Medieval Weapons vs The Modern Warrior (How Lethal Are Medieval Weapons ???)

I’m sorry but First

4:01 his neck callasped over a inch...

Day 900 of begging scott to do a explosive 22blank 12 gauge shells vs body armor video

Mace

Can. You do 4 bore vs pykrete

The mall ninjas are growing in power

That and his edge alignment on some of those strikes weren't the greatest. It would be interesting to see someone who could actually keep edge alignment with a proper sword do to one of those zombie torsos.

That warhammer looked okay and the mace was probably decent. in practical use flanges did bend. Hence why they so were easier to fix. That looked like an arming sword or smaller long sword.

@@argonzeitTo be honest it wasn’t bad for a beginner. I’ve seen much worse in my HEMA group from people just starting.

The problem however is that medieval weapons experts would have difficulty with the concept of *intentionally* hitting the armor.

Good for the uniformed viewer, Scott obviously was having a chuckle since he saw the names when he bought them 😜😂😂

Truth

to be more precise Spiky Scepter = Flanged Mace and Meat Tenderizer = Horseman's Pick

The meat tenderizer looked like a bec de corbin

Scott next time Archangel Steel

This is more unique of a video

He must have lost the lawsuit with his shoulder. Shame🤦‍♂️

Nah, more like he ran out of expensive ammo and his shoulder convinced him to take a break.

He blew them all up.

He is just trying to find a bigger shoulder fired piece of artillery. He doesn't shoot guns anymore😂

Lmao

Get out

​@@SirToaster9330Lorgar did nothing wrong.

XD

Give this man an award

its honestly terrifying lol

Yeah I was looking at these obviously Amazon Play Dough Metal things and thinking "Scott can slap someone with a limp fish and knock their zombie brains out" now I want him to get hold of someone with actual medieval weaponry, like true steel and all.
EDIT: watching to the end, the war hammer and spear are obviously made way better and the sword seems rather competent

The man is a Unit...

And how deadly medieval arsenal was...

Those are wall hangers and of mall ninja equivalent quality. Not even actual medieval weapons are of that low quality as what he's using

Shadiversity approves

Yeah, that’s neat and all but to clarify here, Kevlar is not made to protect against stabs and slashes. It’s horrible at protection for that type of attack. It’s made to catch things, not to be abrasion resistant. A thin piece of ar500 is designed to do that task, it’s in the name even!

Usually, you would combine armor types, depending on the era (and, of course, if you were wealthy enough to afford it). Best protection would be chainmail < gambeson < plate. Forgive me if I got the order wrong. Not too dissimilar from wearing ballistic plate over Kevlar.

@@alexmills1329 Well time to put on my nerd hat
Kevlar can be made stab-proof, it just have to be constructed and layered difficulty. Most bullets are blunt body, and that's why most soft bulletproof vest aren't rated for ice pick test (aka, stab resistance)
However there ARE kevlar vest made to be both knife resistant, and useful against common pistol (9mm/45acp etc)
You found them often in service of prison guards, since rifles aren't a concern.

"It was designed to provide padding to buffer blows to chainmail or plate"... While gambeson was used for that purpose, I'm not sure it was "designed" for that purpose. There's some evidence that cloth armor pre-dates the metal armors... And, gambesons were often worn without any other armor. Gambesons are quite effective as overall armor, and they are easier and cheaper to make then chainmail or plate. Also, because gambeson is naturally flexible, it works to "cover the gaps" in other armors that are not as flexible, because the gaps would often be around joints.

A very good idea we have a lot of medieval over here. 53°/ 0°

Skallagrim please I beg

Shadiversity, Schola, and Metatron be great out there. I believe Meta used to live in Tenn and is in US right now.

​@@MbisonBalrogI wasn't aware he moved. I do understand that he's had to spend some time back in Italy due to his mother's passing.

@@Manco65 I may be wrong

Well you say that... but Dequitem who does fully armored unchoreographed fights against other people in armor says that he prefers a sword over a blunt weapon.

All armor has weak points, a sword wouldn't make it through the plate armor so they'll just stab backside of your knee. You have an obvious leg up in armor but the sword still killed many a plated knight.

