> Knowing that the hay baler is a modern invention and that people in a world where technology has apparently stagnated at the level of the European dark ages for millennia would be using the "hay stack" method of storing hay is sufficient.



Besides, it makes more sense to have pitchfork-wielding peasant armies if there's actually a _need_ for pitchforks. Not that pitchfork-wielding peasant armies are incredibly realistic either, yet I come across those all the time.

I mean, yeah, peasants _were_ used as cannon fodder (or knight fodder, in lieu of cannon), but at least they were nice enough to give them spears to die holding.

-Judas Maccabeus