Renaissance List Army Performance

[SteveO]

No worries - pontificate away. Your view is very reasonable even though my predilection for the later armies is caused by other factors. Cheers.

[badhabum]

From my personal perspective - it's the aesthetics such as armour, banners, plumes, etc that attract me to the latter armies (and the fact that armour is easier to paint😉).

Refer note on "broad brush" before I launched into my pontificating

I don't mean to conclude that people that play medieval armies are only doing so because they are "better" choices for winning. There is invariably an overlap of players who are more interested in that era.

And if the army is small it makes it easier to travel with 

[Jilu]

There is not much wrong with the later period armies if...you play by period.

I remember the author said that he wanted people to play by periods and even preferably by books to have as close as possible  historical opponents.