Was not in the Middle Ages, the best way to make a brilliant career and fortune than the protracted military conflict. And there was no conflict in European history longer than the famous Hundred Years' War. More than a century the French and the British brought each other in offering an obscure political intrigues of their own monarchs. But while some fought for the land, the other for the honor, and the third for the King, then there were those who fought for itself - and for the money that was spent without counting the opponents to pay mercenary armies. That mercenaries often determined the balance of forces on the battlefield. And you will become the most famous of the medieval "soldiers of fortune" - unless, of course, have the patience to go through Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War to end.