somewhere at the start of the medieval times people got the brilliant idea that you don't need to be able to see where you're swinging your sword when you're frickin invincible
@Professor Weaboo only if you can get close and be that precise and I doubt anybody would approach a armored knight swinging a long sword like a baseball bat armed only with a dagger
For sure. I mean it's difficult beating out those shapes even with modern tools like electric drills, angle grinders and pneumatic hammers. Doing it with period tools was a real chore.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 lol thats kinda what im trying to do, I'm trying to make a War Cleaver and other then my modern anvil I use an electric blower for my coal fire. It is a real pain working it by hand
Me waking up at 4 pm: “dang my sleep schedule sucks, you know what! Im gonna sleep at 12 am i dont care if im not tired!” *me at 7 am:* top 10 most effective helmets
Ancient helmets: So they protect the nose, chins and decend to the neck. They also look badass Medivial helmets: *Hey, look at this cool bucket I found!*
@@jamesmarshall6932 I'm not sure if I can see that. For example, early greathelms had a flat top. The very similar Corinthian helmet had a rounded top to deflect blows. And that was over 1500 years earlier.
@@cosmicostrich3657 armor does a lot, especially combined with the fact that an average person wouldn't had had the money or the freedom to afford high end armor of the time, while an upper class person wouldn't had been wasted in the massacre part of a battle and would had been better trained - so they had, relative to an average person - 3 extra points to survivability.
@@enkh-erdenebatbold1177 I think so. But in ancient greece there were only short spears on the phalanx and rocks or javelins to throw from distance, so i don't think it was really a problem
@Pasha Staravoitau Yes. Working Iron was hard so in the early iron age bronze armour and iron/steel weapons were used. Pre/Early republican Rome or ancient Greek for instance.
My home defence setup: Bascinet fitted with hounskull: For deflecting arrows and low caliber bullets. Also adds an inhuman intimidation factor. European full-plate chest: For defence against bodystrikes with swords/spears. Shoulderplates are also reccomended. Leggings: Any sort of cloth trousers. (The dark chambers in my homestead will obscure my figure, and will negate my foes fucus.) Pair of sabatons: For kicking of adversaries private parts, and the thunder of my steps will create an ominous and threatening aura. Norman kite shield: For denying enemies passage through doorways. Short spear: For thrusting and eventual execution. Good partings!
Being a retired helmet maker/ Armorer, Your research was impeccable! Thanks for an excellent video. I loved to make the Norman style with a welded 3 or 4 piece conical and the chain mail coif! Next I labored long and hard to produce a Corinthian (2 piece, welded with neck piece welded to body......0 Such beautiful classic lines but hard to make. I did play with the Italian /German Sallet but always had problems matching the pieces and was never really pleased with the results. Ended my time with doing a modified Corinthian with extra eye protection (bars wielded in eye splits to not obstruct vision and welding the same type bars or round stock to keep the nosepeice from being pushed in) and opening either perforated ear on the side of helmet with covering to deflect top hits and strengthen the weaken area.
One of my favorite books as a kid, T. H. White’s “The Once And Future King”, first made me think about helmet practicality instead of just how cool they looked. The book is a retelling of the Arthurian romance. At one point White declares that Launcelot always wore a plain unadorned helm for jousting rather than one which had an elaborate heraldic sculpture on the top, because the opponent’s lance could lodge in the details of the sculpture and knock you off your horse. I had never thought of it that way before. Nice video.
I know absolutely nothing about medieval combat, but my absolute favourite helmet throughout history is the Salat. For all the technical benefits it brings to the table, I think it just looks absolutely gorgeous. It's a very good blend between strength and agility in terms of its shape.
@@obesespringroll3997 He's definitely very biased, no serious historian looking for a neutral and general perspective on history would ever take him seriously
One tiny nitpick: There's another helmet called the "close helmet" that is like an armet, but better. a close helmet opens front-to-back down the middle (the bevor pivots with the visor) while an armet opens side-to-side at the cheek plates, making the close helmet more sturdy against attacks from the front. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_helmet#/media/File:Close_helm_armet_open.svg)
The flat-topped great helm reminded me irresistibly of a certain scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". King Arthur proposes to his companions that they go to Camelot. We get some quick scenes from Camelot -- including someone using several knights, wearing such helmets, as a drum set. It's only half a second long, but it cracks me up every time.
And of course the head is the *first* thing that is ever armoured! Honestly, even a non-wounding blow to the head stuns you to the point where you're easy meat for the next strike. I was told a long time ago that a man off balance isn't a fighter, he's a victim. And of course the medieval 'blow of wrath' ('zornhau') is a slightly slanting cut to just above the ear from above. It's thought that it was called this because it's the instinctive cut in a fight; the first thing you do is hack at the head.
You know it wouldn't be so hard to identify people if they didn't mute all the colors like they do. Could literally color code the heroes. The Noble King character would Red (Or Blue) and Gold. The Dastardly Villain, green and black. The Noble Knight, Blue and Silver, ect, ect. Just create recognizable color patterns and heraldry for all of your main character, and suddenly you can pick them out of a crowd even when they are armored from head to toe. Even if you have to be a bit heavy handed with it, it's still more historical and visually interesting than what they do now. Could you imagine the first time you are introduced to a character being bombarded with their primary color scheme, and motif's, allowing you to track them, their actions, and involvement in many different situations without ever needing to see their face, or even hear their name? That would be freaking art.
The Most annoying thing for me is, when someone strikes an enemy with thick Blade armour with his sword and they just Go Down like their armour was made out of thin air. Looking at you Lord of the rings.
I think the Niederbieber/Heddernheim helmet of the Severan dynasty and Crisis of the Third Century eras is the most formidable Ancient Roman helmet. It represents Imperial Rome's ultimate peak in helmet design and the last and most protective of the Italic family, before being gradually replaced due to budget issues by Intercisa and other ridge models with Diocletian's reforms.
