3 Reasons WHY you wouldn't Kill the horse of a knight in battle

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  • @jawnTem
    @jawnTem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    I'm a member of a Civil War Reenactment group. Many times we've fought mock combat, both mounted and dismounted. Even in mock battles knowing that you won't be killed, it's hard to face a mounted charge without trying not to bolt. The temptation is overwhelming. What many people don't realize is that a horse/equine can cover ground very quickly, measured in seconds.
    Imagine a line of men charging you, screaming and yelling, firing weapons, often 4 to 8 pistols, along with a couple of sawed-off shotguns, all coming at you at an incredible speed. You hear the pounding of their hooves and feel it in the ground through your feet, spelling your DOOM! it's very nerve-racking. In ancient warfare, it was even more profound as along with the above, there was banging & clashing of weapons, men screaming death wails, accompanied by the unmistakable smell of fresh blood and bowels. Truly overwhelming!

    • @bjornherzog6070
      @bjornherzog6070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Just imaging a modern Battelfield, a german Leopard A7 Battletank charges you directly, even with some sort of small Anti-Tank Weapon like a LAW or an RPG etc, you are knowing, you need a (very) Lucky hit to do more than just scratch it's Paintings, you will run - thats exactly what medieval Infantryman experienced when Knights charged: an nearly unstoppable State of the Art Killing machine, best avaiable and expensive Technic of their time, trained at best for just killing them if they do not run

    • @tylerfreal6472
      @tylerfreal6472 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      plus they wernt used to that large gatherings of people so the first time you see 1000 people , 200 on horses 200 shooting bows at you and 600 charging you ,all trying to murder you

    • @taylorjensen2787
      @taylorjensen2787 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Björn Herzog the new US Abrams is state of the art. Not even close.

    • @conanspit
      @conanspit ปีที่แล้ว +5

      During the filming of, IIRC, a napoleon movie, the actors actually fled from a horsecharge out of character because they were genuinely routed.

    • @ChristianGrape
      @ChristianGrape ปีที่แล้ว

      Jesus loves you

  • @Garl_Vinland
    @Garl_Vinland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1417

    Obviously killing the horse triggers a cutscene where the Knight absorbes his horse’s power.

    • @mariomaiorano1859
      @mariomaiorano1859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      do you think real life works like dark souls?

    • @mohandasjung
      @mohandasjung 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      @@mariomaiorano1859 It does!

    • @stormsoul3162
      @stormsoul3162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      @@mariomaiorano1859 pls hand your internet license to the nearest authority, your incapability of processing sarcasm has forced us to take this step. You can regain your license and thereby the right to comment by successfully finishing a humor rehabilitation course in a local ERP certified establishment.

    • @mariomaiorano1859
      @mariomaiorano1859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@stormsoul3162 bro I was also joking lmao

    • @mariomaiorano1859
      @mariomaiorano1859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@mohandasjung I wish😩

  • @tomashize
    @tomashize 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1556

    It's really hard to imagine just how intimidating a big horse bearing down on you is unless you've been there. I've only been in reenactments, a couple of demos and on the edge of a racetrack. It's bloody terrifying and you just want to run or hug the ground. I can barely imagine hundreds of them charging you then you have the knights on top of them. How anyone stood there ground against that is amazing to me.

    • @aripmjr
      @aripmjr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      Exactly. A horse is a big and powerful animal that can easily trample and squish a human being, no matter how big or strong the latter is.

    • @hemelinger7792
      @hemelinger7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Due to actual pyhsics, you only have to stop the horse in front of you. Then you are not trampled. That wouldn´t protect you from any lances of the other knights going past you where your buddies went of running. I say, I´d be a lot more scared of the lances then of the horses, but I have worked with animals a lot. Don´t forget that people at that time were used to working with animals, not so much working with (or rather against) lances and knights.

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Especially if you weren't familiar with a horse or knew to stand your ground. The Spanish would use this in the Americas: the native peoples had no familiarity with it. Like Romans against Pyrrhus' elephants, they would run rather than risk getting tramples. Unlike the Romans, they weren't given enough time to develop counter tactics until it was too late.

    • @hugus800
      @hugus800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Why not ride cattles in combat then?

    • @hemelinger7792
      @hemelinger7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@hugus800 what does your question relate to? obviously horses work better. I am sure people have been testing these things.

  • @aceiliad
    @aceiliad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Lived near a stable when I was younger, one of the horses broke it's leg in a paddock about a km away from our house. The shrieking it produced still haunts me. Wouldn't want to experience that on a large scale.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Horses do have a strange body-to-leg proportion that seems to suggest a high risk of that.

  • @ecchi4196
    @ecchi4196 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5487

    "The wind" is the medieval version of blaming lag

    • @autokrator_
      @autokrator_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Based and souka-pilled.

    • @awishforpeaceinthevoid9653
      @awishforpeaceinthevoid9653 5 ปีที่แล้ว +260

      "Twas the wind Knave..."

    • @Verlasian
      @Verlasian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      omg God nerf wind pls

    • @ecchi4196
      @ecchi4196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      @@Verlasian More like "God fix the servers!"

    • @Uwawa96
      @Uwawa96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Its always the Wind ... the wind or the Goblins ....

  • @tristane3444
    @tristane3444 6 ปีที่แล้ว +946

    Now I constantly imagine a knight training the sword while I enjoy things

    • @metatronyt
      @metatronyt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Ahahahahah

    • @owo5869
      @owo5869 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Tristan Ich And when your enjoying more things he's enjoying more better than you.

    • @InqWiper
      @InqWiper 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      And while he is charging at you, he is imagining you having fun at the tavern while he was training the sword. Imagine his blood lust.

    • @tristane3444
      @tristane3444 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@owo5869 he probably has sex with Jennifer right now

    • @michaelknight6905
      @michaelknight6905 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it.....
      it haunts me.....

  • @constantinexi9667
    @constantinexi9667 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2104

    When you were training the sword, he was training the sword

    • @DRakshasa
      @DRakshasa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Without joking though, that detail is actually pretty big. A lot of people don't realise that the thought you have put into stuff like this, or the training you have had, is not much different from what most others have had in the same span of time.
      A modern example would be video games. Try to compare PvE content to PvP. It's easy enough to theory craft a strategy against the AI, but implementing it vs real people is another thing. And even then there is comparing low-level PvP to high-level PvP.

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      More like "when you were training the short sword for the first time, he had been training with a longsword since he was able to walk"

    • @timomastosalo
      @timomastosalo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@barbiquearea Nah, the longsword is heavy for a toddler. THAT came later. When he was able to walk, the first training, it was something like the Roman Gladius, or Frodo's Sting. And the weawy fi'tht timeth - with a wooden training sword.

    • @vin6626
      @vin6626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Conversely, competitive players often have a hard time playing the campaigns for the first time, at least on higher difficulties. Campaigns require a different play style than 1v1 matches. Eventually however, their ability to formulate a working strategy lets them steamroll missions.

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Constantine XI
      The only thing that will really stop a knight is another knight going in the opposite direction.

  • @jorgebarriosmur
    @jorgebarriosmur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    11:56 I read that when they filmed "Breavhart" they had dificulties to make the extras stay in line while riders and horses aporached them to simulate a charge. THEY KNEW it was fake, and that the riders would stop before reaching them, and even so they couldn´t hold the line.
    Now imagine this was seriuos.........I think I would have run.

    • @bernhardwidmer886
      @bernhardwidmer886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ever heard of switzerland? :-)))

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bernhardwidmer886 No.

    • @bernhardwidmer886
      @bernhardwidmer886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@The_ZeroLine that is a serious lack of knowledge

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@bernhardwidmer886 What’s “knowledge?”

    • @edyslavico3761
      @edyslavico3761 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think he's referencing swiss pikemen and their effectiveness in holding the line against cavalry charges.

  • @toddkurzbard
    @toddkurzbard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +430

    The moral of the story:
    If you think you're going to kill Sir Lancelot, you're going to have a very bad knight.

    • @GhostDrewSenju
      @GhostDrewSenju 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey that's the tweaker from aqua teen.

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hehe, they don't call me Sir Lance a lot for nothin

    • @zachofthebattery2864
      @zachofthebattery2864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lancelot was basically a french fan fiction of the original myths/histories

  • @captainjules6033
    @captainjules6033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1991

    *teleports behind you* “While you were smashing Jennifer, I was studying the blade”

    • @StudlyFudd13
      @StudlyFudd13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      While also smashing Jennifer ;)

    • @LautaroRRIos
      @LautaroRRIos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@StudlyFudd13 smashing Jennifer with the sword

    • @sailorquestion3229
      @sailorquestion3229 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@LautaroRRIos Both swords right?

    • @MeshuggahDave.
      @MeshuggahDave. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Official winner!

    • @narutohuntmendemon6354
      @narutohuntmendemon6354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MeshuggahDave. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's my aunt tho but still funny as hell😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sisigburger8330
    @sisigburger8330 6 ปีที่แล้ว +913

    "It's all written in this book you can't read"

    • @JL.T.
      @JL.T. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      In ROMAN! (lets hope it was times new roman) ;))

    • @mennograafmans1595
      @mennograafmans1595 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I swear, it was in that article online I can't fight anymore! It was really there!
      I do, however, believe Mettatron more with that than my groupmates for a project.

    • @heretyk_1337
      @heretyk_1337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That was my university life in nutshell

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well Arial wasn't invented until 1982 and most people find Times New Roman more visually appealing anyway..

    • @madmadameminx
      @madmadameminx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's been tested and all.
      $1000% legit

  • @halo12390
    @halo12390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I'm thinking another thing to consider is that the horse is coming at you at high speed. even if you manage to kill it, the thing would still be coming at you and there is a high chance you'd be crushed by the combined weight and momentum of the horse and the armoured knight falling on you.

    • @xodleoj
      @xodleoj ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yea logical 🙂🙂

  • @tundemikoczi3432
    @tundemikoczi3432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    But horses die with their riders. We know that since Age og Empires.

    • @abcd-yg2rx
      @abcd-yg2rx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Except from the new unique unite , namely the konnik

    • @craftpaint1644
      @craftpaint1644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Horatio I am dead. Thou livest. Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied !"
      - 🐕

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    Any strategy that assumes a passive opponent isn't a strategy. It's a daydream.

    • @lilslavboi2171
      @lilslavboi2171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      people should watch more ufc and the interviews they have before hand. you have a perfect plan till you get punched in the face.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@lilslavboi2171
      Such a tired meme. Tyson had plans. He prepared for fights. Having a plan and preparing for your opponent is what every successful fighter does.
      The problem is *bad* plans.

    • @ProudFilthyCasual
      @ProudFilthyCasual 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lilslavboi2171 The more accurate statement I’ve found is everyone has a plan until they get hot with a high single leg and are now on their back. A situation where 98% of humans apparently are entirely unprepared to be in.

