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Sword=moderate ample slash & blow with some forgiveness to commitment if missed while decent at parrying. Axe=devastating cleave=slash & no thrust that is unforgiving if you miss with little ability to parry. Personally I prefer a long dagger or a short sword that could be prescribed as a dagger abut 8 to 20 inch blade. Long dagger/short sword= devastating thrust, moderate slash but limited reach while as nimble brilliant commitment as one can get with decent to great parrying coming in at most any position or angle. I see no advantage a Axe or sword other that a Cutlass. Falchion, Kopis or kukri does not offer if made to purpose. Large knifes bordering on short swords is were t is at. Mind the reach of a spear or a bayonet on rifle fulfils the opposite end to a short blade as reach is brilliant. Still to quote my Grandfather who fought in Korea & Kenya: ''If it can draw blood; it can kill''! His choice after resulting to bare hand from munitions spent & blades lodged in carcases was a Crow bar as it never blunted while practically indestructible while a useful tool. he quickly adopted a lightest single handed Crow-bar as his last result. Crow bar is like the best of a mace & war pick while a convenient tool that can be worn om the waste. Bayonet primary gun being preferably automatic, Large knife & a crowbar is my choice but before them all I'd choose 1 simple tool. A shovel as my Great grand father & father would taje the mick out of those from the USA by starting: ''this is my shovel; their are many like it but this one is mine'' A play on this is my rifle as what good is a rifle if you have already been taken out by artillery?
Skallagrim read Gemmell! Hell yeah. Legend is good, but it was his first novel. He gets better, much better, as the Drenai saga goes on. The great thing is you don't need to start from the beginning: You can pick it up anywhere that doesn't have a number at the end (Read Waylander 1 before Waylander 2).
Long axes such as Dane axes and pole axes are generally going to have the reach on a sword. That means the sword-armed fighter will have to make an additional step in order to attack, or an additional lean. So they either try to attack in the nach and enter very quickly, or they have to block or parry the attack and then counter. Neither is ideal. The axe-armed fighter can attack at a longer range and doesn't have to displace before moving to attack. But OTOH, the sword may offer more options in close measure.
I really enjoyed this! I play a ton of bannerlord multiplayer I use spears for their reach, people don’t expect it. I use axes to create a “wall” of blade around me. Sadly the game is so dead, the remaining players are very competitive
I always liked the way David Gemmell described his battles, especially with characters like Druss, Waylander, Tenaka and Shannow. Legend was the first Gemmell book I ever read, almost forty years ago, and I've been a fan since. I kind of wish he was still around to continue his stories as well (of course I think the same about so many others). Incidentally while double-headed axes have their obvious issues (which ironically I only really learned about in the last few years (blame certain TH-cam channels. We all know who they are 😊)), I'll make a completely unrepentant exception for Snaga (especially since it comes in a set with Druss. It's like the gladius and shield relationship).. It's pretty much my favourite fictional axe of all time. And yes, I wanted one. It WAS cool.
Shotgun vs handgun. 9mm vs.45 Stopping power vs carrying capacity. Punch or kick? This exact conversation has been going on since men discovered fire and alcohol.
Sorry, I was paying attention, but 8:29 distracted me. That's a beautiful location, and I couldn't tell if that was a rainbow or just the sea's iridescence! Haven't read the Drenai series, might check them out (although the epilogue warning makes me think I'd have to Lemony Snickett them). Speaking of, I don't have the books in easy reach, but I still remember _The Elenium_ having a surprising number of knightly axe-wielders in its main cast, only one of whom came close to "stereotypical Norseman" depictions. There's even a scene where he gets into a duel with another one-handed axe wielder, and the protagonist Sparhawk is fascinated by how unexpectedly technical the fight was. Iirc, it still ended with the bad guy's head cleaved in half, but still.
@@paulkerr7320 Oh, really? Man, it's been a while, I thought it was in the first series before the archprelate election, against a commander of the church soldiers. (Maybe I was mixing it up with Bevier chopping down a commander, then immediately starting a prayer circle for his soul.) But regardless, yay, someone got it!
I view it like this: The axman and the swordsman, whether they are prominent fighters, or not, will come from entirely different schools of combat. A swordsman fighting another swordsman, will be familiar with his opponents techniques, and so, be able to counter them, more easily. Same goes for 2 axmen. But their approach to each other, completely changes the dynamic. The sudden increase in variable techniques that one can apply and riposte with, are now so numerous, that one is bound to make a mistake. And likely, rather quickly.
Nah. Every culture with swords also has axes. If we're in the middle ages or past it, anyone with a battle axe also knows how to use a sword. Axes don't really have too many techniques that can't be applied to any sort of mace or club, or even a sword. And the axe isn't great against a swordsman if he doesnt have a shield. The sword is made for versatility in combat. If you have just a little bit of sword skill, your have an advantage over the guy with the axe. That said, if the guy with the axe is a more experienced warrior and can manage distance *and has a shield*, he's got the advantage.
Not necessarily! Two swordsmen may come from different schools/styles (although the differences might not be as large as one might think - seeing how kenjitsu and HEMA are closer than they are different for example, though different kenjitsu schools can be very different); meanwhile a direct example of China has the Dandao Faxuan manual (meant for the longsaber) being directly utilized for the two-handed axe and two-handed bar mace in China in two other manuals built directly on Dandao Faxuan manual, with only a few specific forms removed for lack of applicability (ex. one longsaber move is about how to keep your longsaber's sharpened edge against the bar mace by just flipping it around and fighting with the spine forward; meanwhile the bar mace version is 'well... either way we damage the opponent's weapon...'
I think you have a good point. How many armed combat trainers would teach their students how to fight against someone with a very different weapon? I don't think many would, especially since a lot of instruction is about how to fight in duels with equal weapons for both, rather than on a battlefield or something where you'd be more likely to fight a differently armed opponent. It would be like a karate instructor and a kung fu instructor (or karate and judo instructors, etc.) bringing their students together to practice against each other on a regular basis.
@@youremakingprogress144 I'd think the opposite in the past. Meyer's manual covers a wide assortment of weapons and the KDF tradition utilizes longsword as a skill core that other weapons very much can be used with. It's just that today all of our equipment is built around the longsword and safety in fencing with it, so we don't really do wild mixed weapon shenanigans today; but people of the past had every reason to learn how on a regular basis. In the case of another Chinese manual, Dandao Faxuan, that manual's explicit opponent is actually spear-wielders on a battlefield context (with the user using the long saber). At the end, it implores the learner to be flexible and adaptable in reinterpreting its forms to deal with any other weapon too.