@@Floris_VI I'm a Middle Imperial period (193-284) French reenactor (that's me in my profile picture with the said helmet), and I can assure you that this model is a marvel of engineering (in my case, forged by the Pustelak brothers on the wise advice of our beloved Sicilian TH-camr). Archeological data has founded iron, brass, bronze or a combination of all of those for the Niederbieber's materials.
It's a no from me dawg. Limits your hearing, limits your movement, limits ventilation and probably is a bitch both in hot and cold weather. Imperial Gallic all day, every day. But yes, they are at least halfway decent compared to the butt ugly abominations that came after them....
There were accounts of troops hating it because how restrictive it was to head movement. It was hard to see incoming missiles when you can't turn your head.
I literally have done my own research on middle age - renaissance helmets and came to the exact same conclusion as shown in your list for the second half, that's awesome, man. I gotta say, my favorite has always been stuck between the Armet and the Italian closed Sallet. The designs are just so beautiful to look at.
@Brantius Riximium Italian metalworks were still excellent during both world wars, problem is... there was no metal at all, that's why the paper thin bolted armor.
Big fan of the Armet too. The Bascinet is one of my favorites as well, the more modular versions I've seen seem quite useful and versatile. Not as protective as many helms but a good option if you are a man at arms or something.
Croz Raven I would personally still keep that Sallet at number 2 but hey, that’s just my opinion... and come to thing about it the barbute is something to consider
7:20 headbutting would've worked effectively against light/no armor, as the knight would stab the pointy end inside above the collar bone to severe some primary arteries, damage chest bones / lungs or to carve out some prefrontal cortex.
No wonder, as it was in my opinion a far more combat-effective design than anything used by the infantry in the medieval period. All of the more protective helmets worn by knights would have been absolute crap in the sort of dismounted heavy-infantry combat the Romans professed.
@@4Leka Makes a bit sense. If they made roman style helmet in medieval times but from steel.. that would work too probably quite nicely. A bit more conical shape added and.. you have protection all oever the places + great visibility.
@@DarkInos I have indeed wondered why they didn't copy or reinvent a Roman or Greek style helmets in the medieval era. Both seem much better for line infantry than what were actually used.
@@4Leka As with most things, it's economics. Knights buy their own super nice, full faced helmets and serfs get a piece of hammered tin. And I'm also guessing, I'm no historian hence guessing, the standard infantry became less significant in battles as weapons of war advanced, so money went more into the weapons of war at the cost of the standard soldier.
The categories for judging helmets mentioned at the beginning on the video were dropped. Mobility, breathing, hearing, vision and overheating were all dropped and only protection was used to judge them. The great helm and beyond had low vision and hearing. Breathibg was also restricted. Not saying they were bad helms, they just won't be at top of list based on criteria mentioned.
@@The_Lone_Outlaw Yeah there had to be some kind of padding in there. But I wonder what they used for it. Could also be something similar to what modern day construction hats have.
@@emperorfaiz Gambeson doesn't absorb shock too well as it is simply many layers of silk. It's mostly to protect against cuts. But who knows. Metatron won't answer.
"Actually..." Steppe peoples, for over 2000 years, have been known for heavily-armored shock cavalry. It's definitely the case that their signature mode of attack was the lightly-armored archer, but every major steppe people, from the Skythians to the Sarmatians, Avars, Magyars, and all the way to the Mongols and Manchus had a corps of metal-armored lancer cavalry acting as the hammer that smashed troops pinned down by the archers. Chinggis Khan was said to have decreed that two fifths of his warriors be armored lancers, and the rest, light archers. These were probably the first very heavily-armored cavalry, and were the most heavily armored cavalry around until the European high middle ages, when the man-at-arms began to overtake them. Their armor consisted of chain mail, scale, or lamellar armor (like Japanese do-maru*), and their primary weapon was a lance, often supplemented by a bow. This formula (armor, lance, bow) was so powerful that it was copied, exactly and shamelessly, by the settled societies that were in contact with these steppe peoples, particularly the Chinese, the Sassanian Persians, and most famously, the Eastern Roman Empire, where they were called the "cataphract." It was such an effective type of unit that the only thing that really caused its decline was the widespread use of gunpowder weapons by infantry, but even then, they were used well into the 1600s by the Manchus, and to a lesser extent, the Mughals in their conquest of India. --- * Based on the composition and nature of traditional Japanese armor (which bears several cruicial resemblances to the armor of steppe peoples), the existence of Yabusame, and a number of other factors, I'm convinced that the people we now call the Japanese arrived in Japan around 0 BC (give or take a few hundred years), and were previously a steppe-dwelling group.
@Nom The Mongols smashed... *smashed* ... multiple European *proper armies* time after time. Mongol scouts are known to have probed deep into Germany proper, possibly as far as the Rhine, and several cities that were just to the northeast of Vienna were raided and pillaged by small harassment forces, of a thousand or so. These were eventually driven away, but it required the full military focus of the Holy Roman Empire, the most powerful polity in central Europe at the time, to do. The degree of panic this caused in Europe was so high that the Pope of the time (I forget which), declared that expelling the Mongols from Europe was, in essence, a sort of defensive crusade, which had the effect of drawing very strong and well-organized western European forces, including, on many occasions, the Teutonic Knights and the Knights Templar, much further to the east than you might ordinarily find them, and they participated in many battles trying to keep the Mongols out of Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Western Knights were usually *obliterated* by the Mongols unless they held a considerable advantage of numbers and position. The only thing that stopped the Mongols was that the leaders of the invasion had to stop invading and return to Mongolia in order to elect a new Khan when the previous one died. This phenomenon saved many nations, all over Eurasia, on many occasions.
