Let’s go, finally someone putting some respect on the Zweihander. Got such a cool fighting style, basically the dedicated sword for fighting multiple opponents
@@chrisblom121 the montante was pretty much the same as a zweihander the main difference is montante was Spanish and zweihander was German. The name is even the same in English they both mean "two handed" or "tow hander"
Then a bec de corbin was always a good choice. It’s a short spear, it’s beak is great for puncturing armor and if all else failed you can beat someone to death. It required enough metal that it wasn’t cheap, but it was cheaper than a good sword.
A Montante is honestly one of my favorite kinds of greatsword, seemingly basic design but surprisingly lightweight and with the right skills and training, it's truly an amazing weapon
If i was a soldier in those eras i would've either asked for a halberd or a spadone (the Italian pocket zweihander). These are such great yet underrated weapons
One of my favourite quotes about greatswords goes, 'You see a guy with a greatsword and you think "There is no way in hell that guy can possibly fight with that thing, but if he can, there is no way in hell I'm going to be the one that fights him."'
A slight argument with the greatsword vs polearms... it was more used in formations of combined arms between pikes (or pike equivalents) and greatswords in a single formation. The pikes were used to help control the others formations and allow the great swords to get through to the enemy formation. The reason they used great swords was also to help the swordsman guide the enemy pikes that his formation can't get, out of his way so he can have a clearer path to said enemy formation. This is heavily shown in historical documentations and artistic depictions of pike formations as it would be foolish to just throw pikemen at pikemen which would equal high casualties and same of you threw great swords at pikes without support from friendly pikes
I'm going to really annoy my gm in DND... Gm: you are in a tight space, you can't swing your greatsword!! Me: yup. But I seem to be holding a spear now. A spear that looks a lot like my sword...😉
Honestly though, I feel like when people talk about greatswords, their more talking about those huge hulking blades in fantasy games that are like a foot wide, not something like that
Once you know how to use one, a great sword can hit 7 times per second. A single handed straight blade can hit 5 times per second and a curved blade 3 hits per second.
@corvumm1278 if you have ever fought sword and board you would understand. Once they start those large "momentum" swing sometime with a shield could easily run in and end that momentum and gg someone
"It's actually pretty fast" Nah, I'm sure you just put like, 15 points into Str and are trying to convince us to switch to zweihanders so you have the advantage in a fight.
I mean if im going to be honest id still call it a hulking brute took skill to wield basically anything that wasnt a sharp stick but its still a hulking brute
Technically this is a montante. It's the Iberian version (Spain & Portugal) it's nearly identical to the Zweihander. Essentially the names are interchangeable. It just depends on where you're from
This would probably be even more impractical, but I’m curious, with other swords spinning attacks would be completely useless because the sword doesn’t use momentum that much anyway, would a Greatsword spinning slash be more powerful?
greatswords are essentially the only weapon where spinning is actually the optimal choice in some situations, its much easier to carry the momentum through than to stop and bring it around when surrounded
Montante fighting involves a lot of circular motions with the sword, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that far-fetched to spin to face another enemy. But in one-on-one combat it'd be best to just stick to the basics
Can confirm. As an amateur smith, I'll tell you that making a good blade over 30 inches long is not easy. I'm still very proud of my first kriegsmesser, even though it's kind of poorly balanced, and the edge geometry isn't great. I'm just happy that it held together.
@@codykrueger796 Mine has a 32" blade and a 10" grip, slightly shorter than most replicas, but I made it when I was a total noob. I've tried to reprofile the edge with a grinder, but it's really thicker than it needs to be, which hurts cutting, and the handling suffers because it doesn't have enough distal taper. Still, it's stood up to years of hard, abusive cutting.
@@lukediehl1210 nice, do you use it for fighting or work around the house? I used to do some black smiting so I know that still 32 in with 10 in handle is still pretty long and impressive
@@codykrueger796 Honestly, I use it more as a giant machete than anything, lol. It's rough, and the forging was pretty minimal. I jokingly call it my orc sword
Just don't. I was forever salty that these slender weapons are made to feel like they weigh a fuckton in DS games. Then you get an actual slab on a stick and it is just as fast...
I had a +10 zwaihander for Ornstein and Smough. Took 60 tries but the zwai still _shreds_ them. 5 hits to kill Ornstein, staggers every hit. And Smough staggers every other hit.
