Meyer Longsword Guards/Stances

Meyer's 1570 text provides a description of the many guard positions in his system, which seems overly complicated, however it's important to remember two things:
1) All positions are just variations on the 4 fundamental/principal guards - Tag, Alber, Ochs, and Pflug.
2) The positions are transitional points as you move through cuts and parries, so occur organially during your fencing motions - they're generally not intended to be positions to wait in at length for your opponent's attack.,