The Yogi said:I had already read it in Spanish, but I'll comment it here - great story! But... will you not incur the wrath of Lord Durham for apropiating the Free Company?!
BTW, your story does not explain how Byzantium came to reposess the Smyrna area in Asia minor... the very place where the mercenary army went bonkers and killed everything in sight!? Come on, tell us everything!
I think I saw something about 'the free company' around, but never got to check inside... I thought the name sounded fancy for a british origined mercenary company. Anyway the true inspiration for the mercenary group is rather the 'catalan company', which used similar tactics to the ones I depicted. Gilbert Talbot is also losely based in Roger von Blum. I guess I could have called it 'the british company', or 'the english company', but somehow did not have the right tone. So the free part came to my mind and I just applied it.
Oh well... I don't have to tell *everything*
. I like to tell offshot stories for the campaigns... but as far as the main little story ends for each map, I focus back into my Trencavel. 