Well you could argue a tank turret is a helmet to the crew, so I'd personally pick the challenger 2 with TESS upgrades. And I don't care if that "helmet" weighs 30 tonnes
@de Fossegrim No, the neck is exposed, both arms are exposed, shins also exposed. If you had a modern soldier and a knight fight with swords, the knight would slaughter the soldier. So yeah, modern body armor are good with bullets, not melee weapons.
@de Fossegrim Even if he was trained in swordsmanship he would still lose even though kevlar is bullet proof it may not necessarily be stab proof. + Most modern bullet proof armour is made with polyethylene fibers not kevlar anymore. ++ Depends on soft armour or hard armour though you only said kevlar so I'll assume soft armour.
Honestly geralts tourney armor looks fucking great, it's a headpiece next to the main table next to the shield and my painting. I love that vineyard too, pretty epic.
Anyone else notice the effigy shown has the man holding the great helm while wearing a visorless bascinet. And the artwork shows visorless bascinets on some and great helms on others. Makes me think not only did a great helm sit over a secret helm, but possibly even these early visorless bascinets too
I'm so happy the bascinet got so high on this list! It's my favorite looking helmet and even if it's not the best helmet compared to certain other kinds it'll always have a place in my heart. Godspeed, you ugly-but-beautiful canine helmet of legend!!!
“The best helmets through history! (With the evolution of the Roman helmet)” I know ya like Rome but come on dude, 4 of those helmets are the same one!
@@lick28 Yes but in that case you simply reference the helmet and it's evolution giving the spot to it's final and most effective form. Like he did with the Great Helm.
So, I have fought in a frog mouth, two things: a) The visibility is shit. Of all helmets you mentioned, the most visually impaired I have been in a frog mouth. I was literally stumbling over "fallen" team mates, so that they had to get out of my way to not be seriously injured. In a bona fides medieval scenario, I might have tripped over a dead body on the battle field, and that would have been it, pretty much. b) Depending on the weather conditions, you run out of breath pretty quickly. In summer, when wearing heavy armor usually construes an extra burden, forget about the frog mouth, you'll be out of breath in no time. Every other helmet on your list has an advantage in that department. It has great protective capabilities, but it isn't much use on the actual battlefield (and I think you have alluded to that) in my estimation. Cool video, though, big thumbs up!
The frog mouth might actually work for sword fighting if it was slightly modified. I used a similar idea for my book for the main army by having the eye section more open our to see properly but the orcs added spikes and other accessories to the top and sides to look more to their culture. Their were three different ideas I made for soldiers, artillery users and leaders.
6:19 that horse looks way too happy being in a war and it's lowering the enemy horse's self-esteem.
Happiness is the best way to assert dominance.
New cartoon: happy knight horse
medieval meme artist confirmed
I didn't notice that.
That's hilarious
That one is certainly bred for war.
5: Onion helmet
4: Sunbro helmet
3: Silver knight helmet
2: Blacknight helmet
1: Elite knight helmet
Praise the sun
Shura Lothric knights forever
Eleum loyce knights forever.
\[T]/
No faraam I'm disappointed
somewhere at the start of the medieval times people got the brilliant idea that you don't need to be able to see where you're swinging your sword when you're frickin invincible
Frickin
If u cant see then they probably cant hit
@@FIVExTIGERS Imagine decking your self out in all this armor, just for you to take a dagger to the balls
@Professor Weaboo only if you can get close and be that precise and I doubt anybody would approach a armored knight swinging a long sword like a baseball bat armed only with a dagger
@@OzirusSirus Think of a knight battling an enemy knight. You can either use a dagger or a maze. A dagger is way easier to carry around.
6:18 most happiest horse in a battle I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen hundreds of drawings like that. What a bundle of joy.
The one in the red barding looks depressed lol
ahahah... true!
That is Gandalf after being brought back as "The White" ready to kick ass at full power
Edit: not the horse, but still in the same frame
he´s just happy to be included
Cute drawing
“Top 10 best helmets”
*actually includes 17*
lel
More content; can't complain tbh
Always welcome bonus contents 😁
Reverse click bait
The video says top 11 too lol
The illustrations of swords chopping through steel helmets are just earlier proof that people always like to exaggerate a little bit.
True that!
Obviously it’s proof that aliens came and gave one group of people better swords 4head. Historical paintings always tell the truth
I think it also greatly proves that many of the paintings were done by artists (duh) that often didn't have a lot of combat experience.
James Arrendell History Channel 😂
Chicken Little lmao
This man is amazing.
“Reverse clickbait”
-Wise person in this comment section I can’t find
@@Thebeaver-px1gc
I just found him somewhere above this comment.
And there were 2 at number 11
“Reverse clickbait”
-random person in the comments
not liking this post because it has 666 likes XD
Let’s be honest, no one searched this but we’re glad we watched it
Eleven
One ty one
Bro...
@@blustgt8814 what...
@@Squid-Game look at his pfp
@@blustgt8814 oooooh alr thabks
@@Squid-Game thabks
"This is a bucket"
"Dear god"
"There's more"
*"Noooo"*
R.I.P Rick May a legend now gone
lol
God*
@Tyrese K gOd
This makes me so happy
Metatron, where's the video about women underwear. It's been years man. We're still waiting.
I truly hope that the tradicional japanese female underwear video is in his 'to do' list
Breast plates. :P
I'm still waiting for his review of The Messenger, the story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Brushing martial functionalities aside, the craftsmanship of these helmets alone is art on it's purest form.
If you ever get a chance, the MET in New York has a wonderous collection of the art side of the Martial Arts.
For sure.
I mean it's difficult beating out those shapes even with modern tools like electric drills, angle grinders and pneumatic hammers.
Doing it with period tools was a real chore.
Imagine crafting a Greatsword with 15th century technologies. That would take so long to finish.