  • @DaddyClown4805
    @DaddyClown4805 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1092

    While you were on the toilet
    He was training the sword

    • @Symonch_
      @Symonch_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      While you were watching Fortnite dance
      He was training the sword.

    • @IReallyBluett
      @IReallyBluett 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      M'lady

    • @Nerobyrne
      @Nerobyrne 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I wonder, will the sword ever complete its training?

    • @Symonch_
      @Symonch_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Nerobyrne While you were training the sword
      He was training the very sword. He will kill you by just asking the sword to hit you

    • @jorgeguanche5327
      @jorgeguanche5327 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      When you are killing the enemy
      He was training the sword

  • @susandolan9543
    @susandolan9543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    The horse was also considered to be a spoil of war. A infantry grunt could use a horse on his plot of land to plow and haul heavy things to clear more land for planting.

    • @irisallender6796
      @irisallender6796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      i highly doubt a medieval levy would get their hands on a full on war horse let alone use if for plane old field work. if it were me at least, i’d sell it.

    • @susandolan9543
      @susandolan9543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@irisallender6796 Spoils of war figured out to be who got to what first. A plow horse would be priceless for a infantry footman's plot of land. He'd sell his wife and kids before parting with that horse. Also many a poor Knight also had to use his horse to plow his fields. Not everybody who had a title actually had heaps of money. Armies didn't get paid to fight as they do now. What you could snatch from someone's home is what you got paid with. That's what Pillaging ment.

    • @bebebutterbub1344
      @bebebutterbub1344 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or also eaten, by Napoleon’s starving army 😽

    •  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ​@@susandolan9543Sell the war horse, buy a cheaper farm horse, drink the difference.

    • @ItsAVolcano
      @ItsAVolcano ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Something extremely valuable like that would likely "go in the pool" so to speak, a communal pot of goods which the units quartermaster would then distribute out based on rank and performance. Although someone capturing a war horse would almost certainly get a bonus for doing so the horse itself would likely be paid out to a knight, with priority to any one who actually *did* get their horse killed out from under them.

  • @xcritic9671
    @xcritic9671 6 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    Infantryman: *kills horse*
    Knight after standing up: "Ohhh laddie" *draws sword* "you've done it now..."

    • @Zankaroo
      @Zankaroo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah that is if the knight gets up. Pending how the horse stopped the knight would have a good chance of being fucked. If it did run into thick, braced spears, the abrupt stop of the horse would send the rider flying behind enemy lines and hitting the ground really hard if the enemy lines didn't break his fall, and people die all the time from falling off a horse but this knight was just thrown at like 30mph-40mph from a charging horse, his armor would help soften the impact but he is still at high risk. Aside from probable injuries from being thrown if not out right dead already, he is now on the ground surrounded by enemy soldiers stabbing him in every joint. Dead knight is dead. If the horse slows down trying to stop, gets stabbed and rears up then falls over, well now there is a very good chance the knight's leg is pinned under the horse and broken (possibly with the horse failing causing more pain and injury). Unable to move the knight either gets trampled by other horses or stabbed because he is pinned and can't move or fight back.

    • @xcritic9671
      @xcritic9671 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Zankaroo I'm assuming if the horse is armored the only way to take it down as its charging you is to go for the legs by either cutting one clean off or simply placing your weapon in its path matador style, in which case it will fall out from underneath him, putting him into a somersault or a roll(as long as it doesn't flip over entirely), both of which are relatively safe. The weight of all he has on will keep him from being flung such a long distance as any normal rider would, as well as protecting him from the brunt of the impact like you mentioned, so when he gets up he won't be too happy with you.

    • @Zankaroo
      @Zankaroo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@xcritic9671 He would still be a row or two deep surrounded by enemy who most likely started beating or stabbing as soon as he hit the ground.

    • @xcritic9671
      @xcritic9671 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Zankaroo this is an assumed instance where its just one knight and one guy(you), otherwise you're talking a full cavalry charge and a full line of infantry and it would be nearly impossible to get away with those variables.

    • @captainseyepatch3879
      @captainseyepatch3879 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      As I have pointed out. We know for a fact that it was common for a knight to be out and out killed when his horse went down. A king of Poland died when his horse rolled over onto him.

  • @TheJavaMonkey
    @TheJavaMonkey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1620

    I knew you were multilingual, dude, but I didn't know you could speak horse!

    • @averagejo1626
      @averagejo1626 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      I'm fluent in horse, but that sounded more like Mule to me. :-P

    • @jlastre
      @jlastre 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Mr. Ed was fluent in English, so it shouldn't be surprising.

    • @cratoss.4772
      @cratoss.4772 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@averagejo1626 Yup,sounded like Ass to me.

    • @durgan5668
      @durgan5668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We've all spoken hoarse a time or two....

    • @hidof9598
      @hidof9598 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Name one of his learned languages

  • @thefunnypotatoboy1081
    @thefunnypotatoboy1081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    Dont kill the horse, trip it and then steal it. Then *BRAVELY* run away.

    • @thomaskunz3089
      @thomaskunz3089 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      ´´Brave , brave, brave, brave sir Robin``

    • @glennsommer8901
      @glennsommer8901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      My friend tried this with my horse.
      *My horse put him right into the intensive care.*
      edit: simply put, horses can be loyal sons of horses

    • @andreimarcusmerced4152
      @andreimarcusmerced4152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      then eat the horse after

    • @juanvasquez2315
      @juanvasquez2315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andreimarcusmerced4152 How is that funny? That's just cruel.

    • @andreimarcusmerced4152
      @andreimarcusmerced4152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@juanvasquez2315 are you a vegan bro? seriously if you eat livestock then what makes horse meat different.

  • @marktaylor6491
    @marktaylor6491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    8:35 - The other big factors at Agincourt were not the amount of English archers and their dense formation. But also the dense formation of the French. Hence English 'arrow storm' was almost always going to hit something.

    • @davec8730
      @davec8730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      an 'easy' win for the french and plenty (including Harry) to ransom.....ooops!

  • @Grivian
    @Grivian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    Nothing makes a knight more excited than a broken line

    • @couchpotatoe91
      @couchpotatoe91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      How about a maiden's broken dress?

    • @victuz
      @victuz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      A broken line of running people is basically free kills.

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Except maybe for Jennifer.

    • @bobrosser1101
      @bobrosser1101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sigurd Torvaldsson not every line will be broken though so it won’t be that easy. Lines get broken almost all the time it’s just how long you can hold them

    • @atmo-sphere6799
      @atmo-sphere6799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bobrosser1101 yes, but undoubtedly a lot easier than the maintained line, thus the excitement.

  • @5TailFox
    @5TailFox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    People often forget that, not only was the Knight trained, the horse the Knight is riding was specially trained, too. And it would be wearing its own armor to boot.

    • @mikegrossberg8624
      @mikegrossberg8624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Remember that in battles of knights v knights, the horses would STILL be running towards lots of pointy things aimed at them, called lances, as well as at other horses, both of which were moving right at them. War horses were trained NOT to stop or shy away
      The armor that you see on horses pictured here was of the LATER period, and much of it was mostly for parade, rather than combat. An EARLIER war horse, if it had armor at all, would have a headpiece and chest protector made of boiled leather

    • @magicAAA
      @magicAAA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Historical sources have it that horse armor was only issued if you ponied up for the DLC.

    • @DeltaBadeMaker
      @DeltaBadeMaker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@magicAAA I was looking for this.

    • @erikr968
      @erikr968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Massive horse armour was most likely only used for tournaments and parades. It would be much too heavy to use on campaigns and battles. In battle, the horses would probably wear no or very limited armour.

    • @mikepalmer392
      @mikepalmer392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thick armor on both horse and knight ya your in trouble

  • @jacopoarmini7889
    @jacopoarmini7889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +840

    plus, those horses are bloody valuable, a friend of mine trains horses, and she told me that a knight's warhorse was heavily trained and selected, so capturing one would make you rich.
    (hoping that your superiors don't take all the merit...)

    • @eyeninja3398
      @eyeninja3398 6 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      it's like a equivalent of a sports car back then

    • @MinSredMash
      @MinSredMash 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      You don't get to keep it. The commander pools the loot and doles out shares.

    • @johnsamu
      @johnsamu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      It's just like modern times, you do all the hard work and your boss takes all the credit and the money. He MIGHT buy you a beer thougn if you're lucky 😜😜

    • @davidtuttle7556
      @davidtuttle7556 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @White-Van Helsing you aint never been to a paddock then. A lot have ppl have been killed or maimed by ornery horses. They warn you first to back off, but if you dont they kick harder than Hollie Holmes on Rowdy's face.

    • @LilithLonelyHeart
      @LilithLonelyHeart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Well agree back in medieval times Hores was basically like a car about 2-3 decades ago(nowadays it's not that much of a luxury good really) a luxury that had a lot of utility, but still was expensive as hell to get and maintain, so bet that probably a typical grunt would prefer to knock knight off horse (what could be still hard thing but bit easier especially with polearms) and just keep horse for self, for transport or maybe even combat

  • @dustinb1070
    @dustinb1070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    #1 reason: a war horse could be worth ten years of their salaries.

    • @ericscire
      @ericscire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yes, I was also thinking that the value of the horse would be one of the reasons

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ericscire Those medieval folk were all about loot and ransoming.

    • @dustinb1070
      @dustinb1070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Parvonik the leaders on the field are often thinking about things like this.

    • @woodys9841
      @woodys9841 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thats just foolish to believe. Yes, those horses were worth a lot, but as Metatron said, when the knights charge, you are likely in the worst scenario you could ever imagine finding yourself in. It is utterly ridiculous to assume, that even for a second one would think of spoils, profit, or gain in that case. Your brain shuts down and you rely entirely on instincts. The only thing that matters is how you will get out of this alive and with all your limbs in place.

    • @dustinb1070
      @dustinb1070 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@woodys9841 you would think that but in modern and ancient warfare money was always a concern for leadership. Yes the individual war fighters might say screw it but those cases are the minority.

  • @ramilgomez5712
    @ramilgomez5712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    While you reading and rplying the comment,
    He was training the sword

  • @darkmoon1289
    @darkmoon1289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1580

    You forgot one thing:
    If the knight does recover from the fall...
    He'll be *PISSED*

    • @yesyesyesyes1600
      @yesyesyesyes1600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      He is probably not able to get up. Stunned by the fall and the armour is so heavy that he can not stand up without help.

    • @yesyesyesyes1600
      @yesyesyesyes1600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Favour135 I heard different things in Zeughaus Graz Styria (the biggest armory of medieval weapons in Europe). A knight lying on the ground is dead meat if nobody helps him up. But hey if I am wrong it is also okay for me :)

    • @RyujinNoKami
      @RyujinNoKami 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      @@yesyesyesyes1600 th-cam.com/video/qzTwBQniLSc/w-d-xo.html
      You might want to change your mind

    • @yesyesyesyes1600
      @yesyesyesyes1600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RyujinNoKami maybe
      But these are replicas and not historical armors, right?