Jokes aside, seeing that coming at you on the battlefield must've been horrific.. especially in the hands of someone like a Knight because then you know they ABSOLUTELY know how to use it best.
That's funny, I overheard a girl on the bus talking about a guy, ''he said he was 6 feet, but he was obviously not, he wanted to hug me and I was like eww no'' Short guys don't have it easy ROFL
People who are used to training with blunt steel are most likely to do so, as it’s not something that you think about unless you make yourself conscious of it. We don’t do it at our club partly because the hired hall floor is varnished wood, partly because of the head instructor’s own practices (caring for the integrity of all weapon tips, steel or otherwise, blunt and padded or not). But steel does make nice sounds, and a couple of the montante blades we have sing with proper edge alignment.
"Greatswords are crude and brutal" or "European blades were blunt and heavy" is simple way of saying "the only thing I know about swordfighting is anime"
Well the problem is that anime often makes things have no weight so I am not sure about that. Personally I believe some games are at fault for spreading that idea, together with some hipsters wanting to make swords sound lame.
@@goldenmairon2371 oh, for sure spread of that is in video games et cetera and I don't mind that, I kinda love that in some games Greatswords move like you are swinging a goddamn train, what I mean is that many people use works of fiction to try to pretend to be experts in practical field. Do I hate that my character swings a Collossal Blade in Elden Ring? No. Does it make me cringe when someone says that european knights were armored hillbillies who used blunted imitation of a sword? Yes, and I heard that many times from people who have no idea of sword fighting, forging and blade care(not saying I know a lot, but I research a bit for my literary work)
@@jakubdrabent8158 Yeah yeah, I get all that. I just commented because often I feel the opposite when I watch anime, with things being literally weightless and people flying around in full armor carrying ship sized swords.
@@m9ss9ngtextures16literally yes, in fact this is why nobody sane really spars with blunt weapons. You can't put enough foam on them or wear enough armor for them to be safe without radically compromising the usage; "big weight hits your head at high speed" is going to kill you whether the force is dispersed or not. The edge of a sword connects with a lot less energy than a hammer of comparable size and weight, even if it's concentrating it along a cutting surface rather than a blunt one. Fwiw, with enough armor everything becomes a blunt weapon (because the force still has to go somewhere) and with enough velocity everything becomes a cutting weapon (because nothing can hold shape against that much energy). For example, a sword against chain or plate is generally going to bruise rather than cut, and a bowling ball (or even a piece of straw) in a tornado will shear straight through a tree without deforming the surrounding area much.
It frustrates me every time a weapon like this, in games, is portrayed as extremely slow and heavy. Not even my beloved Elden Ring does it right. Game devs should take a couple lessons in HEMA. Edit: to anyone saying "it's game balance", balance is just numbers, you can totally have a fast weapon and reduce the attack power. In the end, it's not game balance, it is media misunderstanding a sword. Game of Thrones does it too, and that's not even a video game.
Yeah, it's mainly a balance reason, that being said, they did just buff colossal attack speed so it is relatively speedy. Also spamming the thrusting attack to abuse your reach is surprisingly realistic, even if it's dummy broken.
@@lordderppington4694 The problem in Elden Ring isn't the speed, it's that it's swung like a street lamp; violently crashing into the ground and lumbering like it weighs eighty pounds. The same speed could be used with better form and the complaints would be sated.
Montante is so much fun to train with. I love reading the Godinho manuscript. You should go over how people expect you need lots open space to use a greatsword. but you see far more manuscripts explaining how to use them in city streets, back alleyways and onboard galley ships.
Streets and alleys are not a big issue and ships can have some wide spaces, especially galleys, but consider one with tighter corridor points bellow deck or inside a building, or temple corridor where you can not swing this thing like this not only from horizontal constrains but vertical ones too if ceiling kinda low.
@@galadballcrusher8182 The Montante sword can still thrust. You can also take the blade under the false guard with your left hand. Moreover, the first two-handed swords appeared just among the peoples who often use ships.
Funnily enough, you're not far off. According to a few medieval theories in regards to making a custom longsword. Any person 6'2" and over would technically wield a greatsword.