@@lowlandnobleman6746 lol thats kinda what im trying to do, I'm trying to make a War Cleaver and other then my modern anvil I use an electric blower for my coal fire. It is a real pain working it by hand
@@sevenproxies4255 and the medieval smiths could make hundreds if not thousands of these for the troops. Salutations to them.
Me waking up at 4 pm: “dang my sleep schedule sucks, you know what! Im gonna sleep at 12 am i dont care if im not tired!”
*me at 7 am:* top 10 most effective helmets
I started watching this video around 7 too xd
How in the world can someone wake up at 4 pm?????
@@nathanielredig3957 bro I just woke up and it's 8:09 pm
@@nathanielredig3957 me sadly and like 99% of people who are in college
Me in this exact moment
The jousting helmet looks like you'd drown if it started raining.
But if you got into a lake with water up to your nose you would NOT drown, so its got that going for it
Greg M. Pastur wow that’s a crazy function
Well just lower your head!
Or youve got instant access to water when your thirsty
FerocityGames ‘tis only asthma
Normal people at 2am: sleeeep
Me at 2am: TOP 10 HELMETS
Kappa Pride omg its 2 am right now here
damn it really do be 1;30 am rn
*looks at clock* 1:59am... that was eerily accurate...
3:32
2:07 here
Me: "What are these arrows shaped holes in this helmet?"
Helmet Salesman: "Those are speed holes. They make your head go faster."
Underrated comment
@@gavinhoward602 tis indeed under rated
pin it pls
Nice
Homer
TH-cam algorithm: “yeah just send it, they know by now that they’ll watch anything”
lol
I camed for a meme
😂 “hmm I guess my helmet knowledge IS limited….”
@@brianakelley123 lmaoo right
Ancient helmets: So they protect the nose, chins and decend to the neck. They also look badass
Medivial helmets: *Hey, look at this cool bucket I found!*
my ancestors be like
Well as you can see by this vid the medieval helmets are all better
Modern times: turtle shells for protection
@@jamesmarshall6932 yes but is crazy that the romans and Greeks were on the right path from the start.
@@jamesmarshall6932 I'm not sure if I can see that. For example, early greathelms had a flat top. The very similar Corinthian helmet had a rounded top to deflect blows. And that was over 1500 years earlier.
History: "It's all about practicality"
Me: " No no no, it's all about *FASHION SOULS* boi"
Ah, A person of culture.
Armor doesn't do anything, so might as well fashion souls
Agreed
@@cosmicostrich3657 armor does a lot, especially combined with the fact that an average person wouldn't had had the money or the freedom to afford high end armor of the time, while an upper class person wouldn't had been wasted in the massacre part of a battle and would had been better trained - so they had, relative to an average person - 3 extra points to survivability.
@@memespeech No I was talking about in Dark Souls, not real life
9:30 the frog mouth, or as we all know the "helmet of the unbreakable"
Ah, good ol Patches
A fine dark soul to you
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@@svenwoden Lapp sucks indeed 0/10
Like Lapp and Eleum loyce knights had a baby
Norman helmet: They may break my neck or slice my aorta, YET they will never break my crooked nose!
Applause
To be fair, it'd protect a lot more of your face than *just* the nose.
6:18 That horse, though. That horse is *really* excited.
*excited* in what way? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LMFAO
And the other one looks depressed.
Lol
Her: "He probably think about another women"
Me: TOP 10 HELMETS
You don’t even have a girl
@@user-fq1cc4zb9p *anime profile picture*
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@@blankblank5409 lol
@@user-fq1cc4zb9p I was gonna say the same thing lol
The corinthian helmet is not the same thing without that badass mohawk
Crests are better imo
Don’t cool features like that make the helmet easier to tip over with a polearm or a spear from a distance?
@@enkh-erdenebatbold1177 I think so. But in ancient greece there were only short spears on the phalanx and rocks or javelins to throw from distance, so i don't think it was really a problem
perdi
@@barney28
He's not talking about the team
I love the fact that someone is passionate enough about this topic to make a top 10 list. Subscribed out of respect
Awesome. Absolutely loved this video. Cheers Metatron!
Yes
Was there a time when Roman helmets were only made out of bronze
Yes most Republican times
Thanks
@Pasha Staravoitau Perhaps if iron shortages occurred
@Pasha Staravoitau Yes. Working Iron was hard so in the early iron age bronze armour and iron/steel weapons were used. Pre/Early republican Rome or ancient Greek for instance.
ukezi I doubt they had steel at that kind of time?
Whoever designed the Corinthian helmet he is a genius.
It looks cool, but probably sucks to wear, and impossible to hear anyone with.
@@histguy101 yeah they should remake one in the medieval ages, make it out of iron and make some small holes by the side to be able to hear
And also had a thing for sausages.
@@histguy101 Corinthian soldier: WHAT DID YOU SAY??? CAN'T HEAR YOU SORRY!
Many had ear holes bruh
My home defence setup:
Bascinet fitted with hounskull: For deflecting arrows and low caliber bullets. Also adds an inhuman intimidation factor.
European full-plate chest: For defence against bodystrikes with swords/spears. Shoulderplates are also reccomended.
Leggings: Any sort of cloth trousers. (The dark chambers in my homestead will obscure my figure, and will negate my foes fucus.)
Pair of sabatons: For kicking of adversaries private parts, and the thunder of my steps will create an ominous and threatening aura.
Norman kite shield: For denying enemies passage through doorways.
Short spear: For thrusting and eventual execution.
Good partings!
very modest, but decent setup, kudos
I love how medieval iconography can be both adorable and badass at the same time
Yes!