@@aaronbrandon2321 Sure, but you're still at a disadvantage. There's a reason blunt and pick-like weapons became prevalent in the later medieval ages. That, or just wrestling (there are entire treatises just about armoured grappling) your oppnent and try to get a dagger into the weak spots.

Actually armor, especially plate armor does help against concussive force too, as it spreads it around a much larger surface - one could see a difference between a hit with warhammer onto the helmet and later onto the bare head, that burst into pieces from a single hit. Still even a non-penetrating hit to the helmet would probably break a neck below that head. The difference still is that to deliver such a powerful blow one needs to do a large swing and a skilled opponent will have time to react, for instance with a quick stab.

A sword can still deal concussive force; it's still a bat of hardened steel.
Besides, against an armored opponent you would be attacking the weak points and joints; whether by chops, or going to half-sword and use locks, throws, and thrusts toward the eye slits.
Plus, there's a reason the Mordhau (Murder Stroke) technique exists.

Duct tape a thumb in there for safe measure.

Just like anything else, the best medical advice anyone could ever give you .. ''Just put a thumb in it'' ...

And fill all the holes with flex seal.

😂

Well he is the best neurosurgeon in the world after all

That needs to be a Sport.

That almost became a snuff film for liveleak.

His face was awesome 😂

Caption put a spear init

I'd buy that

I want that framed on my wall.

Man, I was just hoping he doesn't skewer himself running into the throwing end of that rod on his bike. heh

@@billant2saaaame

Drive-by-speared

No, it's peak Kentucky. Because as a Kentuckian I can account for this message.

I miss when he was depicted as a wise ninja master.

Nostalgia to the 2002 TMNT

@@Batts2002
Honestly my favorite iteration is either the 2007 splinter or the 2012, regardless I enjoy when he depicted as a wise ninja master and not some sad old loner.

FLAMETHROWER

I thought that was common sense

The key thing you said was 'obvious damage'. Most of those hits could still cause soft tissue and nerve damage, the nerve damage being the more debilitating. Nerve injuries can take a long time to get over. That said, most of the head blows could cause death hours or days later. Yet humans have been known to take severe traumatic injuries and end up living out of spite. Who knows?

Yeah dude, the flail hit he did looked fucking gnarly

@FondlesHandles couldn't agree more but to add on to that if you got hit with a moring star in the sternum there is a high probability of ribs and possibly other bones breaking and puncturing a lung or other vital organs and even if nothing broke internal bleeding is almost guaranteed with that kinda impact so basically screwed either way

Yes. A warhammer to the 'anywhere' of the body, regardless of armor, is going to be AT LEAST tough on the bones.
Back when soldiers wore tin cans, bludgeoning was the weapon of choice: Oh, you have armor on your chest? Now you have armor IN your chest.
Inertia is a very dangerous weapon indeed.

Yup. Neck injury for sure eaven with the helmet. Especially with the war hammer. Your not getting up i don't care how good your helmet is....but still ware the damn helmet anyway. Would make all the difference with a glancing blow, and you don't see many glancing blow tests either so I would be interested.

I would argue that real weapons weren't used against armor BECAUSE that armor was effective. Hitting modern armor would (apparently) be bad tactics as well -- but testing that directly is the only way of seeing whether said armor would work.

.... innacurate

bladed weapons saw brief use around bronze age to iron age. and continued to be used in hotter climate as generally people used less armor. But in colder climate, bladed weapons were goddam useless. Bladed weapons do have amazing capability of damaging people with much less force (as long as they are sharpened), than blunt weapons that require massive momentum to be effective

I would also add blades seemed to be secondary weapons to those armor defeating tools. Spears were the best weapons due to reach and ease of training.

