailing bedtime.  During winter, this would be nightfall, however, in the summer light might last for a couple hours longer and the toll might be held back until the sun finally sets.  The night guards go back on duty.  A strict curfew is enforced in the city and anyone found on the streets without official-marked documents of their doings are subject to a fine or being detained.

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