Dacian falx Vs Roman armor & shield equivalents! 

Agreed

But. Dacian not have Shield. Because use all 2 hand for have more power!

Next time, try with 2 handed blade falx! Damm it! Nasty blade! Maine, from here derive the legend about Lady Death that comes for you... with the " nasty blade"!

Arnold Wilson the dacians were absolute top dogs, dominating without exception all the germanic, celtic, and iranian/steppe cultures they came in contact with. it took rome at the height of its power to put them down and even rome had some serious setbacks

@@craezee247 Not really

Lol

Dacian religion was monotheistic because Zamolxis was only a demi-god. There were many other gods in the Dacian religion, such as Kotis, which was later adopted by the Greeks.

Agreed they were feared and force to rekkon with!

@@Thrand11 if i remember right, trajan's column and written accounts presents them in quite a flattering light

Iamandi Christian

Agreed

😂😭🤣 That was funny

I didn't... :(

Agreed! I love armour!

@@Thrand11 if ya come to south carolina ive got a mace that might crush a helmet. Two handed flanged mace.

Thank you!

What happened to Eldgrim?

@@Thrand11 hello thegn, your videos are very interesting I love your content👍🏻, Could you make a video where linothorax like withstands a blow with a Romans sword gladius if possible, thank you very much.

It could depends.

I think it would rattle his senses and provide another opportunity to finish him off

@incinerator950 I bet they did. I mean I would damn sure try and reinforce my armor because it could potentially save my life

Easily a concussion and probably some neck pain. I watched a video made by Skall where he was able to penetrate a steel helmet with a 1 handed falx, so it's definitely capable of penetration.

the second traian's war** dacians fight many times against romans was 4 batlle at tape.

By historical account yes

not only helm reinforcement. emperor trajan had the soldiers in the second dacian war wear better arm protection. the falx-wielding dacians didn't just pierce or split (allegedly) helms, they also inflicted some horrific wounds on the non-shield arm (even removing limbs at times)

Ja! LOL

First of all Romania isn't Dacia, and second of all you probably have no genetic correlations with anyone who was part of the Dacian tribes.

@@chlorinatedpvc6629 The Dacians were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea. That makes it pretty clear that Romanian DNA contains Dacian DNA .

​@@smoke12785 probably very little.

@@chlorinatedpvc6629 still, it was not wrong of him to assume that the dacians were his ancestors.

​@@chlorinatedpvc6629 you should look into the study by Cardos G., Stoian V., Miritoiu N., Comsa A., Kroll A., Voss S., Rodewald A.: Paleo-mtDNA analysis and population genetic aspects of old Thracian populations from South-East of Romania and into the book of Mihai G Netea about the origins of Romanians which uses dna studies to show Romanians have dacian and Roman ancestors. Kinda funny and sad how you talk like that when you haven't even looked into any studies

You are most welcome and love the falx.

Not tall but with wide shoulders and very muscular.

@@bestopinion9257 Nah the Thracian/Dacian heritage is why Dinarids and Balkan people are so tall on average,it's a gene inherited from them and even chronicles of the time describe them as being almost a head taller than the average roman legionaire.

@@tonyslabu6373 If you say so...

I'm guessing 99.99% of them never reached 7 feet

Very true!

I think, in my opinion, those weapons have some common ancestors or... some common roots!!!! 😎

@@dragodragon9031 The Arians that conquered half of northern Indian subcontinent came from Thracia. One of the older names of Thrace was Aria. Inner curved weapons are a somewhat of a trademark for the Balkan people from the ancient times till now. Scalme, sica, falx/romphaya, kolak and yatagan all look like familly members.

Agreed was more than I expected from an arming falx :) Plus the test Roland and I did with Viking age swords they did not penetrate.

@@Thrand11 Speaking of the Viking age... I wonder if this might be a clue as to what the elusive "mail troll" was. Perhaps a similarly bladed billhook?

Very true.

@Ghost Girl Remade the purpose of the falx was to hook the top of the shield and drag it down to expose to blows the soldier behind it. so, falx handlers were always in the first line. this was the Dacians' way of annihilating the shield wall of the Roman cohorts. this is how 40,000 Dacians resisted 5 years to 200-300,000 Romans, while Caesar conquered Gaul with 30,000 men. that's also the reason why the Dacian shields were oval.