Believe what you want, fact is some weapons aren’t meant to be faced against armored enemies and some are, doesn’t mean you can’t use both on either or, you can use a katana on armored enemy you just have to know your stuff to get through, a katana might actually have been able to slice and cut right through considering there are amazing at that, and an actual long sword would probably be able to be jabbed right through modern armor as well, I haven’t tested this myself but armor now is meant for bullets and are meant for weakening the energy and slowing the speed of said bullets, not to stop a sword from cutting you down, along with that fact that this modern armor is very basic and can be easy just to avoid aiming for the armor entirely, blunt weapons were very good at handling people in armor bc you’d use the armor against them by making their body rattle within the armor, you can necessarily do that to modern armor since it isn’t full body armor, the helmet sure, that’s what you would target most with a blunt weapon, anyway all weapons would be good just know how to use it. Facing enemy’s that you couldn’t get past that had heavy armor most people would start using their surroundings as a way to take out said enemy, it’s about brains not bronze.

Same. All of these weapons were cringe inducingly flimsy

​@@viscounttudon68For sure. Fantasy weapons, really, except the warhammer. That was decent enough. Rest was junk and quite disappointing, Inwould have liked to see some proper weapons.

I collect swords, when he called that THING a claymore, I genuinely almost had a stroke

Did he put the right side "forward to enemy"?

his first hit with the “claymore “ was essentially with the flat not the edge

bludegeon wepons are good ways to damage via kinetic Energy. A must have on any medieval battlefield.

@@shawn6860 i'll keep that in mind the next time my peasant village gets raided by barbarians 👍

That 4-bore round punching the armour _into_ the torso is what I imagine a critical failure armour save looks like in *Dungeons & Dragons.* 😂

see modern tank rounds...mostly all kinetic penetrators a.k.a. blunt force

Sord

Swords always

Longsword

Double axe.

Always the sword

It would likely be concussion, that's why maces were used, great against people wearing armor, you may survive a full blow but disorientated to the point where the second hit will be successful.

​@raptus9115 anything that's meant for full blunt damage is gonna hurt alot

@@koreancowboy42 100% though the flail's in the video are completely, don't use those.

@@raptus9115🥸🤓

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Funny thing is, a toddler with a pistol is way deadlier

​@@yilso8663I really don't think that's true.

@@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466 Depends on the number of people nearby and the proficiency of the toddler with a gun.
But let's not get technical here.

He didn't notice but when he hit it with that thing with the three spiky balls on it he shouted like all the ribs if you watch a song on one of the ribs went into the shoulder piece

The universe where gunpowder was never invented

That was impressive

the face he made at the time. less impressive

Mongolian biker gang

The White Scars approve.

That throw was epic, and as someone else already said, it should be put on a t-shirt immediately.

Thank you for this!

Still, these weapons are very cheap replicas made out of crap metal (I honestly can’t tell if it’s even steel for some of them).
His “meat tenderizer” (which is modeled after a Warhammer) is the closest thing he had here to real medieval weaponry.
I would be genuinely curious to see how much damage he could do with some authentic, high quality medieval weapons. If he can punch through a ballistic helmet with that crap, what can he do with a real war pick?

@@alphastronghold715 That is something I'd like to know, too! :)

​@@alphastronghold715Not much more.
The quality of the steel is much more important for thr armor than for the weapon.

@@alphastronghold715 That arming sword was well made as well. Consider the amount of flex from those blows, and the fact that it was straight as an arrow at the end.
Most medieval weapons are cheap replicas or hobby pieces by guys who like hammers and have too much time on their hands, but I've no doubt there are more than a few forges that still make good quality replicas and analogues. Particularly for those who practice fencing or mock combat. There is such a thing as an MMA for knights, for example.

Honestly, my stage blade that I do full strength, full speed medieval armoured combat with, duller than the back side of a butter knife, will still split pumpkins and watermelons quite handily with good technique. I have no doubt that should one of my fight buddies hit me with it where I'm unarmoured, I will have serious regrets and very likely split skin and broken bones.
We do a pumpkin massacre every year to see how well different tools and weapons go through something approximating flesh, and having tried all manner of sharp and dull swords, how sharp it is doesn't make that big a difference till you're already most of the way through.
That claymore though, was really disappointing, looked way too wiggly just to start off with.

Totally, do you know of anyone who sells good stuff online?