    • @Malagar1
      @Malagar1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @@yesyesyesyes1600 They are replicas made to historical specifications, same thickness and materials as the remaining historical examples. The size is generally different, but that is because they have to fit the wearer, the weight and load that they put on the wearer is the same as historical armours.

  • @killazaawl
    @killazaawl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +667

    medieval combat guide:
    1. get a spear
    2. profit

    • @dannyfergusson3243
      @dannyfergusson3243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Spears are the best form of melee weapon

    • @tarantulathree-one8013
      @tarantulathree-one8013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Until you realize a spear is unwieldy and you have not trained with the spear properly and that shit gets yanked out of your hands or deflected by a buckler or you aimed for the limbs like a moron and they got past the business end of the spear.

    • @tarantulathree-one8013
      @tarantulathree-one8013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Bostan Liviu Good luck landing a proper shield bash on someone who is moving on their feet.

    • @dannyfergusson3243
      @dannyfergusson3243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Bostan Liviu Well in formation shield and spear, distance is very important.
      wars are generally fought in formations.

    • @dannyfergusson3243
      @dannyfergusson3243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@tarantulathree-one8013 "not trained with the spear properly"
      Doesnt this apply to every weapon ? Isnt that a non argument ?

  • @molotulo8808
    @molotulo8808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    The best way to kill a knight was to have a wench give him syphilis!

    • @davec8730
      @davec8730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      or water to drink.

    • @davec8730
      @davec8730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Martin the Warrior so many weapons of mass destruction in those days.

    • @cetus4449
      @cetus4449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was no syphilis in medieval Europe.

    • @crusaderACR
      @crusaderACR ปีที่แล้ว

      Im quite certain Syphilis is an American disease, pal.
      The middle ages ended with the discovery of the Americas so it doesn't check out.

    •  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@cetus4449 They had other diseases, though.

  • @Emperor_Atlantis
    @Emperor_Atlantis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    "...And that includes Jennifer, unless he is a Templar, if he sticks to the rules that is" :'D hahaha

    • @Draculas-knight
      @Draculas-knight 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You are funny ofc almost (except the real really old high masters) all of them broke that rule

    • @mohamedaljamil6334
      @mohamedaljamil6334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I couldnt stop laughing when he said "that includes Jennifer"

    • @xaquko9718
      @xaquko9718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If he is a templar he probably prefers you over Jennifer...
      ...and this makes the Pope angry.

    • @unlimitedpower1385
      @unlimitedpower1385 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xaquko9718 yeah the pope prefers them far younger

  • @Y0URD4DDIE
    @Y0URD4DDIE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +598

    People who say "I'll JUST do..." have never actually done anything outside of fantasy play

    • @kleinmeisterlein
      @kleinmeisterlein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      But neither have people who say "People who say...".

    • @libertyprime6932
      @libertyprime6932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@kleinmeisterlein The former are annoying, cringe inducing fools, the latter are not ;)

    • @swordzanderson5352
      @swordzanderson5352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kleinmeisterlein I've seen people say claymores are made to cut through armour like butter. These knuckleheads think wielding a big ass chunk of metal is realistic and historically accurate. I'll let you decide whether the latter or former are stupid.

    • @eeelaina5588
      @eeelaina5588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'll just grab an ak and rocket jump to mars while simultaniously doing back flips then shoot the horse from outer space and dodge cosmic radiation

    • @swordzanderson5352
      @swordzanderson5352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@eeelaina5588 Exactly, I'll just grab the Infinity Gauntlet and snap the enemies out of existence.

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool 5 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    william: we'll make spears. twice as long as a man.
    hamish: some men are longer than others.
    campbell: your mother been telling ya stories about me again, eh?

    • @Inquisitor_Vex
      @Inquisitor_Vex 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hamish: “when you say ‘your island’ - you mean Ireland?”
      Irish guy: “Yeah! ... it’s *mine.”*

    • @xaquko9718
      @xaquko9718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Reasons why metric system is better than imperial system...

    • @steelrain79
      @steelrain79 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brave heart

    • @cptjohnbhewler1529
      @cptjohnbhewler1529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Inquisitor_Vex It's even more funny knowing the actor playing the Irish guy is actually Scottish and Brendan Gleeson playing hamish is actually Irish 👍🏻

    • @muchograndeyolatengo
      @muchograndeyolatengo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this was also the first thing that came to my mind. I started wondering whether anyone ever successfully pulled the "surprise" pike trick in history. My guess is no, since the enemy would see you carrying a bunch of pikes when you move into battle formation. I don't remember how they pull it off in Braveheart.

  • @vociferonheraldofthewinter2284
    @vociferonheraldofthewinter2284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    My husband was a soldier and he did wonder how he'd really perform when the shtf. Then he went overseas. After witnessing a few atrocities (that really jacked him up), seeing what was done to the family of one of his local contacts, and what was DONE to one of his local contacts, he got over it. He very much wanted to kill the enemy.
    But it took a lot to awaken a bloodlust in this regular man. Nobody walks into war really understanding it. We can't imagine it until we've witnessed it for ourselves. Even for my husband, it wasn't the sights that got to him. He'd seen enough movies. It was the damn smell. The smells are what made it all real and that changed him.

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Smell is very emotional as we know. It triggers the memory more than sight.

    • @pete3011
      @pete3011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The studies he's referencing have a lot of problems. I dont recall a great deal about it b/c I only looked into it a little bit, but its doubtful it was as big of an issue that its made out to be here.

    • @taylorjensen2787
      @taylorjensen2787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you and your Husband for your service to the United States.
      If you aren't American, then nvm.

    • @Alias_Anybody
      @Alias_Anybody ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@taylorjensen2787
      Wtf even is this comment.

    • @TheGuyCalledX
      @TheGuyCalledX ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@Alias_Anybodya meaningless platitude often recited to soldiers

  • @TheMegaEggers
    @TheMegaEggers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    As Sir Michael Tyson famously said "everyone has a plan until they get lanced in the mouf"

    • @doctorjae75
      @doctorjae75 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I also like his other quote, "I broke my back. Thpinal"

    • @Monscent
      @Monscent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As someone else said: "Run thru a mothafukka face - they you don have to worry bout em no mo"

    • @overcastandhaze
      @overcastandhaze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Lanthed"

  • @zazmatyk
    @zazmatyk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    TL;DR
    Stop procrastinating! You could be training the sword!

    • @tcgoober
      @tcgoober 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Damn it henry

    • @MCLuviin
      @MCLuviin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But what about my date tonight with Jennifer?

    • @gabeux
      @gabeux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      While you were reading this comment, I was training the sword.
      But..Goddamit, to write this comment I had to drop my sword!

    • @thelastfishintheseabutnott3362
      @thelastfishintheseabutnott3362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      While you are training the sword
      HE was training the sword

    • @Godnando00
      @Godnando00 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *Damn it jennifer*
      Gonna train the sword and drink some ale, AND NOT CRY IN THE CORNER.

  • @ameliorategibberish8027
    @ameliorategibberish8027 6 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Hold *TF UP*
    IS NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION THE FACT THAT HE SHAVED BEFORE REASON 1

    • @jorgeguanche5327
      @jorgeguanche5327 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Edit fail!!!!...what a noob!!!

    • @whoaitstiger
      @whoaitstiger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh my God!
      Gh... gh...
      GHOST BEARD! 😨😱

    • @Shape430
      @Shape430 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I mean he was also wearing a metal chest piece and different clothes, I don't think he was trying to be subtle about it lol.

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      While he was explaining, the knight was training the sword by shaving him

    • @Artrysa
      @Artrysa 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh...

  • @unaltrocanale4687
    @unaltrocanale4687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Also, thanks to movies, we tend to imagine that by stabbing enemies they just die. That's not how it works. Instant ko can only be obtained by striking the head or the heart, and even in the second case the heart leaves you some 10-20 seconds of activity before you drop dead. I have seen bulls at the Spanish corrida getting stabbed with swords a ton of times and still charging.

  • @mehmeh3894
    @mehmeh3894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +815

    Someone 1000 years in the future: "So ez beat the SAS i see where the gun pointing and dodge then quickdraw headshot him"

    • @naezjinra
      @naezjinra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      So very accurate, everyone thinks it would be easy to take out elite warriors for some reason. They tend to forget that these people have been training for combat and/or have been in combat for a good portion of their lives.

    • @Aware_Bear
      @Aware_Bear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      To be fair, that is likely a verbatim post already....

    • @jorenvanderark3567
      @jorenvanderark3567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Honestly I could take a Knight IF, AND ONLY IF I were allowed to use my own modern weapons.
      The Knight charges, I point my gun and shoot.

    • @rymreaper
      @rymreaper 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      General Shepard did that!

    • @rymreaper
      @rymreaper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jorenvanderark3567 you would need armor piercing rounds.
      SMGs won't work. Rifles maybe. But with AP rounds 100 percent

  • @Trias805
    @Trias805 5 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    Also, good luck dodging a freaking *wall* of horses charging at you.

    • @dragoncloud5497
      @dragoncloud5497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha

    • @nicklong27
      @nicklong27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Dark Souls taught me I just need to roll

    • @bjmaguire6269
      @bjmaguire6269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      A wall of horses that are not skittish, but trained as well as the knight in obeying and trusting the knight. The hunting of Boar, Wolves, and Bear could be more dangerous than the average battle. No knight would take a horse into battle that had shown any tendency toward skittishness or disobedience in stressful conditions, and knights could afford to be picky...
      Not to mention the knights would spend a good deal of their training on horse back, learning to control it with the slightest leg or body movement causing a corresponding movement from the horse. And I've herd some knights were known to be closer and more connected with their horses than with their wives.

    • @madmun376
      @madmun376 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unless of course you have a wall of pikes that they won't charge at

    • @bjmaguire6269
      @bjmaguire6269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@madmun376 - Hey, in that case dodging wouldn't help either;)

  • @baronvonbrunn8596
    @baronvonbrunn8596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    Solider: YEEEES! I killed his horse...
    ...[sound of dead horse falling on mediveal solider]...

    • @Executor009
      @Executor009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Probably hitting multiple soldiers.

    • @FiikusMaximus
      @FiikusMaximus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      [sound of fellow soldiers' judging stares because you killed a poor beautiful horse]

    • @laytenci
      @laytenci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Filip Kafka [the stare of the now extremely pissed knight in full plate armor and armed to the teeth]

    • @danagray9709
      @danagray9709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@laytenci "oh man! You've really done it now!"
      "What? I killed his horse so that his height and reach advantage are diminished. "
      "Yeah, but now the knight wants you dead!"
      "Wait, the knight didn't want me dead a second ago when he was charging at me with a Lance?"
      "Well, yeah, but now he's angry and wants to kill you."
      I don't understand how this stupid argument is going around still as it's completely devoid of any sort of critical thinking. He's an enemy knight. Killing his horse is just step one of taking down a deadly threat of you're infantry. It's difficult, so most couldn't pull it off alone, but infantry are rarely alone whereas knights often are.