@Ghost Girl Remade also, they were defeated after Sarmisegetusa fell by treason ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EuztbN1HjTA.html

What the tire was for to allow give some like the arm but not a perfect simulation of an arm I am sure.

Agreed!

Love too and Ihave some modern riot arm and leg armor.

@@Thrand11 that test would be so cool \○

Thanks and agreed to the design especially with center grip shields

I think the reason the falx fell out of favor due to evolutions in material science. Allow me to explain... People don't like to be hit. Reach is good because it lets you do more hitting and less getting hit. When we look at other swords of the era, the blades are typically rather short and broad. This is due to the limitations of metallury at the time. The falx took a similar mass of metal and stretched it into a longer, narrower blade reinforced by a thick spine. I'm no engineer, but the arched shape might have added to the structural integrity of the blade. As techniques improved, swords grew longer, but there's a slight problem with curved blades. If you maintain the curvature, making it longer will eventually lead to an impractical blade shape as the tip starts to curl back towards you. Matt Easton has touched on this several times in reference to strongly curved cavalry sabers which, despite their cutting potential, have less effective reach than a straighter blade. In a way, the falx did survive until the advent of firearms, just not as a sword. Numerous polearms have falx-like blades, but polearms are battlefield weapons, not sidearms. The sidearm, which accompanies the warrior at all times is usually more iconic than the principal weapon of war. Samurai are intrinsically linked to the katana, even though they were originally horse archers. Knights are associated with the sword even though the lance was their primary weapon. Even in more modern times, we can't picture a cowboy without his revolver, despite the fact that the Winchester rifle is called "the gun that won the west".

@@lukediehl1210 Thank you. That makes so much sense. Too often we forget the sword is a side arm and it was the spear and its cousins that were the main individual weapons of war. And the material science explanation is right on the money. Sure, the Dacians were renowned craftsmen and miners, but then again, they did live 2K years ago. Again, thank you!

Agreed

They ( dacians ) are my ancestors :) . I am proud of it.

True I might just go through all y hopeless test helms and armour pieces and attempt to repair them the best possible. Might make a good video showing methods

I would like the dacian to win but unfortunately the katana si more versatile and faster. Falx has the disadvantage that seems to be designed mostly for slices coming from top down. The katana would slice from any direction much easier. Not as hard hitting at that puncturing point, but reaching first matters.

Agreed

Never had a problem.so far plus the warriors of the period did not have them.

We have tested the sica as well as two handed and one handed flax in many videos

Thanks and I agree

I fight single combat shield is fine for that a formation or shield wall is totally different and yes lower

To pierce a helmet maybe if hitting with back curve can test that for you in the future if you like. The cuts thought with edge uncertain like into the shield if you mean that.

agreed

@@Thrand11 Thank you Sir! Now that I have your ear Sir, I've been looking for a long.time for 'my knife'. And what I mean by that is that I'm a knife guy, and I've got quite the collection, but I still haven't found "My knife". I currently EDC a Spyderco Pygmy Warrior knife, and I think that is as close to perfect I can find, perfect knife you can EDC that is. I also EDC a Cold Steel Spartan, and if I go into the city I will always carry My Cold Steel XL ESPADA. But I still think there's other options. I realize it's the wielder and not the weapon, ppl get killed with Sharpened toothbrushes in JAIL on the regular, so it's all relative....... But as we are well aware, the difference in weapon choices is vital. And I'm extremely envious of that SICA knife you have. And in my broad and extensive studies in blade design, form, functionality, style etc etc... I think that the power generated in that style of blade is the Superior form. Now I realize that's a pretty bold statement, but obviously you agree Sir! Both owning the blade and having used it as extensively as you have, know its potential, nevermind what it's Daddy Falx can do!!! They are next on the Blade shopping list for me...... Because it's quite obvious that they are the superior form and function. Period.

Bullcrap. The falx might have made the romans to reinforce their helmets, but their shields were reinforced after they had close encounters with the iberian falcata. Take your time to read about the iberian falcata and the romans...

@@jgappy5643 What's your point?

