100%. I kept my hair long until I started riding a motorcycle. 4 inches on top or longer is absolutely unbearable under a helmet. Better to just go shaved.
the best part about these three is that the 'rouge' character died, was possessed by a demon, gained the ability to transform into a massive skeleton hulk thing and had a fist fight with a dragon. the nord 'barbarian' smashed a giant woman and his daughter is freaking huge and she had to go to a hell dimension to rescue him from being dead-ish and the elf woman just can't ever catch a break and is always being ensalved or dies.
54:32 i think a possible reason for the knight being able to break the handle of the barbarians axe with a punch here might be that he hit the part of the handle which the knight had hit with some heavy swings of his sword during the fight already. considering the knight clearly has incredible strenght, that part of the handle might have gotten seriously damaged by blocking those hits. great analysis video!
That's actually what happened, when you see him slash the nord and send him flying, you can see a small puff of the top wood part of his axe being damaged taking that swing.
To be fair about them not fighting as a team They are not on the same side there all part of a different factions working together so they have almost no experience with each other
@@devinwhite5064 He wasn't a random knight, as he's the leader or at least one of the leaders of his group, but they wouldn't have rly known who tf he was when he came to the scene rly, as he's not exactly wearing any stuff that would obviously mark him as the leader of the invaders or w/e are fucking up that city
@@skebaba918He is the leader, the Ascended Lord. His faction is quite literally trying to stop the other factions from ending the war, so that the truly strongest will survive and a new order of anarchy will come together into a nation stronger than all 3 of the other factions combined. They quite literally want to prolong the war to weed out ALL of the weak and useless from society. IE, not very good guys
I honestly thought he redirected her hit but thinking about it he may have actually used a ward or even spell reflection, either way. A rare movie of competent and mostly realist fighting, I just love the weight of all the attacks, the axe and sword were committed with the swings, the axe being used to hook the sword being a mace and the punches of someone in full heavy armour...
I love this cinematic but there is absolutely nothing realistic about the fight, a sword won't ever be that heavy and attack are obviously super telegraphed. But the point of the cinematic is to be stylish, not realistic, so it's good.
@bytemarx8520 Well, he did survive getting blasted through the wall, which starts the fight off. Given that context, probably survivable for him. Edit 2 months later: he did indeed survive
Small correction, the Breton homeland is High Rock, High Isle is just an island that falls under the jurisdiction of all three alliances for the peace talks that they were trying to have when the trailer takes place. The middle guy is a Breton.
50:00 ...She did start the fight by blowing him through a wall with magic, and all it did was throw him back and make his armor steam a bit. Bretons are naturally resistant to magic on top of whatever he's got his armor enchanted with.
I'm always a bit disappointed that we so little use of shields in fantasy and movie fights. I'm into Roman re-enactment. Even though roman soldiers tend to wear torso-armor, that's basically only there for when you failed to put your shield up between you and your opponent. I would also love to see some more spears.
The primary weapon of the legionary is the shield. They only got more armoured as time went on but the original roman legionary was definitely defined by their use of that large shield, more so than their use of armour I would say.
Oh boy time for twelve years of research the Roman Empire to pay off. The Roman scutums size made projectiles negliable unless they penetrated the sheild itself. (See battle of carrhae). The scutum also lead to the death of the spear and pike until the middle ages. They were still used but just less effective. By using the scutums size and superior protection a Roman soldier could push past or move around the tip of a spear or pike negating its range advantage. Soldiers would often fail to draw their sidearm and be cut down. If they did draw their sidearm they were often barley trained to use it giving the Romans an advantage. The scutums only flaw way it's thickness it was still good enough for most engagements but even compared to early kite shields the scutums were thin. Though it would not have been hard to fix the design I imagine if to be went against a nation focused on projectiles the scutum would have been thickened. The scutum overall was an incredible tool for both offense and defense. Sorry for ranting here just had fun writing this.
Once you have full plate armor using a shield can be nice but it's not necessary. Look at the Renaissance period or late medieval period for that. You have guys running around with just greatswords defeating pikemen. You're into Roman reenactment, that's completely different era and circumstances the armor is WAY worse in every way.
Something to note though is that characters in the elder scrolls are so much stronger than in real life due to the people’s more mystical origins. Everything from the creation of the earth to the sun were created by supernatural means, so it would only make sense that they’re supernaturally stronger which allows them to put on heavier and tougher armor without being slowed down as much, and enchantments exist here so who knows.
Since the knight dude is a Breton, he has innate racial Magic Resistance, and they can also absorb the magic energy of the enemy to constitute it into their own pool. So he's likely using buffing type of magic to 1v3 in full plate w/ a big stick like that, since he's basically a lanky person due to being a Breton & all that. Especially since these are end-game tier Heroes power scale wise in-universe, all of their gear would have Enchantments too, just like player characters have enchantments on each piece, as well as on the weapons etc (hell even jewelry have enchantments too) Also for Swole Elves, you might want to play the Witcher 3 game, as the Aen Elle are basically Elves but superior in both magic & swoleness compared to their peasant cousins the Aen Seidhe (the Elves in the Witcher world, and not in the world of the Aen Elle). In fact they are more swole than your avg Humans are, which I think is a rarity in fantasy settings for some reason
50:40 tbf that's assuming most magic users can endlessly use magic which isn't assured. Maybe she was out of mana from big explosion in the beginning of the fight? Maybe analyze the prequel and sequel lightsaber fights?