    • @laytenci
      @laytenci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Dana Gray knights don’t charge alone, regardless of how armed they are because that would be suicide. by the time he reaches the fray and his horse has been downed most likely his company will be right with him. and if it’s a pikemen or something similar that killed his horse than the pikemen’s in trouble. The knight’s now most likely in close range and in the optimal distance for his weaponry. the situation is madly in the favor of the knight

  • @IAmTheStig32
    @IAmTheStig32 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    "Why kill a noble beast for the quarrels of silly men?"

    • @MrChase115
      @MrChase115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Cuz I'm fucking starving...

    • @IAmTheStig32
      @IAmTheStig32 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@MrChase115 Found the German soldier from 1917.

    • @sarahhaaniaxoxo
      @sarahhaaniaxoxo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thou hath spoken the truth :)

    • @billh.1940
      @billh.1940 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The horse counts. You don't.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin ปีที่แล้ว

      "Noble beast" is a weird concept that requires discussion.

  • @____________838
    @____________838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1140

    Theory before I watch: Because horses were high priority loot?

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      No, that's not it. You can't loot a knight's horse if you get killed by the knight.

    • @needparalegal
      @needparalegal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Ding Ding Ding.

    • @needparalegal
      @needparalegal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @HJ bangerter Not "War" horses. They were the most expensive thing on the battle field.

    • @woodys9841
      @woodys9841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@needparalegal Well there are tales of people eating their war horses out of desperation. The siege of Antioch for example of the first crusade. Yes, they were expensive, but no cost is high enough for your survival.

    • @needparalegal
      @needparalegal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      @@woodys9841 LOL, logic is not your thing. People turn to cannibalism when they are starving, doesn't mean the people they ate were cheap....

  • @janeisklar3923
    @janeisklar3923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    "I'd just kill the knight" is the medieval equivalent of saying "I'd just pepper spray his leg"

    • @PoppaPlacidPenis
      @PoppaPlacidPenis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But...people did kills knights

    • @lifewithlouie420
      @lifewithlouie420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@PoppaPlacidPenis and i put pepper spray on a burrito. Lets all move on from this.

    • @sebastianb.3978
      @sebastianb.3978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@PoppaPlacidPenis Yeah, people whose lives were spent (and in very high numbers lost) at war, not tryhards sitting in front of a screen with (generally speaking) not a single second of fighting experience.

    • @philthedoorhandle8494
      @philthedoorhandle8494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@PoppaPlacidPenis yes people did kill knights. But what they would probably say to you is not to be overconfident when fighting an athletic man who is has been trained since infancy clad in full plate armour with a weapon designed for war. And people who did kill a Knight would never, ever, say “I’d just kill the Knight!”.

    • @SetuwoKecik
      @SetuwoKecik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PoppaPlacidPenis but people back then would rather caught and ransomed them.

  • @TheInstinctWithinV2
    @TheInstinctWithinV2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +482

    The reason cavalry in movies use swords more often than any other weapon is simple. It arguably looks way cooler than "long pointy stick"

    • @StudlyFudd13
      @StudlyFudd13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      The lance is pretty fucking cool lookin' though. Not the plain ones that lesser knights had. The really expensive ones with ornaments and shit. That look awesome.

    • @soldier6173
      @soldier6173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I'd take long pointy stick any day over a sword you just stab from like way over there

    • @Jake_Steiner
      @Jake_Steiner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The problem with pole weapons on horseback like lances and spears is that they easily become stuck in your opponent and you have very little time to retrieve it. Even sticking a sword in a body can be very difficult to retrieve after lunging at a gallop. Hacking and slashing weapons are simply easier to retain, whereas pole weapons are essentially one shot deals. I've been a cavalry reenactor of multiple periods for 13 years, since I was 13 years old and I've been riding my entire life, and I can't even retain a lance after the first blow. Either you ditch the lance or you're pulled from the saddle.

    • @soldier6173
      @soldier6173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jake_Steiner yea I always thought how you dont fall after someone is impaled because I bet with armour on and one hand holding the steer thing for the horse and one holding a big heavy pole that now also have a fully sized human on it probably also in some sort of armour luke how do can you keep one hand holding it theres atleast like 80-90 kg if it was light poles with a few on your back which you can ditch after a hit I'd get it but how the fuck did it work

    • @logan9305
      @logan9305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dark souls pvp Pike bois: "you mock me?"

  • @gregorjerman973
    @gregorjerman973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    "WHY you wouldn't Kill the horse of a knight in battle"
    Swiss Pikemen: Say that again, but Slowly.

    • @Sunderas
      @Sunderas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Swiss Pikeman are a highly specialised unit. They were a trained, paid and elite unit. He is talking about pikeman in the general sense, and even the Swiss could be outflanked when using long pole-arm. It is the same as you comparing the Swiss with a proper phalanx from the Greek period where the lances were gigantic in length.

    • @gregorjerman973
      @gregorjerman973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Sunderas this is why you need these badass to kill every knight in Europe, except the Mongols who would just shoot from a distance.These swiss stood toe to toe with the Marauding Landsknecht in rome and did a awesome last stand defense before was overrun as you said. Mounted and foot fears them this is why they are the exception.

    • @himanhsu810e
      @himanhsu810e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Sunderas They became highly specialized unit later. In their first few battles with Habsburg they were just common farmers who were trying to defend their land and sovreignity. While trying to solve the issue they came up with Halbred as it used less metal and it was very effective strategy against the knights with their comparitively shorter lances.

  • @WailOfDoom
    @WailOfDoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    First time watching, was surprised by how much humor was in this. A fusion of education and humor, love it

    • @renetio7378
      @renetio7378 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      9:33 you're welcome

  • @DestroyerHivePro
    @DestroyerHivePro 6 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I just spent 17:21 watching this video when I could have been training the sword

    • @TheStapleGunKid
      @TheStapleGunKid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And all this time that knight is still boning Jennifer.

    • @schnappicrocodil9249
      @schnappicrocodil9249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The video is 17:22, you still have one second.
      Get to it idler.

  • @pizzaowl1305
    @pizzaowl1305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I'd use fire magic first to scare away the horse then I would impale the knight with an ice spike and then I would revive the undead knight with necromancy and use him to kill the other knights

    • @random_idiot
      @random_idiot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Why didn't they think of that? Medieval people really *were* stupid...

    • @padmosss.voidstellar2525
      @padmosss.voidstellar2525 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@random_idiot They forgot to read pvp guides

    • @NcrXnbi
      @NcrXnbi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Magic users where nerfed during the Inquisition patch.
      Sigh, no fun allowed...

    • @pizzaowl1305
      @pizzaowl1305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@NcrXnbi That is true

    • @jakobknudsen6864
      @jakobknudsen6864 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      All the knights flee and learn to cast counterspell.

  • @jellevm
    @jellevm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Damn that peasant was punching well above his weight with Jennifer lol.

  • @skatekai
    @skatekai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Have not watched the video yet but i can already predict the reasons:
    1. No refigerators, so the meat will go bad before you've had a chance to consume all the leftover fallen soldiers.
    2. It would negatively impact the effectiveness of your own cavalry (assuming the knight who is on the horse is on your side).
    3. The horse should be taken back to camp for a thorough interrogation, being a knights horse it has likely been present during battle/strategy briefings etc.
    Easy.

    • @bray2964
      @bray2964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please lead my country

  • @squakrock
    @squakrock 5 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    What happens when you kill the horse but still have to fight an elite warrior trained to decapitate you since boy hood

    • @withastickangrywhiteman2822
      @withastickangrywhiteman2822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Iron man can not run as fast as ya, you don't have so much weights...But running away in front of your officers will be punished... with death

    • @mathias3721
      @mathias3721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @@withastickangrywhiteman2822 Plate. Armour. Does. Not. Slow. You. Down.

    • @withastickangrywhiteman2822
      @withastickangrywhiteman2822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@mathias3721 Carry 20 KG of sand bag on your back and see if you can still running faster than me. Knights were fast because of Horse. there was a time British long bowmen crushed French Knights, their horses were killed and knights got captured by longbow-men.

    • @mathias3721
      @mathias3721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      ​@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 Agincourt was mostly won due to the muddy terrain, it was also not JUST English yeomen, the English also had infantry and cavalry. Also, it's not a backpack, the weight is distributed over your entire body making it a lot easier to carry. AND knights were trained to fight IN armour, so it was barely a hindrance. A modern soldier carries more weight than a Medieval knight as well as having the weight mostly distributed in a backpack making it more cumbersome

    • @withastickangrywhiteman2822
      @withastickangrywhiteman2822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@mathias3721 No matter what you said, carrying 20 KG or wear clothes that heavy you simply can not outrun me. Unless i'm an daily American with 300 pounds of meat. LOL

  • @ReesieIRL
    @ReesieIRL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    He also didn't mention that well off knight had horse armor o.o

    • @CDNShuffle
      @CDNShuffle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      Yah but they had to pay 3$ to Bethesda, which was alot of money in that time period.

    • @whossoap355
      @whossoap355 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@CDNShuffle or sum mods from the nexus and make the horse breathe fire

    • @OmniscientStrike
      @OmniscientStrike 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Horse armor for 2.50$?!

    • @lemeres2478
      @lemeres2478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Or at least a gambeson that was better than the one used buy our example peasant.

    • @JuniorJuni070
      @JuniorJuni070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s called a catapgtachs or whatever
      They are human tanks and they really existed
      And it’s not a goofy ass game mod..

  • @chrislaws4785
    @chrislaws4785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Reason Number 3 is a VERY valid one. So much so that its the exact reason why the military began using Human shaped targets in their training of soldiers to shoot and use bayonets. And by doing so they noticed that more soldiers were less likely to hesitate shooting someone and it made it easier for them to simply consider another person as nothing more then simply a target if they got them use to shooting the human form, to recognize a human shape as the target/enemy. And they continue to do this to this very day as when I was in basic training ALL of our target where of exact size as a human torso.

  • @cullamgeyser3625
    @cullamgeyser3625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    When Jenifer was playing with your sword, he was training the sword

    • @butterskywalker8785
      @butterskywalker8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      and also training his other meat sword

    • @brandonhey7797
      @brandonhey7797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@butterskywalker8785 With your mom.

    • @codemonster8443
      @codemonster8443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brandonhey7797 haha he you commit funny haha

    • @waffelo4681
      @waffelo4681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brandonhey7797 heheheheh another funne mom joke

    • @neymarjr_.
      @neymarjr_. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brandonhey7797 woah ur mom jokes are so 2012 bro grow up

  • @Blutgang
    @Blutgang 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I was at a Civil War reenactment here in the USA several years ago. There was 2000 cavalry on one side and when they charged around it was thunderous and fearfully impressive. I cant imagine how much more it would effect a person facing that in an actual battle.

