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BWA! Brittons with attitude.

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Well played.

🤣 u stupid

And too often life is like a Monty Python sketch!

Holy crap, I just thought this while watching the video.

Give me all your lupins!

"Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

Dennis moore riding though the night,,,,, 😁

Lol!

@@ModernKnight I am absolutely stoked by the fact that I came across your channel. I have always loved things medieval and English and your channel has provided me with information that i would not have even considered. Wonderful content and great delivery. Thank you

"There should be an *OBE* in there somewhere!" (Anybody got that? Anyone with me? No? :/ )

@@ModernKnight Being a student of history at the university of hannover i love your content, its well researched and i like your collabs with experts on many topics to make sure you deliver valid information on what you are covering, keep up the great work!

@@ModernKnight there is a Method to Glue the Bolt on With Bow String Wax .

Bolt misses, Lifts cross bow "O you in trouble now fam!" Holds bow gangster style "Say goodbye you Protestant cu....(Bolt falls out)......hum.....It seams we are at an impasse lad!"

@In Hoc Signo Diliget I found it funny...

@In Hoc Signo Diliget Uggh. Yet another super serious stiff that reees 'cringe' at anyone else having any fun anywhere

@In Hoc Signo Diliget its acttualy kek

Lmao

It's almost harvesting season

Less talking! More raiding!

Um gunna break yer legs, noice and slow!

That's a nice head you have on your shoulders.

I vill drink from jor skall!

Excellent point. I've read, (somewhere, sometime), that quite a few "Old West" cattle rustlers were eventually caught because of the abandoned slower cattle they left on their trail (although, I've always thought the hoof prints of the herd they'd taken, would've been a bigger give-away!). Maybe the brands gave more evidence to convict them when finally caught? And who knows, the writer may've just been full of BS!!!

@@keeristdiablo540 the environment around the cattle trails is dry, sandy or rocky, and very windy. I'm not sure how hard exactly it would be to track hundreds of stolen cattle by their hoofprints, but under those conditions it's probably harder than it sounds

@@ProjectThunderclaw Just follow the poop :D

@@ProjectThunderclaw You've not been to Northen England/southern Scotland have you? Mud upon mud,upon mud, upon mud....

ProjectThunderclaw You could probably just follow the trail of cowpats tbh

Prose and Tea Surely there were places where you could stop by and pick up something cheap to eat, and there were definitely taverns where you could go out for a meal.

In very high traffic areas, 100% there were "drive thrus" where you could just pull your horse up to the vendor and buy a pie etc

"Nor should I forget to mention that there is in London, on the river bank amidst the ships, the wine for sale, and the storerooms for wine, a public cookshop. On a daily basis there, depending on the season, can be found fried or boiled foods and dishes, fish large and small, meat - lower quality for the poor, finer cuts for the wealthy - game and fowl (large and small). If friends arrive unexpectedly at the home of some citizen and they, tired and hungry after their journey, prefer not to wait until food may be got in and cooked, or "till servants bring water for hands and bread", they can in the meantime pay a quick visit to the riverside, where anything they might desire is immediately available. No matter how great the number of soldiers or travellers coming in or going out of the city, at whatever hour of day or night, so that those arriving do not have to go without a meal for too long or those departing leave on empty stomachs, they can choose to detour there and take whatever refreshment each needs. Those with a fancy for delicacies can obtain for themselves the meat of goose, guinea-hen or woodcock - finding what they're after is no great chore, since all the delicacies are set out in front of them. This is an exemplar of a public cookshop that provides a service to a city and is an asset to city life. Hence, as we read in Plato's Gorgias, cookery is a flattery and imitation of medicine, the fourth of the arts of civic life." -- William Fitz Stephen, ca 1174-1183 users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/introduction/intro01.html

"Over it all the practiced cries of the street vendors ring out as they walk around with trays of food, calling out 'hot peascods' or 'Rushes fair and green,' 'Hot sheep's feet' or 'Ribs of beef and many a pie.'" The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer p. 10 This isn't a primary source, but it references an early 15th century poem "London Lickpenny," and the end of the Prologue of Piers Plowman (Cookes and heore knaves cryen "Hote pies, hote! "Goode gees and grys! Go we dyne, go we!")

Prose and Tea Same 😂

Good point

Not to mention horses. Though if you're a professional raider, you probably could make your horse get used to it.

No they dont , Where did you get that idea?

Also muzzle flash can alert others too.

@@peteralund They can. It's not a guarantee but some cattle are definitely more skittish than others. Add the flash to the loud report and you've certainly got better odds of causing a stampede than a crossbow does.

Thanks Tod, wonderfully made by you. Next I have to shoot it at speed!

Don’t discount the it is nice and quiet factor Tod's Workshop. Or the reusability of the ammunition.

