8 Badass Weapons From History 

"The grim reaper's favored weapon." That's not a weapon, he's carrying a farming scythe. It symbolizes "harvesting the soul." Hence; reaper.

"Ranged hand to hand combat." The definition of a contradiction.

Clickbait thumbnail, inaccuracies and even mispronounciations of weapons

i almost expected him to say " The blunderbuss was actually a farmers tool used to water crops"

who else got exited at the thumbnail but then realized not a single of of those weapons where on here

scythe. S*EYE*the. not sith. not star-wars man.

Every time he said "war sith" I felt my brain cells dying.

I'm gonna guess whoever was reading this was just given a script without knowing what he was talking about.

"violent farmers" The invention of these weapons had nothing to do with how "violent" the farmers were. It had to do with how much they didn't want to get murdered when they were victims of a raid, and couldn't afford (or weren't allowed to have) professional grade weapons.

Just adding some corrective facts about some parts of the video and ignoring the horror that is the pronunciation. 1. Morning stars were spiked, true enough. What isn't true is that the difference between a mace and a morning star is that maces use metal studs. Lots of maces had metal flanges and bits that protruded out, somewhere in between the spikes of a morning star and the blunt studs of some maces. The theory was that having these small flanges protrude from it would decrease the surface area, and make it easier to bite into enemy armour, transferring more blunt force into them. 2. War scythes couldn't cut through metal helmets. Nothing really can, unless it's a really shoddy helmet to begin with. That's why late medieval weaponry used lots of stabbing and blunt force implements, to stab in between the gaps in armour and the weak points, and blunt force just bypasses armour all together. That's one of the main appeals of the halberd, it can stab and also transfer a tremendous amount of force into a person, some even had a hammer side to do so. 3. At 4:52 those are Chinese weapons, none of those relate to the bardiche at all. I see a Shaolin Spade wielded by Shaolin monks in the centre, a spear to the right of that, a Ji to the right of the spear, which is essentially a Chinese halberd, and to the very right is a Guan Dao, which as far as my knowledge goes was more of a folklore weapon wielded by War Legend Guan Yu than an actual battle implement. And at 5:12 those are all examples of late medieval halberds, not bardiches. Bardiches were used primarily in the Slavic countries of the time, Eastern Europe. Halberds were more prevalent in the Western side of Europe. 4. Mauls weren't just mindlessly swung by raging barbarians, that's how you get killed. There are manuals and techniques to using mauls and large two handed war hammers. You parry with the head of the hammer, block with the shaft, and do quick thrusts exposed areas to minimize risk. You can strike with the butt end of the shaft and quickly pivot to do a sharp blow to the upper body, or counter after a block with the shaft by torquing the entire hammer clockwise or counter-clockwise toward the enemy, striking with the head. Just because it's heavy doesn't mean you can just swing it wildly. 5. A flintlock pistol is not a smaller one handed version of a blunderbuss. It's more akin to an arquebus or a musket. As stated, a blunderbuss is like the historical version of a shotgun, a flintlock pistol is a pistol, it fired a single lead ball at high velocities, the blunderbuss fired many pieces of whatever you stuffed inside.

"We'll only mention melee weapons" *Talks about the blunderbuss*

This guy isn't aware the grim reaper is a farming metaphor?

I was expecting a bad ass stealth gauntlet or claws. damn

Umm what happened to claw looking glove on the thumbnail

2:05 who has EVER confused a chakram with a glaive? WHO!? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE MAKING THIS CONFUSION!?

War Siths!! When a regular Sith simply will not do.

The wide opening of the blunderbuss is not designed for spreading the shrapnels but for easy reloading on unstable ground like sitting on a coach box, shaken around while trying to escape bandits with high speed. Or standing on the planks of a ship during a battle.

8. The morning star was never a "primary method of attack". And used to hit head or knees, that's pretty hard to hit, how about an arm to break it? 7. The hunga munga is not one most deadly melee weapons in history. 6. In the hands of the sikh those were actually really effective, I'll give you that. 5. Lots of people have said how ridiculous this is, it is not even a good weapon. 2. The maul is not that good, it's slow and if you miss you're dead. They're funny these weapons, but if you discount the blunderbuss I'd happily pit a spear man against a wielder of any of them. That's why spears were arguably the most used weapon on the battlefield.