    • @OytheGreat
      @OytheGreat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yeah, an army of charging warhorses is extremely scary. Most armies weren't extremely disciplined Roman legionaries and simply fled the moment a charge broke their ranks or even before that when they approached, lances ready to skewer the first line and their massive steeds ready to trample everyone after that.

    • @riccardos2955
      @riccardos2955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OytheGreatTecnology brings us so far today that would not be a match for a handfull of Marines

    • @Khornedevotee
      @Khornedevotee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@riccardos2955 Smartass eh? We don't care for your kind.

    • @riccardos2955
      @riccardos2955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KhornedevoteeDid i say something wrong or whats your problem ? Are you from PETA or what

    • @riccardos2955
      @riccardos2955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@svenNLSame for you i dont know whats wrong but i actually stated an Army of Warhorses would not stand a chance against a Handfull of Marines. So whats your problem exactly ?

  • @lizjackson9815
    @lizjackson9815 6 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    let me just stop it at 1:57 and get a haircut and continue recording at 2:05

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And a shave, don't forget the shave.

  • @pulguinha682
    @pulguinha682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Also, killing a charging horse with a sword or spear or any melee weapon there is a huge chance of you snapping your wrist, breaking your arm (both o which would lead to you dropping your weapon and being screwed) and even if you managed to kill it, it doesn't jus stop, it tumbles and falls at a high speed and if you didn't evade enough before you attacked it, there is a good chance it will just fall on you and crush you

  • @magnus3716
    @magnus3716 6 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Metatron=greatness

    • @metatronyt
      @metatronyt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      :D

    • @krishnakantbhatt9947
      @krishnakantbhatt9947 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I knew they were effective... But not this effective...

    • @Kibernautas
      @Kibernautas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@krishnakantbhatt9947 Thing is, they weren't.

  • @thalesrufini8367
    @thalesrufini8367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +384

    There's another one.
    Those horses were so expensive, that you would try to capture and ransom it, like the Knight riding it.

    • @MsKeylas
      @MsKeylas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Exactly. That was my first thought when I saw name of the video

    • @mikegrossberg8624
      @mikegrossberg8624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      A "grunt" who captured a horse wouldn't have it LONG enough to ransom it(unless you were part of a PROFESSIONAL war band, in which case your boss MIGHT pay you for it). War trained horses were ENORMOUSLY expensive(about the equivalent of buying a top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce), and the guy you worked for, knight, baron, earl, whatever, would immediately claim any horses captured from the enemy as HIS property; "I'm a NOBLEMAN. YOU'RE a PEASANT. I have a hundred swords to back me up. YOU have NO ONE to back YOU up. The horse is MINE. You want to ARGUE?"
      If your lord was a nice guy, he might REWARD you for capturing the horse; a couple of shillings, for an animal worth over two hundred marks of silver.
      Either way, the horse would belong to HIM, not YOU

    • @dumb214
      @dumb214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@mikegrossberg8624 But at least you aren't being trampled by the horse

    • @AmrothPalantir
      @AmrothPalantir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was thinking good quality food...
      A knights horse had to be fed good, all that yummy meat on it...
      Big strong horse with lots of lean, clean, well fed meat. It would feed the village for a week!

    • @mikegrossberg8624
      @mikegrossberg8624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@AmrothPalantir Only as a last resort. Find somebody to "fence" the horse, and you could get enough gelt to feed the village for longer than that!

  • @donna30044
    @donna30044 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    What did the warhorse say to the foot soldier trying to hurt it?
    "Nay!" 《Stomp, stomp》

    • @benjaminr8961
      @benjaminr8961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They were also trained to bite peoples faces off.

  • @toomanytamales1323
    @toomanytamales1323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Another reason to not kill the horse is because war horses were very expensive and it was very advantageous to capture them.

  • @bezerker66691
    @bezerker66691 6 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    Ah. Bretonians Vs warriors of chaos. Classic

    • @Navinor
      @Navinor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      A man of kultur

    • @4sh2k8
      @4sh2k8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Blood for the Blood God and skulls for the Skull Throne

    • @arthurpendragonsyt
      @arthurpendragonsyt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@4sh2k8 Milk for the Khorne Flakes!

    • @axldlima1938
      @axldlima1938 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chaos wins 60 % of the time

    • @owo5869
      @owo5869 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      axl dlima Face my Holy grail Knight

  • @boxplaysgames5078
    @boxplaysgames5078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    To be honest, in the medieval times knights were basicly divine beings, covered in more armor than your entire peasent batallion can muster in their lifetime. So basicly an iron man, blessed by the God.

    • @bluecollarcommentator7772
      @bluecollarcommentator7772 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Senpaii Desuu 5000 knights could easily take out 25000 of the 50000 men

    • @Chraan
      @Chraan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @Senpaii Desuu I think you got the wrong idea.(1) Knights in armor were virtually impossible to kill. Unless you use special can openers (the spear is not) you won't get any results. (2) Knights are not slow and they don't have reduced movement. That's a fairy tale, you could just look that up on TH-cam for example. (3) Maybe 10 people could bring down a single knight, it's not impossible, but in a battle it's not possible to surround every knight with 10 guys, the knights will form battle formations. Most of your peasant soldiers would block each other. (4) Morale works for the knights. You can't imagine how desperate soldiers become when they just can't open up the plate armor. The knights would just slice through their ranks. Remember, you don't see 50000 vs 5000 in a battle, you only see those near you. And out of those few you will see your men getting slaughtered. You will rush forward to replace your own men getting slaughtered, realizing it's you who is next.

    • @cgavin1
      @cgavin1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      They were literally another species of human too because of their diet and regime. They analysed the remains of a knight found in Scotland and his diet was 90% fish (you know like power lifters pound basa by the kilo? Yeah that) and he was built like a modern rugby player.

    • @Chraan
      @Chraan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      ​@Senpaii Desuu I am sorry, I gave you valid reasons, but apparently you lack the knowledge to understand them. You seem to draw you knowledge from computer games and don't know anything about medieval battle tactics. Attacking infantry with ballistas? Simply attacking a battle formation from behind? That's some fantasy stuff right there. And what is a "Batista" anyway? A quick google search indicates you seem to be interested in wrestling rather than medieval warfare. Listen dude, heavy armored fighters were the way to go up until decent guns were invented. History already disproves your claims.

    • @luxchris4629
      @luxchris4629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @senpaii Desuu yeah video games you really seem to compare cost like in a game. You can't just round up 50000 peasants theire not endless. And by the way if the knights have devimated 20% of the troops people would rout. These battes were more aboutshowing strengt not fight till the last man.

  • @dmitriy9985
    @dmitriy9985 6 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    10:22 that's why experienced knights used really depressed horses.

    • @metatronyt
      @metatronyt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      LOL

    • @mipacem
      @mipacem 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      made my day

    • @InsanePorcupine
      @InsanePorcupine 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      How do you tell if it's depressed? Do you offer the horse coffee and cigarettes to see if it takes them?

    • @Shadow.24772
      @Shadow.24772 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      most horses where blind folded and trained to run/gallop with the blindfold.
      even today "peasants" use a type of blind fold that let's the horse only see forward(he can still turn his/her head around though) so they go straight and only start turning when you pull him/her too.
      cavalry is formed by the horse AND human, doesnt make sense only the human or knight to be trained.

    • @dudemcnude1314
      @dudemcnude1314 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahahahaha dude :D

  • @uncleporkinz3905
    @uncleporkinz3905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Thank you for giving such a detailed video. The psychological part is so often overlooked. Most of these farm-boy medieval infantry would be fricking terrified at the advance of the cavalry. Whether it's medieval knights or BC steppe nomads, a non-disciplined, amateur soldier was pissing himself while he non-consciously decided to fight or flee.

    • @DavidHughey-xu2ce
      @DavidHughey-xu2ce ปีที่แล้ว

      farmers typically had pretty good discipline also consider how everyone back then lived MUCH more communally than today so were probably used to working as groups

  • @TrollDragomir
    @TrollDragomir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Dodging a knight is not the best idea simply because during a charge there would be another knight next to him, and probably another, and another, and another, and another... And if an entire formation of infantry starts dodging at the same time in different direction, well, that's called a certain death.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, think the best would be to drop on earth. Despite this seemed very unintuitive, horses would certainly try to avoid you and don't trampled you, because they are animals and they don't want to stumple.
      Well, of course it's not 100% efficient, and not a viable tactic for an entire army. But it would certainly offer more chance of surviving than trying to outrun an horse ^^

    • @onyxdragon1179
      @onyxdragon1179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      so in other words, hold your ground, brace yourself, and hope for the best

    • @TrollDragomir
      @TrollDragomir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@onyxdragon1179 Well, from what I know throughout most ages spear was the base weapon of a footsoldier had he a shield or not. All the short weapons like swords and axes were backup for when it gets to a close melee, or they lose their spear. So yes, a well braced wall of spears does have a chance of repelling cavalry, or at least being threatening enough that they wouldn't charge at all. At least not from the front ;)

    • @Badger77722
      @Badger77722 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@krankarvolund7771 If you're talking about knights that had the time and money to spend their lives training in warfare, chances are they could also afford to have an actual war horse as their mount. And, unlike the horse out in the pasture, who might not step on you if you lie down in front of them, a trained war horse would simply be SURE to step on you as they went over you. War horses were often stallions (rather than mares or geldings used as riding horses), and their natural aggressive instincts were trained and enhanced - so they WOULD step on you if you lay down in front of them. Being stepped on by a horse at full gallop (where the horse's entire weight is often supported on a single leg), with or without its own armor, ridden by an armored knight, would almost certainly be a death sentence.

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Badger77722 Really? I wasn't aware of that, I thought that, you know, a horse would not want to stumple, even a human body may be an obstacle if he's at full speed ^^'

  • @cykeok3525
    @cykeok3525 5 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Basically folks explaining how they'd easily beat a medieval knight... would also use the same certainty, and the same tone of voice, to explain how they'd beat a UFC champion in a match in the octagon.
    Just do steps A, B, C, easy!

    • @davidturner1641
      @davidturner1641 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Actually that's what I said about Ronda Rousey
      And then she took her first loss EXACTLY as I said....
      Although she was fighting one of the best kick boxers EVER.
      I said:
      1. Know how to escape any arm hold submissions
      2. Out box her
      But
      Like you said.....
      And the same as the video
      While you were playing Mario Cart
      He was training for battly
      While u were eating Snickers
      He was training for battle
      While you were drunk and flirting he was IN A BATTLE and WON

    • @indeed7289
      @indeed7289 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      to be fair this guy isn't a historian he makes a lot of incorrect assumptions like all knights on horseback carry lances i don't actually know where this came from ive asked two actual military historians now and they don't know either
      normally lances were just used to attack enemy knights or break the enemy lines but they were often dropped and swapped out for their other weapons the problem i feel with these youtubers is that they read manuals and go "ok this is what happened always" but they don't actually read about the battles that took place because war and manuals aren't the same thing
      we can actually see this today the Chinese and Japanese (and ive seen this 8 years infantry) have not been in combat since pretty much WW2 so they follow doctrine to a T the problem with this is that they do things too text book and they don't have the ability to adapt and think on the fly simply because they have not got that experience both nations tend to panic if they are thrown a curve ball that their textbooks cannot combat and their go to response is to just withdraw

    • @Spencerdoken
      @Spencerdoken 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean, it's super easy, you just dodge the UFC champion's horse and kill it with a single clean sword strike. Just an average day at the Octagon.