Mana in the elder scrolls is generally pretty forgiving. Especially with all the buffs elves get to their mana. Lightsaber fights would be cool. There's some really bonkers ones in the prequels
@@bytemarx8520 not when your a wood elf That and unless you are a high elf your mana regeneration is slow in context of a fast pace fight like you would need at least 1 to 2 minutes to adequately regenerate mana
On both counts. The team not acting as a team: That's because they are three enemies turned unlikely allies. (The world factions leaders are holding peace talks, and the Knight's underground faction wants to keep the war going so his group can seize power.) Each is a member of rival global powers and have actually faced off and fought one another multiple times in the past. Evena s members of their own factions, they don't play particularly well with others. They are very much 'lone wolf' characters who ocassionaly make use of lesser allies to create buffers or push choke points before seizing the glory for themselves. The funniest part of the teamup is that they don't have a healer. They are just a group of DPS/Strikers, which is why they keep getting their buts handed to them after taking a couple of solid hits. The Spells being broken and disrupted: Bretons, in universe and in game, have Spell Resistance. The lore explaination is that their prolonged exposure to elven magic during their enslavement triggered the generation of Spell resistance amongst half breeds who would later become Bretons. Introducing his own body into a spell prematurely could be the reason why the spell violently detonated and left him unharmed. A side note: This Nord is one of a handful that wear horned helmets, most don't. It's just one of those happy little coincidences.
Well the final thing is that they did try to work as a team. But he separated them off into various states of unbalance and unconscious so that they couldn't and was only ever really fighting 1v1s
I'm posting rather late, but at 47:15, the knight actually hits the haft of the barbarian's axe, nearly striking off his fingers. I believe that the blow left a deep enough cut onto the haft that helped breaking it at 54:38
If you're good enough at something in the elderscrolls, there's a good chance its gonna become magical. The dwemmer did it with music for tonal architechture, the redguards did it with swordsmanship with swordsinging, the kahjiit have a hand to hand variant, and the dragon shouts are just debate taken to the magical extreme. Knight prolly just trained till magic kicked in.
I think it would be cool to see a overview of all of the heavy armor in Skyrim, all the light armor, the weapons, etc. I love the anaylsis of the fighting though! Maybe some extra images of the types of armor and weapons y'all reference would be helpful too!
I'm gonna preface this by saying that I've never had access to any kind of club for learning armed fighting properly, I have no martial arts background, and none of the other people involved with what I'm about to say have had either of those: While I was in college I used to sword fight as a hobby with some of my friends from school, and I actually fought against multiple opponents semi-regularly, often three and on one occasion four. Again, I'm speaking from completely untrained experience, but when I watch this knight's movements and tactics they make intuitive sense. My friends knew to try and surround me, and two of them had very aggressive fighting styles (the "I don't know how to fight carefully, I will hit you even if you hit me too" style), and I found that when the terrain failed me and I couldn't keep them all in front of me, the best way to keep them from attacking together was to reciprocate their aggression. Spins to keep an eye on them all and sweep them back, rushing in close so that the one I'm charging couldn't maneuver and the others' options were limited, just try to hit their weapon so hard it shook out of their hand (worked a surprising number of times), anything I could do to buy myself breathing room while I waited for an opening to get them all in front of me again.
Yup medieval knights compared to nowadays trained in their suits and worked out often way 10-100x more often than us humans do nowadays cause of how much more civilized we’ve become that we don’t really need that much strength, back then it was different so I could see them working out in their armor so often it probably didn’t feel that much of a difference from their normal body
I will say, style has a big factor in armor in the Elder Scrolls world. Enchantments allow even cloth to grant incredible protection, and so most places wore armor that was more visually representative of where they are from and their beliefs and protections from the gods/daedra (which in universe are known to exist for a fact) rather than particularly effective in its purpose. Though metal armor does protect more still. Also the general existence of magic and its common use in conflict means most armor protection is relatively restricted anyways. Especially since lightning magic for metal armours, fire magic for hide/cloths and cold magic for everything all exist and are the most common forms of offensive magic used nearly universally by everyone. The combination of Magic and Alternate Universe/They aren't actually human, allows handwaving of anything that would be deemed unrealistic in terms of capabilities of the individuals in either feats of strength or feats of survival. All in all I did enjoy the analysis of the fight though.
The Ascendant Lord, the most competent fighter in the Breton lands in their own dlc, is an Imperial. This fact will always make me laugh. Also: Yea, it's undersold in the recent ES games but the PeakMasculineSigma fighters are really close in strength between a Nord and Imperial so him bodying the Nord isn't far fetched.