@@dillonwagers2975 His stuff is not cheap but it is GOOD quality, check out Tod's Workshop, he make High Quality Historically accurate weapons, also make props for Movies and Medieval Re-enactment, he has a website, and a RUclips Channel

He used some pretty good weapons. The Windlass Classic Medieval sword is actually a quality piece. Think I saw the cold steel warhammer too

@@dillonwagers2975 check out Tod's Workshop, High quality but NOT cheap

Well that's what happens when you use a stainless steel wallhanger to actually hit things with. Scott is lucky none of these cheap display swords snapped. While these blunt decoration "swords" aren't that dangerous to be hit by, unless you sharpen it and make at least the first hit dangerous, if they break on impact you can suddenly have stainless steel shrapnel flying around and that isn't very ideal.

​@@thisdude9363 Tbf, a good quality steel sword is supposed to bend a bit/be flexible but the one in the video obviously isn't like that

@@rigel9228 Springy, yes. Bend in half? No. Lol.

​@@thisdude9363let us talk about that the claymore is not even a claymore to begin with.
Its just a sword with a 9 ft blade

​@@Luwis1337it's not a claymore I'm pretty sure that's a decorative cheap knockoff zweihandr

It looks like he isn't using "battle-ready" weapons. The real ones are expensive.

Yea that "Claymore" was just a piece of sheet metal, thankfully nothing happened

got an auction comming up...they have a genuine lucerne hammer... I mean... I could just slip on the mousebutton and then somehow export it^^

Yeah definitely fun video but you can tell this isn’t his normal wheelhouse

I'd like to see if a properly built medieval spec falchion could cut the 3a like they did gambison.

bring in tods workshop and do some proper tests

If he really wanted some good quality weapons and potentially armor, places like medieval extreme and Canadian Buhurt, make sports equipment for the sport of Buhurt, Wich are really strong and historically accurate, to a certain degree.

Some people will whinge about anything. Go watch another channel or a history documentary. We're happy with Scott's obsession with huge firearms.

The problem wasn't the steel but the nonsensical construction. It's obvious decent (but not ideal) spring steel, but much to thing for the size (which makes it that floppy).
Hitting with the flat also didn't help😅
Your point is still correct. The only fully functional weapon seems to be the one-handed sword (which he decapitated the torso with a single, not overly precise strike) and the spike of the "tenderizer" (the hammer end was non-sensical with the flattend ends which are suppose to help the hammer grip flat, curved surfaces to transfer the force into the target). The rest was wallhanger crap.

​@@ErrtuabyssI think you're mostly talking about the spaghettified twohander

Swords were actually made to slightly bendy, because otherwise they would shear and break. It's called spring steel.

"ground to shape rather than being an actual forged blade meant to see actual combat" Amateur bladesmith here. Forged doesn't necessarily mean a stronger blade. Ground (stock removal) doesn't necessarily mean a weaker blade. They are just ways to shape the blade. What really counts is the materials and how you heat treat and temper them. Modern steels designed for blades are far superior than any medieval steels, no matter where it came from. There's not even a debate amongst bladesmiths about that fact.
And before you throw out the fanboy line, "Damascus is the best steel and even better than anything today!" allow me to pre-correct you. Damascus steel only comes from the region of Damascus in Syria. It's pattern welded steel. They were the first to take multiple grades of steel; high carbon, low carbon, and anywhere in between, and mix them together in a twisting pattern and forge weld them all together. This made the resulting steel more balanced, so you'd still have the hardness of the high carbon, but the toughness of the low carbon. We still use the same techniques to make pattern welded steel today, but only for decoration, since any seam or line you can see in the blade after etching, will be a weak point in the metal. Our modern steels mix the right amount of carbon and iron to make a homogenized steel, which gives it the edge, pun intended.
The "right" amount of carbon is completely dependent on what the steel is designed for. For carving knives (kitchen and similar), you want a high carbon steel so it holds its edge for longer. For fighting knives, you want a tougher blade, so it'll generally be more of a low carbon steel. For swords and knives you'll definitely use to beat things but still need sharp, you'll want a spring steel core with a high carbon edge and if a single edge blade, a low carbon spine to use for striking.
When you buy a decent weapon from a smith, you're not paying for the materials. You're paying for the expertise of the smith themselves. A good smith will know when to use which metals. Whether it's stock removal or forging, that's probably the least important part of the entire process. I know it's definitely the fastest.

