The thing with krauts is complex

at one point, there were some

untill WW2 happened

and pretty much all the krauts that lived in East Prussia (including the Memel region, which is now Lithuanian turf) were either moved to Germany or killed off.

Memel

that's th TL;DR version.

Sheeeg

Sheet

Thats Prussian clay

is Curonian clay actually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curonians
Curonians - Wikipedia

Ah right

the guys who raided the vikings.

We actually had a chance to take Memel castle in the medieval times, when the teutonic foothold was weak

but the samogitian army decided it's not worth it or something.

Proud Lithuanian pagan holdout

Against the Teutonic order

Held out for as long as possible

best weapon against them

since both Livonian Sword Brothers and the Teutons eventually were weakened when aquired that land

@Deleted User that post is great

Yeah

Wasn't it an alliance of poLes

Poles and Austrians who defeated the tuetonics

nope

well eventually

the major blow was Battle of Grunwald

by the time of the 13 years war between Poland and the Order, the teutons were pretty much on life support.

Ah right

@Dixielandmerchant I shared that this morning.

He really did. 😦

Because the Teutons were so powerful

Heavy infantry of the period

The plate armour

Very advanced

not really. They had some strong castles, but they were pretty much reliant on foreign aid

English longbowmen would have taken them down a peg though

Look up the Great Prussian Uprising.

I mean in a heavy infantry sense

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_uprisings
Prussian uprisings - Wikipedia

and based on archeological evidence, both the Order, and Grand Duchy were the same on tech more or less.