Not to mention, generally you have to use a lot more brain power to use a montante than a longsword or similar. You have to plan ahead of every cut. Longsword, you're able to panic adjust and make unplanned parries and "blocks" in a way that is far easier than with a full two handed blade. In sparring with longsword, dussac, etc... I often end up parrying purely on instinct, something goes wrong, and drilled instinct puts my blade in a protective position before my conscious brain processed the threat. With montante, my arms and back just can't move the blade reliably fast enough as a panic response, the way it can with those smaller weapons.
Another point to make is that, despite its size, it’s really not that heavy. If I recall, the average greatsword is usually around 7-10 lbs, because any heavier and you simply wouldn’t be able to use it for combat. Heavier greatswords of around 10-14 lbs were pretty much universally meant to be display items rather than actual weapons.
Funny thing is montante is more considered to be civilian weapon. You could hire a bodyguard woth montante, for example, and he wouldn't let anyone come close to you in the streets (yes, you could efficiently use it in narrow streets despite the weapon's size).
@@MrZoorab i don't remember where I read this so take it with a grain of salt. Apparently in the 1600s a german bodyguard was ambushed by 10 or so bandits with rapiers but none of them were able to land a hit on him. Someone with a 6 feet long sword going in circles like a meatgrinder for your lunge to get stuck in is probably terrifying. No one died or got injured in that fight, they just couldn't get into range. Eventually the town guard showed up and they ran (or the bandits got killed, don't remember)
@@atom8248 This is generally the standard context for montante. Antiganking rapier users either with extended area denial until someone can support you, or using the Figueiredo mix-up thrusts to potentially catch them off guard.
@@atom8248That's pretty usual in a lot of Spanish swordsmen for hire diaries and chronicles. It was basically the main use, keep at bay people with roperas, vizcaínas and all that stuff.
I fell in love the first time I picked up a zweihander. I was so small but it felt like a part of the sword touched my soul and told me “I’m for you only”. It became my best weapon when I was training in a multitude of sword styles
Let’s go, finally someone putting some respect on the Zweihander. Got such a cool fighting style, basically the dedicated sword for fighting multiple opponents
Montante. But I agree with the sentiment about putting respect on classic medievil swords
Bro tf he litteraly says it a montante
@@chrisblom121 the montante was pretty much the same as a zweihander the main difference is montante was Spanish and zweihander was German. The name is even the same in English they both mean "two handed" or "tow hander"
@@greathorned0wl759 Didn't know there was a sword so big that it required a tow.
@@The_True_Mx_Pink i meant two hander
"I want a spear, but I refuse to look like a peasant."
Although it can kinda (effectively) be used as a spear, the best way to use a two handed like this is way different
Made me laugh tho, cheers
Greeks: "excuse us but how is the spear a peasant weapon?"
Then a bec de corbin was always a good choice. It’s a short spear, it’s beak is great for puncturing armor and if all else failed you can beat someone to death. It required enough metal that it wasn’t cheap, but it was cheaper than a good sword.
This comment needs a love button lol
@@thenexus8384 Because it took a lot less metal than other weapons and doesn't take much skill to use
A Montante is honestly one of my favorite kinds of greatsword, seemingly basic design but surprisingly lightweight and with the right skills and training, it's truly an amazing weapon
If i was a soldier in those eras i would've either asked for a halberd or a spadone (the Italian pocket zweihander). These are such great yet underrated weapons
That sound every time he puts it down... satisfying AF.
That specific one, from what I remember, is used more for ceremonies rather than war. Surprisingly.
For a moment there i thought he was going to say:
" Greatswords are actually GREAT "
One of my favourite quotes about greatswords goes, 'You see a guy with a greatsword and you think "There is no way in hell that guy can possibly fight with that thing, but if he can, there is no way in hell I'm going to be the one that fights him."'
Always put me in the mood for hellish quart
Remember, armor also if you spin a blade like that trying to crowd clear you must be a comedian because the crowd would sure laugh at you
"This is a Montante"
I know a Zweihänder when I see one. \o/
This made me feel a lot better about those big ass swords the elves had in the first episode of Rings of Power
Finally! Someone is giving proper respect to some of my favorite blades!
