>>40686
>Nope.
Yes, it would, you don't need camp followers to fight some peasants a few miles away.

>European campaigns are literally what I wrote. Check 100 years of war for example (or any other wars). Their chief modus operandi was this.

You are aware that you can't stroll to France from England and that it's also more than just a couple of miles away right?

>You mean the poor ass peasants of medieval Europe? Their own lords did the same with them.

I'm not even going to humour this.

>When steppe people moved their troops to foreigners lands they did that to follow the principle Sun Tzu also put to paper (and you can find it in his book): you don't feed your own army (which makes you poorer), take the food from the enemy.

Maybe the fact has escaped you but for the principal to make sense you have to actually be fighting a war, these nomads were not peacefully passing through some other land to graze their horses. They were invading places for pillage and tribute in the first place.

>The armies of steppe people rarely were ad hoc scraped thugs, like the medieval levy was.