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...And the 12-year-olds catch a pun!

As soon as I heard Matt said that, I immediately paused the video and went to the comments. I am not disappointed 🤣🤣.

Are we still doing "context"

It is always a good Idea to not hurt yourself when sliding your hand up and down your shaft

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@@Drachinifel LOL

Ser Thunder-Child himself

Say his name and he appears! 🤣(i belive in Drach-inifel clap clap)

@@Drachinifel The Knight Sinister.

He's highly experienced, never hurts himself.

Gotta have a free range of motion on the shaft 😂😂😂

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Same, especially in reverse, where you still had essentially a buttcap spear, but held three separate tools in your support hand that could come into play at any time depending on threat or opportunity to strike. Options are good.

Amen to the importance of training !

Warms my heart to see a fellow SCAdian in the comments.

The pointy part, or the axe blade? He's said previously that the axe blade of a poleaxe is typically rather dull since it isn't meant to be much of a cutter.

@@unocoltrane2804It is an uninspiring-looking chopper but it must have been effective or would have been replaced/removed over time.

​@@Kindrin, the axe part is meant to be more of a basher. It won't really damage plate armor very much, but a donk on a steel helmet might knock you out. Someone wearing mail or leather armor will feel nearly the full blunt force from it.

@@unocoltrane2804 While Matt does bring up good points to support pollaxes being intentionally dull, I am not entirely convinced they were not sharpened for battle. If I was a man-at-arms back in the medieval ages I would prefer my pollaxe's axe blade to be sharp. Having a sharp axe blade would be very beneficial because not everyone were fully armored, and being able to chop into the unarmored parts (like arms or legs) would be fight ending compared to trying to bash the opponent with a blunt object. Bashing would for the most part be painful but not fight ending, which chopping would be. Furthermore if you needed to bash someone you have the hammer available.

​@@HX711, good point. Battlefield, make it sharp. Duel, don't bother so much with it if it'll just get dull anyway.

It's like the longsword of polearms.

One of your ancestors thought he was safe sitting on a horse lol

Blatantly 🇫🇷 French 🥖

Your brain is trying to decide if its worse to get billed or get billd

As a question, did you miss the short spikes on the sides for anything?

Quite a few people at Tewkesbury use pollaxes that are about 5 feet long, which is of course also shown in period art quite often. Personally I like about head height total length.

​@@scholagladiatoriahey man you know that Japanese man call let's ask sensei got his other name but he did a video about the weapon you using now in this video can you please react to it please and thank you bye bye

Paid or free? He was specific this was a free one.

Zalgiris was a multinational affair so the possibility of an event commemorating it drawing a large number of people makes sense

Pretty sure he has years of practice keeping a strait face.

I am not sure about England/Scotland specifically but mail armour definitely was used around Europe in the XV and XVI century and beyond.

Yes mail was still widespread and sometimes worn as a standalone defence.

Ty for the responses :)

Yes it was despite the fact that it was usually more expensive than most plate pieces. Mail sleeves in particular were very popular way towards the end of 16th century, probably because of all in all, better mobility of your arms. Some people wore various voiders, sleeves, and skirts to cover the gaps in plate armor, while some still wore full mail shirts underneath the plate, for some reasons. Some people still opted to wear mail as main protection, for various reasons, often unclear to us. Orso Orsini in " Del governo et excercitio de la militia" (from around 1470) recommends mail for "saccomanni" that were some kind of light cavalry, as far as I understand. He argues that it protects against multitude of weapons (including guns, curiosuly), while providing better coverage than "corrazinas", which are kind of brigandines or coats of plates. Polish/Lithuanian hussars used mail shirts routinely in 16th century, it was their to go equipment together with lances, shields and helmets. There are some rare illustrations showing front row pikemen and other melee infantry in mail. Spandiards used mail heavily in their exploration of New World. Generally, it was still heavily used and valued without doubt, probably in situations when convenience, ability to armour yourself without help, and endurance was more valued. Several military writers of 16th century seems to strongly recommend plate armour for those in front ranks, doing heavy fighting though.

@lscibor so it sounds like it's more than just "can't afford plate." There were trade-offs that benefitted mail for some applications. Interesting. Thank you.

Swords are sidearms for wearing. If they were shaped like a bill, you would not be able to wear them in a scabbard or in any other way safely. Yes weapons were sometimes painted and/or coated/blued/blacked etc.

On top of them being awkward to carry securely, billhooks are already not light tools - mine's 850g and not an unusual pattern - so you wouldn't want to swing or carry one that was sword-sized, I expect.

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Pikes would be more effective at warding off cavalry, making a rock-paper-scissors triangle between pike-shot-cavalry. Or that's my guess, anyway.

You'd draw your sword, draw your dagger, try to grab the other guy or his weapon, etc... You'd try to stay alive.

If the shaft breaks, you end up with a shorter axe in one hand and a stick with a butt spike in the other. That should do until you get a chance to pull a side arm.