@@kalashnikov1343 That’s what tempering does in a forged sword, giving it back some of that elasticity so that it doesn’t shatter like glass, but swords are absolutely not supposed to bend like a pool noodle when hitting soft armor or flesh. Those are basically cosplay swords.

I feel you on the... thing that's definitely not claymore. The part that got me screaming in rage was the morning star... that's not a freaking morning star. The thing with the chain isn't a morning star, and the morning star isn't a morning star.

Who makes swords out of mild spring steel?

but, as proven elsewhere, PVC pipes are actually able to deflect bullets...in essence you can shoot around corners

​@@jeffreyvanvoorst2077 who ever made that dark souls abomination

I haven't cried laughing at a youtube comment in a while, thanks for that 😂

Well, after that last "blowup mishap", he doesn't take life granted, and rather have fun. ;)

That is my favorite thing about him, he has so much fun it just draws you in.

Definitely!!! I'm a fan of both channels, and I haven't seen Skall's reaction yet, but I'm excited to, and I would love to see them work on something together!!!

i see you saw Skall's video as well.

The true men community of HEMA sends its regards
🍷

Yes please.

@@KetaceanKyle I did! Although I do like both channels as well

As you can see in blueprints of leonardo davinci. They also used motorcycles to bm the defeated enemys by driving over their corpses

According to tales, they even used flex tape

🤣🤣🤣

*duct tape*

​@@Redscopper I was referring to the brand. Duck Tape all the way, *other brands of duct tape available at your nearest bondage store.

How are those super long claymores good in battle? I mean it has range but I feel like it would be too hard to swing at multiple enemies

@@SquareCube2323 Most claymores weren't that long. At most you'd be looking at about 6 feet from pommel to tip. They were balanced a lot better than the one Scott was wielding, so people could wield them with respectable dexterity. They also were not that flimsy, you saw how easily that sword bent, even against a softer target.
That being said though, if I recall by the time they were starting to be used, they got replaced by Pikes, Halberds and Bec de Corbins due to their greater effectiveness against heavily armored opponents.

@@hand_of_sithis2575oh that makes sense, I was confused by the size and floppiness of- wait 🤨

​@@SquareCube2323That thing was closer to what is called a "bearing sword," which is only meant to be held up and look pretty in a parade.

@@hand_of_sithis2575while not necessarily claymores, great swords in general became common place around the same time as pikes. They weren’t replaced by them since. They did different, but still very important jobs when in an infantry formation (as did pollaxes, halberds, and other polearms).

Shadaversaty (spelled it wrong but it’s a rough combo for my dumb arse to remember) they do really great breakdowns of the fun bits they do and they’ve got a Titansword in the works right now

@@johndortheknight4802 Shadiversity. I watch some of his stuff periodically. He does good on the information and analyzing things, but the fun parts I've seen are always pretty short, and drown in the mix of the analyses.
What Scott did here, was almost non-stop fun.
Kind of like some of the other Gun channels, being a lot more analytical... And then we have Scott here, shooting the Chronograph.
(For the record, I'm not trying to knock Shad or any of the other channels. They do what they do quite well. I just think Scott has landed on untapped potential, in part due to the fact he can more easily afford to do this.)

I agree, on the condition that he gets good quality weapons. As shown here, mall-ninja stainless steel weapon-shaped objects usually break after a single blow and are not a good representation of medieval weaponry. Yes to smashing zombie torsos with them, I don't need him to expose on the weapon's history and design like other channels do, but get weapons. Just look at the difference in quality between the "pointy-meatball-on-a-stick" or "spiky-scepter" and the "meat-tenderizer". Sure, that warhammer doesn't look like it was made using historical methods, but it's well-built enough that it withstands intended use, so for a video like this one, I call it good enough. He even has a few good ones in there, the arming sword and javelin seem pretty accurate.

