An introduction to maces and war hammers
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- Since blunt impact weapons are usually not covered as much as swords I figured it would be good to make kind of a maces / war hammers 101 video. The topics are 1.) practical aspects (mainly handling / function), 2.) design (how they were made / some examples of historical finds), and brief history (when they became common).
Maces were already used in the Bronze Age and earlier while war hammers are a more distinctively medieval form of weapon, specifically designed for use against armor. They reached their peak in development in the 16th century.
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i got a question based from the skyrim book mace etiquette. heres what the book says.
Warriors sometimes make the mistake of thinking that there are no tactics with a mace. They assume that the sword is all about skill and the mace is only about strength and stamina. As a veteran instructor of mace tactics, I can tell you they are wrong.
Wielding a mace properly is all about timing and momentum. Once the swing of the mace has begun, stopping it or slowing it down is difficult. The fighter is committed to not just the blow, but also the recoil. Begin your strike when the opponent is leaning forward, hopefully off balance. It is completely predictable that he will lean backward, so aim for a point behind his head. By the time the mace gets there, his head will be in it's [sic] path.
The mace should be held at the ready, shoulder high. The windup should not extend past the shoulders by more than a hand's width. When swinging, lead with the elbow. As the elbow passes the height of your collarbone, extend the forearm like a whip. The extra momentum will drive the mace faster and harder, causing far more damage.
At the moment of impact, let the wrist loosen. The mace will bounce and hurt a stiff wrist. Allow the recoil of the blow to drive the mace back into the ready position, thereby preparing the warrior for a quicker second strike.
my question is how much of this is true?
the first part about momentum is all true. as for everything else i'm not completely sure.
Sounds logical. (Just liked your comment and left a reply because I want an answer as well. And that helps to get it noticed)
I mean, it would be a viable technique. Whether or not it is optimal is opinion but historically every master had an opinion too
Considering how many stormcloaks i killed with maces I'd say it's all true.
I love the mace.. Often imagined welding one at the shop and using it for the zombie outbreak. A mace and a targe
Sword: Agility, precision, speed, parrying, flexibility.
Mace: "I fight with a ROCK on a STICK."
Sword hits rock on stick rock on stick unaffected sword chipped.
Rock on stick hits sword sword all but shatters. Rock on stick wins!
chainmail with gambeson and coat of plates affordable stylish durable stops swords.
chainmail with gambeson and coat of plates affordable stylish durable can't stop rocks on sticks. Rock on stick wins!
Interesting... LIKE ROCKS
Shad: STICK GOOD!!
I wash myself with a rag on a stick
Medieval Killer Bunnies are no joke, we've all seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
IDidSawABear dude i was looking for that movie's name for ages ,thx
***** Hurry, fetch the holy hand grenade!
IDidSawABear LOOK AT THE BONES MAN!!
IDidSawABear Better start counting.
IDidSawABear "How's it work?" "I no not sir." "Consult the book of armaments!"
Just grip the mace at the striking head and hold it upside-down. Now all the handling of a good sword, with the armor-crushing power of a mace.
Then put a removable pommel on it hiding an exacto knife blade.
Perfect weapon/10.
Or maybe a sword with a mace screwed onto the end like a pommel. Now half swording is doubly effective
@@PassTheSnails that would probably throw the center of gravity way off
@Professor Weaboo r/ihavereddit
The hammer already has a spike that could be used for stabbing
"Gluing metal together" as a welder, I really like that description, cheers Skalla!
This man is a true Nord
Ian Barr I say more of a true Breton, the weapons and armors he likes seems more similar to the ones of Bretons
Joynel Bonet Delgado Britain's are often battle mages so plate armor staff and a one-handed sort of some kind
You misspelled nerd
@@AG.Floats nice
@@AG.Floats what's bad in that?
"What did that Warhammer cost?"
- "40k"
Very underrated comment
-(Bolt Thrower's) World Eater intro fades in.
@@NabPunk
I'm just so damn happy to see Bolt Thrower being mentioned. Sooooooo underrated
EAT BOLT GUN!
noice
You should do a Video on the Aztec's Atlatl
The spear throwing device? I like that idea.
