well, not exactly. That implies a weapon with a long reach, like a spear or javelin, had a long reach to attack enemieswith, but was still held in the hand or thrown.
jesus they didn't even write a script. they just stole whatever some jackass decided to write for a description.....some of these are like listening to some fresh out of fresh college history major talking about random 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.
Xander Zaniel stand by it - bet he's from the UK. This isn't nationalism my friend, just observation. Make like Eddie and "look into it". Blessings from Rotterdam.
I'm not questioning the other statements because idk about them but the war scythes do have documented cases of cutting through helmets and that's one of the reasons they were commonly used and so feared that if a black Smith was found making regular scythes into those they would be killed
omg they stole this bogus description from pinterest......one fucking google search and i found the pics to the same chakram from Xena and a description almost word for word. wtf.
"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.
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
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.
its a deathclaw guantlet, crudly fashioned from the lengthy clawed hands of a deathclaw it lets you slash foes about the face, throat and torso like a post apocalyptic Freddy Kruger.
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?
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.)
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?
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.
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.
Paul Ableman war scythe's are heavier then an axe, and sharper then your typical sword. I'm sure if it was a weapon of choice and one had practice, a scythe is an extrordanary weapon and could go through a steel helm like butter.
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.
i hope my englisch is good enogh i come from germany and im here in medival groups, fighting groups and so on. I´ve trained with many many weapon styles: Dan Axe (from the Viking Beserks), Mace and Flail, Warhammer, Hellebard Murderaxe (Pole Axe in englisch its a axe head on one side a hammer on the other and above a pointy blade) Longsword, Claymore Spear, War scyche, Shield ( also Buckler), Sabre and Florett, Differend daggers, a Two handed Flammberge (a very long sword from the mercanaries from the 16th century in German named Landsknechte) And i have a armor in style of 1450 and can change it to a style of 1000 because i just have to war the gambeson another helmet and the chainmail. So i know what i speak from. some of these vids are just not right in theyre discriptions i had seen a vid where erey weapon had the false use based on legends...i mean only because a bloodline into a sword to make it light is named like this its primary use wasnt to let blood run in it. And Chainmail cannot protect you from being shopt with an arrow thats just a myth, every arrow shot with 60 pounds (whats not a great strengh for bows) can go throught mail but not always though mail gambeson and plate its like a onion, more layerequals more protection but also more heat and weight and aftera certain point the mobility is ver restricted by your condition. the heavyest armor we know was made in the late 15th century in Itali it weight over 48 kg for a man that was 185 cm big this is some weight man, my armor weigts with chain 30 kilogramm and its tough to fight inthis for over 5 minutes because it exaust you quick. maybe i could get you some new informations and maybe it was interesting.
actually war-scythe was introduced to decimate CAVALRY. Not people. PS: you can't armor a horse's leg. Edit: maces or hammers were NOT used against armor causing blunt trauma. They were used as piercing weapons against armor, OR to crush the armor (chest) suffocating the victim.
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.
Even with those things in consideration you still can't make it through a steel helmet like it was an aluminum can. Even mild steel wouldn't be cut open that easily. Let alone a properly heat treated medium steel helmet that people would be most likely using. If armor was that ineffective there would be now point in using it especially such a critical target like the head.
killgora1 alright I see but look they have armor to lesson the blows, well how many times do you think knights meet up with a crazed farmer on cocaine swinging around a giant bladed thing, not often that being said its difficult to cut through metal yes but vikings were able to break shields with there weapons because of strength
I think you underestimate the strength of a shield as well. Even the strongest viking couldn't just break a shield, unless it was put together poorly. If you could break through a shield with brute strength then why use it? A good shield was made of light, but strong wood, covered with linen, and in the case of vikings had the edges reinforced. If a shield was used during the duration of an entire battle then yeah you could break through a shield, but the vikings strength probably had little to do with it rather the barrage of many blows whether they were strong or not. Arms and armor were designed off of what worked. If something didn't work then it was rarely used if at all.
The weapon could be thrown or used as a punching weapon, depending on the design. Technically, a pistol could also be used in hand-to-hand combat in the form of the pistol-whip, in which you use the butt of the pistol and smack someone upside the head with it. A rifle could also be used in hand-to-hand combat, as either a makeshift club or if it were fixed with a bayonet.