A slight argument with the greatsword vs polearms... it was more used in formations of combined arms between pikes (or pike equivalents) and greatswords in a single formation. The pikes were used to help control the others formations and allow the great swords to get through to the enemy formation. The reason they used great swords was also to help the swordsman guide the enemy pikes that his formation can't get, out of his way so he can have a clearer path to said enemy formation. This is heavily shown in historical documentations and artistic depictions of pike formations as it would be foolish to just throw pikemen at pikemen which would equal high casualties and same of you threw great swords at pikes without support from friendly pikes
I'm going to really annoy my gm in DND...
Gm: you are in a tight space, you can't swing your greatsword!!
Me: yup. But I seem to be holding a spear now. A spear that looks a lot like my sword...😉
Honestly though, I feel like when people talk about greatswords, their more talking about those huge hulking blades in fantasy games that are like a foot wide, not something like that
Basically Viego's sword
Zweihander is my fav cuz it has a big hitbox
As far as I know two-handed swords were super rare in the dark ages.
Reminds me of King Viserys’ sword in HOTD
It’s reasons like this is why I love sparing with a Zweihander
Thats a beautiful weapon
The weapons are portrayed as slow because game designers don't lift. Bonzai for the Bonzai charge!
“Dunmaglass”
The Swordsmen's 308.
Once you know how to use one, a great sword can hit 7 times per second. A single handed straight blade can hit 5 times per second and a curved blade 3 hits per second.
When you're a great swordsman but fear corona virus
For once, that is actually a great sword
Weapons arent crude so long as they arent a cheapshot or a big ol cleaver
It's like zweihander
Well done! Maybe O/Nodachi next??
Can you do one on the scimitars and cutlasses?
Me: big weapon good
Or or hear me out... it was for cleaving the legs off horses to get the mounted combatants on the ground.
why not both?
@corvumm1278 if you have ever fought sword and board you would understand. Once they start those large "momentum" swing sometime with a shield could easily run in and end that momentum and gg someone
Using greatswords in souls games hurts me because the moveset involves slamming it on the ground so much
Two men fighting for their lives, at three meters distance with greatswords cuz they're not gay or anything like that
Why do all great swords/zweihanders have such extra wide guards when the blades themselves are very narrow?
Crowd clearing I thought that was fake
For me the best sword is the sword you have most mastery.
But if have a sworman that knows uses all techniques and all swords, he/she will use the better sword for the fight.
On today's episode of Useless barbarian stuff from Europe's history
Did anyone else notice an ankle monitor?
It seems like a smaller zweihander to me
And is it true that the ring hilt could be used to lash to a horse to charge enemy lines?
Are there older greatswords that are thicker and heavier? More like the ones we more commonly s
ee in video games?
It's making brutality into a fine art
I've played Baldur's Gate, that's a long sword.
"It's actually pretty fast"
Nah, I'm sure you just put like, 15 points into Str and are trying to convince us to switch to zweihanders so you have the advantage in a fight.
I mean if im going to be honest id still call it a hulking brute took skill to wield basically anything that wasnt a sharp stick but its still a hulking brute
You'd typically use it like a normal sized longsword. All the movements would just be translated to a larger weapon.
what the Doom Slayers Crucible be good at killing
?
It was Too large and rough to be called a sword...
That switch up was so genuine.
Wouldn't crude in this respect be their use in taking care of crowds? Much to the same effect as a shotgun is in video games?
ok wait, saber spins aren't effective but rather flashy but you're doing what seems to be the two handed equivalent here, can someone explain why
Dante doesn't own a montante
Do people associate them with the dark ages? I’ve always thought of them as a classic early modern weapon, as a non-weapons expert.
Montonta!!!
No, that’s a zweihander
Technically this is a montante. It's the Iberian version (Spain & Portugal) it's nearly identical to the Zweihander. Essentially the names are interchangeable. It just depends on where you're from
Incorrect lmao, this is indeed a montante
1500-1600 Dark Age? Not for Spain/Hispanic America, that's for sure.
This would probably be even more impractical, but I’m curious, with other swords spinning attacks would be completely useless because the sword doesn’t use momentum that much anyway, would a Greatsword spinning slash be more powerful?
greatswords are essentially the only weapon where spinning is actually the optimal choice in some situations, its much easier to carry the momentum through than to stop and bring it around when surrounded
Montante fighting involves a lot of circular motions with the sword, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that far-fetched to spin to face another enemy. But in one-on-one combat it'd be best to just stick to the basics
Oh wow that reach
lot of other counterparts that shorter you mean katana?