Or were you meaning the Macuahuitl obsidian sword?
I believe it's covered in his non-metal video if you haven't found it
look at this aztec weapons
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his name was not aztecs
The 13th Warrior-
Arab - I can't swing this.
Viking - Grow stronger!
"Is there a metalworker here? I want to change this sword into a scimitar like my people will use 300+ years in the future."
You forgot Mace Windu. ;) Seriously though: I really enjoy your videos, dude.
TheOldTomster I'm going to acquire a mace this summer, and I want to name it Windu... So I'll own Mace Windu :))
lol that's cool Dan
Dan Morariu But will it be purple?
:)) That is a nice idea... But no.
Full-time Penguin Is it at least black? :3
So, I watched your video with the two "professional" swordsmen discussing dual wielding, and then followed it up with your review of the windlass mace, and now this vid ... and it got me wondering about your take on dual wielding maces?
In short: Terrible idea. Maces are neither agile nor particularly good at parrying, so it would be cumbersome and offer very little defensive capability, while not having any advantage over mace and shield or buckler.
Maces are quite reliant on how you swing the weight. Bit like a larger weapon, if you swing the weight properly it would still be able to do damage to an opponent but dual wielding a mace... its just not practical at all. A shield/mace would be much better. Much like dual wielding swords using one to block the opponents weapon while using the other to strike would be the strategy used. But due to a longer swing time the opponent would likely be able to block it with their shield or sidestep out of the way.
dalila silva hello fellow Silva
Skalgrim: "I wish I had three arms."
me thinking ""it looks like you have enough arms to be going on with!"
I love your work.
I'd love to see a comparison video between Axes and Hammers, the pros and cons of each compared to the other
Axes have more cutting power whereas hammers are exceptionally good at blowing up armor.
Usually platearmor was alot more expensive to produce so almost exclusively wealthy knights actually weared the really good armor sets. Until this point when countries joined war many peasants and other people that have no business in fighting were forced to protect their land.
Over time however people realized that swarming an enemy with large numbers is not the only thing contributing to the outcome of a battle. Armor became available for a larger number of people because kingdoms started financing their very personal army. At this time armor piercing weapons started shining such as hammers and clubs, however this time didnt last very ling because when armor piercing crossbows and last but not least gunpowder weapons joined the table, armor became very dispensable.
I hope I could help.
the more you know
Axe cuts hammer bonks
I literally am not even a weapon nut or anything but I listen and watch all these videos while doing things and it calms me and brings me joy. maybe im too high right now but I don't care these videos are amazing.
Very nice to see a video on the unsung weapons used in Europe. The various swords and bow/arrow combinations get most of the attention. Thank you.
"I wish I had three arms."
You have a wife...
Ahhh...Lydia. She's sworn to carry my burden. Forever.
One of the most impressive display of maces I've seen was at a local ren fair, where a fairly local group of HEMA practicioners had one of their mace specialists at their stall. He displayed a hunk of steel, allegedly on the heavier end of maces. I seem to recall it was above 2kg, but I have a hard time believing myself there. I'm not entirely sure how much bias may have blown my awe up in retrospection. It certainly seemed a little shorter and pudgier than the one you had on display. I tried finding it to see if I could back it up with a reference, but I apparently suck at googling. In any case, I couldn't hold it for extended periods, let alone imagine swinging it.
The mad lad not just swung it, he could stop it on point.
He demonstrated with his colleague, repeatedly swinging his mace at, then stopping mere centimetres away from his unhelmeted friend, who somehow stood completely still. My retrospection keeps trying to insert the smell of pooped pants into the memory, but I'm faily certain they just knew and trusted his skill. Still, big fucking balls on that bloke. They talked a bit about the "not stopping" thing, and how the exercise there wasn't really healthy for extended periods because of the wear on the joints and such. In that case, I wonder how the dude got the practice without fucking himself up.
This kind of flanged mace was an officers' weapon in 17th century Poland - it was used the same way the Japananese used fans - to make the officer's gestures more visible to his underlings (for higher officers, these became less practical and more scepter-like.
