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.
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"
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.
@@agorman1341 you couldn't really parry a greatsword in the same way as other swords and alike weapons. The sheer momentum of the blade is going to more than likely knock your parry off course and it'd be very difficult to actually redirect the blade for the same reason.
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
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
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.
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.
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
@@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.
"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.
@@Tanandrum 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.
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.
Having just watched the medieval movie Ironclad, it was the closest depiction to how realistic a greatsword could be used on the battlefield. The most impressive part was the surprising agility and flexibility of a greatsword which coupled with its length, could be used to fight against several enemies simultaneously.
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.
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
You can tell how it works when you see how its supposed to be moved. Very cool to see what the arc and movement required looks like. an arm workout for sure!
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
This is why I love Tusk in Killer Instinct. His combos actually LOOK like how a person with a greatsword would fight. Those powerful and rapid swings as he twirls the blade so effortlessly are so damn cool.
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.
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.
something that I'll always remember is a description of how some pirate crews would send over great sword users first who would clear an area for the rest of their crew to come in on. The job was considered dangerous so it got 1 and a 1/4 shares of the loot instead of 1 share. Of course the goal was always to avoid a fight as much as possible, but pirates sure did have some clever tactics.
I never really thought of greatsword as crude, since from the moment I began to study history as a child it clicked to me that swords got longer as time went on, with short gladius of ancient romans being about twice shorter than medieval longswords. So greatswords belonging in the next age after medieval times just felt natural to me. Of course with time I realised there were many, MANY exceptions to that rule, but still longer swords requiring better technology and resources remains a fact.
I love the thought of a man pulling out a huge greatsword during a duel The opponent, using something like a longsword or rapier, would expect an easy victory But to their surprise, the greatsword weilder is super skilled and dexterous, and the entire time, the opponent has to dodge and weave between the huge swings and arcs, and would just be massively off balance Subversion of expectations at its finest
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.
Bronze age swords were often limited to around 2 feet long because they'd fold on impact due to the limitations of bronze (this changed in the late bronze age but then the bronze age collapse happened so we'll never know 🤷♂️), and steel warps and cracks when quenched, so the longer it is the more dramatic small errors are. To harden a long, narrow, flat piece of steel requires great expertise, luck, and high grade materials. In short, the great sword was infinitely harder to make than a spear and beyond utility it was also status for the Smith and the wielder.
greatsword guardsmen spinning their sword like a darksouls fight above their heads while the lowly pickpocket looks in fear after it tried to rob the vip
People also often forget that the further the tip of the sword is from your hand(s), the faster it will move. You're hand(s) only moves a small distance, and the tip of the sword obviously moves a much larger distance in the same amount of time. Two hands might move somewhat slower than one and with the added weight, albeit small, but with that little extra force required, and output, the speed of the tip becomes just as, if not more, dangerous.
imagine being a 4x blessed by the dark gods Chaos Warrior that gets chopped up by an Empire Greatsword who is actually close to retiring age i love Greatswords
The only thing brutal about greatswords are the Dragonslayer from Berserk. “That thing 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.”
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."'
Nope. Too big and yes actually, too slow. Smaller and faster one handed weapons were the primary weapons of berserkir and ulfthendar. They were more shock troops, though many stories exist about them fending off countless foes. The light weapons and borderline insane tactics is what enabled them to be so effective. That and the cocktail of poisons and herbs.
I got into an argument with some people where they were saying it’s main purpose was to smash and mangle armor like it’s nothing and I’ve asked several times for an example and I still don’t have one, I told them it’s just a longer sword that is good against pikes, but I’m tired of arguing with them.
And also one of my favorite things to use in one on one sparring. The large arcs being horizontal or vertical always can keep people using smaller weapons at a distance, going for the legs is something people usually don't expect, and a stab into a large horizontal swing is a huge way to throw less experienced fighters off
Alec Steele has done some really good series about making long swords. Even with modern equipment it can be tricky to make sure a blade stays straight while it cools after forging.
I think the only "Crude" Weapons are the ones made of sticks and rocks basically. Anything that takes a craftsman to make or an adept fighter to make it useful can't be crude
In the video game, it recognized as a heavy main melee weapon and you cannot swinging it faster because it is heavy. But in reality, it's not that heavy.
When did the Greatsword become crude though? There's nothing as cool and elegant as a giant sword that gives you the reach of a spear, hacking power of an axe and the control of a blade.
Love these vids. Makes me wish there was a place around here to learn swordsmanship. I love learning about the specific weapons, their origins, and how they're meant to be wielded.