War Siths were actually very dangerous. A deadly combination of dark force powers and lightsaber savagery. Anyone else thinks the old republic needs a remake?

The morning star is not a different weapon entirely to the mace, it is a variation of a mace and a mace did not originate in medieval time but a long long time earlier

Oh my god.... "War Sith" Congratulations America

H U N G A H M U N G A H

Well, here's one channel I'll never subscribe to lol.

The way he says scythe triggers me Edit NUNCHUNKU EXCUSE ME

hunga munga

PLEASE oh' PLEASE learn to pronounce the names of these weapons!

Is it weird that i knew about almost ALL of them 🤣 I love weapons, especially the historically brutal ones

a friend of mine was using a 6 lb. sledge hammer and a wedge because his ax broke, he was working almost right under a clothes line in his back yard and he did end up swinging the hammer and catching the line it pushed down then snapped back up and he crushed his face with it. after quite a few surgeries and 6 months down the road he almost looked like he used to still all black and blue and swelled up like he was sting by a thousand bees. and we call the old times the good old days?

Dude can't even pronounce scythe

yea... we're gunna need u to go ahead and make a part two.... thanks...

Imagine a 16th century knight saying “Woah, thine teammate just got taken out by the Hunga Munga”

I'm just here to see what weapons would be why good in a zombie apocalypse

My dad has a "hungamunga" in his garage.

When you cannot properly pronounce words like scythe it really makes your credibility seem questionable.

Chakram - "chaw - kram" Scythe - "s - Eye -th" Nunchaku - "nun- chah - koo" Bardiche - "bar - deesh" Mauls weren't designed to be weapons, they were just sledge hammers. Troops would bring them about to hammer in posts for defenses and on occasion use them as last ditch weapons in ambush situations. The flaring of a blunderbuss barrel is designed specifically to spread the shot as muskets didn't have any reliable accuracy. Because of this, these were far superior anti-siege and boarding weapons compared to the common musket as they were designed specifically to be used in closed spaces. "Shrapnel wounds" are usually enough to get the troops who weren't turned to stew in the blast, to retreat. Would you keep fighting if you were suddenly blind, deaf, and missing most of your face? Also, only the first couple images of the bardiche are accurate and most of the morning stars depicted were simply just maces. Not a morning star without the round head, and the only advantage a morning star has over a common mace is the added weight (and "advantage" is relative in that context.)

Blunderbuss were muzzle loading guns designed for use on ships, where the bell shaped muzzle aided loading when the vessel was rocking. They were designed to take a heavy charge of shot. loading them with anything else would have damaged the barrel. The belling of the muzzle had no effect on shot pattern.

2:20 Xena warrior princess

A) it's "scythe" not "schithe". B) I find it really hard to believe that somebody could throw one of those "tchjshakras" (ugh) 100 meters at all, nevervind militaristic or combative applications. I'm pretty sure that this video is 99% bullshit.

Morning Star? Smoke Bombs? Travelers Crescent? Rope Dart? We are missing the essentials here.

The phrase "That's some violent farmers out there" got me good 😂😂😋

I really hate how he pronounces "Scythe"

i came for claws, i got no claws

War sith Yea thats DEFINETLY how scythes are called

Long range hand-to-hand combat... huh, something doesn't seem to add up here.

Scythe has a hard I in it, its not pronounced Sith!