Somewhere around that time the warhammer also evolved one specialised form - a long handled one with the spike removed (curved into a spiral) that could be used as a walking stick - those developed a bad reputation, and there are some historical writings speaking against them, because they could do a lot of damage without drawing much blood - so a bad temped person could easily underestimate how much harm they were causing.
3:05 who else puckered up thinking he was gonna hit his showcase
omg ya XD
I thought he might hit the camera
Hey Skall, for your point about finding a lot of copper mace heads (at 6:32), that could be a preservation bias as copper preserves better than steel. To my knowledge, steel can rust and become lost with unfavourable conditions whereas copper just turns blueish green as it oxidizes ("rusts").
That mace looks gorgeous.i'm in love
3:26 they kind of address this in skyrim actually, swords and daggers swing the fastest of any melee weapons, followed by war axes and then maces.
Very interesting. I really hope to see a video detailing the techniques and manuals for the use of maces... though I doubt they were as intricate as sword manuals.
I love your arming sword. I also really love that green handle
Skall, you're really scaring me with those demonstrative swings.
That flanged mace of yours is so freaking beautiful.
Best video about maces, best medieval content channel !!
I must mention my present favorite author Bernard Cornwell. I just finished his novel "1356" about the battle of Poitiers. Very descriptive mace action by the men at arms and dismounted archers.
What about a morning star? Is that just a mace with spikes like the Indian mace you showed?
Well, to answer in place of Skall, yes. Morning stars are generally spiked maces according to pop culture. However, these spikes can also be studs
"I'm not aware of any war hammers before Middle Ages" I was gonna say that wouldn't existence of Thor prove that war hammers could've existed before Middle Ages, but apparently Thor/Donar/Perun originally used an axe and Norse only worshipped him as having a hammer around Viking Age.
Forge welding is a little different then you described. First the temperature is much higher than orange heat (~1700F, ~900C). Typically when you forge weld, it ranges in the white to bright white color (~2200F, ~1200C) and it should look similar to butter. Then once you start forging you are essentially hammering the atoms into a different configuration. If done right, you end up with a single piece of metal which has been bonded at the molecular level. Besides that great video man!
(Sorry for the criticism, but blacksmithing is really interesting stuff. And before you ask, I have forge welded and its really cool. It definitely worth trying.)
***** Ah, I see. I was just going by the information I found about forge welding, presumably from a blacksmith.
What is the difference between a mace and a club really? Because germanic tribes for example did use clubs, and so did the celts.
James Sarvan Maces tend to have one large bulbous peice of metal while clubs tend to just be glorified sticks with no real processes.
James Sarvan Club is only wood, sometimes added spikes or metal. Mace may be fully metal, Or a wooden grip but the head will be metal.
If I remember correctly, Black Forest German tribes used clubs shaped to have an edge. Essentially, they were carved to be triangular and bring all that mass down into a single point. Super effective weapons, despite being entirely wooden.
lmfao, i'm surprised that I haven't seen any representations of that "hand-holding-a-dagger" mace in any modern video games yet... XD
That lucerne is fucking gorgeous.... heavy spear combined with warhammer, love it
I want to learn a bit about a slightly rarer weapon called a Bar Mace. basically instead of the flanges at the head of the weapon and a haft, a bar mace has flanges all the way down to the handle, giving it the appearance of a four-sided sword.
so does a "Morning Star" count as a mace or is that it's own sort of beast?
also, please analyze the practicality of "War Scythes".
You might have actually seen that video by Skall, where he goes over Farming Scythes, Practicality of a Grim Reaper Scythe (including Paulus Hector Mair's manuscript on how to use a farming scythe as a weapon) and the war scythe itself
@@voltekthecyborg7898 man, four years does a lot to you, but you'll be happy to know that yes, I have seen his video about Scythes haha. Along with many other's. Thank you for the update c:
@@RedAce0 No problem, man
Excellent info. Reminds me of my fencing days back in college.
Game thrones has an Instance of a war-hammer being used in the battle of the trident during Robert's rebellion.
Great video! I love maces and warhammers. Too bad it is impossible to buy warhammers in south america because nobody crafts them anymore.. :(
Hansen Rao that's stupid..
