How tough were they?

>>3043760
They ate nails for breakfast.

>>3043763
without milk

>>3043760
inb4 that one slavposter who thinks the teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

The teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

The teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

The teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

>>3043760
Tough enough to carve their state out of enemy territory, turn it into one of the most modern and efficient states of the middle ages and hold it for more than 200 years.

The teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

The teutonic order was a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

>>3043760
It took the unification of Poland and Lithuania to bring them down, an order of only a few hundred knights

>>3044036
>It took the unification of Poland and Lithuania to bring them down, an order of only a few hundred knights

That's BS.

1. The Polish-Lithuanian alliance was for one battle, one war at best. After Grunwald/Tannenberg Poland fought alone, Lithuania was even inclined to ally with the Teutons to balance Poland. Teutons were stronger than Poland only because Poland was in a state of perpetual civil war before mid 14th century.
2. The monk-knights themselves were the ruling elite. The bulk of the Teutonic army were secular knights, town and rural levies, armed peasants and scores of mercenaries.

>>3044036
did they only have a few hundred soldiers at the time they were conquered?

They were a bunch of cowardly, barbaric, backward, inferior, evil conquerors.

>>3043760
Backstabbing proto prussians who genocided orthodox not long after the schism
Really just Germans getting rid of their hothead sons