I always liked the fantasy trope of the barbarian with a big axe and little to no armor or regard for their own well being. Whenever I play an RPG that allows me to create my own character, that's the build I go for.
David G. is one of my favorite authors. I appreciate how the skills of a seasoned and experienced fighter played into the fights. In the case of Axe vs Sword, the fighter with the greater skill will make better use of the advantages each of the weapons have.
I bet back in the day they gave the big warriors axes and the smaller ones swords for stabbing. An axe is probably more effective in the hands of someone who is really big and strong, they'd probably deck you with a swing just by the pure force even if it doesnt cut.
Bruenor Battlehammer the dwarf in R.A. Salvatore's "The Legend of Drizzt" books lived for over 300 years, fighting with a one-handed, single-edged, bearded battleaxe and roundshield. Many a sword wielder fell to the notched, curving edge of his wicked blade. Dwarven platemail armor had a lot to do with it, too. 😁😎
I've had an up-and-down relationship with Salvatore's work, but I've never stopped appreciating the sheer love and detail he puts into combat. It's like "scenery porn" but for fight scenes.
@@NeutralDrow I got hooked with his first novel at age 13 and it became a part of my own personality and outlook on life. I appreciate things even in his worse books.
Does it really matter in unarmored combat if the axe can do more damage than a sword? Like I don’t see how it matters is one does 6 damage and the other does 8 damage if both combatants only have 4 hp.
While almost any cut can be devastating, if deep enough. Remember that not every wound is fatal. If more hits from an axe are potentially fight ending, than that of a sword. Then the axe does have an advantage there. However, I would say that the great advantage of swords is precisely it's ability to deliver fight ending hits quickly and with high versatility.
I think it had more to do with an axe having the force behind it's more top-heavy design to be able to force past a lot of direct blocks from a lighter, more balanced sword. The extra force might not matter when hitting your foe, but it very well might make the difference when blowing through their guard, if they're not careful
I think it definitely matters, for two reasons: psyche and stopping power. A wound can be lethal but not incapacitating. Most thrust to the abdomen will kill after hours or days. Such a wound will allow the wounded to still kill their opponent. Therefore, it’s preferable to do significant damage quickly, to prevent any second strikes. Also, it’s possible that a bad hit with a “6 damage” weapon will do far less than 6 damage. Better to have something that kills more reliably. Secondly, if you,know your opponents weapon will kill you with one hit, and not allow any follow up, you will be reluctant to engage, which makes it safer for the axe wielder.
"Okay, if I... if I chop you up in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out, that's left of you, is your eyeball, you'r- you're PROBABLY DEAD! You're probably going to - not you, I'm just sayin', like, if you- if somebody were to, like, push you into a meat grinder, and, like, your- one of your finger bones is still intact, they're not gonna pick it up and go, "Well see, yeah it wasn't deadly, it wasn't an instant kill move! You still got, like, this part of your finger left!" NO I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. NO. I'm making a reference to the fact that, like, if I, like, if I were to get fucking KILLED... I don't know, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'. If- if- okay, if you were to- okay we're gonna take humans out of this, if alien Globgobglobgo 1 fuckin' shoots a disintegrating ray at alien Globglo 2, if there's only fucking TEETH LEFT, it's- it's fucking you're dead, you're dead. "If I were to put you in a meat grinder," goddamnit, it's so fucked up! You understand what I'm sayin' though, I'm not actually saying that I'm going to put somebody in a meat grinder, goddamnit. Whatever."
Been real close to similar: Heard yelling and ran from the back through the breezeway of the barn and scooped-up an 8 pound sledge in there as I ran. Neighbor was threatening my ma and was constantly encroaching over into our property and freaking out. He saw me coming and went into his garage coming out with a sledgehammer (his IQ was really 75-80) and came back to the line. My ma ran for the phone calling the fuzz. With her away, I went and grabbed a 10 inch pig sticker, the stoutest blade we had from the knife drawer, scooped the phone from her and went back out. I figured I could get like 6 or 8 in before the hammer fall and being closer than the head would make it about useless. He jumped in his truck and fled. He did that a lot, almost ran over a fireman who could see the smoke from a park a mile away and came on his own accord. He was burning his house down.
I see where hes coming from but it feels misinterpreted. See an axe blade is too heavy to be properly parried by a sword, while at the same time its also so telegraphed that rhe swordsmen can just back away and ppay defence waiting for the right move. So it basically becomes one big mind game as whoever can outsmart the other will win
Not... necessarily. If we're both talking two-handed - the largest two-handed swords definitely can parry, whilst something closer to a longsword can still hard-parry and wrestle in with half-swording. In that latter case however, the axeman can make aggressive use of distance and agility to just keep sniping at the swordsman; or use their axe as a way to buy time to grab a dagger when close up or fight for the swordsman's sword.
No no no. Axes were common, because there were LOTS of tool axes out there, and because it takes like a 50th the time to make one. They are TERRIBLE against swords in any one on one context, and a one or two hand "battle axe" CAN NOT be much more massive than one or two handed sword. Thinking otherwise means you're watching WAY too much fantasy stuff lol (not that I'm innocent of just that too). I've been smithing for 30 years and fencing/martial arts/Hema for more than 40. A hatchet with a double length handle is a near perfect analog for a medieval axe. You can ABSOLUTELY block that one with a $10 corn knife from Ace Hardware. Guess how I'm so sure of this.
FYI Druss the Legend is so cool that Games Workshop ripped him off in whole cloth for the Chapter Master of the Space Wolves, Logan Grimnar. Right down to the formerly daemon possessed axe...
Finally, some love for the Drenai books! I haven't heard them mentioned anywhere since my dad gave me his copies to read. Legend might not be the best of his books technically, but it is my favorite. I think my favorite quote from it would probably be this exchange between Rek and Ulric. " 'Stopping you is not important,' said the Earl. It never was' 'Then what are you doing?' 'We are trying to stop you' The underlying theme being fighting against the inevitable, even without hope, simply because it's the right thing to do. Fun fact, the seige of dros denloch was ment as an allegory for his battle with cancer. With the nadir attackers being the cancer cells attacking his body.