It also is tricky to draw. I tried it like three times but I couldn't make my drawings look like authentic medieval ones😂
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Vvv
Personally I love the giant snails attacking knights lol
Being a retired helmet maker/ Armorer, Your research was impeccable! Thanks for an excellent video. I loved to make the Norman style with a welded 3 or 4 piece conical and the chain mail coif! Next I labored long and hard to produce a Corinthian (2 piece, welded with neck piece welded to body......0 Such beautiful classic lines but hard to make. I did play with the Italian /German Sallet but always had problems matching the pieces and was never really pleased with the results. Ended my time with doing a modified Corinthian with extra eye protection (bars wielded in eye splits to not obstruct vision and welding the same type bars or round stock to keep the nosepeice from being pushed in) and opening either perforated ear on the side of helmet with covering to deflect top hits and strengthen the weaken area.
Damn, I’d have loved to get a set to go in my study, sure wish there more people with these skills!
That is one of the best jobs ever my dude
Helmet makers are a thing nowadays?
Damn, long comment lol
Give this man a knight.
You forgot the strongest helmet...
The double layered plastic bucket.
But dude, they’re like a million dollars.
The metal buckets that the zombies from Plants vs. Zombies use
I heard a story once where a home depot employee was saved by bucket from a shelf falling
That can surely defeat Kratos!
Uhum you forgot the flex tape reinforced double layer metal can
One of my favorite books as a kid, T. H. White’s “The Once And Future King”, first made me think about helmet practicality instead of just how cool they looked. The book is a retelling of the Arthurian romance. At one point White declares that Launcelot always wore a plain unadorned helm for jousting rather than one which had an elaborate heraldic sculpture on the top, because the opponent’s lance could lodge in the details of the sculpture and knock you off your horse. I had never thought of it that way before.
Nice video.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the Frog-mouth Helm.
I think you mean *Lapp's Helm!
@@bradleydoyle6752 Yes and no.
Kinda looks sturdier than other helmets.
There's definitely something very modern about the design... perhaps even science fiction-like.
Reminds me of ChernoAlpha from Pacific Rim.
3:35 i just found it funny you showed a skeleton picture and said "it provides very good protection" XD
lol
th-cam.com/video/iJbKd31xtUk/w-d-xo.html .
Not for that guy
For Roman legionnaires, it was leg day, everyday.
Carlos E R Pimentel marching all over Europe and Asia? Yeah pretty much.
@@lexi9956 don't forget Africa
Then they must've had sever muscle degradation from never having a recovery period. Their chicken legs held up an empire!
@@andrewgodly5739 they usually had rest in winter. If there was not an urgency they prefer to fight in spring- Summer.
@@svenwoden Well pointed out. No wonder their infantry was so hard to break.
I know absolutely nothing about medieval combat, but my absolute favourite helmet throughout history is the Salat. For all the technical benefits it brings to the table, I think it just looks absolutely gorgeous. It's a very good blend between strength and agility in terms of its shape.
Take a shot every time he say
"Lorica Segmentata" 🤣
Can I do It too? :3
@@metatronyt Yes, but only if you've eaten your pasta ration for the day. Pasta makes a knight strong as and resilient.
@@metatronyt she likes to take a shot at the lorica segmentata
Love me some segmentata first thing in the morning.
Justin Mckay dont you mean smegmentata?
"Oh wow I wonder why this helmet is effective"
*Made in Rome*
"Oh no wonder"
Did you notice he mentioned that Chinese helmets weren't as famous? Wonder why...
@@justanotherbum007 probably cuz they sucked
th-cam.com/video/iJbKd31xtUk/w-d-xo.html .
Hey the romans were awesome
@@justanotherbum007 Copy and Paste
"top 10 helmets, starting at number 11" wtf
Ja, ja, ja
th-cam.com/video/iJbKd31xtUk/w-d-xo.html .
Reverse clickbait
Proceeds to show 17 helmets lol
This list goes to 11.
“The helmet is good because it protects your head”
ah yes, the floor is made out of floor
Did anyone get Darksouls flashbacks on the Frogmouth? Fkin patches ready to push you off a cliff.
CobaltMilsim eleyum Loyce
lmao
The comeback they made guarding the entrance to the last map of the game as an army of ghost archers...
He still own me 2 kick
Knights of the Nine I wasn’t paying attention to them since I was too busy evading every volley
Real Crusades History _and_ a Metatron upload tonight? You guys are spoiling me.
I love Real Crusades History! I followed that channel since it was very small.
Emanuel Vanzetti me too. J is a very awesome dude. So is Metatron. They should do a collaboration.
Also he always sites primary sources and i just love that
RCH seems very heavily biased.
@@obesespringroll3997 He's definitely very biased, no serious historian looking for a neutral and general perspective on history would ever take him seriously
4:13 that’s not a kettle hat, that’s a Skyrim bowl
th-cam.com/video/iJbKd31xtUk/w-d-xo.html .
One tiny nitpick: There's another helmet called the "close helmet" that is like an armet, but better. a close helmet opens front-to-back down the middle (the bevor pivots with the visor) while an armet opens side-to-side at the cheek plates, making the close helmet more sturdy against attacks from the front. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_helmet#/media/File:Close_helm_armet_open.svg)
Indeed.
The flat-topped great helm reminded me irresistibly of a certain scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". King Arthur proposes to his companions that they go to Camelot. We get some quick scenes from Camelot -- including someone using several knights, wearing such helmets, as a drum set. It's only half a second long, but it cracks me up every time.
Let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
@@fransbuijs808 "Look my liege! Camelot! - Camelot! - Camelot! - It's only a model.... - shhh!" xD
Soldier: I HAVE A HELMET, I AM COMPLETELY SAFE!
*gets stabbed in the chest
Soldier: damnit.
I heard that in the TF2 Soldier voice
@@akumaking1 rip
@@akumaking1 Same!
F
9:33 Wait, Eleum Loyce Knights Helmet is actually real? WHAT????
Lapp???