I have read that Arthur Wellesley wanted to recruit longbow men for use during the peninsular war but not enough skilled users could be found as it had fallen out of popular use. The longbow had better range, speed and accuracy then the smoothbore musket but took years to build the strength and skill needed to use it correctly. Obviously you could teach a man to fire a musket proficiently in a short time. Always thought that was an interesting notion even if it wasn't true.

No Pikers, I read something similar.

@@christopherjackson3455 longbow was effective to 300yards or even beyond in the hands of a trained user and accurate enough to put through the eye slit of a knight wearing a full face helm. Equal number musket men vs equal number longbow men, the longbow men win. Twice the range and easily twice the rate of fire. In practical combat the advantage of fixing bayonet to your firearm and forming square to repel cavalry is a massive tactical advantage, effectively 2 types of troop in one. A big reason musketry in its infancy over took archery is logistics, when you lose a man you can replace a musketman much faster as it took years of training to build the strength and skill required to properly use a longbow. A good read is Bernard Cornwells Azincourt.

If you binge-watch videos with horses in them, that particular horse is listed in the credits 😄.

Well, to be fair, the horse certainly played a prominent supporting role LOL

Don't mess with the Horse Teamsters

Bassem B. There were fast-food shops in Pompeii, so why not in medieval England?

@@ragnkja Fastfood industry was huge in medieval times, good percentage of houses in big towns didn't have dedicated cooking place which suggests that people eat in taverns and such every day. Or at least used to buy bakery on their way to work.

@@steirqwe7956 Ye Olde MacDonalds even?

in modern day times it's not rare to find small market stalls set up on highways going to popular routes selling certain fruits and drinks and such, so I'd imagine something of the sort would've been around for quite a while along the popular highways of old, catering to the wealthy merchant sort they'd have probably made a fair bit of money.

Genuinely me too >.

yeah sounds like if drive by is your thing bow and arrows might be the better way to go.

Exaclty! LOL They'd drive by till they provoked the rival gang then the heavy homeboys would rush in and finish the job. LOL

Reality Vanguard There we go. Somebody knows what’s up. Fire/shoot before guns doesn’t seem as plausible as loose.

This needs to be top comment lmao

@@indianasquatchunters Shoot comes from Old English sceotan, of which one of the meanings was to hurl missiles, among other things. From far before guns. Fire though, would be incorrect in the context of bows indeed. One would say loose.

When you ride through da hood and some peasant makes you loose it.

@@indianasquatchunters Well this particular weapon came after "guns", its the first thing he said in the video.

He's carrying the host

And it needs to be kept lit in the wind and rain possibly for hours on end, unlike a crossbow that could be readied in seconds.

Scotch mist. Sound like a cool name for a alcoholic drink.

KamenKami Until you learn the etymology of “mist”. It used to mean “steam from dung”, but English forgot the “dung” part, whereas German forgot the “steam” part.

"Scotch mist? What's scotch mist..?" Not often there’s potential for a Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace reference

@@urbanpkrider31 "If an Englishman meets a Scotsman or vice versa; 50/50 they are going to get along, and that's a very encouraging statistic"

Ride-by.

Trot-shot

Well the Hussite War Wagon was basically a bunch of guys with early firearms thrown into a wagon that used hit and run tactics. So yeah?

According to the Czechs during the Hussite Wars, YES! They used crossbows, early firearms and modified pikes all on the back of a wagon. Why? Because Knights couldn't counter it.

Czech here passing by: the wagons were stationary during battles, so not really drive-by :-(

Just playing a lute singing nwa fuck the police

Should be "dost thou", or alternatively "we do" ;)

Steinhauer “Thou” is informal and familiar, so probably not how you would address someone you had a quarrel with.

Doesn’t thou bite thy thumb at us ? Insult in Shakespearean Verona 🤪

LizzieDripping Both Abraham and Sampson address each other as “you” in that scene, while Sampson and Gregory (who both work for the Capulets) address each other informally earlier in the scene.

Unfortunately that lack of exact knowledge affects a lot of medieval weapons. Other prime examples being the zwiehander and the swordbreaker. A "verbal threat" weapon sounds likely for this smaller crossbow, though

My reasoning was that for actual skirmishing under raiding conditions (cover of darkness, fog) a short, light-draw bow or even darts/javelins would serve better. Under these conditions, what advantage does a short range crossbow, a more complex and expensive weapon, actually have? The only answer I find is that a crossbow can project its missile instantly, with only the movement of a finger - and that anyone you point a crossbow at is going to know that. It follows that the idea was not to skirmish, but to execute a hold-up.

