"Very many wounded were found naked among the corpses, some begging aid, some half-dead... Some still breathed after hands and feet had been amputated, intestines collapsed, brains laid bare, so unyielding of life is nature."
- Alessandro Benedetti, eyewitness; Battle of Fornovo
"I, Ludwig Klinkhammer, who was wounded with a falconet shot... in the war against Venice. Then I called our dear Lady with her dear child and the dear child of Trent who helped me to stay alive... I thank God for that."
Anno DOM. 1487
"Our gens d'armes in those days wore great cutting curtilaces, wherewith to cut arms of maille, and to cleave morions. Never in my life had I seen such great cuts."
- Blaize de Montluc
New video! There was a time in western history when the phalanx (kinda) came back. Armored calvary had guns. And gunpowder was viewed as strange magic.
Its my favorite era, and most Americans just never think about it.
@melloheya
A (more) literal translation would be:
P.
"Then you will not kill me?"
O.
"You are released."
P.
"You speak a fine [καλὸν] word!"
O.
"But I will reconsider [this]."
P.
"This, however, you do not speak finely [καλῶς]."
"The battle did not last long, for the Burgundian archers were armed with great swords, per the ordinance given to them by the Duke of Burgundy, and after the shot had passed, they delivered such great cuts with those swords..."
- Olivier de la Marche
@H_B_Eagb
@saintwalker98
@Agirisan3
the shotgun in battlefront 2 is (based on) the shotgun from republic commando, which was said to be a blaster that simply looks like a traditional gun.
iirc the mandalorians from legends just used normal bullets that would fragment into molten metal if the jedi blocked them
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So apparently (northern) Italy had a sizeable archery tradition, at least for its peasantry. Marino Sanudo makes reference to peasants as archers in 1510:
"... et messi sopra do molini alcuni balestrieri e schiopetieri, e su l'arzere arzieri villani..."
"Of us there were 18 hundred Germans. Then the Swedish peasants, 14,000 strong, fell upon us in the camp in such a manner as here... We all had backs and breasts and helmets and arm harnesses. And they had crossbows and good spears made of swords."
- Paul Dolnstein
Has to be either "Longbows were only replaced with guns because of training/armor piercing" or "Swords were rarely used and spears are the TRUE weapon of war".
Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!"
For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."
@meizi_samuhara
They do both in the trailer
I think they got reenactors who chose to do either "trail arms", "port arms", or presenting the point of the bayonet forward.
You can see all of these in footage (staged or otherwise), and photos from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.
Ngl I had no idea Paul Dolnstein served as a cavalryman (possibly a light cavalryman, though he could be a man at arms in a light harness)
It reads:
"Paulus von Dolnstain in the Bavarian War bumped into the Count Palatine’s watch outside Landshut, came away without injury."
@alanyuristar
@icalenn
How? America referring to the TWO continents is as useful as someone saying "I'm Eurasian". Context solves all other situations (unless you are simply holding this belief in bad faith).
May the Fourth be with you!
Haven't drawn a clone trooper in 6 or so years, but this one turned out well I think. Gonna draw some more Star Wars soon (sorry!).
"There Lord Hugh of Scots was wounded with three spear−wounds in his face... and Lord Frederick of Loupey was wounded with a spear between his shoulders... Lord Erard of Syverey got such a sword−cut across his face that his nose hung down onto his lip."
- Jean de Joinville
"And the masses together collided, committing to a bloody war. The crashing of lances, the ringing of swords, the sudden clamor of strikes, the cries of the dying, the lamentations of the wounded, heard within the very clash, appearing to disturb the air."
- Johannis de Trokelowe
"... everyone together shouting and throwing in their yari, [they] clashed [with the enemy] from side to side and front to back [十文字], pursuing in a spiral [巴の字], [both sides] mutually hewing and striking down [one another]."
- From the "異本小田原記"
Why do people act like the purpose of the two handed sword in war is such a great mystery?
I hate this unneeded nuance with the whole "well we don't actually know how they were used on the battlefield" that I see spread all the time
If there's a single English victory that's deserving of "divine intervention", it has to be Flodden. The English were fewer in number, subpar artillery (drawn by oxen too), worse choice of ground, less modern army, low on food (one said they were fasting), etc. etc.
the biggest crime of an overview of pike and shot is not mentioning the 30 year time period where crossbows and longbows were being used alongside harquebuses and pikes in massive numbers in actual armies (and not just militias)
"The light horse, as per the custom of the Britons, carries a great bow of wood, and large arrows, and do not use anything, except for the cuirass and the 'celata'."
- Paolo Giovio, on the French mounted archers during the 1494 war.
Pages and valets were, however important, nothing without the knight, the knight without his crew was still a knight (however impeded by his lack thereof). There's nothing to understand beyond "they had servants to aid them", which basically everyone understands.
I feel like a lot of "acktually Medieval knights in heavt plate armor are nimble and these video games or books suck at depicting it" don't understand that Medieval Knight isn't a single warrior, but a whole entire weapon system with multiple squires and pages, even extra serfs
It's crazy reading so many authors saying that harquebusiers must be trained well (Kellie, Barret, Barwick, du Bellay, &c) else they'll do more harm than good. Which is wholly contradictory to the modern consensus.
Over the years I’ve seen this fight be debated passionately.
Lets settle it.
Both of them at their peak. Longsword vs Katana. One versus One.
European Knight vs Japanese Samurai.
I know my answer.
Go!
"... crossbowmen have more virtue than archers - half may shoot whilst the other helps... the crossbowmen stand firm... it has been proven that archers cannot withstand a great charge and suffer such harm that they cannot possibly match the crossbowman’s courage."
Armor disappeared for the same reasons swords left the foot, coming to hand strokes was no longer common and it was needless weight. Plate armor was worn was worn in spite of the danger from guns, not because they could resist them (and most couldnt at any reasonable distance).
Plate be-Gone?
As mentioned in my early post, someone made a ‘slander’ saying that gunpowder weapon made medieval plate armour useless in the field of battle.
That’s a very over-simplified statement… which I don’t agree 😓 (see below)
this was what the avg gentleman looked like in the early 17th c. btw. effeminate men riding their tiny hackneys and nags shooting their puny carbines and pistols at one another.
Mechanical accuracy of a reproduction of the Otepää handgun at 20 meters. Barrel length of 102 mm (~4 inches), sighted in with a laser, and using period recipes for the powder. Look at that drop!