War Sythes were never used like that... I study medival Weapons and Fighting styles. This Weapon was used to Cut into the Knees, Arm pitts, Hipps and gabs on the troat. Most useful against unarmored enemys. But if you had an fully amored night this Weapon is near useless if you are not quick as Hell to find the Tiny holes under the arms or in the legs. But even when you find it you need a stong cut, because in the Late periods of the medival warstategies there was a layer of cloth (gambeson,) and a Mail armor to cut through and this is not easy or not possible if the Mail is strong enough and rivited. Oh and almost no bladed Weapon can cut through armor, helmets had more that 2 mm of steel in thickness.Where who be the point to wear armor and a mail, and a gambeson under it. I have an armor at home and when you have all the layers over you not the weight is the worst. The high Temperature is. A two handed beadet axe or a Hellebard Axe can can cut though a helmet but then You stuck into the armor and dont have time to pull out your Weapon, so you are very dead. And hammers and maces of all sorts are Good against armour because the blow is so hard that it break Bones underneath the armor or cause inner Bleedings. And to the War sythe again: I fought with this thing and i can say you never stab with it because it breaks really soon on armor. And there is no point to stab with it because its unpractikal.

You commonly mispronounce words on many of your videos.... Tons of your comments point it out so you have no reason to not do more research (which would only take an extra 20-30 minutes to lend more credibility to the videos.). Please consider this bc I feel you would have more repeat viewers. On a positive note, I do enjoy the videos and I appreciate the planning it would take to make them, but with pronunciation fixes and less clickbait tactics (bc i would still watch without the clickbait and it would completely do away with my disappointment due to not seeing that weird glove weapon on this particular video) I believe it could be top class. Thanks for sharing these interesting videos and I look forward to you taking it to the next level. Keep up the good work (mostly)!!!!

speaking as a martial artist, the nunchucks, or nunchaku were never used in battle or war. they were primarily for fighting one on one or one against many opponents. I must also point out that they weren't actually weapons, the fast flailing movements were often used to distract opponents.

Ok just to correct something on the war scythe. No a war scythe could not cut through a metal helmet. No blade can. If it was that easy to cut through armor why wear it at all? You can't just usual cut through steel like that. Especially if it's a heat treated piece of armor. In fact bladed weapons are the least effective, when cutting at least, against armor. That's why many medieval arms like the ,war scythe halberd and bill, often had hooks and such in order to try to grapple onto armor. Sword techniques such as half sword ,which tried to get into the gaps of armor, were used becasue you can't cut through plate. Even with a really sharp longsword. Just thought I would point that out, because there's a big misconception as to how effective armor then was. Even a war bow had a hard time making it through most armor of the period. That said the war scythe is still and awesome weapon.

I could be mistaken but the weapons shown at 5:15 are halberds(spelling?)

mom's shoe should be nb 9.

Scythes play a large roll in Greek mythology it is the symbol of Kronos/Cronus. Lord of time, father of the olympians, and slayer of Orunus

So a long, light "aerodynamic" scythe is supposed to cut through a steel helmet? No. Disregarding the fact that "war scythes" were mainly a sporting weapon (like a modern fencing foil), they could not slice through a steel helmet. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, the tip could be used to church-key a hole in a helmet with a particularly hard swing. But to say that they could magically shear through steel helmets willy nilly is as ridiculous as saying that you could fell an old oak tree with an axe made from balsa wood.

Dude you said Scythe wrong. Its so bad it drives me crazy. You never heard the word before?

I like Scythes, I even made a blueprint for making a double scythe that can also turn into a bow

Very informative I just subscribed

war sith nuncha ku

The music fit so well😭by the way what's it called?

Wow! I know a lot of kids are fascinated by weapons of this sort. I'm almost 50 and still fascinated! It's alright to post vids like this, and we all enjoy them, but please refrain from giving specs about things you know nothing about. It will only lead to ridicule and plenty of comments like all those above. A blunderbuss, by the way, was and is an extremely accurate weapon that holds a very tight pattern, very much like a current 12 gauge with a full choke. The reason for the bell at the end of the muzzle was for speed and ease of loading. It did not affect the spread of the chosen shot upon discharge.

The flared barrel of the blunderbuss was meant for faster and easier reloading and had little affect on the pattern of the shot.

What the hell is a war sith?

We're is moms sandal ?

Who needs minesweeper when u have minesweeper in a stick

2:56 but it’s the grim REAPER, as in the gardener/harvester of souls, so it might as well be.