@@lemax6865 Exactly!
But I'll admit, for a cheap price, even some mall-ninja stuff vs watermelons or eggplants could prove quite entertaining for a brief mid-video skit.

@@with_The_Butler Not only watermelons. Versus Zombies I definitely would prefer a war hammer over a 9mm since you kinda never run out of ammo. Those are cracking skulls very effectively.

That just sounds nasty, I love it!

Axes are still used in by special forces today as well as the good old shovel, when the enemy got a little too close for comfort a few times back in the day, I pulled my bowie and hand axe out and went Achilles on them.

What about a Katana that was well made?

I like halberd best. Large, large main blade, multiple blades... Lovely. I love cannolis too.

​@@lawrenceneuenii3564they are talking specifically about her knee in the video not being well made

@@lawrenceneuenii3564 Breaks into three unequal pieces and the handle shatters as soon as it learns of the concept of armor

Stick a THUMB in it! 😂

At least he wasn't on adrenaline

"Just gotta pop it back in" 🤣🤣💀

@@arachnophilegrrl 🤣

They also all seem to be”mall ninja” weapons

@@spacegordonramsay2486 The warhammer, mace, and arming sword don't, but I'll agree with you about the rest. Especially the bearing sword.

more like junk, junk, junk, junk... I think he overpaid on the items, and could get much higher quality and more authentic stuff for the same price.

Well, he can't load a flail with a overpowered round and blow himself up (at least, I hope not), sooo...

@@The_KeeperIf anyone can find a way, it’s Scott.

​@@The_Keeper When he tossed that spear while on the minibike I was hoping the butt of the spear didn't swing around in a way that he'd run into it.

@@The_Keeper You would be surprised how seriously injured people get with stuff like this, especially cheap not historically accurate replica stuff which is often made out of poor quality stainless steel that is brittle, brittle steel snaps off with shar edges and tends to going flying. The flanges on the mace are particularly prone to breaking in that way. Of course the famous old video of the guy on TV selling a "samurai sword" who then bangs it on the table to "demonstrate how strong it is. Right when it breaks off at the hilt and the front half flips around and stabs him right in the stomach... That's a old internet classic clip from the early days of RUclips.

@@The_Keeper 'Not true, 1400s they did have gun hammers, and shields. Even a sword gun.

Riiiiight?!

@@XXNerdzillaXX alert the others

Can't wait😁

Perhaps he should offer to do a collaboration.

@@stinkyfungus This would be tough with the distance but seriously awesome to see

Especially in a small enough area.

A reminder those are super cheap super weak improper replicas.
Not much better than a hefty stick.

Well, 15th century armor went pretty fucking hard. It could even protect from bullets at the time, it was so good that there was no point to even trying to break through it. Modern armor is trash in comparison, the only reason we use it is that it's way better for guns, since we designed it to do just that, stop bullets. A real state of the art 15th century helbard would have probably nearly no problems cutting it.

It is pretty useful to remember that REGARDLESS of armor and even modern armor can be defeated when enough force in applied.
It dose not matter what crash helmet or airbag subscription service you pay for. If your going 300km/h and ram strait into a concrete wall on a bike?
The same thing with the best of armor. You can stop and limit the impact of a hit. You can absorb energy and spread it out over your hole body.
If you neck is pushed to braking point from a helmet getting hit? It really dose not matter if metal or fancy space stuff. Your neck is going to give out unless supported.
If your armor is strong enough to stop bullets or swords/spikes. Then focus is going to turn towards beating you up inside of the armor. The same with guns. Even if you are wearing gun rated armor? You still are going to notice a mag dump hitting you. Or say a 4-bore. Like even a 9mm is enough to question what your doing being shot at no?
Unless your in a tank. (or say a car made to protect you in a crash. SUV...) Armor should.. Never mind. Even in a tank your armor is the last thing you want to be tested.
You can be bombing around in a WW2 Maus or really anything. If you cross path with train tracks you better believe that the train is going to win that duel with a run up.