And the grim reaper has a scythe Because of the farming tool. Tool is used to harvest grain, grims is to harvest souls. I mean cmon at least fact check One thing before spewing it out..
@DyingCharisma - The actual name of the weapon is a Bardiche (pronounced Bar-deesh). It's basically just a pole-axe. Not really sure why that would make it one of the most badass of weapons... The naginata is typically more badass. According to my old Jujitsu sensei, it was initially used to take out the legs of a horse and could potentially take out all 4 in one stroke when used properly.
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.
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.
Raving squirlz 1, Ok but there should be right information if you are going to make a video on it... If there isn't any truth then why watch it, its just lies. Plus you didn't have to have an attitude in your post, you're just being plain bitchy.
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.
They are pretty much obvious halberds. Bardiches are heavy chopping weapons while halberds are essentially spears with some attachement (the axe part of them is not as important as the spear part), so that's quite a mistake in the video. The chinese weapons he shows before the halberds are hardly bardiches either. Concave axe blades are of pretty different utility than convex blades. The video looks like he spend half an hour on wikipedia and then called it a day.
It was in Diablo II lol. And apparently during the early 1900s there was a russian military unit with long rifles and these bardiches, slighty customized to be used as a rifle rest for more accurate firing (like a shootin' stick) and then used in melee when ammo ran out. This is of course according to The Internet, so I'm not saying its true.
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.
tessen are fans with metal ribs and hair pins of the day where quite long and where used as bo shuriken how ever who the fuck said SHURIKEN (as you call them throwing stars) arnt vary accurate. hira shuriken (the multi pointed type of shuriken) where much easier to throw and stick in the target your right they dont do as much damage as some other tools but the ease of use made up for that and where primarily used as a distraction its not the only tool one would bring to work
John Long It's been 3 months but if you still haven't figured out: Go to add-ons, look up Video Blocker and download it, then click on the icon in the top right corner and type in the channel you want to block.
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)!!!!
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 fact he said that a flintlock pistol was a smaller version of the blunderbuss shows that the people who researched this video have no understanding of the subject whatsoever.
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).
"The grim reaper's favored weapon." That's not a weapon, he's carrying a farming scythe. It symbolizes "harvesting the soul." Hence; reaper.
Clickbait thumbnail, inaccuracies and even mispronounciations of weapons
Yeah, I wanted to see the claw
Lmao saying a Chakram has been mistaken for a glaive made me fucking burst out laughing.
War sith!
yeah, everybody should be fluent in every useless language
Nunchucks? You are better off with a sharp pencil.
"Ranged hand to hand combat." The definition of a contradiction.
i guess it is kind of randomly asking but does anybody know of a good place to watch newly released movies online?
It means that the weapon has a long reach.
Gun sword
well, not exactly. That implies a weapon with a long reach, like a spear or javelin, had a long reach to attack enemieswith, but was still held in the hand or thrown.
i almost expected him to say
" The blunderbuss was actually a farmers tool used to water crops"
AntJuanJuan7 chavez lol I saw this and cracked up
"HERE, TAKE THIS WATER YOU SONOFABITCH CROPS!!"
the farmer starts shooting water bullets making holes in the ground, the thought of that cracks me up
It wouldn't surprise me if he said "and the katana was once used as a time-travelling device."
Ayyo can I borrow your blunderbuss? I'm gonna water some plants in my garden.
who else got exited at the thumbnail but then realized not a single of of those weapons where on here
I'm gonna guess whoever was reading this was just given a script without knowing what he was talking about.
jesus they didn't even write a script. they just stole whatever some jackass decided to write for a description.....some of these are like listening to some fresh out of fresh college history major talking about random weapons.
@Clayton Finnley this is a comment from 4 years ago....why wouldn't watch anything?
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scythe. S*EYE*the. not sith. not star-wars man.
J-Day ikr ffs
J-Day psy-th
ikr its like how he says melee he is not saying it right also there facts aren't all that accurate they actually got a few things wrong
he's saying melee right
Yeah he is say melee correctly as it is pronounced may lay
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.
I love people that can actually be bothered. You gotta be from the UK.