I wrote a sword v axe fight in my novel (Why Ought I to Die?). I remember a lot of the fight being about angles- one person trying to get into an inconvenient spot for his (multiple) opponents. It also involves backstabbing, except with an axe, if I remember correctly. Was it accurate? I hope so, though I have no practical experience in the match-up.
"Legend" is unavailable in audiobook format through Google play in my country, the U.S. (with no explanation at hand). What's more is that the rest of Gemmells books are there. I'm very disappointed.
First time I read anything that felt like realistic combat in fantasy was in John Gwynne's works. He's definitely from the same tradition as Gemnell in how he writes combat and he's also done work as a reenactor, so he has the closest to on the ground experience in medieval style battles as you can get nowadays (legally).
A quote for you Skall from one of my favourite Gemmell books, one of his few standalone novels Morningstar "There are two types of swordsmen,those who long to win and those afraid to lose. Both can be good, even great, but in a contest between them thewre can only ever be one winner."
Certain weapons would work best in an offensive massed charge. Some best in a duel. Some best in a defensive siege. Some work best with some from of secondary weapon. Armored or un-armored.
I've only read "The King Beyond the Gate" in the Drenai-series, but it is one of my favourite books, mainly because I read it the first time when I was 12 or 13, and I still every few years re-read it.
Ah David Gemell my all time favourite fantasy author,, the Drenai saga is an epic tale and I've read and re read the tale of the fall of Dros Delnoch I love the idea of the 30 too ,, great video skal cheers my friend
I’ve got an older fantasy book recommendation for you as well. “The Darksword Trilogy” by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It’s a good sword & sorcery series I read back in the 90s. Another good series is the Wolfwalker series by Tara K. Harper.
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I read Legend when it first came out in paperback! As a teenager, I preferred Waylander because cool. Here in my 50s, Waylander has not stood up but Legend is still a great read. Axes are obviously cool because Gimli (book Gimli, not film Gimli. Jesus, film Gimli…)
This is funny, I was thinking about this book only yesterday and how much I liked the character of Druss. I have read a few of Gammels books but Legend was the first and in my opinion the best.
Honestly the hooking aspect of the axe is why I like axes as much as I do. I also really like one-handed axes when combined with a long-bladed knife such as a Seax for example. I guess it's my Viking-Era Swedish ancestry showing through lol
"it doesn't have to be grass, touching rock and smelling sea air is even better" Ok Brandon Sanderson, calm down... Jokes aside I've finally gotten into stormlight archives this year and I've been really digging it, but there's one line i find distracting. There's one scene where the author describes a weapon as an "axe headed halberd" and... Like... Yeah... They tend to be. The redundancy of the statement is odd to me.
Raymond Feist is a favourite of mine. He doesn't get lost in fight choreography but most fights involving melee weapons feel very life threatening to all involved. On a number of occasions he points out how difficult it can be to disable an opponent without killing them if they are trying to kill you. People bleed out. People die suddenly. There is also magic and other supernatural elements, though practitioners are fairly rare in the setting.
David gemell was the first author i got hooked to back when i was a kid (mid/late 2000s) good to see him mentionned. My favorite was the troy trilogy... Well not the last chapters when a character becomes literally moses, that was weird (tbf a lot of different people claim they have roots from troy like charlemagne, still weird tho) Rip
Joe Abercrombie is my favourite author by far. I’ll leave you with this: "Armor is part of a state of mind where you admit the possibility of getting hit" - Whirrun of Bligh and some profound wisdom “Sworbeck had come to see the face of heroism and instead he had seen evil. Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering emperors with world-conquering designs. Not crackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods”
My recollection about Druss is a comment by another character watching him him fighting. It went something like this but it's a paraphrase since it was probably thirty years ago. "See him! He is pure offence. Most fighters balance attack and defence because they don't want to die. But not him. Any good fighter could kill him if they were willing to die as well. But most aren't and so it is almost impossible to beat him".
I'm in a Western style Viking martial arts group, and I can attest to the brevity of Dane axe v. Sword and shield, at least. The Dane is long and powerful, but round shields are extremely good at defending against it in the right hands. On top of that, the sword is indeed far more agile. I'm still learning Dane (and the matchup ofc), but thus far, spars tend to end within a minute either with an axe strike at long range, or a sword thrust at shorter range. I imagine that against a greatsword or longsword, it would be a more symmetrical matchup, but with just as much danger to each combatant with every exchange. Dane is SUPER fun though, and I'd love to see more content on it!
They had a mechanic on the only "Fire Emblem" game I have ever played, it was called "Weapon Triangle", and it established advantages and disadvantages when two characters using different type weapons went against each other. It was sort of a rock-paper-scissors system, in which swords had advantage over axes, axes over spears, and spears over swords. I remembered it when a bit of one of the many "Fire Emblem" games I haven't played came out.
I don't really have anything to add to the discussion about axe vs sword, though I've dabbled with that matchup before. Instead I'd like to recommend the Wardstone Chronicles/Last Apprentice series. If you aren't already familiar with it it's a dark-fantasy novel series that draws heavily on medieval and early-modern English folklore and is about the apprentice of the local Spook (think Cunning-Man meets Ranger) as he goes through his training and various adventures. The reason I bring it up is that the main characters primarily use staves/spears, which is a rarity in fantasy media as far as I've seen. The fights are typically quite short and the Spook in particular has ended several of the encounters he's gotten into so far with extreme efficiency. I'm only four books out of thirteen in at the moment though so the fights might get more spectacular later on, but I hope they don't lose that decisive nature.
I had one quote that seemed pretty thoraway and pessimistic when first i heard it, but the more I thought about it, because for some reason it stuck with me, the more I felt like it was motivational. "Wishful thinking leads only to disappointment." It's from Prince of Persia; The Two Thrones. My interpretation of it is wanting something without putting in the effort to get it is going to end up in, as the quote says, disappointment. It's really simple and self explanatory, but for someone who struggles with taking initiative - and unless I go by a strict daily schedule, I never get anything done because I just keep delaying it to the closest possible point where I can still do it before the deadline (and htat's not how you do productivity well) - it's a wonderfully snappy and effective reminder. Wishingful thinking is never going to be enough to reach your goals. Clench your teeth and get it done.