@@AristasTheMonsterHunter that's the problem. He used the cheapest crap available.
You can easily see absolute lack of quality.
Although, you are too kind on armour => after 15 century our guns became too much better at armour piercing.
We have anti tank rifles gosh damn it.
Our heavy rounds are just too good, don't even hope for 15 century armour to work on each modern weapon.
Low power guns? Most likely, i am not an expert nor American.
But even ak47 and above are surely too much.

Plus blunt weapons are very great for strong users, imagine the damage Scott could do with a lucerne

The force form the triple flail broke the zombies neck, very effective to say the least.

Oh yeah at 8:50 at first I thought it was his eye popping out through his skull, but after careful replay, it was the brain. baha

Some days my brain pops out to say hello, but this is not that day.

treihander time

Functional blades in Japan tended to top out at around 4 foot or so (measuring from the handguard to the tip). Anything significantly longer than that was usually manufactured to be a showpiece or temple offering. Such swords, including Norimitsu, can also be called "chōken" (literally "tall sword").
edit: corrected the name of the sword

​@@jamesfrankiewicz5768I'm pretty sure that the odatchi he mentioned was the samurai Calvary sword and did see combat. It just wasn't as popular as the Naginata.

4e was atrocious. I do miss some of the mechanics, but 5e is fun.

I played 1st and 2nd edition......still have all that stuff to

he needs a little bit of training 😅
these one leg chicken stance attacks were funny 😂

Much like an actual Crusader, he would be largely blind, mostly deaf, virtually immobile if not on horseback, and, after working hard in it for a while on a hot day, in desperate need of two or three well-trained people working as fast as they could to get him out of it before he died from heat exhaustion. :)

@@ZGryphon You are terribly uninformed

Kentucky Vult!

All I’m thinking of is the scene with Gimli putting on the chain mail.
“It’s a little tight around the chest”
Also, i think that’s a jousting helmet, and is more modern than crusader armor

Do you mean "Chainmail"?

@@stevecollett901The firearms company, called Knight's Armament.

@@stevecollett901 I don't get what "send this email to 5 of your friends" mail has to do with a premium rifle company, but go off I guess

@@stevecollett901I have no idea if Knights armament does any chain mail or spam stuff, but the wit involved in this joke is amazing mate

Yes, I'm looking forward to skall doing his video of this testing with quality armor and weapons.

Does Scott have little arms?

@@benjaminsillence8278 he has the right to bear little arms

@@benjaminsillence8278 "little arms-training" aka a bit of weapon training

@@friedrichrubinstein I know what he was saying - it was a joke :)

Easiest weapon to use and craft from history, reason most levies were equiped with spears or fire hardened sticks

God may have created men but Samuel Colt made them equal

Yes, and the USA is full of people prepared to shoot others at any time, any where and for just about any reason. Schools, work places and shopping malls appear to be popular targets. Its apparently what makes America so great. 😂 However, your premise is flawed because the medieval equivalent of a gun wasn't a sword, spear, flail or mace...it was a bow. A long bow, a recurve bow or a crossbow, with different types of arrow head, all of which made them very effective weapons that anybody could use. Oh, and the first firearms were single shot, slow to load, unreliable and incredibly inaccurate, meaning as an individual weapon, they weren't as effective as a bow. It took centuries of development to make them accurate and reliable.

I wouldn't really call these "quality" weapons, with the exception of the warhammer, they look all pretty cheap, made out of inferior materials.

​@@twojuicemanNice tagline, but about as true as all those alien abduction stories and sightings of ghosts you hear about on TV. From the day man first picked up a stick or a stone to use as a weapon, equality was never the problem... superiority was. It still is and always will be the issue. Everybody wants an advantage over opponents.

@@doublep1980 Exactly this, I think in general people seriously seriously misunderstand real medieval and ancient weapons. Today you really only see historically correct examples made by companies like Albion (For European swords) and those can be $1,500-to $5,000 up just for a single sword. In those time swords, spears and metallurgy were cutting edge technology that people trusted their lives to, incredible care, design and research went into their designs, it's far more complicated that it first seems. Distal taper for example is a classic example, cheap swords are made out of a modern bar of steel and ground with a machine into a sword like shape, for example a 4mm flat slab, but a real sword is hand forged and may taper from 9mm at the hilt down to 1.5mm at the tip, this taper dramatically changes the weight balance, and harmonics of the blade in use. This is all just scratching the surface, it's a fascinating topic. -Arms and armor antique collector with over 200 pieces currently.

