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One thing I've always been curious about, is the armour of the Normans when they invaded england. On the bayeux tapestry they are all shown to wear scale armour, but that was probably just due to the fact that depicting chainmail would be really hard on that particular medium. So i assume they used chainmail, but was it just the nobles that used it? Or did the entire army use it?
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Jan 25, 2013 19:46
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What would be the best weapon (non-ranged) to give a mass of fairly untrained people? A shield and a spear? I've been also thinking about pikes, but I think that would require the regiments to be fairly well trained in maneuvering in order to be effective enough to keep the enemy from getting too close. Aside from the shield and spear combo, I have always regarded the halberd as the best weapon to mass produce for untrained levies, since it can both stab and smash while keeping the enemy at bay, aswell as drag mounted troops of their horses. It just seems like a weapon that anyone could use somewhat effectively even with only minimal training.
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Feb 14, 2013 18:50
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How feasible would caltrops be as a good area-denial weapon agaisnt cavalry? I imagine the amount steel needed to make thousands of caltrops big enough to not just get trampled into the dirt would probably be too expensive for the average nation during that period.
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Sep 30, 2013 15:36
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:It was traditional for a studying craftsman to spend 7 years as an apprentice and 7 years as a journeyman before being accepted into the craftsman's guild. Presumably knights used the same time schedule because it followed the widely accepted custom. Considering the average lifespan of a medieval person (in the dark ages) was like... 35-40, then wouldnt that mean there would be very few masters around? Unless the apprentice ship started from childhood?
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Nov 14, 2013 17:40
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Siivola posted:Yeah, people bathed. For instance, the city of Bath in Somerset was known for its hot springs enouh to eventually get named after them in the late 800s. On the other side of Europe, the Finns had invented the sauna by then. It was also mentioned early in the thread how vikings would bathe every Saturday. Fun fact, Saturday in Norwegian is called Lørdag, based of the old norse word laugardagr wich basically meant bath day.
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Nov 16, 2013 12:35
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About armour manufacturing; was there any part during the high/late middle ages with industrial scale armour making, kinda like the old Roman slave factories?
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Jan 5, 2014 16:42
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In regards to Zweihanders, I've read that they were made as a counter to the pike formations at the time. Wich makes sense, since a big sword with a long reach is perfect for chopping apart pikes. But where the Zweihanders actually effective beyond that? Did they train the zweihander wielders to act in coordination ala the pike and halberd formations? Or was the zweihander training mostly focused on invdivdual skills?
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Jan 19, 2014 19:19
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a travelling HEGEL posted:Squares don't get stuck "tightly" into each other, but you're correct about the position of the guys with the Zweihänder. Yeah this makes good sense. I've often been thinking about zweihanders and never understood why on earth somebody would take such an unwieldy thing into battle. Them being mostly ceremonial/shock troops to use in a bind makes more sense than them being actually expected to outfight pike formations.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:17
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Are there any reliable accounts regarding how the early Handgonnes were used? Were they given to specialized units, and just tried out for kicks? Or did somebody at some point try to outfit large parts of their army with handgonnes?
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Jun 8, 2014 22:34
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Was slings ever a commonplace thing in armies during ancient times? If so, whats the main reason it went out of fashion? I recon its easier to supply a mass of people with slings and rocks for ammo, but I guess it got less range and power than bows.
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