@@ThePhuNetwork His ingame model is an imperial as the Breton model literally can't have his face, height, or physique. So either he's like 90% imperial and zenimax had an oopsie or we're just supposed to look past that part
@@ThePhuNetwork If that's what you wanna go with then you do you. Page says "Imperial/Breton" and he uses an imperial model not an upscaled breton like how Lyris is an upscaled nord. Man's an imperial
talking about how strong the knight is, him being a breton and not doing any magic in the fight i headcanon that he spent all his magicka on a strength buff. imagine how effective an armored fighter could be with dumpster juggling levels of strength, probably swinging a 2-hander like it was styrofoam, straight blocking a full strength overhead strike from an axe wielding 300lb meathead, swatting said meathead into the air with your sword, then breaking said axe with a punch.
To be fair, if I got my shit rocked repeatedly by the breton knight, and I'm the weedy, roguish, tiny knife man I too, wouldn't want to go for the neck slit, incase the breton knight kidney strikes me a second time for my insolence.
@@Rose_The_Seraph Adventurers are more likely to leap into an open flame then flee. But like most animals, slapping them hard enough make them reconsider a lot of things.
Here are some notes, just from my experience with the Elder Scrolls: I believe the rogue is a Breton. The mage is probably a High Elf, and the barbarian is a Nord. The rogues in ES aren't necessarily meant for direct combat, more stealth. Barbarians would be more direct, and mages would be somewhat ranged. The armor in ES is highly stylized, but some is functional. Bretons already have a magical resistance, and the the Ascendant Lord is like, super magical, I'm not sure about all the details, but he's kinda immortal I think. That explains how he survived the stab, and the fall. In terms of weaponry, people tend to misunderstand the weight of weapons and armor because in ES, weapons and armor are much heavier than they'd be irl. The knight's sword would likely weigh around 17-26lbs in the game setting, which is very unrealistic. The Knight's armor would be 64-94lbs total. (Numbers taken from Oblivion and Skyrim for the Steel Claymore and Steel Greatsword, and for Steel Armor, which is the closest I could get to his armor and weapon)
What if the armor is actually built around his superhuman strength? What if it's actually a sandwiched honeycomb structure with the plates riveted together in order to provide a crush zone and stress distribution? Such a structure would be incomprehensibly heavy and seem visually weak on the outer layer, but it would solve the last vulnerability that exists in full plate: debilitation from impact deformation. In a lot of settings enchantment is limited to individual pieces. Having more pieces could allow different types and distributions of enhancement, similar to the composite armors of today. This also explains the apparent "double bracers". The small even mass of a bracer across your forearm for the sake of deflection can be overcome with strength enough that the mass itself is more likely to help your momentum than hurt it. Having even more mass on your promixal forearm requires more strength to move with the same swiftness, but it won't change the way you move. Adding the same extra mass at the distal forearm and wrist will drastically alter the mechanics of your movements. The armor's center of balance in now more impactful than your own, so it has to match yours perfectly. No explanation for the super sized pauldrons though, I they're just neat looking. Also the rondels look almost like they're upside down, but it occurs to me that upside down pentagons tend to be disliked in western cultures.
Man, I just came across this after looking for stuff on this trailer. And now I want so much more of this content to see! I hope there is more of this in your future!
If you ask man, well undoubtedly the armor being so segmented constantly is like 99% for Style, one thing to consider is that in the Elder Scrolls Universe, enchanting is something that can be done but very often each item has its own limit to how much magical power it can withstand so theoretically if you wanted to heavily enchant your armor, rather than having giant pieces of armor that perhaps would have as much lower maximum enchantment limit, you do with numerous segmented plates with each one being enchanted with either protection enchantments or warding enchantments and so on. Beyond that that's also likely at least for the male characters why they're not wearing too much actual metal and it's mostly just leather since I wouldn't be surprised if the leather is Enchanted to be as strong as at least iron if not steel while maintaining the lightweight nature and the flexibility of the leather. Imagine Metals only used for areas that genuinely would be good to have a little bit of extra durability at the cost of a bit more weight like shoulders so that way if someone were to bring a heavy weapon down on top of you, they'd give you a better chance to survive it and I wouldn't be surprised with the Nord for example if he doesn't have some metal plates underneath the chest area of all the leather. I mean to be fair also when people are strong enough with normal weapons that aren't even Enchanted in this world to slaughter dragons and Giants, I'd say it's a very fair point to use the extra strength also to have Beyond ridiculously thick armor with so many extra segmented plates of Enchanted metal in order to try that make sure you have some extra level of protection especially against Magic
30:00 the thing to consider is that enchantments are very variable with there is also improved carry weight enchantments in Skyrim for example which very easily could be seen as making your armor lighter or drastically improving your speed and strength and never mind again that even with unenchanted gear, a powerful warrior in this world without magic could take down a dragon with an iron sword... like at a base level we could assume these people are probably on a base physical level like at least 10 or so times stronger than even the stronger people in our world and on top of that, why they wouldn't be using ranged weapons or magic especially would likely be because right now they assume that he is a Breton and britons are not only very magically resistant an able to even absorb some amount of magic but again, magical Ward enchantments and armor fortification enchantment exist So based Magic on its own needs to either be from a very ridiculously powerful mage or may as well just be a parlor trick.