@@trollguy3339 same thing I thought 😂
Ruin helm
Best Jeanist would wear that
Lapp top
I’m not into history but this video is well made and deserves views.
9:30 I have trust issues when I see this helm for... Reasons I'm sure you can understand
Be wary of trio.
Lawbringer?
Yung Dung nah bro it’s my nigga patches
Oh hello patches
Patches(dark souls 3), Sentries(dark souls 2) and Lawbringer (for honour)
Me: have to go to work in an hour
Also me: TOP TEN EFFECTIVE HELMETS!
Ahahah
Why is Paul Pierce watching videos about helmets?
9:30 now imagine yourself wearing It in a rainy day, and you'll feel like a true frog...
"croak"
Everybody knows the Corinthian helmet is the most effective and has the most drip in combat
The Armet would beg to differ
I think the flat topped great helm (the classic one you see) has high drip levels too
the italian salat is the real drip
*Happy Sir Gideon noises*
Film makers: Remove their helmets to better identify them
Me:
And of course the head is the *first* thing that is ever armoured!
Honestly, even a non-wounding blow to the head stuns you to the point where you're easy meat for the next strike. I was told a long time ago that a man off balance isn't a fighter, he's a victim.
And of course the medieval 'blow of wrath' ('zornhau') is a slightly slanting cut to just above the ear from above. It's thought that it was called this because it's the instinctive cut in a fight; the first thing you do is hack at the head.
You know it wouldn't be so hard to identify people if they didn't mute all the colors like they do. Could literally color code the heroes. The Noble King character would Red (Or Blue) and Gold. The Dastardly Villain, green and black. The Noble Knight, Blue and Silver, ect, ect. Just create recognizable color patterns and heraldry for all of your main character, and suddenly you can pick them out of a crowd even when they are armored from head to toe. Even if you have to be a bit heavy handed with it, it's still more historical and visually interesting than what they do now.
Could you imagine the first time you are introduced to a character being bombarded with their primary color scheme, and motif's, allowing you to track them, their actions, and involvement in many different situations without ever needing to see their face, or even hear their name? That would be freaking art.
The Most annoying thing for me is, when someone strikes an enemy with thick Blade armour with his sword and they just Go Down like their armour was made out of thin air.
Looking at you Lord of the rings.
@@patrickbuckley7259 It's probably more so that we can better see their feelings than identify them.
It’s soooooo annoying
4:12 "Welcome to the wheat fields"
😂😂😂
"Welcome to the rice field mudda fuka"
-Filthy Frank
@@user-ks4cs7tn5p i just though of that xD
Looks like a Skyrim bowl
9:32 eyyyy Amnesiac Lapp is on this list. You know the armor is good when it gets you through The Ringed City
*excuse me, i think you mean ruin sentinel*
@@ray8649 no that's not the ruin Sentinel armor
Ray 46 ruin sentinels have helms that are more pointed to the top
@@ray8649 thats a loyce knight helmet
Unbreakable Patches more like
Amnesiac Lapp
😎
Title: “Top 10 helmets”
Proceeds to name what feels like 50
Frogmouth is also one of my favs too. So intimidating. Turns an identifiable human enemy into some kind of alien monster.
he's talking like he's running an auction and was ready for bidders to start bidding
I’m over here watching at 2x speed lol
oh absolutely
"a sullet allows you to personalize and customize the experience depending on your needs"
@@obamgma bruh I was on that part
I think the Niederbieber/Heddernheim helmet of the Severan dynasty and Crisis of the Third Century eras is the most formidable Ancient Roman helmet.
It represents Imperial Rome's ultimate peak in helmet design and the last and most protective of the Italic family, before being gradually replaced due to budget issues by Intercisa and other ridge models with Diocletian's reforms.
Wow, i looked it up and indeed. If that was made out of steel it would prob. End up 1 spot before the kettle hat for me
@@Floris_VI I'm a Middle Imperial period (193-284) French reenactor (that's me in my profile picture with the said helmet), and I can assure you that this model is a marvel of engineering (in my case, forged by the Pustelak brothers on the wise advice of our beloved Sicilian TH-camr).
Archeological data has founded iron, brass, bronze or a combination of all of those for the Niederbieber's materials.
It's a cool helmet, but the downside is that it covers the ears, so your hearing isn't as good as it is with the Gallic helmet.
It's a no from me dawg. Limits your hearing, limits your movement, limits ventilation and probably is a bitch both in hot and cold weather. Imperial Gallic all day, every day.
But yes, they are at least halfway decent compared to the butt ugly abominations that came after them....
There were accounts of troops hating it because how restrictive it was to head movement. It was hard to see incoming missiles when you can't turn your head.
I literally have done my own research on middle age - renaissance helmets and came to the exact same conclusion as shown in your list for the second half, that's awesome, man. I gotta say, my favorite has always been stuck between the Armet and the Italian closed Sallet. The designs are just so beautiful to look at.
5:30 I think it’s time for another
c r u s a d e
*DEUS VULT*
Please No I Beg. Just Let The Jews And Us Muslims Have Jerusalem. please Man.
Saladin : so be it
@@seljukturk53 too late, the crusade has been called
I wish
Most of these helmets were related to the Italic Peninsula. SPQR x ever
@Brantius Riximium Italian metalworks were still excellent during both world wars, problem is... there was no metal at all, that's why the paper thin bolted armor.
Look at italian engineering. Pure art but definitely not a lot of resources.
Italian tanks in ww2 were utter memes
@@deathlygrim6673 ok bro.
@@deathlygrim6673 my ancestors made them look like memes before that Allies were running😆
I agree with the list. Mainly because I didn't know all those helmets until you mentioned them in your video
Big fan of the Armet too. The Bascinet is one of my favorites as well, the more modular versions I've seen seem quite useful and versatile. Not as protective as many helms but a good option if you are a man at arms or something.
finally, a helmet for me to ride my bike around in style.