Blacktooth Fox
Or he could be bothered because a supposed informational channel got their facts wrong, and have nothing to be of where he's from?
Xander Zaniel stand by it - bet he's from the UK. This isn't nationalism my friend, just observation. Make like Eddie and "look into it". Blessings from Rotterdam.
I'm not questioning the other statements because idk about them but the war scythes do have documented cases of cutting through helmets and that's one of the reasons they were commonly used and so feared that if a black Smith was found making regular scythes into those they would be killed
so true
"We'll only mention melee weapons"
*Talks about the blunderbuss*
Pirates used the blunderbuss
@@carolyncolebeck981 how is that related to melee?
@@utube8008 You can still hit people w/ it.
@@jp3813 yeah, I was responding to a random statement made by someone else.
2:05
who has EVER confused a chakram with a glaive? WHO!? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE MAKING THIS CONFUSION!?
omg they stole this bogus description from pinterest......one fucking google search and i found the pics to the same chakram from Xena and a description almost word for word. wtf.
you realize alot of people use a desc like this....right?
Alexander Shearer
no like...it's very specific wording for something so untrue that it's blatantly stolen.
Wartooth91 yea isnt a claive not a spear but with a longer slithly bend blade ?
it can be. a glaive generally has a long shaft with a large curved blade
War Siths!!
When a regular Sith simply will not do.
Hahaha
This guy isn't aware the grim reaper is a farming metaphor?
He's also the same dude that calls scythes "siths".
Every time he said "war sith" I felt my brain cells dying.
"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.
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
Yep. Basically maces have been around since early humans figured out how to weaponize a robust stick.
PLEASE oh' PLEASE learn to pronounce the names of these weapons!
Where are chakrames from
@@carolyncolebeck6376 he said India
@Dropinator 103 he actually pronounced that one correctly.
Now the war 'sith'....wtf
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.
Umm what happened to claw looking glove on the thumbnail
click bait
None of the weapons in the thumbnail are in the video.
watch top 10 most lethal ninja weapons by TheRichest its there
Dark Woolf went there after this, lot more interesting👍
its a deathclaw guantlet, crudly fashioned from the lengthy clawed hands of a deathclaw it lets you slash foes about the face, throat and torso like a post apocalyptic Freddy Kruger.
Well, here's one channel I'll never subscribe to lol.
CrateofStolenDirt nice one
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.
Oh my god....
"War Sith"
Congratulations America
I was expecting a bad ass stealth gauntlet or claws. damn
Heart of Justice lol in ac
Heart of Justice 100th like.
Heart of Justice I know right
To be honest someone in ghe future will probably TRY and make a RWBY weapon, probably Yang's.
Heart of Justice I'm sorry but things like that were very impractical back then when most people who were fighting had swords and spears
The way he says scythe triggers me
Edit NUNCHUNKU EXCUSE ME
That's the nunchucks original name
@@thecrusade939 the original name was nunchaku. He said nunchunku
Dude can't even pronounce scythe
LMAO for real. Sith lords are dangerous too! XD
@@DezyreHD hes pronoubcring it The second, more olden way of saying it 😑
joseph ezu Nonchuckoo xd
Zachary mccleary “pronoubcring”?
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?
My dad has a "hungamunga" in his garage.
It's for cutting you into little pieces, should you misbehave.
Call Me Four is it your dads version of a belt?
Call Me Four I have burundanga in my van
My dad has a hungamunga in his pants. It looks and tastes the same as Santa's for some reason
Call Me Four You shouldn't speak of your mother in that manner.
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.)
I really hate how he pronounces "Scythe"
Omg scythe is pronouced as sith imbecile
Anonymous Inc lol troll
Anonymous Inc you mean syth sith is said like in sw
The_MIGHTY_Tortoise your a dumb ass shut the fuck up... no body gives a fuck every bitch got something to say
Antoine Hampton TAKE IT EASY
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?
hunga munga
Lol
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kel lee couldn't stop laughing at that
It was amusing😂
ReapFear gaming xD
H U N G A H M U N G A H
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”
War sith
Yea thats DEFINETLY how scythes are called
When you cannot properly pronounce words like scythe it really makes your credibility seem questionable.