    • @123nicanor
      @123nicanor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or basically how a nerd (like me) would explain how to get girls.
      Just do step A,B, and C, and you'll be Brad Pitt. EASY.

    • @ButterBoyism
      @ButterBoyism 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's like someone saying they'd beat a tank with a handgrenade. Sure if you MAKE it to its latch you're good.. Good fucking luck making it across that open field without dying, and good luck avoiding the 15 other tanks beside it.

  • @Zombrii91
    @Zombrii91 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Ok so just to sum it up:
    1. Have alot of penetration and precision
    2. A horse is not a bike but a leaving being.
    3. If your horse says "heeehehe" it means get off my back.
    4. Play the game of chickens and you might win a chicken dinner
    5. Stay away from Tom and Michael
    6. It's not easy to dodge and sla sluh sli slit his throat
    7. Keep your shit together

    • @INDIOcomvoce1
      @INDIOcomvoce1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You forgot:
      1. "IMPOSSIBLE!"
      2. JENNIFER

    • @vincentgaulin6663
      @vincentgaulin6663 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't know why I watched the video. You got it right. What a waste of time.

    • @owo1744
      @owo1744 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do I check if I have No. 1 in the bed? I think I got the precision part done already.

    • @elasolezito
      @elasolezito 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wouldn't fight a knight in the first place, also i knew Jennifer was a slut. I'm done with medieval times!

  • @Bergzore
    @Bergzore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    When I was young, I used to always walk on the side of the road adjacent to oncoming traffic. This way, I imagined, I would easily just run up the hood of any swerving car and jump safely over it. This is like the medieval equivalent of that delusion. Lmao

    • @cptjohnbhewler1529
      @cptjohnbhewler1529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I thought it was common knowledge to walk on the side of oncoming traffic

    • @Hypernefelos
      @Hypernefelos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@cptjohnbhewler1529 It is. But it's so you can spot cars that may be veering towards you, not so you can jump over them.

    • @cptjohnbhewler1529
      @cptjohnbhewler1529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hypernefelos Sherlock Holmes over here. Who said anything about jumping over cars?😂

    • @Hypernefelos
      @Hypernefelos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@cptjohnbhewler1529 The person we're both replying to 7 months after the fact :P

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why!
      I never stopped to think which way the traffic goes. It will haunt me now

  • @christianeicher3949
    @christianeicher3949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    "Which probably includes Jennifer as well", i died

    • @phredphlintstone6455
      @phredphlintstone6455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, I was thinking it
      Then he said it
      Edit: and just now he mentioned, penetration

  • @thebelgianbeast9949
    @thebelgianbeast9949 6 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    By far one of the funniest videos he's made, I couldn't stop laughing! But still a very good and interesting video, thanks man

    • @metatronyt
      @metatronyt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for watching

    • @kungfutze4321
      @kungfutze4321 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@metatronyt I love watching your videos and will continue to do so, but this may need a lot more research. Look up battles like Golden Spurs and Bannockburn along with many others, a well trained horse by most accounts WILL charge into a line of spears, I'm not sure if they would even see the points much less perceive the danger. Sadly many of the knights may not have been much smarter in those waning days of chivalry, being so used to being able to ride down any opposing infantry. As far as how easy it was to actually kill a horse look up the duel between Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir Thomas of Canterbury.
      I really hate to write this but I'm somewhat disappointed with this video, normally yours are much more thorough. I might be wrong in my assertions but even then I hope you make another video on this subject to answer these concerns as I doubt I'm the only one who has them. Best of luck with your future vids and hope to hear from you!

    • @Eldariur
      @Eldariur 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kungfutze4321 , yes but that's still a minor percentage compared to times where knights effectively made charges onto whatever they're facing.

    • @kungfutze4321
      @kungfutze4321 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Eldariur depends on the time period. By the High Middle Ages knights were starting to have less and less of an effect, which is why they went into decline.

  • @forestdweller5581
    @forestdweller5581 6 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    Damm knights sleeping with my Jennifer? And this is how i find out? Thanks a bunch Metatron.....

    • @Zurrech
      @Zurrech 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well better late then never I guess :)

    • @sorsocksfake
      @sorsocksfake 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes. And just so you know:
      All of them.

    • @Zurrech
      @Zurrech 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sorsocksfake Be ready for this.. And all night long..tadum tischh

    • @XDlosDominicans
      @XDlosDominicans 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

    • @mikedrop4421
      @mikedrop4421 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yeah, Jennifer was "Training the Sword"

  • @ianabney4972
    @ianabney4972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As a combat vet, thank you Metatron for bringing up reason #3 - this is almost universally overlooked.

    • @schaddenkorp6977
      @schaddenkorp6977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most weapons and tactics in war rely upon psychological factors over the physical ones. Killing the enemy is the byproduct, defeating them is the intent. If all the high caliber, high explosive, hate and discontent one side is throwing at the other causes not a single enemy casualty, but makes the enemy too scared to react or causes the enemy to flee, then the intent has been achieved hasn’t it?

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s why the American army has bred shooting the enemy to be a reflex rather than a decision. We’ve taught the reflex, but not how to deal with it after, which has destroyed so many lives. Awful.

  • @LitD
    @LitD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    I would think that the biggest problem with killing a horse is that... horses aren't easy to kill.
    They are big animals with tough skin, strong muscles and all together "tough". Horses bred for war even more so. There are reports from both world wars how cavalry charges swept away infantry whose fire seemed to have no effect on the charging horsemen, only for the victors to realise that many of the horses had been in fact mortally wounded, some even several times, but only succumbed to their injuries after the fighting was done with.
    A 17th century polish cavalry man wrote: My horse was shot in the chest, cut with a bardiche once in the head and in the knee . I'd still ride him were it not for the knee wound.
    Poczobut-Odlanicki, a Polish hussar, writing about his militry service describes a battle in 1659 where his company charged swedish infantry twice and lost only two men and no horses. He also mentions a battle in 1660 where his company charged six times with total casualties at the end of the day being 20 men and 35 horses (dead and wounded).

    • @ekuahmartreb9082
      @ekuahmartreb9082 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don´t think the world wars are really the example you want to use, as cavalry was almost completly ineffecient in those conflicts. You, very sensefully, listed reports from cavalrymen of the early modern period, where they were oftentimes the deciding factor in battles.
      Yes, I know that cavalry was used the world wars sporadically, but that is exactly the point. You can probably list the really good cavalry charges of those conflicts on one hand, while warfare was dominated by them from ancient times til the 19th century.

    • @ronaldowens5025
      @ronaldowens5025 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      To right I work on a ranch, the wounds I've seen horses live through are astounding. We had one get kicked in the head split open to the bone and crack the skull we couk see brain. The vet comes out partially sedates her and we get to work. Drilled 1/16 inch holes in skull on but sides and using gold wire pulled it back together stiched her up and put in a drain line. His words if she dosent get infected she'll live put her on antibiotics. She is still being ridden 4 years later. Another one ran up on a broken fence the 2×6 went well into his shoulder my arm was up to the elbow getting the hunks of wood out, antibiotics and a daily cleaning with an iodine solution letting it close from the inside out. The are fucking durable critters. With one exception below the knee you can ruin a horse quick and not to terribly difficult, below the knee. Just like the guards in Whiterun.

    • @arcticgalegamer8139
      @arcticgalegamer8139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There is also that most horses would wear armor, so you're weapon would typically get deflected.

    • @calknight
      @calknight 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Actually, even men can take a lot of punishment. If you don't hit a man where he is instantly killed or is gravely wounded to where he will bleed out, a properly angered man with adrenaline flowing can be a fearsome creature in and of itself! Back when there was some guy shot up a community college some time back, there was a reservist or national guardsman that actually confronted the dude and was shot seven times and survived!
      The moral of the story is when such an event occurs don't be cowering sheep, but get angry and confront!

    • @muurrarium9460
      @muurrarium9460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Horses legs are very vulnerable...so I do not understand your reasoning. Dig a few strategic holes and they will break their legs, no close encounters needed, but if you do- grab an akse, spear, pole, something with a grappling hook etc.etc. if you need a horse damaged/crippled it is relatively easy. Especially if they are being ridden and have no longer full controll of themselves.

  • @zirusmiguelaragon8421
    @zirusmiguelaragon8421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    Courage is also needed, horses are basically living cars charging at you

    • @rileyernst9086
      @rileyernst9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah, you impale it on your stick, but it's still going to crush you to death. Might save your mates, but they might just break and run, being cut to ribbons anyways.

    • @vinz4066
      @vinz4066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also I heard that the Horses of knights were trained to kick people when in Battle
      Might be false tghou

    • @htg989
      @htg989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@vinz4066 Depending on the situasion they don't really need training to kick people.

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@vinz4066 This is true. yes. Dressage for example is a remnant of that training. The Austrian Spanish Riding School in Vienna also is a remnant of this training.

    • @rancidpitts8243
      @rancidpitts8243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That Horse, moving at say 20 mph, hits you with the same force as having swan dived out of a forth story window on to concrete sidewalk. For the next few minutes you will be very unhappy, then you will be dead.

  • @steelcladCompliant
    @steelcladCompliant 6 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    I imagine these would be horse killers would do the same thing when facing a modern tank
    "Oh I just jump out of the way of the explosion when it shoots me, dodge the machine gun, get on top of it and throw a grenade into the hatch"

    • @GlukAlex
      @GlukAlex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      actually infantry is extremely effective at destroying tanks unprotected by anti personnel means ( like guarded by your own infantry troops )
      especially in urban areas

    • @VonKuro
      @VonKuro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@GlukAlex Well infantry was also great at dealing with cavalry inside towns. Immobile armors are always beaten by numbers. The problem comes when it's moving faster than you.

    • @cykablyat5611
      @cykablyat5611 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then airforce deploys napalm

    • @steelcladCompliant
      @steelcladCompliant 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Of course. I mean in a situation akin to this. You are a lone infantryman in an open field and a formation of knights/tanks is charging you

    • @DJTourniquet
      @DJTourniquet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right? Hell, the concussion from the main gun just firing is enough to blind and disable, if not kill, you.

  • @GeorgeOu
    @GeorgeOu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    At the Battle of Crécy, quite a few horses died. This from Wikipedia: "Philip himself was caught up in the fighting, had two horses killed underneath him, and received an arrow in the jaw"

    • @zachofthebattery2864
      @zachofthebattery2864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      people focus fire on princes and I think metatron was talking 1 on 1

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    *The Dark Knight doesn't have a Horse*
    He has the Batmobile

    • @jonathanhirst6997
      @jonathanhirst6997 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Was he training the sword, though?