31:10 I'll just reiterate that again this is a world where people out of Base physical level are Beyond much stronger than people in our world and enchantments are a thing that changes very much so how armor would be created if you want to actually factor-in the best way to protect yourself from physical and magical attacks especially since I'd wager that his breastplate in the area that he was stabbed was actually Beyond much sicker than any armor would have in reality and it looks like he was stabbed through the area where there wasn't a segment which makes sense when you consider the fact that Nords are absolute Monsters of strength and I'm damn near certain that sword would have enchantments to improve its deadliness and its durability meaning putting in the hands of someone who could probably easily kill a fucking elephant with an iron Dagger by managing to stab so deeply into its brain that it dies instantly, I'm fairly certain he'd be able to Ram that heavy ass sword through his chest which just goes to show how even this amount of armor ultimately can be overcome meaning in this world if you really want to actually protect yourself you really have to go all in and have not just the physical strength to wield it but either the magical strength or the magical know how to make the correct enchantments
56:43 this is where I think you got to consider the strengths and the magic / reality of the world you're looking at because when you're writing a story, if all of your characters have superhuman strength and things like magical wards are the easiest thing people who are magically inclined should be able to do and especially those who are very skilled at least in terms of Raw magical power should be able to make Beyond strong hence why the only real reason she even seemed to go for that magic glass for example was seemingly to try to blast him out just off the roof but all the way off the cliff that it seemed there was past the ground below and especially since point-blank magic was about the only hope to get it on him and a time where he wouldn't be able to brace for it both physically and magically and again, no words are basically super Danes if they were given the same super soldier serum as Captain America at a wound like that while it would be very dangerous and could be fatal in this world, healing potions and especially very powerful healing potions and healing magic exist so as long as there isn't a curse or Affliction that preventing any healing, there really shouldn't be any issues in dealing with a wound like that it's so long as you don't die before you can find yourself help and I wouldn't be surprised if you can use basic healing Magic
@@C_A_I_N_N Also in addition to enchanting your plate w/ Reduce Weight & Fortification & Warding enchantments, he could also be casting buff-type magic on himself to boost his own physique as well in addition to the buffs already given by enchanted armor pieces, as well as his racial spell resistance & magicka absorption (does anyone know if you can absorb magicka from magicka damage enchantments on weapons through gear, or does it actually have to physically hit your Breton meat to count?). Hell he could have rings under the demigauntlets too, each enchanted w/ shit like passive HP regen, or other support stuff, as well as maybe a thin chain necklace around his neck w/ enchantment too, IDK how in-universe shit w/o game balance stuff works in regards to jewelry usage, like can you stack 10x rly thinboi barebones chains that are all enchanted w/ various or stacking things around your neck, maybe having 3 thin af rings on each of your 10 fingers too (maybe on each of your 10 toes too?). If you are rich enough & still train & have good racials + magic skills, how fucking OP could you theoretically get as a mortal person in-universe?
@@skebaba918 things can get pretty ridiculous with enchantments because the very nature of enchantments isn't in the same boat as normal Magic because Normal magic is done via taking in Magicka and then using your will to convert that Magica into an effect in the real world with this is completely separate from Enchantment Where one takes a soul gem with the only legal types of souls you can put in these gems are what are considered whitesell's or another words The Souls of animals with the greater the power of the animal Soul, the greater the size of the Soul Gem you need which is why is Azura's star is so coveted because it can hold literally any size soul with also the Amulet of Kings from Oblivion is also a Soul Gem and in fact is the most powerful soul gem in all of existence. Back on topic, essentially you take this Soldier and you offer it to a group known only as the ideal Masters who are thought to be necromancers who managed to create their own plane of Oblivion and essentially become minor deities however their realm and their power is 100% based around having Souls constantly put into their Realm to get to use the power of their souls so this is how they get those Soul since by having enchanters offer them those souls and then based on the enchanter skill, understanding, and Desire with the deal the ideal Masters will then imbue the piece of equipment with the appropriate amount of magical power in essentially a FMA style Equivalent Exchange.
The comment about Dutch height is so true. My maternal family is Dutch and they are all HUGE! My uncle had to buy custom clothes his whole life he is so tall.
To be fair about all your points of some of the ridiculousness in the fight, it's a fictitious world........witch magic, elves, vampires and werewolves, animated rocks shaped like humanoids, etc
In Skyrim, there's a perk in one of the magic skill trees that enhances your spell casting abilities the less armor you have, so that's probably why both the Knight and Elf had very little finger protection.
So a couple things that I think were intended- one is that the first big hit against the Nord was blocked by the axe haft (I think there's also a later hit to that same part of the haft, actually)- and so the barehand break was on an already weakened part of the axe haft. The stab... I think that the Nord was strong enough to penetrate and stab the Lord- but it wasn't a DEEP penetration. It's a very chonky blade (no flex to it, you see) which could penetrate without breaking, and would also have more resistance. So he got stabbed, but it wasn't deep enough to fully incapacitate, so he could pull it out after. Injured, but not out of the fight. Because ARMOR. There's definitely some odd orientation going on, though.
50:33 For the comment of "why didn't she use magic previously" I think it's quite obvious why she didn't: she did. That's quite literally how she started the fight. And then the dude was fine despite a big explosion. At that point it's now fallen into the camp of "to land an unconventional blow you must first present a conventional threat" because if the dude was fine blasted through a wall, safe to say it's probably not going to be that effective in a direct context and probably needs to come by surprise to maybe discombobulate him
I believe the hooded figures are Breton battlemages, or battlemages in general. In Oblivion you can fight along side some battlemages, and they have hoods too. Might just be Elder Scrolls thing to distinquish mages from knights.