9:33
Beanpole ahead, be wary of trio
Dark Souls 2 everyone?
Duncan the Tall
Remember Giant Dad.
Dont give up skeleton.
@@Eldariur well, what is it?
@@muadzm9496, and yes, theses 3 god damn ruined sentinels...
Still have PTSD.
Roman: Hey Nico lets go bowling.
I would like this but you have 69 likes
@@jakewiggins7205 I ruined it you can like now
O Galo I hope ur happy
Bruh. My name’s Nico.
A man of culture I see.
such a simple basic video and yet
informative, good pace, no distractions with intro or music
it's not hard to make a good video
My personal top 5 helmets would be:
1. Armet
2. Burgonet
3. Barbute
4. Kabuto
5. Roman Gallic
barbute is style over substance, so a no-go for me
while I agree armets are better than sallets, surviving sallets tend to look way better
Croz Raven I would personally still keep that Sallet at number 2 but hey, that’s just my opinion... and come to thing about it the barbute is something to consider
Yeah, what about the burgonet Metatron ?
Arai AGV shoei
@incinerator950 They look nothing like a greek helmet with the visor down
I love italian style helmets, its practical art.
That's basically everything italian
Romans still live... inside of italians.
The mask that DOOM use is also italian
Yes, I personally prefer the Italian fluted style over the Germanic gothic style. But both are amazing and are art.
Can’t say the same thing with their tanks.
*Yay! Rafael is back! My favorite Renaissance Ninja Turtle! I love it!!*
Kawabunga!
@@metatronyt Where's the Pizza?
@@metatronyt Wasn't it "Kowabunga"?
@@metatronyt
7:20 headbutting would've worked effectively against light/no armor, as the knight would stab the pointy end inside above the collar bone to severe some primary arteries, damage chest bones / lungs or to carve out some prefrontal cortex.
Forgot polearms, this is the REAL bec-de-corbin
So many helmets, so little time to document them all in a video. Roman's sure loved their style of helmet though.
No wonder, as it was in my opinion a far more combat-effective design than anything used by the infantry in the medieval period. All of the more protective helmets worn by knights would have been absolute crap in the sort of dismounted heavy-infantry combat the Romans professed.
@@4Leka Makes a bit sense. If they made roman style helmet in medieval times but from steel.. that would work too probably quite nicely. A bit more conical shape added and.. you have protection all oever the places + great visibility.
@@DarkInos I have indeed wondered why they didn't copy or reinvent a Roman or Greek style helmets in the medieval era. Both seem much better for line infantry than what were actually used.
Well the Barbute can look pretty damn similar to Roman and Celtic helmets, but that’s only some of them though.
@@4Leka As with most things, it's economics. Knights buy their own super nice, full faced helmets and serfs get a piece of hammered tin.
And I'm also guessing, I'm no historian hence guessing, the standard infantry became less significant in battles as weapons of war advanced, so money went more into the weapons of war at the cost of the standard soldier.
The categories for judging helmets mentioned at the beginning on the video were dropped. Mobility, breathing, hearing, vision and overheating were all dropped and only protection was used to judge them. The great helm and beyond had low vision and hearing. Breathibg was also restricted. Not saying they were bad helms, they just won't be at top of list based on criteria mentioned.
Corinthian helmets have always been my favourite style of helmet. They just look damn cool!
The Corinthian looks the best ,very smart ,beautiful style ,and very effective for its time !
So Metatron, what was actually used INSIDE of the helmets for shock absorption?
I never hear anything about that.
Tha Brane
Torva Messorem From What little I know, either a padded coif and/or chain mail coif.
Along with MAYBE a “hidden helmet” or skullcap or whatever.
@@The_Lone_Outlaw Yeah there had to be some kind of padding in there. But I wonder what they used for it. Could also be something similar to what modern day construction hats have.
@@torvamessorem6686 Most likely gambeson padding similar to gambeson suit knights wear underneath their steel armors.
@@emperorfaiz Gambeson doesn't absorb shock too well as it is simply many layers of silk. It's mostly to protect against cuts. But who knows. Metatron won't answer.
European ancestors: mastering forging and smithing skills to protect themselves*
Mongols and turks: "Hey! This leather looks good on me today"
And yet the Mongols still managed to conquer Eastern Europe...
Mongols were just better tacticians and were a faster army everything on cavalry.
"Actually..."
Steppe peoples, for over 2000 years, have been known for heavily-armored shock cavalry. It's definitely the case that their signature mode of attack was the lightly-armored archer, but every major steppe people, from the Skythians to the Sarmatians, Avars, Magyars, and all the way to the Mongols and Manchus had a corps of metal-armored lancer cavalry acting as the hammer that smashed troops pinned down by the archers. Chinggis Khan was said to have decreed that two fifths of his warriors be armored lancers, and the rest, light archers.
These were probably the first very heavily-armored cavalry, and were the most heavily armored cavalry around until the European high middle ages, when the man-at-arms began to overtake them. Their armor consisted of chain mail, scale, or lamellar armor (like Japanese do-maru*), and their primary weapon was a lance, often supplemented by a bow. This formula (armor, lance, bow) was so powerful that it was copied, exactly and shamelessly, by the settled societies that were in contact with these steppe peoples, particularly the Chinese, the Sassanian Persians, and most famously, the Eastern Roman Empire, where they were called the "cataphract."
It was such an effective type of unit that the only thing that really caused its decline was the widespread use of gunpowder weapons by infantry, but even then, they were used well into the 1600s by the Manchus, and to a lesser extent, the Mughals in their conquest of India.
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* Based on the composition and nature of traditional Japanese armor (which bears several cruicial resemblances to the armor of steppe peoples), the existence of Yabusame, and a number of other factors, I'm convinced that the people we now call the Japanese arrived in Japan around 0 BC (give or take a few hundred years), and were previously a steppe-dwelling group.