Halfway through I was thinking that it was used for large opponents as well then I remembered that there was no 10 foot tall Goliaths walking around in the 1500s
and dont forget making a sword that big has a huge chance of warping on heat treat , and they used water quenching back then which increases the warp chance . blacksmiths back in the day were really on some next level shit with the little they had . anything but crude , ive come to love all weapons for their differences in function
In germany they also sometimes been called "gassenhauer" that would translate to "alley thug" cause they cleared alleys with them and also destroyed the legs of horses in smaller alleys to make a way.
There’s a sword shop at our renfest that has a flamberge style montante hanging on their wall… I’ve been in love with that thing since the first time I laid eyes on it…
"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
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."
@@Channel-Zoo 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
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
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
@@kieranadamson3224you could try to parry it, i guess
@@agorman1341 you couldn't really parry a greatsword in the same way as other swords and alike weapons. The sheer momentum of the blade is going to more than likely knock your parry off course and it'd be very difficult to actually redirect the blade for the same reason.
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 🤷🏻♂️
"Cruel and brutal 👹”
“Or is it? 😊”
Brutal in terms of inflicting damage to your enemy but not yourself.
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.
"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 👑
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.
"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
It's the way you talk smoothly while demonstrating without losing breath that I appreciate
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.
I’m gonna be honest, I’m learning so much about swords from your channel and it’s all gonna be used to write better sword scenes in my stories.
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
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.
"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.
@@Tanandrum 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?
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.
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
That sound every time he puts it down... satisfying AF.
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.
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.
If I've learned anything from vermintide, never underestimate the speed of a well utilized greatsword.
Having just watched the medieval movie Ironclad, it was the closest depiction to how realistic a greatsword could be used on the battlefield. The most impressive part was the surprising agility and flexibility of a greatsword which coupled with its length, could be used to fight against several enemies simultaneously.
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
"i want a spear but with a REALLY long blade and a short handle.. "I gotchu"
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
You can tell how it works when you see how its supposed to be moved. Very cool to see what the arc and movement required looks like. an arm workout for sure!
I’ve been curious about greatswords since I saw one in a medieval arms exhibit. Thanks for the video!
Also a popular weapon for bodyguards. One guy could hold up an entire corridor or alleyway swinging it around while the principal makes the escape.
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
This is why I love Tusk in Killer Instinct. His combos actually LOOK like how a person with a greatsword would fight. Those powerful and rapid swings as he twirls the blade so effortlessly are so damn cool.
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.
Video game developers: "Nah, it's a sledgehammer but...like...faster"
I dunno what it is but something about the greatsword clinking against the floor is super satisfying.
Watching someone doing those crowd-clearing sweeping strike motions properly with a greatsword looks both elegant and devastating.
Those swings got "if you get hit, its your own fault" energy
Fromsoft pretending they didn't hear that💀
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.
something that I'll always remember is a description of how some pirate crews would send over great sword users first who would clear an area for the rest of their crew to come in on. The job was considered dangerous so it got 1 and a 1/4 shares of the loot instead of 1 share.
Of course the goal was always to avoid a fight as much as possible, but pirates sure did have some clever tactics.
That *CLANG* whenever you set it down is perfect
Berserk 2016 approves
A little bit too much, actually...
I saw that sword in Dark Souls 1, it was very good, decent speed, good range and incredible damage
Always find it amazing how much he knows he definitely does his research goo at his job
I never really thought of greatsword as crude, since from the moment I began to study history as a child it clicked to me that swords got longer as time went on, with short gladius of ancient romans being about twice shorter than medieval longswords. So greatswords belonging in the next age after medieval times just felt natural to me.
Of course with time I realised there were many, MANY exceptions to that rule, but still longer swords requiring better technology and resources remains a fact.
"Aye, me bottle of scrumpy!"
speaking of which, cider o' clock 😏
I love the thought of a man pulling out a huge greatsword during a duel
The opponent, using something like a longsword or rapier, would expect an easy victory
But to their surprise, the greatsword weilder is super skilled and dexterous, and the entire time, the opponent has to dodge and weave between the huge swings and arcs, and would just be massively off balance
Subversion of expectations at its finest
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.
Always put me in the mood for hellish quart
The longer sword is more modern than its shorter counterparts,
*Seems accurate*
The greatsword is king of all swords. What a beautiful work of art!
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.
Bronze age swords were often limited to around 2 feet long because they'd fold on impact due to the limitations of bronze (this changed in the late bronze age but then the bronze age collapse happened so we'll never know 🤷♂️), and steel warps and cracks when quenched, so the longer it is the more dramatic small errors are.
To harden a long, narrow, flat piece of steel requires great expertise, luck, and high grade materials. In short, the great sword was infinitely harder to make than a spear and beyond utility it was also status for the Smith and the wielder.