I've always been an axe-man myself, in fantasy games and so on. Im scandinavian, so I guess it's in my blood. Though I really like germanic swords as well from the iron age. Even bronze age swords look really cool.
I re-read a few Gemmel books that I loved as a teenager (over 40 now) and found that I had kinda grown beyond them. Except for "Echoes of the Great Song". For some reason, I still loved that one.
Dunno if agree on that at all. Depends on the situations an the particular weapons in question an how good they both are at given weapons.. all mattering especially most when they meet up history an all of entertainment through the ages is FILLED with enemies that are arch rivals, an sometimes history too, where both of them fought with mostly vastly dangerous an different arsenals an only the relatively most basic are the same due to human body shape makes specific weapon types pretty easy to arm an train a whole army with quickly
When I was young, I watched Disney's Black Arrow quite a few times. I always remember "Properly used, the staff is mightier than the sword". I always wondered. The movie is on youtube. About 20 minutes in. After a duel with crossbow vs longbow
0:50 - that reminds me book version of AC Unity. There Elise remembred how her teacher taught her that (quote from book): "Most sword fights are decided in the first few seconds of engagement"
I won't go for originality. My favourite author, fantasy or otherwise, is Tolkien. One quote (of many) that stuck with me: "One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters." Highly pertinent to the story, to the scene, and to life.
I know his legacy isn't that sterling, but to his credit David Eddings does a decent job in the Sparhawk novels in describing some fights and the skill involved. Even has an axe v. axe fight that enlightens the main character that there is more nuance to axe fighting than he assumed.
I feel like I have the opposite response to some of the attempts at "realism" in fantasy writing. There's been more than one book I've dropped after they attempt to provide authoritative statements on combat. Mostly because it often came off as more snobby than profound. I watch channels like yours for that kind of analysis, but I'm not looking for that in my fantasy books. I'm also not much of one for grit, at least not anymore.
I'd suggest with two handed swords the variety is so vast and really changes the encounter dynamics, where axes while there is variety is more subtle differentiation in use. Where swords can have a much larger range with the longest two handed swords having such insane reach compared to most 'normal' two handed swords and some two handed swords being astonishingly short. So you go from one extreme where the axe is likely providing as much if not more reach, to the axe has no chance at all to reach that far. But try to block or deflect an axe with the longest of the two handed swords I'd suspect your sword ends up a great deal shorter or very bent, where the shorter ones just don't have the same inertia or super long thin blade profile. So while they would be easier to blow through the block they are more likely to survive that initial contact shock and just get moved out the way somewhat as the axes come in...
Couple of months ago, I had some sparring and the other guy and me decided to try a battle where one of us uses a longsword and the other one uses a dane axe It was fun It waw reeeaaally fun But none of us had ever fought with any kind of axe before so whoever of us had the sword - he dominated the fight Sooo, if you're having a sword and your opponent uses an axe but has not much training or experience, you'll have the advantage
This is a debate the Gallowglass faced. They were famous for using the great axe known as a sparth in English or Tuag in Irish but some started switching to great swords or Claiomh Mor in Irish. It was stated win or lose the fights with the Gallowglass didn't last long. Also when it comes to skills you have people like Turlough MacDonnell who is described in the Annals of Ulster as being a "sai galloglaig" or gallowglass artist. In the battle of Knockdoe in 1504 a gallowglass captain was reported, "He took his axe in his hand and begane to flouryshe." Too bad we don't have any treatises to reference. The closest we have is George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense who does talk about using battle axes.
Every time you make a video by the coast I always get a little jealous lol. Like ya I can go to many of the beaches by me but it's just not the same as being out in nature by the coast with a forest behind you.
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Sword=moderate ample slash & blow with some forgiveness to commitment if missed while decent at parrying.
Axe=devastating cleave=slash & no thrust that is unforgiving if you miss with little ability to parry.
Personally I prefer a long dagger or a short sword that could be prescribed as a dagger abut 8 to 20 inch blade.
Long dagger/short sword= devastating thrust, moderate slash but limited reach while as nimble brilliant commitment as one can get with decent to great parrying coming in at most any position or angle.
I see no advantage a Axe or sword other that a Cutlass. Falchion, Kopis or kukri does not offer if made to purpose.
Large knifes bordering on short swords is were t is at.
Mind the reach of a spear or a bayonet on rifle fulfils the opposite end to a short blade as reach is brilliant.
Still to quote my Grandfather who fought in Korea & Kenya:
''If it can draw blood; it can kill''!
His choice after resulting to bare hand from munitions spent & blades lodged in carcases was a Crow bar as it never blunted while practically indestructible while a useful tool.
he quickly adopted a lightest single handed Crow-bar as his last result.
Crow bar is like the best of a mace & war pick while a convenient tool that can be worn om the waste.
Bayonet primary gun being preferably automatic, Large knife & a crowbar is my choice but before them all I'd choose 1 simple tool.
A shovel as my Great grand father & father would taje the mick out of those from the USA by starting:
''this is my shovel; their are many like it but this one is mine''
A play on this is my rifle as what good is a rifle if you have already been taken out by artillery?
Skall's viking blood is showing again! He yearns not for grass and field, but sea and stone!
Maybe he also likes ROCK AND STONE!
Judging by how he looks just like Kraut, I believe he is also South German
@CazadorSlayer
Vikings yearn for grass and field - they already have sea and stone
@@tripweedHE PLAYS DEEP ROCK?.???
The dead axeman hewed the swordsman in two through sheer momentum.
Thats not how muscles and blood pressure work.
Skallagrim read Gemmell! Hell yeah. Legend is good, but it was his first novel. He gets better, much better, as the Drenai saga goes on. The great thing is you don't need to start from the beginning: You can pick it up anywhere that doesn't have a number at the end (Read Waylander 1 before Waylander 2).
Loved the ending of Waylander 3, it brought the story full circle.
Waylander is my favourite of the Drenai saga.
"Touching rock and smelling sea air" giving Skall serenity just reinforces that he's a viking.
Remember it is not about how long you haft is, but how you use it.
How long you use it
@@Steponlyone it gives leverage to your pommel to accelerate and end your foe rightly.
My haft is 1 inch soft 6 hard 💪🏿
Alright. But who would win? An Expert ninja or a pizza delivery dude with a Glock?
Pirate with piratebay fleet.