Skallagrim would be better

But skallagrim IS way too sane for sich a Thing unlike shad WHO IS nuts. Skallagrim IS Like a Count looking down on These two peasants meanwhile These two idiots Roll around in the mud

Shad, Skall, Metatron and Sprav. All of the above please!

@@laisphinto6372 An alternative point is that Shad is in Australia.

That would be great!

Medieval

Either that or the guy inventing the ballista. "Crossbows are fine, but I need a bigger crossbow with more recoil! I said bigger!"

Scott is so big he'd scare the hell out of 99% of people in medieval times

About that👀

I now need to see Scott play a D&D game where he's an Orc Barbarian multiclasses as a Ranger........

Yes! Just what I was thinking.

pretty much, reminds me of that katana comercial where the guy taps the sword into the table and break and stabs him. cheap blades are more danger than people give credit.

It will cut

forged in gunpowder

@@Richard-r1x7d but will it keal?

Scot and David baker collab is now needed

@@Richard-r1x7d actually, it won't cut..

If u wanna get technical the former is a morningstar

Morningstar for meatball, scepter is a Pernach

​​@@jessorama So, do people call the morningstar without the spikes a mace in English?
They're all "gürz" for me. I guess "bludgeon" would be the equivalent.

The meat tenderiser is a warhammer

​@@tomwalker3687Sometimes refered to as a War Pick but either are used

Dash Randar (spelling?) did one with archery and melee vs armor for a fallout video I think.

Skallagrim at least lives on the same continent, so he seems like the logical first choice for a visit to the Kentucky Ballistics Whack-a-Zombie Range.

@@shawn6860dash also did a video with Administrative Results over this topic I think

Low key hoping Shad does a video reaction to this

​@@patrikhjorth3291 Unfortunately, Skall is a furry so....

true, and for the same reasons each one of those hits, especially to the head and especially the war hammer, wouldn't feel that great in modern or old armor.

Especially against wall hangers

Medieval armor generally has comparable protectiveness to modern armors, but it is many times heavier and less flexible for the same amount of protection.

Yeah, the sword he was using would not be something you'd want. A sword with a thrusting tip would accomplish a lot more, as would a properly built and sharpened spear
His edge alignment with the sword also wasn't phenomenal, but with a single-handed sword, that wouldn't really change too much. A proper longsword would also likely do a bit better than the comically oversized wall hanger, which is clearly just mild steel

@@Shalashalska Actually, in many cases, even the weight was comparable. I remember seeing somewhere that late-stage medieval armor and modern military kit are roughly neck and neck in terms of weight distribution - probably because we were right on the cusp of armor evolving at that point, if I had to guess.

I'm not going to say anything else. 💀

Spiky meatball on a stick wahaha😂

what.

Not to be a 🤓, but it's a one-handed arming sword, not a long sword. Long swords have longer blades and an extended handle for two-handed use. This is a common
misconception which is present in most movies and videogames that portray medieval weapons.

That atrocity was not a claymore. It would most accurately be called Zweihander, but even that isn't very accurate. Should really just call it trash.

In terms of size, claymores weren't actually any larger than longswords. What made them stand out was that they predate longswords by about a century, being used before plate armor made shields less mandatory for formation fighting.
The German Zweihänder is substantially larger than either of them.

@@johku4433 thanks for sharing... I thought any sort of straight edged European type sword smaller than a claymore/bastard sword and bigger than a dagger was just generally a longsword

@coriusfarinprimarchofthese7007 yeah I'm pretty sure Scott did it as an on brand meme for having large guns, so he got a ridiculously stupid long claymore 🤣... if you want to see some really nice craftsmanship I'd definitely recommend checking out Ben Abbotts' (Forged in Fire) Claymores... he really has mastered the art for the time we live in