Marcelo Henrique It doesn't look like rocket science - basically a hammer with some spikey bits attached. So buy a hammer head and take it to a blacksmith and get him to weld on the extra pieces.
Pibydd It's not. I didn't say it was impossible to get one, just that it was impossible to buy an avaliable model because there isn't any.
Most people have to buy their historical reproductions over the Internet, and have the product shipped or posted to them.
Luke DS Problem is: I live in Brazil.
Here we have some kind of roulette with the customs bureal to check if you're gonna pay double the price of the goods you've ordered or not (they call it economy-protective taxes). The reason of that is that they're too incompetent to check the whole flow of importations so they let some pass though.
If I never know how much I'm gonna pay for something, I can't really plan to acquire anything from overseas...
When you 'attack' the camerea at 3:20 you look so frightened and confused somehow, it made me laugh
That mace with a hand holding a nail looks badass. I want!
Just wondering, wouldnt the really spiky one be super impractical? Considering if you plunge into some plate armor itll be incredibly hard to pull out?
+TomGrizzly If the "really spiky one" is the indian mace, remember... they used elephants.
This was for use against the East India Trading Company (British). They didn't use plate armour at this point
I do not remember exactly where I saw it, but I saw a mace with a heavier pommel to counter balance the mace head to give it a bit more agility, now I will be the first to admit, that I may be wrong on this, but as it has been several years since I saw it. But, such an addition would also add to the overall weight of the weapon.
Matt Easton does a video on warhammer and maces too, if anyone is new to these types of videos you probably missed it as it was some times ago. I highly suggest checking it out.
The flanged mace actually made an appearance in WWI as well, typically as an improvised weapon using something like a heavy machine gear as a head and a broom handle as a shaft: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Trenchmaul.jpg
What if we combine a sword, a war hamer, a spear and a mace???
Like:
-150 centimeters length
-the head is like a war hammer
-the base under your grip as a mace head
-a double edged blade is imbued into the shaft above your grip range all the way to the head, were it connects
It would be insanely heavy. There's a reason why it wasn't done. Combination weapons often become poor at everything when they get too ambitious.
I don't know why but I pictured you swinging the mace and then accidental smashing your keyboard(pretend its there if its not), and having an "oh shit" face as keys few everywhere.
10/10 ended the keyboard rightly!
They do look interesting, but well...
Not enough pommels to throw, wouldn't use them in a duel.
Yes the mace with a nice large round shield, I'd totally be down with that set up and a decent helm and armor, maybe partial plating or studded hmmm.
I have trouble imagining what fighting with those would look like. It would be nice to have a video about it. I'd love to see what effect could have a warhammer strike on a plate armour.
God damn I like you for sticking straight to facts no bullshit just pure research well done man
I just realized that war hammer looks surprisingly like a modern claw hammer. If you bent the claws up a little, then the claw would look like the hook on the back of his hammer.
My understanding is that fighting clergy in the middle ages (of which i have been told some existed) were required to use a mace
supposedly to prevent their shedding blood.
Got a couple things.
#1 They also did cast flange maces out of iron. They are almost impossible to find because they broke but they were made.
#2 There is also, but rather new, Cap held flanges for maces. Not sure how strong it is but basically its slots cut into a head and flanges are slid down it and are set into a lower cap and a upper cap is placed. They could be braised but otherwise you can change up broken or bent flanges or even change then out for different styles like a bladed version kinda like axe blade styles and only have two for an axe like effect. I am wanting to make one of them for testing.
#3 Have you ever tested a Kanabo. It was a Japanese studded war club. There is a make your own Kanabo video somewhere on TH-cam that looked promising to try and make.
#4 The war hammer is relatively newish but at the same time hammers used in battles is not as they have a simple stick that is split and a round rock placed in between or a hole is carved and the stick inserted and then wrapped. They are hammer and were used as such and even some dedicated to battle. Which begs the question of what is the fine line between a hammer and a mace. Is it simply that a mace is multi sided and a hammer is one too two sided? If so then there is the earliest forms of stone axes that are more or less hammers. They beat the fibers of the wood until they broke.
Finally a decent historical perspective on weaponry. Great channel im subscribing.
