The young Jurgen have traveled wide and long to see the world and search for wisdom. He met a stranger in the barren place where mountains meet the frozen river in the north and after inviting him to share his camp fire, the stranger told the following to the young warrior:
"Stay a while and listen! I've been a general in many great wars in my years. Some of them we fought on technological parity and it was relatively easy. But in some others, unfortunate we were at severe disadvantage, having to fight with axes versus maces and chariots versus dressed in steel knights. But instead of despair and accepting our fate and certain defeat, we did something smarter and more worthy of respect. We teched to Horse Archers and slaved tens of citizens to those brave soldiers in our distant cities, while slaving catapults in our border ones. We cracked the whip mercilessly and despite more than half of our population were slaved away, we assembled them together and the seemingly unbeatable till then invaders were crushed easily and only their bones whitening in the soil mark where once was the mightiest army of macemen, knights and catapults the world had seen."
This the stranger said and a smile ran trough his face, as he was hoping the young warrior to have had learned something precious which could have save his nation one day.