47:13 after replaying the video frame by frame here's what happened: the nord actually blocked that swing with his axe but it sent him flying for some reason, hits like that also might've been the reason why the knight was able to later break the axe in half with just a punch
I have never seen or heard of paint being used on armor to prevent rusting (during the medieval and Early modern era) can you please provide one of your sources related to this claim.
So in regards to the zweihanders/2 hand swords vs pike conversation you guys have around the 45min mark, you say it would probably get you killed pushing a bunch of pikes around. This is very true, and thats why the Landsknecht had a specific role that was "double pay for extra risk" called Doppelsöldner. Those trained with the zweihander could automatically join that pay scheme as they were used to push in and cut down pike formations during the shot and pike era.
That pauldron looks big, but looking at it at 1:04:48 I think the fur is making a lot of the volume and its a lot thinner than you might expect, the fin is still too tall and it's still top thick, but at least it's like 1 inch thick vs 3-4.
Ya want a swole elf? Halsin from Baldur's Gate 3 is the most swole character in the entire game and one of the tallest. And he's a wood elf, typically weedy and short in most fantasy depictions.
41:10 is there a way to negate the leather shifting in a gauntlet? like, you said when you punched someone, your hand moved forward. is there ways to like, stop that? or is the leather intentionally looser? or would there be ways to support your arms and wrists in the gauntlet? hmm, now I'm thinking of all sorts of ideas.
The thing is, he could have been aiming to just hurt and disarm them and not kill them tbh I mean why did he just punch them most of the time instead of using the sword to just straight up end them. I mean like he was gonna throw the barbarian off the roof (and from what I've known Barbarian archetypes are not really known to die from falling) like he could've as easily caved his neck in and finish him off. Also those three are like main characters/good guys so like the knight outright ending their lives would just end the story immediately (Also the Knight is still alive)
The thing about elves in tamriel is that they're so arrogant, to the point of making the armor their more an art piece than actual armor, so they use magic to compensate. That's why her armor looks like an absurd piece of crap, it's because it's not actually armor, it's a cosplay costume at worst and barely armor at best.
was the audio behind or was it a recording error because your talking about scenes that where 2 seconds behind the current viewed screen on the recording.
I believe the sword is a Zweihander-Scottish Claymore marriage, the size and shape makes sense in that case. The knight clearly has the bulk, strength, and experience to use it effectively, thus I don’t think his sword is worthy of critique.
Wowza that's gotta be embarassing at 20:35-ish through 20:50, the rivetted bit in particular since the rivets in question are on a separate piece around the collar called a Gorget, which sits on top of the chest piece and is specifically for protecting the neck from glancing blows, and to make it harder for any blows to connect there... Additionally, blacksmith forged rivets are not just going to fail like he's portraying in his comments there, like what? Lol... Dude literally claims to have fought in Brigandine yet says rivets will just immediately fail... That entire armor is held together by forged rivets. Forged rivets if done correctly were literally the basis of connections on most types of armor for HUNDREDS of years. From plate, to Brig, to chain. They are by no means a negative point in the armor. Also no idea what he's smoking claiming the nameless knight's chest piece is segmented right down the middle, because it's not... It's one solid piece, on the front and back, and is joined at the sides.
5:7:36 lightsaber moment, its sad how few people grasp the point of armor is to stop blades from effortlessly poking into ones soft tender bits... but the even more likly problem here than ignorence is simple lasiness, most writers are so... sooo ridiculasly disgustingly lazy atleast the ones that seem to infest hollywood, comics and gaming, yes of course there are the rare good writers, im talking about the vast majority.
He gets stabbed strait through the plate. and nords are basically half giants, Bretons are supposedly of average strength for a human, Stats wise on a scale from 1 to 100 Average human stat is a 40, Nords have a 50 strength, they are THE strongest race on the planet, they do Orks Dirty. That bretons got some magic buffing his stats cause hes not man handling a nord like he does otherwise. but I could see a nord driving a pointy piece of metal through armor if he could set it up and that night wasnt moving like he was.
The Knight is the Ascendant Lord, he's kinda godlike I think. I haven't played High Isle though, but I know some common Nord isn't gonna hold a candle to him
I got past it, but it does come off hypocritical to talk about realism while the current real life fantasy that is LGBTQ. There are two sexes/genders, male and female, the truth. The game has some unrealistic attributes, the truth. Enough said. At least @croswellroberaon3742 is consistent.
Before anyone asks, yes - having no hair makes the helmets a lot more breathable.
so someone as bald as Johnny Sins wears the helmet more breathable
@@lenny_boxx4206 Johnny sins makes the helmet more breedable
Huh
Can Only Wonder How He Know’s That
Nice PFP by the by
100%. I kept my hair long until I started riding a motorcycle. 4 inches on top or longer is absolutely unbearable under a helmet. Better to just go shaved.
