How long is the warhammer? You've listed 3 Eastern heavy armor. Could you maybe write them down for me? I would like to investigate myself these armors. Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I really like your content, it's hard to find anyone on TH-cam introducing Persian weapons. But man, you really need to upgrade your camera equipment, the 720P video quality looks like it was recorded 10 years ago.
Having watched a couple of polo games in Pakistan, I picture the war hammer of the Indian subcontinent in the hands of light cavalrymen. Spun and swung from horseback, a hammer strike, with it without concussion, with or without cracking the steel, a hit to the helmet would knock a man down. A strike of the hook would rip off a helmet or pauldron; hooking a man's shoulder or armpit would drive him to the ground. A charge of light horsemen with was hammers would leave a breach of prostrate, disoriented, infantry ripe for tactical exploitation.
I have never understood the shape of the curved reverse tip on hammers; it seems to me that this is something more for the convenience of everyday carrying it in your hand as a cane, than for deep penetration using a blow at some special angle. A simple straight sharper one is much more dangerous, more practical, simply lighter in weight and easier to manufacture, no?
putting a steel bar for a handle seems like it would be detrimental to the purpose and advantage of a hammer or an axe. The point is to put all the weight on one end. having a heavy steel handle ruins that to some degree even if it means the handle is sturdier.
The weight is proportional and it’s not noticeable. The steel is a lot better as it won’t break if use use the haft to block. Many historical examples have steel hafts.
This does not have to be a steel rod, of course it can be a steel pipe, in which case the difference in weight from a wooden handle reinforced with steel splints is not so significant.
@@LongMax This. steel rods thin enough not to mess up wieght distributions , as shown in Tod's test of the longsword warhammer, were bendy is period. With the pipe and wood combination, you get the cut resistances from the pipe and low handle wieght.
How long is the warhammer? You've listed 3 Eastern heavy armor. Could you maybe write them down for me? I would like to investigate myself these armors. Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge!
The first one I couldn,t quute catch it but the second one is "Zirah Baktar" (Plated Mail) and the third is "Krug" armor (Mirror armor)
I really like your content, it's hard to find anyone on TH-cam introducing Persian weapons.
But man, you really need to upgrade your camera equipment, the 720P video quality looks like it was recorded 10 years ago.
Thank you. I am working on figuring out what is happening with my phone and it's quality
Having watched a couple of polo games in Pakistan, I picture the war hammer of the Indian subcontinent in the hands of light cavalrymen. Spun and swung from horseback, a hammer strike, with it without concussion, with or without cracking the steel, a hit to the helmet would knock a man down. A strike of the hook would rip off a helmet or pauldron; hooking a man's shoulder or armpit would drive him to the ground.
A charge of light horsemen with was hammers would leave a breach of prostrate, disoriented, infantry ripe for tactical exploitation.
Murad IV used a 130lb mace
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Where did you hear this from?
history book@@isamartell
@@delphinazizumbo8674 Do you have a reference for the book? 130 lb is a lot to be a mace.
turkish museum has it online@@isamartell
I have never understood the shape of the curved reverse tip on hammers; it seems to me that this is something more for the convenience of everyday carrying it in your hand as a cane, than for deep penetration using a blow at some special angle. A simple straight sharper one is much more dangerous, more practical, simply lighter in weight and easier to manufacture, no?
I believe the prying open armor works better with the curve.
putting a steel bar for a handle seems like it would be detrimental to the purpose and advantage of a hammer or an axe. The point is to put all the weight on one end. having a heavy steel handle ruins that to some degree even if it means the handle is sturdier.
The weight is proportional and it’s not noticeable.
The steel is a lot better as it won’t break if use use the haft to block.
Many historical examples have steel hafts.
This does not have to be a steel rod, of course it can be a steel pipe, in which case the difference in weight from a wooden handle reinforced with steel splints is not so significant.
@@LongMax This. steel rods thin enough not to mess up wieght distributions , as shown in Tod's test of the longsword warhammer, were bendy is period. With the pipe and wood combination, you get the cut resistances from the pipe and low handle wieght.