@Nom The Mongols smashed... *smashed* ... multiple European *proper armies* time after time. Mongol scouts are known to have probed deep into Germany proper, possibly as far as the Rhine, and several cities that were just to the northeast of Vienna were raided and pillaged by small harassment forces, of a thousand or so. These were eventually driven away, but it required the full military focus of the Holy Roman Empire, the most powerful polity in central Europe at the time, to do. The degree of panic this caused in Europe was so high that the Pope of the time (I forget which), declared that expelling the Mongols from Europe was, in essence, a sort of defensive crusade, which had the effect of drawing very strong and well-organized western European forces, including, on many occasions, the Teutonic Knights and the Knights Templar, much further to the east than you might ordinarily find them, and they participated in many battles trying to keep the Mongols out of Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Western Knights were usually *obliterated* by the Mongols unless they held a considerable advantage of numbers and position.
The only thing that stopped the Mongols was that the leaders of the invasion had to stop invading and return to Mongolia in order to elect a new Khan when the previous one died. This phenomenon saved many nations, all over Eurasia, on many occasions.
@@racoonlittle1679 Armour penetrating arrows and masses of cavalry were clearly most effective
and coming in at number one, the Kevlar Hemet.
Kevlar helmet is only effective against bullets
@GHB 711 well kevlar will become obsolete when we get power armour
Well you could argue a tank turret is a helmet to the crew, so I'd personally pick the challenger 2 with TESS upgrades. And I don't care if that "helmet" weighs 30 tonnes
@de Fossegrim No, the neck is exposed, both arms are exposed, shins also exposed. If you had a modern soldier and a knight fight with swords, the knight would slaughter the soldier. So yeah, modern body armor are good with bullets, not melee weapons.
@de Fossegrim Even if he was trained in swordsmanship he would still lose even though kevlar is bullet proof it may not necessarily be stab proof. + Most modern bullet proof armour is made with polyethylene fibers not kevlar anymore. ++ Depends on soft armour or hard armour though you only said kevlar so I'll assume soft armour.
I would like to see a top 10 list of modern helmets.Found this one interesting 👍.
Stahlhelm
8:16 ..... "FOR TOUSSAINT!"
If you play W3EE Geralt can get his own one.
Honestly geralts tourney armor looks fucking great, it's a headpiece next to the main table next to the shield and my painting. I love that vineyard too, pretty epic.
For striking fear in the enemy and simply looking awesome, nothing beats the Corinthian.
9:36
Ah yes, a fellow Ruin Sentinel!
It's either that or a helmet the Eleum Loyce knights wore. They look similar
th-cam.com/video/iJbKd31xtUk/w-d-xo.html .
I spent a whole game with that set, good times.
I like the design of the Corinthian helmet best. Sallet helmets look nice too.
4:22 is a reaction image if I've ever seen one
9:30 that helmet looks very cool, and i glad it's real, and honestly i want to buy that too
Anyone else notice the effigy shown has the man holding the great helm while wearing a visorless bascinet. And the artwork shows visorless bascinets on some and great helms on others. Makes me think not only did a great helm sit over a secret helm, but possibly even these early visorless bascinets too
This sounds like that channel on the TV where people try to presuade to buy these items but this is actually far better .
*This man is fueling me with vital information for my medieval revolution.*
2:18 *INCREDIBILIS*
*ETYAM*
INFIRMUS
*Roman* kick!
*Roman* punch!
*Roman* stab!
*Roman* can't afford to pay for therapy and child support, he's very sad about this.
Amazing For Honor reference
@Christian Aria Ah, another man of culture I see.
My favorite is still Roman Germanic-style Spangehelm, it combine both roman mind set of protection and practicality. My second is Roman castle helm.
Who else saw the thumbnail and thought: "My man Lapp! He knew what's goood!"
Just gonna say, called who he was
🙋🏻♂️
Sallets are one of my favorite helmets. But nothing can top the impact of a flat topped great helm
The gothic sallet will always be my favorite. It looks so good while being functional
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I'm so happy the bascinet got so high on this list! It's my favorite looking helmet and even if it's not the best helmet compared to certain other kinds it'll always have a place in my heart. Godspeed, you ugly-but-beautiful canine helmet of legend!!!
9:33 Patches, that you?
Our boy out here in the ringed city
*Trusty* Patches ^^
“The best helmets through history! (With the evolution of the Roman helmet)”
I know ya like Rome but come on dude, 4 of those helmets are the same one!
A single protruding side can make a big difference in battle.
@@lick28 Yes but in that case you simply reference the helmet and it's evolution giving the spot to it's final and most effective form. Like he did with the Great Helm.
@@patrickbuckley7259 Fair point
@@lick28 Wow
@@SP-hy1ri what?
So, I have fought in a frog mouth, two things:
a) The visibility is shit. Of all helmets you mentioned, the most visually impaired I have been in a frog mouth. I was literally stumbling over "fallen" team mates, so that they had to get out of my way to not be seriously injured. In a bona fides medieval scenario, I might have tripped over a dead body on the battle field, and that would have been it, pretty much.
b) Depending on the weather conditions, you run out of breath pretty quickly. In summer, when wearing heavy armor usually construes an extra burden, forget about the frog mouth, you'll be out of breath in no time. Every other helmet on your list has an advantage in that department.
It has great protective capabilities, but it isn't much use on the actual battlefield (and I think you have alluded to that) in my estimation. Cool video, though, big thumbs up!
He didn't allude to that, he SAID that.
Cool info!
The frog mouth might actually work for sword fighting if it was slightly modified. I used a similar idea for my book for the main army by having the eye section more open our to see properly but the orcs added spikes and other accessories to the top and sides to look more to their culture. Their were three different ideas I made for soldiers, artillery users and leaders.