I must become the bald knight
“you aren’t better than us for having heavier armor!”
lawbringer after clutching a 1v4 against highlander, lightspam nobushi, shinobi and berserker:
THANK YOU
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Just had to put this in lol
“What an Interesting Opinion.”
plus tanking all slashing attacks.
This is basically what happens when a For Honor Warden ends up in Tamriel.
That's what I was thinking as well
With 80% less shoulder bash.
Me playing a Warden 1v3 an Orochi, a Raider and a Peacekeeper
the best part about these three is that the 'rouge' character died, was possessed by a demon, gained the ability to transform into a massive skeleton hulk thing and had a fist fight with a dragon. the nord 'barbarian' smashed a giant woman and his daughter is freaking huge and she had to go to a hell dimension to rescue him from being dead-ish and the elf woman just can't ever catch a break and is always being ensalved or dies.
Sorry what!?!
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TFW you can't catch a break even in few seconds of expansion trailers ua-cam.com/video/CnpTgepe1tA/v-deo.html 😂
@@bytemarx8520They are the faction characters, So I think he is talking about what happened to them before and after this trailer.
Don't forget the Satanic Chain Gang from the first big fight they got into.
54:32 i think a possible reason for the knight being able to break the handle of the barbarians axe with a punch here might be that he hit the part of the handle which the knight had hit with some heavy swings of his sword during the fight already. considering the knight clearly has incredible strenght, that part of the handle might have gotten seriously damaged by blocking those hits.
great analysis video!
Nah, my man had that unarmed enchantment
BE STRONG. USE BUFF MAGIC. BE BUFFER. PUNCH WITH SMARTS.
I just assume knight is giga chad and just broke it with his pure unhuman strength
That's actually what happened, when you see him slash the nord and send him flying, you can see a small puff of the top wood part of his axe being damaged taking that swing.
I think he also connects with his vambrace instead of his hand which could provide a bit of protection when breaking the haft
To be fair about them not fighting as a team
They are not on the same side there all part of a different factions working together so they have almost no experience with each other
That is actually pretty fair. I'd not expect perfect coordination but maybe a little bit more since they have him 3 to 1
@@bytemarx8520 and also he was a random knight
@@nathanspire8804 wait if he's just a random knight then they're fucked when they get to someone with a name
@@devinwhite5064 He wasn't a random knight, as he's the leader or at least one of the leaders of his group, but they wouldn't have rly known who tf he was when he came to the scene rly, as he's not exactly wearing any stuff that would obviously mark him as the leader of the invaders or w/e are fucking up that city
@@skebaba918He is the leader, the Ascended Lord. His faction is quite literally trying to stop the other factions from ending the war, so that the truly strongest will survive and a new order of anarchy will come together into a nation stronger than all 3 of the other factions combined.
They quite literally want to prolong the war to weed out ALL of the weak and useless from society.
IE, not very good guys
I honestly thought he redirected her hit but thinking about it he may have actually used a ward or even spell reflection, either way.
A rare movie of competent and mostly realist fighting, I just love the weight of all the attacks, the axe and sword were committed with the swings, the axe being used to hook the sword being a mace and the punches of someone in full heavy armour...
It's a great moment in the trailer and one that really sets the tone for the battle
I thought homie just punched her so hard she flew across the rooftop lol.
I love this cinematic but there is absolutely nothing realistic about the fight, a sword won't ever be that heavy and attack are obviously super telegraphed.
But the point of the cinematic is to be stylish, not realistic, so it's good.
The spell reflection honestly makes a lot of sense, Bretons have a lot of anti-magic racial abilities.
@@neveryatis5019 tbf even with that the blocks, parries, and some of the actual maneuvers of the fight does seem at least semi-realistic
And in the end he's not even dead. Such great armor he have, eh?
Yeah I'm really surprised he still wasn't dead after all that
@@bytemarx8520 that's cause he's got DAT ELF in him!
@@criticalbil1 but he was.
@@criticalbil1bro didn't watch the whole trailer
@bytemarx8520 Well, he did survive getting blasted through the wall, which starts the fight off. Given that context, probably survivable for him.
Edit 2 months later: he did indeed survive
Small correction, the Breton homeland is High Rock, High Isle is just an island that falls under the jurisdiction of all three alliances for the peace talks that they were trying to have when the trailer takes place. The middle guy is a Breton.
Thanks for the info!
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...She did start the fight by blowing him through a wall with magic, and all it did was throw him back and make his armor steam a bit. Bretons are naturally resistant to magic on top of whatever he's got his armor enchanted with.
I'm always a bit disappointed that we so little use of shields in fantasy and movie fights. I'm into Roman re-enactment. Even though roman soldiers tend to wear torso-armor, that's basically only there for when you failed to put your shield up between you and your opponent. I would also love to see some more spears.
The primary weapon of the legionary is the shield. They only got more armoured as time went on but the original roman legionary was definitely defined by their use of that large shield, more so than their use of armour I would say.