Spanish also mixed pikemen with arquebusers

Crossbowmen can shoot over the Pikemen and Musketeers to hit the enemy The long-paced nature of sieges and battles still made crossbows viable Crossbows are much easier to reload than a musket-pistol

early firearms certainly needed the help from other types of troops. it was only once the flintlock came along and became widespread, which dramatically improved reliability and usability over simple match and doglocks and decreased the cost and complexity over wheellocks that firearms finally made most other weapons obsolete.

Huh! As a half-brazilian I find this interesting.

Weather will fuck with the gunpowder. Specifically if you are in a jungle you would probably have a bunch of misfires with any firearm

Fr. You can see the effort for every video

Just today I watched his video about this exact crossbow! Had to do a double-take.

Thanks

No need to stop.

I laughed too hard at 50 shillings

Farmer dre would be more apt I think.

A clan of barbarians known by the moniker of "Quest"

@@Jawn15 Barber Dre obviously.

I feel sorry for you

Check out Todd, of Todd's Stuff, and more recently Todd's Workshop and Todd's Cutler(y), here on youtube, if Jason Kingsley is a modern knight, then Todd is a modern dwarf, toiling away on works of absolute art. The practical history buffs of youtube almost all owe so much to Todd.

@Siôn Roberts I mean they're not stealthy but compared to a firearm a crossbow is no where near the level of noise.

Siôn Roberts : Less a question of stealthiness and more a question of how far a sound carries. A gunshot report tends to carry much farther than a man’s screams.

Siôn Roberts might want to handle the reins with one hand and traditional bow makes that pretty much impossible, also a bow may be harder to hide than the crossbow?

villain, I have done thy mother

@@Yora21 Nay, thou

Hurling insults lol

Well, unless this is a euphemism, dry firing is a thing you do once and never again; not only does it destroy your equipment it also does a number on your body.

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have you been watching "The Curse of Silverthorne" on Shad's Game Knights channel?

Ty Lockton Ride-by shooting.

About what? Horse archery was never much of a thing in Europe beyond Byzantium and certainly not in Britain because they generally lacked composite bows. And it wasn't they didn't know how to make them, it's they couldn't because the rainy environment wouldn't let the necessary glue set strong enough for its use in bows, along with other reasons. So they were left with self bows, which are cumbersome to use on horse, and crossbows. The Mongol armies would have had a difficult time lasting long in Western Europe, just as the Moorish armies did in the 8th and 9th Centuries once they moved out of the arid regions of the Mediterranean. When the Mughals conquered India they had a really weird set of rules and almost like religious practices for storing their composite recurve bows to keep them from the humidity.

@@gf4670 r/woosh

@@gf4670 Fascinating, but r/woosh.

@David Price When they weren't shifting loyalties as usual.Typically tribal~ scared fringes of Europe for a hundred years.

@@damienomen68 This makes me think you don't know much of the history of the Mongols, really. The Mongols were just about to crush Europe when they were called back to vote on a new ruler when the previous one died. Europe got lucky and thought the Mongols were afraid of them, when really the Mongols were able to wipe out most of the resistance they met with just a glorified scouting party.

Thanks for your support, I try to reply when I have time, and also try to correct people's errors, I should probably ignore them really.

Glad you like it, and thanks for your support.

I miss my DnD group...in-person meetups not a great idea at my age, and we tried a Zoom one-off, and it wasn’t the same. By summer my 20-sided will roll again!

Thanks. We try, and it's fun to make these.

It's still amazing looking fish every time!

Lol this is so relatable

I've been making potage on a regular basis ever since seeing that video.

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 so it is as tasty as it looks then?

@@frankrebind4483 Definitely worth doing, I've been using dried marrowfat peas, soaked overnight. Chop an onion and fry it off with a little oil then add stock and the peas plus any other herbs and seasoning you fancy before bringing it up to a low simmer for an hour or so. I've also been throwing in the left overs from the fridge, spuds, bacon, that sort of thing. Bit of bread and butter on the side and you're good to go :-)

I've tried to credit my horses first!

Thanks for supporting us from early on, it's appreciated. Been busy with work related stuff.

Thanks, and thanks for the support

when i dismount from my horse, he turns back as if to say, where did you come from?, what were you doing? and looks really surprised. so i can relate. they pull some funny experessions

Thanks, we really enjoy making these, even the ones in the snow or heat.

My horses come first.

Well, it'd be a "ride-by," but it's the same thing really.

@@NateB Just semantics, really.

Thanks and welcome

Thanks, appreciate the support.

Thanks.

Thanks for your support.

@@ModernKnight You're welcome! We also do quite a lot of sword tests, if you have the time feel free to check out our channel as well.

I will look now, thanks. Presumably I search for Aliengoboom?

Interesting targets! I wonder what a sharp lance could do, or a sword from horseback?

@@ModernKnight We can defenitely talk about a collaboration 🗡️👽 send me a email if you want. aliengoboom@gmail.com