    • @sleep3417
      @sleep3417 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonathanhirst6997 He's training the edge. Close enough, right?

  • @charlotteblossom3408
    @charlotteblossom3408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    One interesting fact, from someone who spent a lot of time around horses as a kid:
    You mentioned needing to cut deeply on their legs, but for a creature that is basically entirely built to Move Via Leg, those legs are *very* fragile.

    • @paulesterline5714
      @paulesterline5714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      I beg to differ. I was a Farrier for 25 years. I have seen God awful gashes on a horses leg and that horse refuses to go down. It is instinct. They know if they go down they are coyote food. Yep they look kind of spindly but I assure you they are WAY stronger then they look! Not only that most of them had armor on their legs and chest so you wouldn't have done much any way.

    • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@paulesterline5714 a sharp butchers knife will slice a horses leg right off at the knee in a single smooth forceful slice.. a single solid blow to a horses leg will cut it clean off with a large well sharpened cleaver.. some weapon of war . a bill, glavie long sword ect would to it much better. .. even an elephants leg you could sever with a single blow of a well sharpened weapon.. its flesh.. and relatively soft bone.. .. this is not an issue.. creatures dont normally let you get close enough to do this. and dont stay still letting you do it.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Rubbish. In almost all circumstances, you couldn't deliver a blow with enough force to bring down a trained horse. If it was possible, people would have done it frequently, and therefore mounted warriors would have been ineffective. They weren't: they were very effective, which is why they dominated warfare for so many centuries. Everything is easy for an armchair warrior.

    • @paulesterline5714
      @paulesterline5714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 and how many times have you done this???? I have dissected multiple horses legs.... your talking out you a$$! Sorry to call you on your BS but I am betting you have never cut a horses leg.... a horse doesn't have a knee (it is really more like a wrist, but I understand why your calling it a knee) also that bone is NOT AT ALL SOFT!! In fact it is a hard as hell! We won't even talk about the tendons in that leg that do not cut easily AT ALL! Same with an elephant.... yea, I have worked on them too. To further shread your lie, I make knives and swords.....Sorry you are clueless. Stop stating things as fact that you really don't know. Your statement needs a disclaimer attached.

    • @paulesterline5714
      @paulesterline5714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 yea ok whatever you say. I now have even more questions for you then before. I bet the police and FBI would probably like to ask a few as well.

  • @popolvarnope2859
    @popolvarnope2859 6 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Memes in history video? InstaLIKE.

    • @Negniwret
      @Negniwret 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Potential History intensifies

  • @wiiner6682
    @wiiner6682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What if you have buckets of apples all over the battlefield? The horses will get distracted and you can take them out of the equation.

    • @adrianmizen5070
      @adrianmizen5070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Unfortunately so would the infantrymen

    • @AttacMage
      @AttacMage ปีที่แล้ว

      the equine equation

  • @borisalarcon7504
    @borisalarcon7504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    10:28 Your horse language pronunciation is perfect, it almost sounds like a native lol

    • @Boselaphus
      @Boselaphus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmao

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He's a natural. I bet all the mares follow him around the stable.

    • @juliaj7939
      @juliaj7939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      xD

  • @meltedplasticarmyguy
    @meltedplasticarmyguy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When you started talking about actually taking a life, it really unnerved me. I am a combat veteran and I can say that for me there was no hesitation, but afterwards... afterwards I became violently ill. It has been over 10 years and I still have nightmares of those days. I did what I was trained to do, but that does not make it better. In combat it really was as simple as "him or me" thanks to all the training. To kill, you don't just take a life, you take away what they were and what they could be. You snuff out any dreams and potential. You begin to wonder were they really evil or just misled. They had a family and people who loved them. I am a huge history buff and one thing that history has taught me is that humans will kill each other, they always have, they always will. We abhor violence but won't hesitate to destroy each other. Don't you just love the duality of mankind?

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed, and one way to bring your worried mind to rest might be to place a token of respect at the grave of the unknown soldier to honor the tragedy that you were pitted against eachother in a way that gave you no choise other than ending his life to save your own and the lives of your squad.

    • @patrickbrennan1317
      @patrickbrennan1317 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      meltedplasticarmyguy kind of like the peace button on the flak jacket and born to kill written on the helmet

  • @redelephantsdotnl
    @redelephantsdotnl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    The dodging thing. A foot soldier is either:
    1. In a formation. There is nowhere to dodge to. If the entire formation dodges, you just become the target of the next knight, who is also in formation.
    2. Alone on the battlefield. You are dead either way. If cavalry is committed to fighting lone soldiers, the battle is already over and they're just mopping up survivors.
    Edit. The man up and hold the line thing.
    Well, yes. because, even if you personally aren't much threat to charging cavalry, you will slow it down, making it more vulnerable to the ranks behind you. And this goes for all ranks. The deeper the ranks, the less likely cavalry is to charge you. Which brings me to this:
    Cavalry charging infantry only happens if the situation really favors the cavalry. You don't risk the lord of whateverville for the sake of killing a bunch of peasants. So by favorable, I mean; from the flanks, and better - rear. Also, not where the enemy forms up. Particularly because of the pikes you mentioned. Cavalry was typically met by cavalry and whoever won that, would mop up infantry, but only once their own infantry was committed making the approach pretty much safe.

    • @withastickangrywhiteman2822
      @withastickangrywhiteman2822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Dodging is almost impossible, A Chinese General of Ming Dynasty wrote in his books said he never put hope on some Kung Fu masters, when fighting enemies other soldiers will push your back with their shields, "This is not street fight" he said.

    • @sassydispatch8934
      @sassydispatch8934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That or in a rout.
      The knights primary job on the battle field was yes fighting other mounted knights but mostly chasing down fleeing opponents.
      They were less about breaking lines and more about mopping up stragglers.
      You're completely correct, no sane commander would risk the most expensive and valuable component of their army like that.

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bart Something I lost brain cells reading that

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex V Charges still happen though it just depends on how solid the formation is for both sides

    • @hemelinger7792
      @hemelinger7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, because if you charge from the side or behind, the guys in the side or at the back wouldn´t turn around, right?
      The knights have the same problem, no matter what side they are coming from. The reasons for attacking sides or rear are other than that the knights are not facing spikes from there. They might face a lesser degree of an organized pikes wall, yes. But the main reason wil be that there is space to maneuver on the sides of the battlefield and that they would be able to constantly be moving about and waiting for a chance to attack some "distracted" guys.

  • @ellerz
    @ellerz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    13:03 the terribly accurate accents made me lose it hahahahahaha

    • @streetfelineblue
      @streetfelineblue 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Word XD

    • @halo12390
      @halo12390 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      this one is gold xD

    • @Holtijaar
      @Holtijaar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I instantly imagined the soldier looking like Baldrick from the Black Adder.

    • @crimsonmask3819
      @crimsonmask3819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Holtijaar prefect!

    • @andyarken7906
      @andyarken7906 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The officer sounds like Alfie from the Peaky Fookin' Bloinders

  • @theehhhnd5708
    @theehhhnd5708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    You speak amazing horse sir :).

    • @metatronyt
      @metatronyt  6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Ye I have a good accent indeed :) although they can always guess I'm an Italian s.... ok I'm not gonna finish this one :D

    • @Parmesana
      @Parmesana 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well...he is multi-lingual...:D

    • @Siddich
      @Siddich 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Shlomo Shekelberg rather shettland pony 😂
      Very reliable though.

    • @Siddich
      @Siddich 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @MallarRallam true...hmm...how are those huge british horses called, that are used by brewers? 🤔

    • @BlackQback
      @BlackQback 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @MallarRallam Then he would be one of those thin and tall (preferably, beige) horses that do tricks and dance on shows. He's got it all covered.

  • @jimnickles2347
    @jimnickles2347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    A Fourth Reason, that Trained Warhorse was Worth GOLD. LOTS of GOLD. IF you could Just CATCH him.....

    • @flintrocks
      @flintrocks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And it didnt smash you when you tried to control him! LOL NO WAY id ever try and handle a strangers Warhorse, thing might eat me

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not as much as the ransom for the knight on top of the warhorse though, and it's hard to capture a knight on a warhorse.

    • @tsundoku5733
      @tsundoku5733 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Good point. There was even terminology for specific types of horses, such as destrier, charger, courses and rouncey. George R. R. Martin uses some of these terms in his works.

    • @jimnickles2347
      @jimnickles2347 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You Forgot,'The Nag',lol...@@tsundoku5733

    • @jacobmorgan1182
      @jacobmorgan1182 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A halberd was a bearded spear with a axe hook which was designed to hook armor you avoid the horse hook him by the hip or the shoulder and let gravity take him capture him by caving his helmet take the horse ransom him and the horse

  • @feartheghus
    @feartheghus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    While you did *insert pretty much anything*
    He studied the blade...

    • @BaranZenon
      @BaranZenon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ...and banging Jenifer... :)

    • @AnthonySforza
      @AnthonySforza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      (Discovering yourself for the first time) "He was training the sword."

    • @SwordTune
      @SwordTune 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      While you were training with the sword...
      HE WAS TRAINING WITH THE SWORD!

    • @StrangerE0ns
      @StrangerE0ns 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      SwordTune while you were studying for algebra,
      *he was studying the sword*

  • @willmfrank
    @willmfrank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Remember, shoot the man, not the horse. Dead horse is cover, live horse is a great pile of panic."
    -- Brett Matthews, Firefly episode "Heart of Gold"

  • @baddogkelevra1
    @baddogkelevra1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Great analysis. About Agincourt, a major factor that rarely gets consideration is that not only were the French knights charging uphill in mud, but that they were extremely tightly packed together. Many of them likely died due to falling into mud and drowning, being trampled, or merely asphyxiating in such close quarters.

    • @Erowens98
      @Erowens98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The poor conditions also likely forced them to keep masks up to avoid oxygen deprevation. This of course, made them more vulnerable to archers.

    • @sumerandaccad
      @sumerandaccad 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some did

    • @rudamachoo
      @rudamachoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      agincourt is a good example of infantry and archers making the better of it coupled with the inefficiency of the french commanders who even forced their crossbowmen to not wear the pavise.
      another good example of infantry making the most of it is the Battle of the Golden Spurs, in which (again) the inefficiency, pride and eagerness of the french knights screwed up the day

    • @Knoloaify
      @Knoloaify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rudamachoo Yup, especially considering that after that battle there was a second battle (much less famous) where the french knights had their revenge. Like in Agincourt and Crécy, the terrain was a key factor and you won't always get the ideal hill or marshland for your infantry.

  • @bakarandguladze
    @bakarandguladze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    What about the Holy Hand Grenade?