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.
greatsword guardsmen spinning their sword like a darksouls fight above their heads while the lowly pickpocket looks in fear after it tried to rob the vip
“It ain’t great for nothing”
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People also often forget that the further the tip of the sword is from your hand(s), the faster it will move. You're hand(s) only moves a small distance, and the tip of the sword obviously moves a much larger distance in the same amount of time. Two hands might move somewhat slower than one and with the added weight, albeit small, but with that little extra force required, and output, the speed of the tip becomes just as, if not more, dangerous.
Imagine pressing R1 when crouch poke exists.
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imagine being a 4x blessed by the dark gods Chaos Warrior that gets chopped up by an Empire Greatsword who is actually close to retiring age
i love Greatswords
As opposed to... We have a scythe and need a weapon, we're turning it 90 degrees and it's a glaive now
The only thing brutal about greatswords are the Dragonslayer from Berserk. “That thing 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.”
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."'
That's the kind of sword a real one man army will use. Or a Nordic Berserker, if they could've just survived until the time the first one was made.
Nope. Too big and yes actually, too slow. Smaller and faster one handed weapons were the primary weapons of berserkir and ulfthendar. They were more shock troops, though many stories exist about them fending off countless foes. The light weapons and borderline insane tactics is what enabled them to be so effective. That and the cocktail of poisons and herbs.
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That sound when the montante’s tip hits the ground…
…perfection.
Holy moly! A durable spear!
"Crude and brutal, or is it?" *vsause music*
These videos always pop up in my feed, and I'm not sure why, but I really enjoy these random sword and sword fighting technique videos.
I got into an argument with some people where they were saying it’s main purpose was to smash and mangle armor like it’s nothing and I’ve asked several times for an example and I still don’t have one, I told them it’s just a longer sword that is good against pikes, but I’m tired of arguing with them.
Beautiful way to explain the great sword ⚔️🗡️
I recieve severe Vsauce flashbacks by this intro and I love it
The sound of that metal hitting the ground made my testosterone go up by 5%
And also one of my favorite things to use in one on one sparring. The large arcs being horizontal or vertical always can keep people using smaller weapons at a distance, going for the legs is something people usually don't expect, and a stab into a large horizontal swing is a huge way to throw less experienced fighters off
Alec Steele has done some really good series about making long swords. Even with modern equipment it can be tricky to make sure a blade stays straight while it cools after forging.
I think the only "Crude" Weapons are the ones made of sticks and rocks basically. Anything that takes a craftsman to make or an adept fighter to make it useful can't be crude
In the video game, it recognized as a heavy main melee weapon and you cannot swinging it faster because it is heavy.
But in reality, it's not that heavy.
Dnd has shown me firsthand the badassery of the greatsword
When did the Greatsword become crude though? There's nothing as cool and elegant as a giant sword that gives you the reach of a spear, hacking power of an axe and the control of a blade.
Love these vids. Makes me wish there was a place around here to learn swordsmanship. I love learning about the specific weapons, their origins, and how they're meant to be wielded.
The art of the Great sword is one not common to as much love as it deserves
I fell in love and appreciated greatswords when i played dark souls and Skyrim
Only greatsword that should be considered "a hulking brute, crude and brutal" is the Dragonslayer from Berserk
Man I love the old days
Finally! Someone is giving proper respect to some of my favorite blades!
When you want a sword, but need to social distance
I think know this is my new favorite sword
Halfway through I was thinking that it was used for large opponents as well then I remembered that there was no 10 foot tall Goliaths walking around in the 1500s
The most important part of wielding a Zwiehander is you don't level dex.
Wow, really cool to see how these were actually used
This made me feel a lot better about those big ass swords the elves had in the first episode of Rings of Power
Finally. I never see any videos about my favorite sword.
“Or is it?”
*vsauce music plays*
Finally this legendary channel blowing up like it deserves
Slaying Dragon with a thick metal bar must be an old tradition from an older time then.
Respect to this guy for making he's voice rad to a simple man😂
and dont forget making a sword that big has a huge chance of warping on heat treat , and they used water quenching back then which increases the warp chance . blacksmiths back in the day were really on some next level shit with the little they had . anything but crude , ive come to love all weapons for their differences in function
THAT is the blade of the ruined king. At least that's what the BORK resembles. So I cannot see that type of greatsword as anything else.
In germany they also sometimes been called "gassenhauer" that would translate to "alley thug" cause they cleared alleys with them and also destroyed the legs of horses in smaller alleys to make a way.
There’s a sword shop at our renfest that has a flamberge style montante hanging on their wall… I’ve been in love with that thing since the first time I laid eyes on it…
The other neat function is that you can hold the blade and hit helmets with the pommel at a greater range for armoured targets
It made anvil falling sound when you put it on the ground