So size does matter
How’s the weight compared to longsword or arming sword?
Much more weight farther out when holding them.
And very cool
For those who comment guns are better on these videos, why don’t you guys go back to the 1500 / 1600s area and show them your gun.
Can confirm. As an amateur smith, I'll tell you that making a good blade over 30 inches long is not easy. I'm still very proud of my first kriegsmesser, even though it's kind of poorly balanced, and the edge geometry isn't great. I'm just happy that it held together.
How big is a kriegsmesser?
@@codykrueger796 Mine has a 32" blade and a 10" grip, slightly shorter than most replicas, but I made it when I was a total noob. I've tried to reprofile the edge with a grinder, but it's really thicker than it needs to be, which hurts cutting, and the handling suffers because it doesn't have enough distal taper. Still, it's stood up to years of hard, abusive cutting.
@@lukediehl1210 nice, do you use it for fighting or work around the house? I used to do some black smiting so I know that still 32 in with 10 in handle is still pretty long and impressive
@@codykrueger796 Honestly, I use it more as a giant machete than anything, lol. It's rough, and the forging was pretty minimal. I jokingly call it my orc sword
@@lukediehl1210 This is amazing intel. Thank you for sharing.
Infantry: "Sir Knight The Honourable Chad, why don't you use a spear like the rest of us?"
Sir Knight The Honourable Chad: "Swords are cool."
@@Channel17961 Swords are REALLY cool.
nah it'd be more like "i was trained in the art of a sword so i shall use it"
That's a spear with a sharp shaft
@@jamie_d0g978 that is true
@@jamie_d0g978i mean that a oddly correct way to see it
Chaos zweihander +15 irl
the goddamn BASS cannon
The legend never dies! Wut rings u got?
@@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight what are you? casul?
Just don't. I was forever salty that these slender weapons are made to feel like they weigh a fuckton in DS games.
Then you get an actual slab on a stick and it is just as fast...
I had a +10 zwaihander for Ornstein and Smough. Took 60 tries but the zwai still _shreds_ them. 5 hits to kill Ornstein, staggers every hit. And Smough staggers every other hit.
Medieval riot control: "Get back! *I said get back!* " *Starts sword dancing*
The +2 to physical attack really makes a difference...
Jokes aside, seeing that coming at you on the battlefield must've been horrific.. especially in the hands of someone like a Knight because then you know they ABSOLUTELY know how to use it best.
@@kieranadamson3224that AND you knew limbs were about to fall off
When you are swordsman but don't really want to get too close.
The whole point of using a 2 handed sword is to avoid getting too close to the other guy
@@jaketheasianguy3307 and also more arms = more strength = more damage
@@TK-yh5zz arma ? ✌️
Made for shy swordsmen
To be fair, that is the point (ha) of a sword 🤷🏻♂️
"I don't date guys shorter than a great sword."
That's funny, I overheard a girl on the bus talking about a guy, ''he said he was 6 feet, but he was obviously not, he wanted to hug me and I was like eww no'' Short guys don't have it easy ROFL
@@K4inan poor loosers lmao
Manlets cope.
5'3" over here. Tremble before my towering form.
I’d date him anytime
@@wastrelperv179cm (5'9'', Americans).
You dropped this, Short King 👑
"Cruel and brutal 👹”
“Or is it? 😊”
Brutal in terms of inflicting damage to your enemy but not yourself.
That sound when you put it down 🔥
*It was too big to be called a sword...*
I cringe each time i hear its tip hit the ground :(
Yus. It is awesome:D
@@MidnightMagpie73 noooo its absolite cringeeeee xDDD
People who are used to training with blunt steel are most likely to do so, as it’s not something that you think about unless you make yourself conscious of it. We don’t do it at our club partly because the hired hall floor is varnished wood, partly because of the head instructor’s own practices (caring for the integrity of all weapon tips, steel or otherwise, blunt and padded or not).
But steel does make nice sounds, and a couple of the montante blades we have sing with proper edge alignment.
"Perish foul creatures! I am Siegmeyer of Catarina, and you shall feel my wrath!"