Oh boy time for twelve years of research the Roman Empire to pay off. The Roman scutums size made projectiles negliable unless they penetrated the sheild itself. (See battle of carrhae). The scutum also lead to the death of the spear and pike until the middle ages. They were still used but just less effective. By using the scutums size and superior protection a Roman soldier could push past or move around the tip of a spear or pike negating its range advantage. Soldiers would often fail to draw their sidearm and be cut down. If they did draw their sidearm they were often barley trained to use it giving the Romans an advantage. The scutums only flaw way it's thickness it was still good enough for most engagements but even compared to early kite shields the scutums were thin. Though it would not have been hard to fix the design I imagine if to be went against a nation focused on projectiles the scutum would have been thickened. The scutum overall was an incredible tool for both offense and defense. Sorry for ranting here just had fun writing this.
@@spadegaming6348 But aren't scutums weights 8-10 kilograms? Thickening it would make it too heavy to carry in an offhand for a common soldier.
Once you have full plate armor using a shield can be nice but it's not necessary. Look at the Renaissance period or late medieval period for that. You have guys running around with just greatswords defeating pikemen. You're into Roman reenactment, that's completely different era and circumstances the armor is WAY worse in every way.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 It's curved so you can set it down on the ground.
Something to note though is that characters in the elder scrolls are so much stronger than in real life due to the people’s more mystical origins. Everything from the creation of the earth to the sun were created by supernatural means, so it would only make sense that they’re supernaturally stronger which allows them to put on heavier and tougher armor without being slowed down as much, and enchantments exist here so who knows.
Since the knight dude is a Breton, he has innate racial Magic Resistance, and they can also absorb the magic energy of the enemy to constitute it into their own pool. So he's likely using buffing type of magic to 1v3 in full plate w/ a big stick like that, since he's basically a lanky person due to being a Breton & all that. Especially since these are end-game tier Heroes power scale wise in-universe, all of their gear would have Enchantments too, just like player characters have enchantments on each piece, as well as on the weapons etc (hell even jewelry have enchantments too)
Also for Swole Elves, you might want to play the Witcher 3 game, as the Aen Elle are basically Elves but superior in both magic & swoleness compared to their peasant cousins the Aen Seidhe (the Elves in the Witcher world, and not in the world of the Aen Elle). In fact they are more swole than your avg Humans are, which I think is a rarity in fantasy settings for some reason
bro has the racism buff
Bretons have magic resistance but they don't absorb it unless they are born under the atronach.
@@eyesack6845Dragonskin racial ability?
Bro never played a buff two-handed warrior in skyrim as a Breton
Knights will take your 9th level upcast fireball to the chest and say "yonder magus cannot wieldeth a sworde"
50:40 tbf that's assuming most magic users can endlessly use magic which isn't assured. Maybe she was out of mana from big explosion in the beginning of the fight?
Maybe analyze the prequel and sequel lightsaber fights?
Mana in the elder scrolls is generally pretty forgiving. Especially with all the buffs elves get to their mana.
Lightsaber fights would be cool. There's some really bonkers ones in the prequels
@@bytemarx8520 not when your a wood elf
That and unless you are a high elf your mana regeneration is slow in context of a fast pace fight like you would need at least 1 to 2 minutes to adequately regenerate mana
On both counts.
The team not acting as a team: That's because they are three enemies turned unlikely allies. (The world factions leaders are holding peace talks, and the Knight's underground faction wants to keep the war going so his group can seize power.) Each is a member of rival global powers and have actually faced off and fought one another multiple times in the past. Evena s members of their own factions, they don't play particularly well with others. They are very much 'lone wolf' characters who ocassionaly make use of lesser allies to create buffers or push choke points before seizing the glory for themselves. The funniest part of the teamup is that they don't have a healer. They are just a group of DPS/Strikers, which is why they keep getting their buts handed to them after taking a couple of solid hits.
The Spells being broken and disrupted: Bretons, in universe and in game, have Spell Resistance. The lore explaination is that their prolonged exposure to elven magic during their enslavement triggered the generation of Spell resistance amongst half breeds who would later become Bretons. Introducing his own body into a spell prematurely could be the reason why the spell violently detonated and left him unharmed.
A side note: This Nord is one of a handful that wear horned helmets, most don't. It's just one of those happy little coincidences.
The classic played only Skyrim/ESO fan only "UmMm AccTUallYYy" ahahhaha
He's clearly going for the barbarian terrorization tactics w/ the demonic horns on the helmet thingie
Well the final thing is that they did try to work as a team. But he separated them off into various states of unbalance and unconscious so that they couldn't and was only ever really fighting 1v1s
I'm posting rather late, but at 47:15, the knight actually hits the haft of the barbarian's axe, nearly striking off his fingers.
I believe that the blow left a deep enough cut onto the haft that helped breaking it at 54:38
If you're good enough at something in the elderscrolls, there's a good chance its gonna become magical. The dwemmer did it with music for tonal architechture, the redguards did it with swordsmanship with swordsinging, the kahjiit have a hand to hand variant, and the dragon shouts are just debate taken to the magical extreme.
Knight prolly just trained till magic kicked in.
Forgot that shouts are just verbal fistfights
@@oga-boogaThey're literally just arguments with Extra boom
bro he is a breton, he is magic asf
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I think it would be cool to see a overview of all of the heavy armor in Skyrim, all the light armor, the weapons, etc. I love the anaylsis of the fighting though! Maybe some extra images of the types of armor and weapons y'all reference would be helpful too!