@@НиколайЛамберт Flatearther Trumpist with an Arkansas toothpick, because God is on his side. Yeeehaaaw!
Long axes such as Dane axes and pole axes are generally going to have the reach on a sword. That means the sword-armed fighter will have to make an additional step in order to attack, or an additional lean. So they either try to attack in the nach and enter very quickly, or they have to block or parry the attack and then counter. Neither is ideal. The axe-armed fighter can attack at a longer range and doesn't have to displace before moving to attack. But OTOH, the sword may offer more options in close measure.
I really enjoyed this! I play a ton of bannerlord multiplayer
I use spears for their reach, people don’t expect it. I use axes to create a “wall” of blade around me.
Sadly the game is so dead, the remaining players are very competitive
Bannerlord is a sad and unfinished game. I enjoyed Warband quite a lot back in the day, but I refuse to touch Bannerlord.
I always liked the way David Gemmell described his battles, especially with characters like Druss, Waylander, Tenaka and Shannow.
Legend was the first Gemmell book I ever read, almost forty years ago, and I've been a fan since. I kind of wish he was still around to continue his stories as well (of course I think the same about so many others).
Incidentally while double-headed axes have their obvious issues (which ironically I only really learned about in the last few years (blame certain TH-cam channels. We all know who they are 😊)), I'll make a completely unrepentant exception for Snaga (especially since it comes in a set with Druss. It's like the gladius and shield relationship).. It's pretty much my favourite fictional axe of all time.
And yes, I wanted one. It WAS cool.
“Go touch rocks” -Skallagrim
Bringing up Legend makes me feel very old now
Me thinks I would rather be a spearman... Or a revolverman.😊
Actually, being the "call in the airstrike guy" probably beats both...
@@screwtape2713 Mr. President, press the red button.
drone operator if you have no soul.
I'd rather be a logisticsman many kilometers behind the front line personally.
Well I've good news. You guys are all scheduled to be armed with phasers.
Just don't moan when you see the colour of your shirts.
Shotgun vs handgun.
9mm vs.45
Stopping power vs carrying capacity.
Punch or kick?
This exact conversation has been going on since men discovered fire and alcohol.
10mm was created to settle the caliber debate.
Sorry, I was paying attention, but 8:29 distracted me. That's a beautiful location, and I couldn't tell if that was a rainbow or just the sea's iridescence!
Haven't read the Drenai series, might check them out (although the epilogue warning makes me think I'd have to Lemony Snickett them). Speaking of, I don't have the books in easy reach, but I still remember _The Elenium_ having a surprising number of knightly axe-wielders in its main cast, only one of whom came close to "stereotypical Norseman" depictions. There's even a scene where he gets into a duel with another one-handed axe wielder, and the protagonist Sparhawk is fascinated by how unexpectedly technical the fight was.
Iirc, it still ended with the bad guy's head cleaved in half, but still.
Ah, Ulath. That fight is not in the Elenium however it is in the Tamuli against a warrior brought forward in time. I believe it was Dryctnath
@@paulkerr7320 Oh, really? Man, it's been a while, I thought it was in the first series before the archprelate election, against a commander of the church soldiers.
(Maybe I was mixing it up with Bevier chopping down a commander, then immediately starting a prayer circle for his soul.)
But regardless, yay, someone got it!
I view it like this: The axman and the swordsman, whether they are prominent fighters, or not, will come from entirely different schools of combat. A swordsman fighting another swordsman, will be familiar with his opponents techniques, and so, be able to counter them, more easily. Same goes for 2 axmen. But their approach to each other, completely changes the dynamic. The sudden increase in variable techniques that one can apply and riposte with, are now so numerous, that one is bound to make a mistake. And likely, rather quickly.
Nah. Every culture with swords also has axes. If we're in the middle ages or past it, anyone with a battle axe also knows how to use a sword.
Axes don't really have too many techniques that can't be applied to any sort of mace or club, or even a sword. And the axe isn't great against a swordsman if he doesnt have a shield. The sword is made for versatility in combat. If you have just a little bit of sword skill, your have an advantage over the guy with the axe.
That said, if the guy with the axe is a more experienced warrior and can manage distance *and has a shield*, he's got the advantage.
Not necessarily! Two swordsmen may come from different schools/styles (although the differences might not be as large as one might think - seeing how kenjitsu and HEMA are closer than they are different for example, though different kenjitsu schools can be very different); meanwhile a direct example of China has the Dandao Faxuan manual (meant for the longsaber) being directly utilized for the two-handed axe and two-handed bar mace in China in two other manuals built directly on Dandao Faxuan manual, with only a few specific forms removed for lack of applicability (ex. one longsaber move is about how to keep your longsaber's sharpened edge against the bar mace by just flipping it around and fighting with the spine forward; meanwhile the bar mace version is 'well... either way we damage the opponent's weapon...'
I think you have a good point. How many armed combat trainers would teach their students how to fight against someone with a very different weapon? I don't think many would, especially since a lot of instruction is about how to fight in duels with equal weapons for both, rather than on a battlefield or something where you'd be more likely to fight a differently armed opponent. It would be like a karate instructor and a kung fu instructor (or karate and judo instructors, etc.) bringing their students together to practice against each other on a regular basis.
@@youremakingprogress144 I'd think the opposite in the past. Meyer's manual covers a wide assortment of weapons and the KDF tradition utilizes longsword as a skill core that other weapons very much can be used with. It's just that today all of our equipment is built around the longsword and safety in fencing with it, so we don't really do wild mixed weapon shenanigans today; but people of the past had every reason to learn how on a regular basis.
In the case of another Chinese manual, Dandao Faxuan, that manual's explicit opponent is actually spear-wielders on a battlefield context (with the user using the long saber). At the end, it implores the learner to be flexible and adaptable in reinterpreting its forms to deal with any other weapon too.
Great video. I loved David Gemmell books as a wee lad, and Druss and Snaga were some of my favorites. Awesome view of the sea by the way!
Eyeliner... stitches...
I've always enjoyed RA Salvatore, his fight scenes are quite elaborate.
Elaborate and entertaining but highly unrealistic. Drizzt spins like he's a Star Wars prequel jedi/sith.
I always liked the fantasy trope of the barbarian with a big axe and little to no armor or regard for their own well being. Whenever I play an RPG that allows me to create my own character, that's the build I go for.
Also, what's the tactical RPG (?) at 9:30?