Garbage game and series
@@wallacesousuke1433 nuh uh
@@wallacesousuke1433 bros not skilled enough to play this game
@@Catchityes except I beat DS1 and DS3 at level 1? LOL
@@wallacesousuke1433 then why complain?
“It was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.”
GRIFFITH!!!
That takes.....GUTS
Then a MadMan swing that damn thing around like it was an ordinary sword
Dis di-
Yeah the guts references
PUT YOUR GRASSES ON, NOTHIN WILL BE WONG
"Greatswords are crude and brutal" or "European blades were blunt and heavy" is simple way of saying "the only thing I know about swordfighting is anime"
Well the problem is that anime often makes things have no weight so I am not sure about that. Personally I believe some games are at fault for spreading that idea, together with some hipsters wanting to make swords sound lame.
@@goldenmairon2371 oh, for sure spread of that is in video games et cetera and I don't mind that, I kinda love that in some games Greatswords move like you are swinging a goddamn train, what I mean is that many people use works of fiction to try to pretend to be experts in practical field. Do I hate that my character swings a Collossal Blade in Elden Ring? No. Does it make me cringe when someone says that european knights were armored hillbillies who used blunted imitation of a sword? Yes, and I heard that many times from people who have no idea of sword fighting, forging and blade care(not saying I know a lot, but I research a bit for my literary work)
@@jakubdrabent8158 Yeah yeah, I get all that. I just commented because often I feel the opposite when I watch anime, with things being literally weightless and people flying around in full armor carrying ship sized swords.
I for one know that this isn't true, lots of dudes in sekiro wield uncannily big odachi.
Also aren’t katanas actually heavier than like a longsword of equivalent length?
Anything becomes a blunt force weapon if you hit hard enough
Me: _eyes up feather pillow_
so theoretically if I made a giant sledge hammer with foam on it it would be blunt force?
@@m9ss9ngtextures16Yes, Hit it hard and fast enough and it can cave peoples skulls in
@@m9ss9ngtextures16yes
@@m9ss9ngtextures16literally yes, in fact this is why nobody sane really spars with blunt weapons. You can't put enough foam on them or wear enough armor for them to be safe without radically compromising the usage; "big weight hits your head at high speed" is going to kill you whether the force is dispersed or not. The edge of a sword connects with a lot less energy than a hammer of comparable size and weight, even if it's concentrating it along a cutting surface rather than a blunt one.
Fwiw, with enough armor everything becomes a blunt weapon (because the force still has to go somewhere) and with enough velocity everything becomes a cutting weapon (because nothing can hold shape against that much energy). For example, a sword against chain or plate is generally going to bruise rather than cut, and a bowling ball (or even a piece of straw) in a tornado will shear straight through a tree without deforming the surrounding area much.
Am I the only one that loves it when he places the sword on the floor with the "donk" ?
Sword ASMR is the best
I have the exact opposite reaction. I know that no one is running around without the tip being blunt nowdays but it's still very unnerving lol
It frustrates me every time a weapon like this, in games, is portrayed as extremely slow and heavy. Not even my beloved Elden Ring does it right.
Game devs should take a couple lessons in HEMA.
Edit: to anyone saying "it's game balance", balance is just numbers, you can totally have a fast weapon and reduce the attack power. In the end, it's not game balance, it is media misunderstanding a sword. Game of Thrones does it too, and that's not even a video game.
I think in video games it's more a balance reason.
Yeah, it's mainly a balance reason, that being said, they did just buff colossal attack speed so it is relatively speedy. Also spamming the thrusting attack to abuse your reach is surprisingly realistic, even if it's dummy broken.
@@lordderppington4694 The problem in Elden Ring isn't the speed, it's that it's swung like a street lamp; violently crashing into the ground and lumbering like it weighs eighty pounds. The same speed could be used with better form and the complaints would be sated.
Diablo 3 got it right. 2-Handers have 1.1 to 1.2 attack speed typically. Slower than one handed, but it's much faster than you'd think.
Kingdom come deliverance would of made it look immersive and genuine
Montante is so much fun to train with. I love reading the Godinho manuscript. You should go over how people expect you need lots open space to use a greatsword. but you see far more manuscripts explaining how to use them in city streets, back alleyways and onboard galley ships.