Guck Foogle Also None-Chuck-oo. That's just wrong. Either call them nunchucks or pronounce it right, Nun-cha-ku.
Guck Foogle And Bardr-iche. There's an r in there. Bardriche. Not Bard-itch.
Yes I noticed those too, I hope in the future they check the pronunciation of the things they pretend to know about.
Guck Foogle how I HATE grammar Nazis
the button It's not grammar, it's phonetics. Grammar I really could't care less about so long as you're understandable.
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.
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.
This is coming from the same folks who said that there was no strategy to mauls.
Paul Ableman He confused them with the dacian falx, which was known to penetrate Roman helmets
I can see that, but still. A falx and a scythe are two very different weapons
Paul Ableman
He obviously knows less than John Snow (the only member of the night watch who's shift ended without him dying LOL)
Paul Ableman war scythe's are heavier then an axe, and sharper then your typical sword. I'm sure if it was a weapon of choice and one had practice, a scythe is an extrordanary weapon and could go through a steel helm like butter.
Who needs minesweeper when u have minesweeper in a stick
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.
Yes finally someone with actual facts.
i hope my englisch is good enogh i come from germany and im here in medival groups, fighting groups and so on.
I´ve trained with many many weapon styles: Dan Axe (from the Viking Beserks),
Mace and Flail,
Warhammer,
Hellebard
Murderaxe (Pole Axe in englisch its a axe head on one side a hammer on the other and above a pointy blade)
Longsword, Claymore
Spear,
War scyche,
Shield ( also Buckler),
Sabre and Florett,
Differend daggers,
a Two handed Flammberge (a very long sword from the mercanaries from the 16th century in German named Landsknechte)
And i have a armor in style of 1450 and can change it to a style of 1000 because i just have to war the gambeson another helmet and the chainmail.
So i know what i speak from. some of these vids are just not right in theyre discriptions i had seen a vid where erey weapon had the false use based on legends...i mean only because a bloodline into a sword to make it light is named like this its primary use wasnt to let blood run in it. And Chainmail cannot protect you from being shopt with an arrow thats just a myth, every arrow shot with 60 pounds (whats not a great strengh for bows) can go throught mail but not always though mail gambeson and plate its like a onion, more layerequals more protection but also more heat and weight and aftera certain point the mobility is ver restricted by your condition.
the heavyest armor we know was made in the late 15th century in Itali it weight over 48 kg for a man that was 185 cm big this is some weight man, my armor weigts with chain 30 kilogramm and its tough to fight inthis for over 5 minutes because it exaust you quick. maybe i could get you some new informations and maybe it was interesting.
RockmeHellsing thanks man
actually war-scythe was introduced to decimate CAVALRY. Not people.
PS: you can't armor a horse's leg.
Edit: maces or hammers were NOT used against armor causing blunt trauma. They were used as piercing weapons against armor, OR to crush the armor (chest) suffocating the victim.
RockmeHellsing DID NOT READ LOL
I'm just here to see what weapons would be why good in a zombie apocalypse
i came for claws, i got no claws
The phrase "That's some violent farmers out there" got me good 😂😂😋
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.
killgora1 alright alright I see where your getting from but you have to take consideration of strength, speed, momentum, sharpness, and angle
Even with those things in consideration you still can't make it through a steel helmet like it was an aluminum can. Even mild steel wouldn't be cut open that easily. Let alone a properly heat treated medium steel helmet that people would be most likely using. If armor was that ineffective there would be now point in using it especially such a critical target like the head.
killgora1 alright I see but look they have armor to lesson the blows, well how many times do you think knights meet up with a crazed farmer on cocaine swinging around a giant bladed thing, not often that being said its difficult to cut through metal yes but vikings were able to break shields with there weapons because of strength
I think you underestimate the strength of a shield as well. Even the strongest viking couldn't just break a shield, unless it was put together poorly. If you could break through a shield with brute strength then why use it? A good shield was made of light, but strong wood, covered with linen, and in the case of vikings had the edges reinforced. If a shield was used during the duration of an entire battle then yeah you could break through a shield, but the vikings strength probably had little to do with it rather the barrage of many blows whether they were strong or not. Arms and armor were designed off of what worked. If something didn't work then it was rarely used if at all.