Uses pictures of halberds and hastas, calls it something completely opposite. How to trust any of it..

Im Part Russian and I Knew Nothing About The Battle Axe Thing xD

A name like Elite Facts .. and a video like this .. something's not right ..

Wow at number 3 i tried to draw an axe in like 3rd grade but it looked that thing!😂

let me call in my friend, he's an expert. .

Its pronounced like nun-chuck, not nun-cha-koo 😂😂😂

There is no way you have got this far in life without hearing the word Scythe pronounced properly.

I'm pretty sure the Nunchaku being farming tools originally was disproven

thumbnail was a lie.

didn't Zena use #6?

Sometimes everyday tool can be the most savage of weapons.

"Hunga Munga." I'm dead 😂

These guys know nothing. Channel blocked.

nun-chuk-oo 😂

2:00 Shit gets real when you have medieval TRON discs

a morning star is the ball with spikes specifically. not a seperate weapon from a mace, but a style of mace.

Love how you called them nunchakus instead of nunchucks

The morning star was by no metric the primary method of attack for Medieval infantry and horsemen. The hunga munga is not by any measure one of the most deadly melee weapons in history. 100m was not a frightening range for by the 2nd century BC. Your pronunciation is awful. Aerodynamics does not play a significant role in the effectiveness of a polearm weapon. War scythes (farming equipment often converted in secret under pain of death) were in no way regularly more "durable and resilient" than their professionally-crafted contemporaries as you suggest. War scythes would not regularly have been capable of cutting through metal helmets. Almost no bladed weapons are. Warhammers were rarely two-handed, and almost never as heavy as a modern sledgehammer. There is absolutely strategy and technique to fighting with a warhammer. For one thing, they're rarely 'swing-and-it's-over' weapons as you imply; since they were primarily used against heavily armoured opponents, using a warhammer generally meant you were prepared to close and grapple with your opponent. With the exception of the firearms, none of these weapons drastically changed the face of warfare and combat like bows, mail, rapiers, etc did.

Soldier: captain we are completely out of ammo Captain: just use the pebbles on the ground Soldier: yes sir

The narrator most likely just got a script and quickly started recording.

Im Also French And The Maul Does Not Look Friendly Ar Sound Friendly Aand Damn France Is Violent xD

So the dark side trained all the siths in use of this weapon then ?

"Nunchuku" - Him "Nunchucks" - Me

i think to myself "how awesome it would be to live in these times" and then i remember, there is so respawn.

Actually, a throwing star wasn't a very effective cause they weren't very accurate and they didn't do to much damage. Instead, sharpened chopsticks, hairpins and war fans were much more effective.

You guys need fact checkers, speech coaching, and someone who knows what they are doing when they gather up images. The time you spent talking about the Bardiche, which your butchered the name of I might add, you chose to show a slew of pole arms from China and western Europe. Do more than five minutes of research when you talk about things. This is just embarrassing.

the blunderbuss wasn't the world's first shotgun, it was the world's first smoke grenade.

Scythe how to pronounce it Normal people:Scythe (S-EYE-TH) Him (an intellectual): Scythe ( *SITH* )

We really shouldn't let Americans talk about history

....Greek fire?.....

blunderbuss... one of my favorite shrapnel launcher

Regarding farmers' tools becoming weapons, farmers being "violent" could explain it. But I suspect it was something more; especially in Japan. Peasants were often outright banned from having swords and other weapons. Necessity was often a reason to convert farmer's tools to create weapons and techniques to use in self defense. (The sai, the nunchaku, and the kama; even Karate come to mind for this).

Nice visuals of ancient weaponry

a maul is two inclined planes put together to split something, most likely wood. It splits something by applying force two separate ways and meeting in the middle to split it. A maul can be any two inclined planes, that was most likely called a battle maul, originating from the more modern Romans, used to conquer Italy along with other weapons.

look at all these deadly weapons... now imagine all of them being electrified

1,2 Crush your enemies leg... 3,4 The other leg crushed! 5,6 Crush your foes arm 7,8 No more fighting... 9,10 Goodbye.