@@faust8218 I think it's Vandal Hearts.
Hell yeah the “berzerker” archetype is one of my favourite fantasy archetypes as well.
@@yewtewbstew547 Oh sick, is it worth playing?
@@faust8218 Yeah, they are good fodder for arrows...
SKALLS FOR THE K
SKALLGORITHUM
Ooohhhh!! Book stuff :D
Also really early :)
Lovely seaside!
You ever go fishing, skall?
You don't know how its meant....
Unless you read the next few lines 😸
That helmet is such beauty
David G. is one of my favorite authors. I appreciate how the skills of a seasoned and experienced fighter played into the fights. In the case of Axe vs Sword, the fighter with the greater skill will make better use of the advantages each of the weapons have.
I bet back in the day they gave the big warriors axes and the smaller ones swords for stabbing. An axe is probably more effective in the hands of someone who is really big and strong, they'd probably deck you with a swing just by the pure force even if it doesnt cut.
He ain't the only viking, axes are OP. 💯🎉
The impression I get from this video is that axe vs sword would rent to end with either an axe victory, or mutual loss.
Gemmell was fun. Drus the Axe still lives in my head.
Nice landscape.
Bruenor Battlehammer the dwarf in R.A. Salvatore's "The Legend of Drizzt" books lived for over 300 years, fighting with a one-handed, single-edged, bearded battleaxe and roundshield. Many a sword wielder fell to the notched, curving edge of his wicked blade. Dwarven platemail armor had a lot to do with it, too. 😁😎
I've had an up-and-down relationship with Salvatore's work, but I've never stopped appreciating the sheer love and detail he puts into combat. It's like "scenery porn" but for fight scenes.
@@NeutralDrow I got hooked with his first novel at age 13 and it became a part of my own personality and outlook on life. I appreciate things even in his worse books.
Its the first time I hear about that author and now I have another reason to not study
Does it really matter in unarmored combat if the axe can do more damage than a sword? Like I don’t see how it matters is one does 6 damage and the other does 8 damage if both combatants only have 4 hp.
@@NovaXXX7 No but if you can afford to do so why would you ever wanna fight without at least a chain shirt under your clothing?
While almost any cut can be devastating, if deep enough. Remember that not every wound is fatal. If more hits from an axe are potentially fight ending, than that of a sword. Then the axe does have an advantage there. However, I would say that the great advantage of swords is precisely it's ability to deliver fight ending hits quickly and with high versatility.
I think it had more to do with an axe having the force behind it's more top-heavy design to be able to force past a lot of direct blocks from a lighter, more balanced sword. The extra force might not matter when hitting your foe, but it very well might make the difference when blowing through their guard, if they're not careful
I think it definitely matters, for two reasons: psyche and stopping power. A wound can be lethal but not incapacitating. Most thrust to the abdomen will kill after hours or days. Such a wound will allow the wounded to still kill their opponent. Therefore, it’s preferable to do significant damage quickly, to prevent any second strikes. Also, it’s possible that a bad hit with a “6 damage” weapon will do far less than 6 damage. Better to have something that kills more reliably.
Secondly, if you,know your opponents weapon will kill you with one hit, and not allow any follow up, you will be reluctant to engage, which makes it safer for the axe wielder.
"Okay, if I... if I chop you up in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out, that's left of you, is your eyeball, you'r- you're PROBABLY DEAD! You're probably going to - not you, I'm just sayin', like, if you- if somebody were to, like, push you into a meat grinder, and, like, your- one of your finger bones is still intact, they're not gonna pick it up and go, "Well see, yeah it wasn't deadly, it wasn't an instant kill move! You still got, like, this part of your finger left!" NO I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. NO. I'm making a reference to the fact that, like, if I, like, if I were to get fucking KILLED... I don't know, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'. If- if- okay, if you were to- okay we're gonna take humans out of this, if alien Globgobglobgo 1 fuckin' shoots a disintegrating ray at alien Globglo 2, if there's only fucking TEETH LEFT, it's- it's fucking you're dead, you're dead.
"If I were to put you in a meat grinder," goddamnit, it's so fucked up! You understand what I'm sayin' though, I'm not actually saying that I'm going to put somebody in a meat grinder, goddamnit. Whatever."
Why so grim? Seems like a good life, no?
Been real close to similar:
Heard yelling and ran from the back through the breezeway of the barn and scooped-up an 8 pound sledge in there as I ran. Neighbor was threatening my ma and was constantly encroaching over into our property and freaking out. He saw me coming and went into his garage coming out with a sledgehammer (his IQ was really 75-80) and came back to the line. My ma ran for the phone calling the fuzz. With her away, I went and grabbed a 10 inch pig sticker, the stoutest blade we had from the knife drawer, scooped the phone from her and went back out.
I figured I could get like 6 or 8 in before the hammer fall and being closer than the head would make it about useless. He jumped in his truck and fled.
He did that a lot, almost ran over a fireman who could see the smoke from a park a mile away and came on his own accord. He was burning his house down.
I finally started reading the Codex Alera by Jim Butcher and it's been pretty good so far.
That is a fun series.
What are you doing on Riven?
Each time you post, it's a treat!
Gotta appreciate Skall's cloning abilities in his thumbnails (and even his actual videos sometimes), truly a force to be reckoned with.
I see where hes coming from but it feels misinterpreted. See an axe blade is too heavy to be properly parried by a sword, while at the same time its also so telegraphed that rhe swordsmen can just back away and ppay defence waiting for the right move. So it basically becomes one big mind game as whoever can outsmart the other will win
Stupidest shit I've ever seen
Or is better with their shield
Not... necessarily. If we're both talking two-handed - the largest two-handed swords definitely can parry, whilst something closer to a longsword can still hard-parry and wrestle in with half-swording. In that latter case however, the axeman can make aggressive use of distance and agility to just keep sniping at the swordsman; or use their axe as a way to buy time to grab a dagger when close up or fight for the swordsman's sword.
I think he probably knows more than you.
No no no. Axes were common, because there were LOTS of tool axes out there, and because it takes like a 50th the time to make one. They are TERRIBLE against swords in any one on one context, and a one or two hand "battle axe" CAN NOT be much more massive than one or two handed sword. Thinking otherwise means you're watching WAY too much fantasy stuff lol (not that I'm innocent of just that too). I've been smithing for 30 years and fencing/martial arts/Hema for more than 40. A hatchet with a double length handle is a near perfect analog for a medieval axe. You can ABSOLUTELY block that one with a $10 corn knife from Ace Hardware. Guess how I'm so sure of this.