    • @iamsofaking6728
      @iamsofaking6728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      yeah but by the time the clergymen are done reading the instructions to you, the battle is long over

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No u

    • @ErebosGR
      @ErebosGR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      While you were learning to count to three, he was training the sword.

    • @ISCREAM.STORE1
      @ISCREAM.STORE1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      well ACTUALLY! the holy hand grenade was not invented till about 15 minutes after the battle was over........ Convenient if you ask me!

    • @mufak
      @mufak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If they are the knights who say "NI," better start running

  • @abysss91
    @abysss91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    4th reason: imagine all of the reasons before, but multiplying by the number of knights on horses you faced at the same time, charging with murderous intent towards you.

    • @Astropeleki
      @Astropeleki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And also that you don't really have room to dodge since, you know, you are in the FIRST LINE.

    • @StudlyFudd13
      @StudlyFudd13 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Astropeleki basically the only reasonable thing to do in that situation is, 'Put your head between your legs and kiss your bum goodbye.'

  • @pickleballer1729
    @pickleballer1729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When you're talking about how the horse will not commit suicide by impaling itself on a pike, it reminded me of the many times I've seen human soldiers do exactly that, in these wild, uncoordinated, mixed up battles where enemy soldiers mixed in with each other about a hundred yards deep. NO WAY that happened very often. Even the most capable and heroic soldier could be easily killed by a blow from behind in that scenario. Casualties would have been annihilating on both sides. IT always irritates me in a medieval battle scene where everyone acts like berserkers and no one works together or cares a whit for their own lives. Stupid.

  • @danieldeandrade5741
    @danieldeandrade5741 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Metatron, this video is easily one of the best you made ! At least in my perspective, very well put together and you gave us a really good explanation as to why Knights were even harder to kill than most people think. Cheers from Brazil !

    • @juanpablogonzalez8528
      @juanpablogonzalez8528 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was also funny

    • @danieldeandrade5741
      @danieldeandrade5741 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Juan Pablo Gonzalez Yeah, especially at 2:45

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It really shouldn't need all these technical explanations: a little common sense would do the trick. Just ask yourself: if it was that easy to defeat armoured knights on horseback, why would the kings and lords of all European countries keep on using them for centuries? Maybe they knew more than today's videogamers do? It's not as if they were cheap military option, is it?

    • @danieldeandrade5741
      @danieldeandrade5741 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DieFlabbergast It doesn’t need all the technical explanation, but he wanted to give us a multitude of reasons why it wasn’t viable. Why can’t you just appreciate the video for what it is ? Do you really feel the need to sound superior ? Is that an ego thing ? Even by your logic, a lot of people would still argue that they could, somehow, be able to kill a knight’s horse, therefore some of it was required

  • @cugelchannel4733
    @cugelchannel4733 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is something I have never seen commented on, but any baseball fan will know it. When you're in the outfield stands and a home run is hit in your direction, it looks until the very last second like the ball is coming right at you. Like it will land exactly right in your lap - until it lands in the stands about 30 feet over and 15 feet down from where you are sitting. Not really close at all, and yet you were sure until the last second you were getting that ball. The Same Thing Is True For A Cavalry Charge: To the infantry standing there, it looks like the entire enemy line of cavalry is coming exactly right at him. An individual horseman who is actually pointed at a guy 35 feet down the line from you would appear to be coming EXACTLY right at you. All of them appear by some optical illusion to be aiming right at you. It has to be absolutely terrifying.
    SO, if the men are professionals, and veteran fighters experienced in wars, sure. The Swiss Pikemen became famous all over Europe for being able to defeat mounted knights on any number of occasions when France tried to invade Switzerland.
    But, if the men weren't really well trained? No chance. They would run. It's just too hard to stand there and wait to be impaled by those lances.

    • @timtim6373
      @timtim6373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Even if you kill it you’d end up with an animal that weighs around 2000 pounds (I’m generalizing here) with momentum going toward you not to mention a pissed off knight and that’s just one horse.

    • @turtleman7806
      @turtleman7806 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@timtim6373 the horse would gorge itself on a spear if a knight was stupid enough to get that close to a spear wall formation the horse would stop and turn around its not going to dive headlong into a solid wall it sees no way of passing through or jumping over.

    • @turtleman7806
      @turtleman7806 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats the main problem with analysis of medeival knighrs as professional armies like during roman and greece times were uncommon and most infantry were recruited by mass conscription I guess you could call it so untrained masses who have a good chance of breaking at the onset of a charge but if they dont theyres not much a knight can do as a horse will not blindly charge into something it sees no way of passing through or jumping over and as history has shown during romes wars with that one nation (cant remember rn) that well cordinated and tight ranked infantry will shit all day long on an army that relies on calvalry charges to win the day (the mongols used different tactics then this but they also relied on the breakup of infantry to win the day not charging blindly into a spear wall) not to mention the cost of calvalry the extra horses a knight would need and the ever increasing reliability of projectiles and evolution of spears and clubs to further detract from a knights effectiveness there is a reason the time of the knight was so short and this over dramatization of how amazing they were is frankly annoying at this point when the french knights got stuck in the mud (cant remember the name of that battle either lol) and were killed by archers how amazing and op was their armour then? When a calvalry charge went bad and knights were slaughtered like pigs in a yard how amazing was their armour then? And did you know king richard almost had his head cleaved by a sword if he had not been wearing a heavy bucket helmet over his regualr helmet he would died to a blow from a sword (apparently a weapon unable to kill a knight) also clubs could be used to send such a shock to a knight in armour their bones would break or spears with hooks on the reaching 9 ft out to hook a knight as they tried to ride away then 10 men swarming stabbing and fucking that poor bastard over. The knight was effective in dealing with routing or disjointed armies not with charging spear walls horses are not hard to kill or maim there armour did not protect the body 100% and it also left glaring weakpoints open easy to stab since the infantrys spear would of probably been 4ft long making it an easy weapon to use and handle.

    • @Wyzai
      @Wyzai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@turtleman7806 Obviously the horse wouldn't do it, but assuming it did you would still be fucked. I don't know much about horses, but the math is simple: you got a thing weighing half a ton moving at you with a speed of 40mph/60kph (guessing those numbers). If it hits your spear, there is no chance of you actually holding on to that spear or stopping that horse - even if the spear was lodged in the ground it would just snap in half and the horse, now flailing in a hysteric panic would hit you with it's full force.

    • @alanpennie8013
      @alanpennie8013 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Heavy Hoss
      As the video points out, it's encouraging to know the people next to you won't be able to run away.

  • @ExAnimoPortugal
    @ExAnimoPortugal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    Me getting caught by my girlfriend's father in bed with her
    the father: What is all this?
    me: I am training the sword.

    • @jamestown8398
      @jamestown8398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      is that training the longsword or the shortsword?

    • @anoNEMOs
      @anoNEMOs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@jamestown8398 Bastard sword

    • @jackcoleman5871
      @jackcoleman5871 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Claymore

    • @ExAnimoPortugal
      @ExAnimoPortugal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Some Dude @Jamestown @AnOnEmOs @jack Coleman The Pork Sword

    • @Myrvikings
      @Myrvikings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jamestown8398 its a Dagger

  • @HarryVoyager
    @HarryVoyager 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    15:34 I'm given to understand this is also one of the things that separated pilots who became aces from other pilots during the 1st and 2nd World Wars. You have to keep your head about you, but there is apparently also a certain willingness and intent to kill for the pilot to actually go for the shots too.
    Modern armed forces have mostly gotten through that by training, but that wasn't a thing in the 40's.

    • @Blefiz
      @Blefiz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats the main factor to this day.

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A critical factor so few talk about even know. It took advanced study of how soldiers behave and then specific psychological based training to get soldiers to try and kill. They found that less than 10% of American WWII infantry tried to actually kill someone.

  • @Fairfax40DaysforLife
    @Fairfax40DaysforLife 5 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    War horses often wore armor or padding as well, didn't they?

    • @backonlazer791
      @backonlazer791 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yup.

    • @PauloGarcia-sp5ws
      @PauloGarcia-sp5ws 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      If the knight was SUPER rich

    • @fanwu8917
      @fanwu8917 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      You could just put padding on your sword so it won't get worn down that much :)

    • @nxxynx5039
      @nxxynx5039 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I imagine the cloth livery would do a lot to tangle and catch incoming arrows and blows while its flapping around in the midst of a battle.

    • @nxxynx5039
      @nxxynx5039 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Fred Smith I by no means believe that taut cloth will stop an arrow of any draw weight. Cloth that is loose and is flapping around is fantastic at taking the energy out of a projectile as it moves with the impact, increasing the collision time similar to how airbags work to reduce the impact of a person, not to mention the potential for the projectile to tangle in the fabric. Owning a compound bow for hunting I can tell you if an arrow hits something solid it will fuck it up such as a horse or taut cloth but if it can't make a solid impact the arrow loses all energy very quickly and will be lucky to do much more than break skin. An archer at distance with a long bow will be shooting with a wide curve most likely to hit a horse from a higher angle ignoring any protective material it may be wearing however when faced with an archer at a close distance the angle of curvature will be much smaller and the arrow will be moving with much less momentum which I certainly believe will make non-taut cloth hanging freely from the front of the horse a factor in reducing the impact of an arrow, not a definite defense but a factor in raising the chance of non-fatal impact for certain. The key point I'm making is that taut cloth behaves very differently from how loose cloth does when an arrow makes impact and passes through.

  • @danielg2923
    @danielg2923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    I`m a horse and i approve this video!

    • @evilparadigm
      @evilparadigm 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you.

    • @ozgurbulutkaraosmanoglu4778
      @ozgurbulutkaraosmanoglu4778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      G stands for glitterhoof I guess

    • @danielg2923
      @danielg2923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ozgurbulutkaraosmanoglu4778 Ofc, how else? I will be a consul of Rome!

    • @danielg2923
      @danielg2923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@evilparadigm Doing my duty as a horse!

    • @MouthyDroid
      @MouthyDroid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a coincidence I'm a horse's ass....... 😂

  • @StarRider253
    @StarRider253 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    You are the most British-sounding Italian I've ever heard. Great video

  • @BilalKhan-yg9jc
    @BilalKhan-yg9jc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would like to add that war horses were bred to be big (Carry own armor and Carry a fairly large rider and their armor) and trained to be resilient against physical attacks even obeying their rider under a hail of fire arrows (the same would usually cause elephants to go run amok and sometimes trample friendly troops).
    A knights horse was likely to have a coat of mail armor on top of soft inner armor, down to just above it's knees, allowing the horse to gallop but making it nearly impossible to hurt the animal to the extent that it can no longer physically function.

    • @cheungfranklin3543
      @cheungfranklin3543 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn’t many western countries were fallen by the Mongolian? Who said that heavy cavalry is indestructible ?

    • @BilalKhan-yg9jc
      @BilalKhan-yg9jc ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cheungfranklin3543 Nobody said heavy cavalry was invincible. Most Mongolia has a population of 3.5 mil, so their success was meh in the end.