Streets and alleys are not a big issue and ships can have some wide spaces, especially galleys, but consider one with tighter corridor points bellow deck or inside a building, or temple corridor where you can not swing this thing like this not only from horizontal constrains but vertical ones too if ceiling kinda low.
@@galadballcrusher8182 The Montante sword can still thrust. You can also take the blade under the false guard with your left hand.
Moreover, the first two-handed swords appeared just among the peoples who often use ships.
To us 6'5" and up i guess its a...sword?
All size jokes aside. Huge fan! Been watching your vids for a while now!
Funnily enough, you're not far off. According to a few medieval theories in regards to making a custom longsword. Any person 6'2" and over would technically wield a greatsword.
I live how he is wielding a sword taller than himself
My mans looks like he's 5'2" so a lot of things are taller than himself.
Try reverse grip
impossible to get an effective attack in if it is not overhead or sideways but to do that without one hand it would require lots of strengh
You would prob break your wrist
That'll break your hand.
Then, Sellsword Arts will break your skull.
Weak bait, or incredibly dumb.
If I've learned anything from vermintide, never underestimate the speed of a well utilized greatsword.
It's the way you talk smoothly while demonstrating without losing breath that I appreciate
I’ve been curious about greatswords since I saw one in a medieval arms exhibit. Thanks for the video!
"i want a spear but with a REALLY long blade and a short handle.. "I gotchu"
I dunno what it is but something about the greatsword clinking against the floor is super satisfying.
Imagine pressing R1 when crouch poke exists.
"Aye, me bottle of scrumpy!"
speaking of which, cider o' clock 😏
“It ain’t great for nothing”
- 👑👴🏻
Not to mention, generally you have to use a lot more brain power to use a montante than a longsword or similar. You have to plan ahead of every cut. Longsword, you're able to panic adjust and make unplanned parries and "blocks" in a way that is far easier than with a full two handed blade.
In sparring with longsword, dussac, etc... I often end up parrying purely on instinct, something goes wrong, and drilled instinct puts my blade in a protective position before my conscious brain processed the threat. With montante, my arms and back just can't move the blade reliably fast enough as a panic response, the way it can with those smaller weapons.
I still love how Montante techniques take a large sword and spinning, two commonly bad ideas in combat, and bring them together to make them viable.
Another point to make is that, despite its size, it’s really not that heavy. If I recall, the average greatsword is usually around 7-10 lbs, because any heavier and you simply wouldn’t be able to use it for combat. Heavier greatswords of around 10-14 lbs were pretty much universally meant to be display items rather than actual weapons.
The longer sword is more modern than its shorter counterparts,
*Seems accurate*
Always find it amazing how much he knows he definitely does his research goo at his job
When he started doing those circling attacks in the air at the same speed as a normal sword would probably be, I got really surprised.
Just imagine a guy in full armor swinging that thing around on the battle field. Just the intimidation factor alone
Funny thing is montante is more considered to be civilian weapon. You could hire a bodyguard woth montante, for example, and he wouldn't let anyone come close to you in the streets (yes, you could efficiently use it in narrow streets despite the weapon's size).
@@MrZoorab i don't remember where I read this so take it with a grain of salt.
Apparently in the 1600s a german bodyguard was ambushed by 10 or so bandits with rapiers but none of them were able to land a hit on him. Someone with a 6 feet long sword going in circles like a meatgrinder for your lunge to get stuck in is probably terrifying. No one died or got injured in that fight, they just couldn't get into range.
Eventually the town guard showed up and they ran (or the bandits got killed, don't remember)
@@atom8248 This is generally the standard context for montante. Antiganking rapier users either with extended area denial until someone can support you, or using the Figueiredo mix-up thrusts to potentially catch them off guard.
@@atom8248That's pretty usual in a lot of Spanish swordsmen for hire diaries and chronicles. It was basically the main use, keep at bay people with roperas, vizcaínas and all that stuff.
Armours for pussies. Us Scots would drop our kilts and run into battle naked apart from a targe , a Dirk and either a great sword or claymore.
Those swings got "if you get hit, its your own fault" energy
I fell in love the first time I picked up a zweihander. I was so small but it felt like a part of the sword touched my soul and told me “I’m for you only”. It became my best weapon when I was training in a multitude of sword styles