He's trolling you.
Long range hand-to-hand combat... huh, something doesn't seem to add up here.
The weapon could be thrown or used as a punching weapon, depending on the design. Technically, a pistol could also be used in hand-to-hand combat in the form of the pistol-whip, in which you use the butt of the pistol and smack someone upside the head with it. A rifle could also be used in hand-to-hand combat, as either a makeshift club or if it were fixed with a bayonet.
He meant reach weapon. Like a polearm or spear or whatnot. But yeah, it sounds dumb AF to say long range hand to hand.
You ever heard of Mr. Fantastic/Elastic Man
What the hell is a war sith?
Sean Conley war scythe
Sean Conley its like a hoe
+Beaver Beats it different kind of hoe in real life and in mincecraft
Sean Conley it's star wars
Why couldn't he just say war 'scythe'
Is it weird that i knew about almost ALL of them 🤣
I love weapons, especially the historically brutal ones
Uses pictures of halberds and hastas, calls it something completely opposite. How to trust any of it..
And the grim reaper has a scythe Because of the farming tool. Tool is used to harvest grain, grims is to harvest souls. I mean cmon at least fact check One thing before spewing it out..
what the hell is a barditch anyways?? like forreal those are halberds
@DyingCharisma - The actual name of the weapon is a Bardiche (pronounced Bar-deesh). It's basically just a pole-axe. Not really sure why that would make it one of the most badass of weapons...
The naginata is typically more badass. According to my old Jujitsu sensei, it was initially used to take out the legs of a horse and could potentially take out all 4 in one stroke when used properly.
mom's shoe should be nb 9.
Hell yeah. Mom used to beat ass with a sandal all the time. Effective range 15yds.😹
@Toneri Ōtsutsuki don't worry, it's just a 4channer
We're is moms sandal ?
doctor sholls hurt like shit.
blaze same where is your grammar lmao
YourPalBlaze ...I know the pain 😂
"Hunga Munga." I'm dead 😂
war sith
nuncha ku
Alixion KalicalVJ nunchuku is the correct name for it
+Marvin Luster Alixion is making fun of his pronounciation.
Alixion KalicalVJ war Jedi*
Bar ditch
Lol war sith i thought that was a stormtrooper
Morning Star? Smoke Bombs? Travelers Crescent? Rope Dart? We are missing the essentials here.
2:20 Xena warrior princess
Like if you get it
i didn't like that movie.
Soldier: captain we are completely out of ammo
Captain: just use the pebbles on the ground
Soldier: yes sir
Scythe has a hard I in it, its not pronounced Sith!
Devin Gendron Suh-EYE-f
Aidan wilhelm thats what I was going for, im apparently bad with phonetics
I can't stand it when people miss pronounce stuff.
Devin Gendron he's watched too many star wars
mispronounce but what about misspell?
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.
Putting that Elder Scrolls knowledge to work, I see. Very good.
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.
The amount of misinformation in this video is cringeworthy
Gísli Stefán it's for amusement not education do u c where it says discovery channel .... no didn't think so
Raving squirlz 1, Ok but there should be right information if you are going to make a video on it... If there isn't any truth then why watch it, its just lies. Plus you didn't have to have an attitude in your post, you're just being plain bitchy.
Gísli Stefán the mourning star was a real weapon which was very effective
Gísli Stefán you are bullshit
"Nunchuku" - Him
"Nunchucks" - Me
Dude you said Scythe wrong. Its so bad it drives me crazy. You never heard the word before?
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.
I could be mistaken but the weapons shown at 5:15 are halberds(spelling?)
916 Zilla nope they are in fact halberds.
hallebarde (coming from French name)
it's coming from the german name, tho.
They are pretty much obvious halberds. Bardiches are heavy chopping weapons while halberds are essentially spears with some attachement (the axe part of them is not as important as the spear part), so that's quite a mistake in the video. The chinese weapons he shows before the halberds are hardly bardiches either. Concave axe blades are of pretty different utility than convex blades. The video looks like he spend half an hour on wikipedia and then called it a day.