FYI Druss the Legend is so cool that Games Workshop ripped him off in whole cloth for the Chapter Master of the Space Wolves, Logan Grimnar. Right down to the formerly daemon possessed axe...
Finally, some love for the Drenai books! I haven't heard them mentioned anywhere since my dad gave me his copies to read. Legend might not be the best of his books technically, but it is my favorite.
I think my favorite quote from it would probably be this exchange between Rek and Ulric.
" 'Stopping you is not important,' said the Earl. It never was'
'Then what are you doing?'
'We are trying to stop you'
The underlying theme being fighting against the inevitable, even without hope, simply because it's the right thing to do.
Fun fact, the seige of dros denloch was ment as an allegory for his battle with cancer. With the nadir attackers being the cancer cells attacking his body.
I wrote a sword v axe fight in my novel (Why Ought I to Die?). I remember a lot of the fight being about angles- one person trying to get into an inconvenient spot for his (multiple) opponents. It also involves backstabbing, except with an axe, if I remember correctly. Was it accurate? I hope so, though I have no practical experience in the match-up.
"Legend" is unavailable in audiobook format through Google play in my country, the U.S. (with no explanation at hand). What's more is that the rest of Gemmells books are there. I'm very disappointed.
Someone wasn't happy reading about Bowman's future I think.
Now that’s just BS
First time I read anything that felt like realistic combat in fantasy was in John Gwynne's works. He's definitely from the same tradition as Gemnell in how he writes combat and he's also done work as a reenactor, so he has the closest to on the ground experience in medieval style battles as you can get nowadays (legally).
A quote for you Skall from one of my favourite Gemmell books, one of his few standalone novels Morningstar "There are two types of swordsmen,those who long to win and those afraid to lose. Both can be good, even great, but in a contest between them thewre can only ever be one winner."
Those books were fun, action-packed, quick reading! We must have read them around the same time.
Certain weapons would work best in an offensive massed charge. Some best in a duel. Some best in a defensive siege. Some work best with some from of secondary weapon. Armored or un-armored.
Brent Weeks is my favorite Fantasy Author. Especially the Night Angel series.
I've only read "The King Beyond the Gate" in the Drenai-series, but it is one of my favourite books, mainly because I read it the first time when I was 12 or 13, and I still every few years re-read it.
Ah David Gemell my all time favourite fantasy author,, the Drenai saga is an epic tale and I've read and re read the tale of the fall of Dros Delnoch I love the idea of the 30 too ,, great video skal cheers my friend
RW Krpoun is good and underrated. Realistic plus plenty of fantasy elements.
I’ve got an older fantasy book recommendation for you as well. “The Darksword Trilogy” by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It’s a good sword & sorcery series I read back in the 90s. Another good series is the Wolfwalker series by Tara K. Harper.
My computer is struggling trying to keep up with the epic resolution of this video. Also I'm playing World of Warcraft at the same time which doesn't help, but I can usually handle videos better than this while playing it.
I read Legend when it first came out in paperback! As a teenager, I preferred Waylander because cool. Here in my 50s, Waylander has not stood up but Legend is still a great read. Axes are obviously cool because Gimli (book Gimli, not film Gimli. Jesus, film Gimli…)
This is funny, I was thinking about this book only yesterday and how much I liked the character of Druss. I have read a few of Gammels books but Legend was the first and in my opinion the best.
Honestly the hooking aspect of the axe is why I like axes as much as I do. I also really like one-handed axes when combined with a long-bladed knife such as a Seax for example. I guess it's my Viking-Era Swedish ancestry showing through lol
"it doesn't have to be grass, touching rock and smelling sea air is even better"
Ok Brandon Sanderson, calm down...
Jokes aside I've finally gotten into stormlight archives this year and I've been really digging it, but there's one line i find distracting. There's one scene where the author describes a weapon as an "axe headed halberd" and... Like... Yeah... They tend to be. The redundancy of the statement is odd to me.
Raymond Feist is a favourite of mine. He doesn't get lost in fight choreography but most fights involving melee weapons feel very life threatening to all involved. On a number of occasions he points out how difficult it can be to disable an opponent without killing them if they are trying to kill you. People bleed out. People die suddenly. There is also magic and other supernatural elements, though practitioners are fairly rare in the setting.
David gemell was the first author i got hooked to back when i was a kid (mid/late 2000s) good to see him mentionned. My favorite was the troy trilogy... Well not the last chapters when a character becomes literally moses, that was weird (tbf a lot of different people claim they have roots from troy like charlemagne, still weird tho)
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Joe Abercrombie is my favourite author by far. I’ll leave you with this:
"Armor is part of a state of mind where you admit the possibility of getting hit" - Whirrun of Bligh
and some profound wisdom
“Sworbeck had come to see the face of heroism and instead he had seen evil. Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering emperors with world-conquering designs. Not crackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods”
My recollection about Druss is a comment by another character watching him him fighting. It went something like this but it's a paraphrase since it was probably thirty years ago. "See him! He is pure offence. Most fighters balance attack and defence because they don't want to die. But not him. Any good fighter could kill him if they were willing to die as well. But most aren't and so it is almost impossible to beat him".
I'm in a Western style Viking martial arts group, and I can attest to the brevity of Dane axe v. Sword and shield, at least. The Dane is long and powerful, but round shields are extremely good at defending against it in the right hands. On top of that, the sword is indeed far more agile. I'm still learning Dane (and the matchup ofc), but thus far, spars tend to end within a minute either with an axe strike at long range, or a sword thrust at shorter range. I imagine that against a greatsword or longsword, it would be a more symmetrical matchup, but with just as much danger to each combatant with every exchange.
Dane is SUPER fun though, and I'd love to see more content on it!
They had a mechanic on the only "Fire Emblem" game I have ever played, it was called "Weapon Triangle", and it established advantages and disadvantages when two characters using different type weapons went against each other. It was sort of a rock-paper-scissors system, in which swords had advantage over axes, axes over spears, and spears over swords. I remembered it when a bit of one of the many "Fire Emblem" games I haven't played came out.
