It would also be incredibly distracting and unsettling to stab at your own reflection

7 min in and he still hasn’t gotten to the point

What is an Appleseed edge?

Perhaps a long head if stuck in a shield would render the shield useless, particularly if the shaft bent it could not be thrown back at you.

Australian Army beer rations used to be two cans per man, per day, perhaps. 🍺✌🏻

So often a giant sword emerges from a culture as soon as they have the technology? Like they unlocked 2 handed BIG sword on the branch of a tech tree and went "oh sweet a big sword"

For the German speakers, wondering how the helmet at 9:54 is called: "Kolbentunierhelm", a.k.a. "Spangenhelm"/ "Bügelhelm"

In America we use the term "liquid courage," rather than "Dutch courage."

RE assassins, As an experienced psycho naught I can tell you in mid level quantities if you can get used to the visual hallucinations you gain a much greater clarity and sensual awareness.

Wait, so you're just uncritically accepting the framing of these colonial military men? You don't, even for a moment, think this might just be racist propaganda perpetuated to rationalize killing wounded enemy soldiers?

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I polished my trigger components in my race pistol because metal on metal is much smoother with a high shine.

Good lord bills are ugly wespons

good click bait, poor product

Really surprised that you glossed over the amphetamine use by the Japanese during WWII. It was given, among others, to the Kamikaze pilots. It was also used by factory workers during the war. When the war was over there was a lot of surplus being produced and estimated 1.5 million were using until it was outlawed I believe in the early 1950s. If I remember correctly someone had a psychotic break and murdered another or something like that.

the same reasons we shouldn't make cars so shiny, maybe

Watching this while on a pharmaceutical 24hr slow release fentanyl patch. I'm in literally heaven this is the first time I've tried fentanyl glad it's pure.

In the early stages of the Ardennes Offensive, numerous GI's remarked that the Germans attacked like they were possessed. Pervatin must've been one helluva drug.

Just a question. If someone comes over from somewhere else and attempts to take a dump all over your way of life and destroy everything you have. Do you sit down when you are injured? Or do you fight until you kill every last one of them or you are dead before the day is done? Were those people really savages? If they were not the ones who went over to start the fighting in the first place? I think if you're fighting for someone else's nonsense. You sit down when you're injured. If you're fighting for your children and you're fighting for the one you lay with at night and you're fighting for your grandmother and your mother and your father. Then it's just a flesh wound until it's not.

Plus the back spike from both warhammers and poleaxes. could go right through the visor hole by brute force.

There is something to be said for being able to a) breath and b) be able to see the damned battlefield. Situational awareness is important to knights as much to modern soldier. btw, your mic was popping like a popcorn popper.

End the drug war end mass incarceration.

Were to buy an original like yours?

Answer: it's hard to see and hot

Carry both

38 special to 45 caliber “slight”increase in stopping power? Lol I love when British talk about firearms.

I always knew the black knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was coked up

Real hallucinogenic drugs would not help anyone fighting. The people who write that kind of drivel have never done drugs. Hash doesn't actually cause you to hallucinate. Some people, when they are extremely intoxicated with cannabis, may have partial auditory hallucinations, but it can be described as the vague notion that you may have heard something, like a sock fall off a counter, but that's about it.

Alcohol and drugs was a lot cheaper years ago😊

It is interesting hearing this juxtaposed to having watched some of the Chinese Dao videos. Is there anything particularly different between the wheel pommels and the dao's common ring causing such a difference in preference?

...a shield bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass, reflecting a thousand unpieced suns into the eyes of his enemies..." -Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

quick shoutout to the Italian "Compagnie della morte" or "Arditi", first special corps and were still wearing armour in WWI

It might be distracting if you can see your own reflection in the thing you're trying to hit.

Return to black powder revolvers and saber.

The noble savage ideal is alive and well.. Look no further than "No Jumper" etc

1:00 Goblin Slayer helmet begs to differ.

Adding to the last point: In the heat of battle, reflective armor also blurs out your contours. Thus your shape is harder to focus on, and movement (strikes) on your part is harder to keep track of. While in a 1:1 battle, this effect might be rather minute, but as soon as there are more moving objects on the field, this could turn out to be really confusing. And #6, food for thought: "Stealth". Yes, I actually said it: Stealth. While in normal light, this might pose a disadvantage, but being in obscured environment, the 'I reflect everything around me' might come in handy. In shrubs you're more "shrubbish", while in the dark you are darker, basically matching your environment better than with a set/fixed color. One would have to try to actually find out which scenes - if any - turn out favourable.

Some titanium armor would be cool

You first say that arrows can go through visors, and at the end say that some king taking an arrow to the face means that he had an open faced helmet, or his visor up. That doesn't seem consistent.

You would think that, post-pandemic masking rules, we wouldn't need an explanation of why people would, most of the time, prefer a helmet that didn't cover their face. One factor that I'm sure was in play was cost. A visor takes more material and more skilled labour to make and therefore costs more, even in the best of circumstances. Incidents of tourney visors being worn on battlefields especially feel like they could be a result of the knight in question lacking the funds to acquire two visors - and if they spent most of their time in tourneys rather than battles, it would make sense to own the tourney visor if you could only afford one.

My guess would have been for the same reason why cars mostly use shiny polish, its easier to repair. Sir Frederik can you believe that my ex wench keyed my armor again? Told you Hildegard is a fierce maiden! What am I gonna do? Everyone will think im a mere peasant now? Well of course you need to see John the Smith, some say hes the best at polishing out scratches which is why hes quite popular with the lads but I think its the other way round. Totally a conversation that happened like that.

Bohort or whatever you call it can be a cool sport but it's very limited as a source of research on historical combat. The reason is not only weapons they use and how they use it but also because armor is much heavier than historical armor and amount of padding is ridiculous for historical standard. I once saw that they also use stainless steel armor which easily bends upon impact. So yeah.. They can still bring smth to the table when it comes to research but one has to be very careful when approaching their conclusions. Personally I'm not their fan because through their sport, intentionally or not they popularize this image of knight as a cumbersome mastodon moving slowly in his heavy armor, not capable of any sophisticated moves

Duh

Drugs are bad mmkay

I've seen footage of some horses that were very agile at low speeds, even able to feint and juke front side to side

Awesome, need more crafting like this!!!

Your face looks eerily like the statue in the clickbait, how old are you?

My God, dude get a pop filter.

Wasn't reflecting sun rays the first thing everybody thought of?

The reflectiveness of the armor shining in opponents' eyes was the first thing I thought of as a reason to make it shiny.