You are not mistaken, Zilla
that weapon at the bottom of the thumbnail is a kusarigama
nun-chuk-oo 😂
thats the real name why are you laughing 😅
+JUST THAT RANDOM because he didn't say it correctly
😂😂 didn't notice
omG EASTER EGG!! NUN CHUCK OO NORIS CHUCK OHHHH
+JUST THAT RANDOM lol I know it was hilarious though
Scythe how to pronounce it
Normal people:Scythe (S-EYE-TH)
Him (an intellectual): Scythe ( *SITH* )
Im Part Russian and I Knew Nothing About The Battle Axe Thing xD
Ashley Riverstream I can see why. It's apparently not very well known.
It was in Diablo II lol. And apparently during the early 1900s there was a russian military unit with long rifles and these bardiches, slighty customized to be used as a rifle rest for more accurate firing (like a shootin' stick) and then used in melee when ammo ran out. This is of course according to The Internet, so I'm not saying its true.
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
The music fit so well😭by the way what's it called?
Windex check the description
Jezus, this sounds like a high school book report XD
let me call in my friend, he's an expert. .
The narrator most likely just got a script and quickly started recording.
So the dark side trained all the siths in use of this weapon then ?
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
Nicklas Slone original translation is nunchaku but eventually people dropped the last part...both are correct
i8u2manytimes well both are correct but that's like saying calling all martial arts karate is correct, it's just something us lazy westerners did
oh I though u were making fun of how he said nunchaku, my bad
i8u2manytimes it's fine
Very informative I just subscribed
thumbnail was a lie.
there for it was clickbait. lieeeesss.
Firerising Sun should I call a wambulence?
"War Siths" I don't see no lightsaber here.
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.
And yes, hairpins and fans can be very deadly.
tessen are fans with metal ribs and hair pins of the day where quite long and where used as bo shuriken how ever who the fuck said SHURIKEN (as you call them throwing stars) arnt vary accurate. hira shuriken (the multi pointed type of shuriken) where much easier to throw and stick in the target your right they dont do as much damage as some other tools but the ease of use made up for that and where primarily used as a distraction its not the only tool one would bring to work
eli s I guess i did not take that into consideration.
correct me if I'm wrong but I think, shurikens or throwing stars were used as annoyances or distractions rather than killing
Ace Skeletonne You are completely correct
Finally you mentioned something I can wield. The Nunchaku.
These guys know nothing. Channel blocked.
Arent some of the weapons named wrong by him?
Aidan wilhelm Oh,okay.., shouldnt he mention All names then?
Really?Doesnt he Just have to say the Name?
WAIT!!!! I can block channels!?!? NO MORE CLICK BAIT BULLSHIT!!!! Tell me how great master!
John Long It's been 3 months but if you still haven't figured out: Go to add-ons, look up Video Blocker and download it, then click on the icon in the top right corner and type in the channel you want to block.
I like Scythes, I even made a blueprint for making a double scythe that can also turn into a bow
didn't Zena use #6?
The flared barrel of the blunderbuss was meant for faster and easier reloading and had little affect on the pattern of the shot.
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)!!!!
There is no way you have got this far in life without hearing the word Scythe pronounced properly.
Its pronounced like nun-chuck, not nun-cha-koo 😂😂😂
Wrong... he said that one correctly. Look it up.
Sam Pellegrino it can be pronounced nunchuku 😬😬😬😬
Sometimes everyday tool can be the most savage of weapons.
....Greek fire?.....
I'm pretty sure the Nunchaku being farming tools originally was disproven
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.
2:00 Shit gets real when you have medieval TRON discs
We really shouldn't let Americans talk about history
Tf you got against America?
Why? They made most of it
look at all these deadly weapons... now imagine all of them being electrified
Ah, the good ol' blunderbuss. The perfect weapon when ammo is scarce and powder is plentiful.
"we got some violent Farmers out there" 😂
''the hunga munga may sound like something that comes straight out of the lion king'' lmao where did he get that idea?
you know your music is too loud when you literally need to scream in your videos
The fact he said that a flintlock pistol was a smaller version of the blunderbuss shows that the people who researched this video have no understanding of the subject whatsoever.
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).
the blunderbuss wasn't the world's first shotgun, it was the world's first smoke grenade.
You heard it first here folks. "Fatal wounds that would cause death"