@@jgappy5643 I extremely familiar with both, i have a bloody Flacata. The falx is a pole arm, with a thin recurved blade. The flacata has a hammiguri or appleseed shaped blade. The sheering power of the thin falx recurve alone is what makes it superior, not to mention the fact it's a 2 handed pole arm, instead of a single handed weapon, like your flacata. Now you explain how it's better.... i beg u.

Agreed

Agreed thought of that after and with all other request this will be continued lol

Thanks

Ja it can and we test that as well.

Lol

Oh dear.

Lol

We can arrange that

Habit when cutting for power cuts on targets I hold breath release after.

You are most welcome!

Thanks and I shall!

Pretty much. He would get multiple gladius stabs from multiple legionaries in a formation while trying to retrieve his falx from the shield.

Agreed

That happened as well why they supposedly added visor. The helmet was up being 16 gauge I said 18 gauge so Roman helmet would have been way weaker.

@@Thrand11 Well, as I imagine, the shield would be up to the roman's chin and his face is the only thing exposed, and with the falx the dacians kind of accidentally got to it. It would be interesting to see a test how and if that visor worked. I guess it did since they kept using it.

Thanks

@@Thrand11 no problem been watching for many years

Agreed

Ja!!!!!!

Shields trap blades and you normally do cut into them on purpose. The Romans account says it split shields deep enough it still injured the soldiers why we tested it.

Really want proper bronze armour for testing hoping to receive some soon.

@@Thrand11 holy shitt i hope that im waiting all my life to see that xD

Lol

Thanks I will note that too.

@@FellVoice Actually, if you want to sound like a Romanian, it would be Da-chee-a, with the two a like in bar, the ch like in chair or churn and the ee is short like in big. Same goes for Dacian which would be Da-chee-an, though in actual Romanian it would be Falx Dac, pronouced like Dack, not Dacian Falx. Dacian and sh are typically English. The origin word is Dac. You know, like Roman - Romanian, or Dac - Dacian. Dac and Roman, the people, are masculines, whereas Dacia and Romania, the countries, are feminines.

@@chrisbasarab2446 Is the female Romanian name Dacia also pronounced Da-chee-a? I see it pronounced as DAY-shee-uh .

@@FellVoice Yes, in Romanian, it is pronounced as Da-chee-a. ci is pronounced as chee, not shee. Italian has the same sound (like in arrivederci - see you later), but other romance languages are different, where ci becomes see, like in French or Spanish. Also, a in Romanian is a hard and short a, as in bar or car like above in Italian. It does not take an ae quality like it does in English, as in Damon (think Damon Hill, the English F1 driver.) Having said that, no English speaker will bat an eye when you pronounce it like the English do. Only some romance language speakers, like Italians and Romanians, will be able to tell the difference. P.S.: If you ask the Metatron, he'll tell you that in classical Latin it was pronounced Dakia and only in medieval or eclesiastical Latin it became Dacia. :) although it was written Dacia in both cases. As they point out in phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia: Dacia ([ˈdaːkja]; English /ˈdeɪʃiə, -ʃə/). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia

Iamandi Cristain calls this blade a Flax who created it and researches grave finds from old Dacia. The Dagger on my hip in video he calls a Sica. The dagger is the Sica not the hand and half Falx I am using in this video. This video on the Sica or dagger has link in description explaining dagger or sica history. You may be thinking of the one handed blade used by Roman gladiators inspired by the Dacian Falx which is the Sica but a sword and shaped a bit different.

It's a falx, lol. Also, thracians never used the khopesh.

@@rollothewalker5535 The macedonians invented it, and they are a mixture of many thracian, illyrian and tessalian tribes. Also I'm from Bulgarian and I saw quite a few in the museums, so yeah, they did used them.

@@Thrand11 The historians speculate how to destinguish the different types. True the sica is often described as dagger, but often the blade lenght reaches 50 centimeters. The scalme is universally acknowleged to be one handed sword with warying lenght. The falx and the romphaya are definitely two handed longsword/polearm like weapons. I may have guessed wrong the lenght of your weapon and it may not be sica, more likely scalme, but definitely it is not a falx. Not that the weapon is wrong or something, the dacians definitely used that kind of swords.

Thanks

Almost the exact same weapon too.

The dacians had those too, lol