Oxidation wouldn't allow a connection to establish in the first place. And forge-welding temperature is near melting point, therefor bright yellow/white. That is what basically happens, they melt together on the surfaces.
"A double-ram-head stone mace is not what you see everyday, right?" Haha, nailed it.
Just discovered your channel, and it's AMAZING that there's another weapon fan :) So interesting and i'm learning. Cool
Dear Skallagrim,
Imagine you would go into the post apocalyptic wastelands or try to find a treasure in a
forest full of orcs and monsters or whatever similar situation and you could
bring ONLY ONE CLUB-LIKE WEAPON. What would this club exactly look like? How
long or short? Two handed, one handed, one and a half hands? Top heavy or more
equally balanced like a stick. What material? Symmetrical or not? Shaped like a
medieval mace, simple steel pipe, trench club, gunstock war club, baseball bat,
hammer, flail etc? Does it have spikes, studs or just smooth surface? How
heavy? What does the handle look like. Do you buy it or build it? How indestructible
is it, and so on.
I am really courious what specific tool you would bring in this case because you might
encounter so many different types of situations and you can have only one tool
that you need to be able to rely on all the time during your long adventure.
Therefore I ask you to make a video about what your perfect universal club-like weapon
would exactely look like.
I hope this is an interesting request for you!
Thank you :-)
I didn't realize one handed warhammers were a thing before this. It makes sense, I had just never seen one before.
I have a mace I made with a couple of chunks of steel pipe. it's not the best, but it's actually pretty equal to the weight of your mace. I thought it would have broken by now, but I've smashed it against enough stuff to know it'll hold up in a fight.
I'm so glad I found your channel. Great stuff mate!
Hey Skall, what's up! Love your videos, been a fan for a few years now, and I hope that your injury heals up quick. Anyway, here's the deal: I know that you like to analyze whether a weapon would be realistic in real life, so I think it would be Awesome if you did that with the weapons of ... Bloodborne! I don't know if you need to have the game or not -though you could find footage on TH-cam if necessary- but if you can pull it off, it would be great. Anyway, think about it, and thank you for your time.
pole hammer at 13:04 is a corbin beak, effective at breaking armor.
The one with the crossguard could have been used for dueling, when you have to be engaged till the end and have to have that extra defense.
The egyptian bronze battle axe is kinda like a warhammer/mace. It doesnt has a spike, but the axehead is rather small and was supposedly used against armor.
Dude, I've been teasing on a couple of your videos, but you really seem to know your shit.....and major props for the Punisher shirt!
Thank you for using the metric system
This was interesting, but I was wondering how were these carried? Some sort of strap?
You should talk more about morning stars vs. maces.
Are you going to do a demonstration with these weapons? I would love to see what they do to stuff.
Another way both were used that I didn't catch was to bend armor plates, which can restrict movement further.
you should do a vid on the diffrence between a morning star and a mace many people confuse them plus morning stars were really more hollywood and RPG creations
hell the mace was resurrected in the Great War as a piece of close in trench raiding kit. they even used spring shafted maces things were pretty much the same as medieval maces though
The Lucerne is such a beautifully brutal weapon
I kept thinking that he was going to shatter the glass behind him while swinging his mace.
A family I know has a war hammer in there home (although there's actually a large collection of them ill explain why down below) its super old and its way bigger than what would be normal the thing is the design is kept the same always but it's completely re made every few generations (varying) because the smithing advances over time and each hammer has the name of the one it was built for engraved, so there's alot of them each an improvement on the last but exactly the same design.
It's reallly cool.
They refuse to let me or anyone take photos though which is shite
I have never seen you use a lance before, would love to see a video with one :D
Actually the maces were used by romans and most races not warfare but for guarding stuff.
They were close to flanged maces but not really, it was basically ball shaped maces.
the other cool thing about blunt weapons is that they swing like a golf club, where the head is heavier and picks up more inertia and is, therefore, much harder to stop.
Quite a lot of the historical finds you show here are ceremonial maces. That certainly doesn't make them somehow less valid or interesting, but they may differ from functional weapons in ways beyond just the ornamentation. That 18th century Indian mace reminded me of a lot of European 'artifacts' from the same era that are really just historical fantasy pieces old enough to have become historical themselves.