I don't really have anything to add to the discussion about axe vs sword, though I've dabbled with that matchup before. Instead I'd like to recommend the Wardstone Chronicles/Last Apprentice series.
If you aren't already familiar with it it's a dark-fantasy novel series that draws heavily on medieval and early-modern English folklore and is about the apprentice of the local Spook (think Cunning-Man meets Ranger) as he goes through his training and various adventures.
The reason I bring it up is that the main characters primarily use staves/spears, which is a rarity in fantasy media as far as I've seen. The fights are typically quite short and the Spook in particular has ended several of the encounters he's gotten into so far with extreme efficiency.
I'm only four books out of thirteen in at the moment though so the fights might get more spectacular later on, but I hope they don't lose that decisive nature.
I had one quote that seemed pretty thoraway and pessimistic when first i heard it, but the more I thought about it, because for some reason it stuck with me, the more I felt like it was motivational.
"Wishful thinking leads only to disappointment."
It's from Prince of Persia; The Two Thrones.
My interpretation of it is wanting something without putting in the effort to get it is going to end up in, as the quote says, disappointment. It's really simple and self explanatory, but for someone who struggles with taking initiative - and unless I go by a strict daily schedule, I never get anything done because I just keep delaying it to the closest possible point where I can still do it before the deadline (and htat's not how you do productivity well) - it's a wonderfully snappy and effective reminder.
Wishingful thinking is never going to be enough to reach your goals. Clench your teeth and get it done.
I've always been an axe-man myself, in fantasy games and so on. Im scandinavian, so I guess it's in my blood. Though I really like germanic swords as well from the iron age. Even bronze age swords look really cool.
I re-read a few Gemmel books that I loved as a teenager (over 40 now) and found that I had kinda grown beyond them. Except for "Echoes of the Great Song". For some reason, I still loved that one.
The battles between artemis entreri and drizzt were written verry well.the drizzt books did a interestung job describing battles
Dunno if agree on that at all. Depends on the situations an the particular weapons in question an how good they both are at given weapons.. all mattering especially most when they meet up history an all of entertainment through the ages is FILLED with enemies that are arch rivals, an sometimes history too, where both of them fought with mostly vastly dangerous an different arsenals an only the relatively most basic are the same due to human body shape makes specific weapon types pretty easy to arm an train a whole army with quickly
Just love that Lego minifigure was included.
When I was young, I watched Disney's Black Arrow quite a few times. I always remember "Properly used, the staff is mightier than the sword". I always wondered. The movie is on youtube. About 20 minutes in. After a duel with crossbow vs longbow
0:50 - that reminds me book version of AC Unity. There Elise remembred how her teacher taught her that (quote from book): "Most
sword fights are decided in the first few seconds of engagement"
I like the interpretation that because the weapons are so different the fight will always be finished by a quick decisive maneuver from either party.
Link to axe used in sparring segment. In 1984 no one was reading that book. We read Conan and Elric books. Good video. Thank you
I won't go for originality. My favourite author, fantasy or otherwise, is Tolkien. One quote (of many) that stuck with me: "One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters." Highly pertinent to the story, to the scene, and to life.
Smelling sea > touching grass by a long shot
I wish i could, but I'm stuck with Lake Ontario
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That’s such a beautiful view and amazing location for your video.
I know his legacy isn't that sterling, but to his credit David Eddings does a decent job in the Sparhawk novels in describing some fights and the skill involved. Even has an axe v. axe fight that enlightens the main character that there is more nuance to axe fighting than he assumed.
I feel like I have the opposite response to some of the attempts at "realism" in fantasy writing. There's been more than one book I've dropped after they attempt to provide authoritative statements on combat. Mostly because it often came off as more snobby than profound. I watch channels like yours for that kind of analysis, but I'm not looking for that in my fantasy books. I'm also not much of one for grit, at least not anymore.
I'd suggest with two handed swords the variety is so vast and really changes the encounter dynamics, where axes while there is variety is more subtle differentiation in use. Where swords can have a much larger range with the longest two handed swords having such insane reach compared to most 'normal' two handed swords and some two handed swords being astonishingly short. So you go from one extreme where the axe is likely providing as much if not more reach, to the axe has no chance at all to reach that far. But try to block or deflect an axe with the longest of the two handed swords I'd suspect your sword ends up a great deal shorter or very bent, where the shorter ones just don't have the same inertia or super long thin blade profile. So while they would be easier to blow through the block they are more likely to survive that initial contact shock and just get moved out the way somewhat as the axes come in...
Since I am playing right now V rising last joke was perfect.
Couple of months ago, I had some sparring and the other guy and me decided to try a battle where one of us uses a longsword and the other one uses a dane axe
It was fun
It waw reeeaaally fun
But none of us had ever fought with any kind of axe before so whoever of us had the sword - he dominated the fight
Sooo, if you're having a sword and your opponent uses an axe but has not much training or experience, you'll have the advantage
I personally like R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt sagas
In croatian language, the world snaga means strenght. I thought that was interesting and felt need to write it.
I love David Gemmell and Legend! Druss is an awesome character.
please put ad reads at the begining , putting it in the middle kind of ruins my emersion . great vid as always !
3:00 Fun fact:
Snaga means power or strength in Serbian (and probably some other Slavic languages)
Beautiful scenery and engaging topic, whats not to like.
Oh wow, the second this video got publicised i heard Matt Easton screaming "CONTEXT"
This is a debate the Gallowglass faced. They were famous for using the great axe known as a sparth in English or Tuag in Irish but some started switching to great swords or Claiomh Mor in Irish. It was stated win or lose the fights with the Gallowglass didn't last long.
Also when it comes to skills you have people like Turlough MacDonnell who is described in the Annals of Ulster as being a "sai galloglaig" or gallowglass artist. In the battle of Knockdoe in 1504 a gallowglass captain was reported, "He took his axe in his hand and begane to flouryshe." Too bad we don't have any treatises to reference. The closest we have is George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense who does talk about using battle axes.
Every time you make a video by the coast I always get a little jealous lol. Like ya I can go to many of the beaches by me but it's just not the same as being out in nature by the coast with a forest behind you.
The surname Gemmel comes from the Norse personal name Gamel. Also gives rise to surname Gamble. 5:21
The axe vs the sword, the #1 Minecraft argument from the start
If you don't train, you are just a loot box.
Great video as always.