I'm far from an expert on these matters, but from observations and looking for the simplest uses, etc. I figure Morning Stars were kind of like a Pollaxe is to a War hammer. The longer, two handed, psuedo-polearm variation. Except on horseback, then you just hold it out at your side as you ride on past.
They just look too long for one handed striking haha
Or, it could simply just be the name for the head. We have flanged maces, which are, well, all flanged, and morning stars which are the ball with spikes.
Music should be " If I had a Hammer" :) The hand with dagger weapon resembles a Chinese pole arm. I don't know the name of it but it looked like a fist with index and thumb extended.
Why the hell no game developer has made that hand-with-dagger mace a thing yet? It is awesome!
Okay, your videos I can sit and watch all the way through. That's a first.
Regarding the Mexican mace, to my understanding the early 16th century fighting style of the Mexica (including the Aztecs) was ritualistic and designed to capture opponents for slavery and sacrifice. It was much different from the Spanish/European method of warfare in which wholesale slaughter was the primary goal. That may explain why the mace would seem less functional (although it would not have needed to overcome metal armor).
MOAR Blunt-force stuff, plz.
Now I imagine a full plated guy. Exceptionally strong, like one of those strongest guys of his army, trained from little in melee combat to kill. With solid, steel shield and with such warhammer, probably even little heavier. On battlefield...
I would fucking piss myself I was to face him with anything else than gun.
coming from the puny shield video ive noticed the bunny also has a sword and buckler
well in general i think it was just easier to thrust given how the romans fought with large shield pretty much shoulder to shoulder as cuts would get in the other soldiers way given the motions involved but as a battle progressed and became more of a skirmish this would open up all facets of the blade and not just the thrust
ah Yes The most Terrifying creatures of mythology. Killer Bunnies with Maces
I get the feeling he would really enjoy mount and blade warband. It's a really good medieval warfare simulator.
There was a book in Skyrim describing a maceman defending a stairwell against a hundred men.
He killed 99 men by timing his strikes to land on the shield and helmets of the men, so as to strike fast. The 100th man instead stepped back as he swung. The maceman missed, and while he raised his mace back up, he was slain.
At first I thought Skallagrim was a nerd with an obsession and a good TH-cam channel. Now I realize, he is a God.
Hi Skallagrim,
thanks for this awesome and informative video...
very cool. I think the handling of a mace is pretty much the same like of an axe: a big mass of metal located at the end of a stick, physically thought.
Cheers, Erik
A mace is on a handle a Mourning Star has the spiked end on a chain connected to the handle.
This would be the plain-vanilla school of maces ofc. In Late Antiquity/Early Medieval times the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian heavy cavalry used rather more formidable designs - as well they might, given how much time they spent hammering each other and the amount of armour both wore. The former apparently favoured a massive all-iron job while the latter preferred a distinctive flattened head atop a long wooden shaft not wholly unlike a sword in general appearance. Arabs from the same period probably took the cake, though. They had this crazy design that basically amounted to a nearly meter-long hexagonal or octagonal iron bar with a sword handle; very heavy and expensive (period sources reckon one took about as much metal as six swords) and duly rare, only used by mounted elite warriors and exceptionally strong ones at that. The effect could be commensurately spectacular; one chronicle apparently describes a missed swing at enemy cavalryman hitting his saddle pommel instead - and knocking both man and saddle right off the horse. (I should really dig through my bookshelf for the proper names for these things, but :effort:)
That's probably made up. Be as strong as you like, the tensile strength of tendons and bone does not increase.
migkillerphantom You might want to specify a little what part you're referring to.
Shame we can't put photos on here, as I own my Great Grandfather's WW1 trench mace. I believe he actually used it, which is a bit unsettling, but that's war for you. Both sides used them in the trenches & although most were made by the soldiers themselves, some were made & issued to the soldiers as official weapons, as is my British example.
Throughout this whole video, I was waiting for that glass cabinet to shatter. The distance between it and the chair seemed awfully close.
I picked up my warhammer at a yard sale for $5 I'm gonna shape the handle a little bit to make it easier to index, and I'm still looking for a mace and flail