We could do some armour ranking I think. I'm not familiar with everything in Skyrim so it would take a bit of time to put together I think.
I'm gonna preface this by saying that I've never had access to any kind of club for learning armed fighting properly, I have no martial arts background, and none of the other people involved with what I'm about to say have had either of those:
While I was in college I used to sword fight as a hobby with some of my friends from school, and I actually fought against multiple opponents semi-regularly, often three and on one occasion four.
Again, I'm speaking from completely untrained experience, but when I watch this knight's movements and tactics they make intuitive sense.
My friends knew to try and surround me, and two of them had very aggressive fighting styles (the "I don't know how to fight carefully, I will hit you even if you hit me too" style), and I found that when the terrain failed me and I couldn't keep them all in front of me, the best way to keep them from attacking together was to reciprocate their aggression.
Spins to keep an eye on them all and sweep them back, rushing in close so that the one I'm charging couldn't maneuver and the others' options were limited, just try to hit their weapon so hard it shook out of their hand (worked a surprising number of times), anything I could do to buy myself breathing room while I waited for an opening to get them all in front of me again.
Ngl, Plate isn't that hindering if you have even half way decent physical ability and I'm speaking from experience.
Yup medieval knights compared to nowadays trained in their suits and worked out often way 10-100x more often than us humans do nowadays cause of how much more civilized we’ve become that we don’t really need that much strength, back then it was different so I could see them working out in their armor so often it probably didn’t feel that much of a difference from their normal body
And the forearms are likely two overlapping pieces with leather or another buffer material in between because he uses them as defense and offense
If you're fighting someone and they break your weapon in half you fucking surrender. You give up. Like gg man.
I will say, style has a big factor in armor in the Elder Scrolls world. Enchantments allow even cloth to grant incredible protection, and so most places wore armor that was more visually representative of where they are from and their beliefs and protections from the gods/daedra (which in universe are known to exist for a fact) rather than particularly effective in its purpose. Though metal armor does protect more still.
Also the general existence of magic and its common use in conflict means most armor protection is relatively restricted anyways. Especially since lightning magic for metal armours, fire magic for hide/cloths and cold magic for everything all exist and are the most common forms of offensive magic used nearly universally by everyone.
The combination of Magic and Alternate Universe/They aren't actually human, allows handwaving of anything that would be deemed unrealistic in terms of capabilities of the individuals in either feats of strength or feats of survival.
All in all I did enjoy the analysis of the fight though.
Weakest Breton/Imperial Knight vs the strongest fantasy trope OCs
The Ascendant Lord, the most competent fighter in the Breton lands in their own dlc, is an Imperial. This fact will always make me laugh.
Also: Yea, it's undersold in the recent ES games but the PeakMasculineSigma fighters are really close in strength between a Nord and Imperial so him bodying the Nord isn't far fetched.
I though his father was Imperial, mother was Breton, and race is inherited from the mother in Elder Scrolls with some traits of the father.
@@ThePhuNetwork His ingame model is an imperial as the Breton model literally can't have his face, height, or physique. So either he's like 90% imperial and zenimax had an oopsie or we're just supposed to look past that part
@@C4MG1RL Doesn't matter what the model looks like. His mom's a breton, he's a breton, but he at least inherits some imperial qualities.
@@ThePhuNetwork If that's what you wanna go with then you do you. Page says "Imperial/Breton" and he uses an imperial model not an upscaled breton like how Lyris is an upscaled nord. Man's an imperial
@@C4MG1RL Page also says mom's a breton, and an in-series book called "Notes on Racial Phylogeny" states that race is passed from from the mother.
Fun fact: the knight survives.
great video! would love to see more reviews of fantasy and game armor from you two
I would like to do more reviews actually. Miles knows a lot more about the medieval period than I do though.
Just so you know Bretons in elder scrolls lore are not only magically inclined, but also magically resistant.
This was probably the most fun analysis video I've ever watched, I'm definitely looking at more of your videos
talking about how strong the knight is, him being a breton and not doing any magic in the fight i headcanon that he spent all his magicka on a strength buff. imagine how effective an armored fighter could be with dumpster juggling levels of strength, probably swinging a 2-hander like it was styrofoam, straight blocking a full strength overhead strike from an axe wielding 300lb meathead, swatting said meathead into the air with your sword, then breaking said axe with a punch.
To be fair, if I got my shit rocked repeatedly by the breton knight, and I'm the weedy, roguish, tiny knife man
I too, wouldn't want to go for the neck slit, incase the breton knight kidney strikes me a second time for my insolence.
"You should've learned after the first time" lol
@@Rose_The_Seraph Adventurers are more likely to leap into an open flame then flee. But like most animals, slapping them hard enough make them reconsider a lot of things.
Here are some notes, just from my experience with the Elder Scrolls:
I believe the rogue is a Breton. The mage is probably a High Elf, and the barbarian is a Nord. The rogues in ES aren't necessarily meant for direct combat, more stealth. Barbarians would be more direct, and mages would be somewhat ranged. The armor in ES is highly stylized, but some is functional.
Bretons already have a magical resistance, and the the Ascendant Lord is like, super magical, I'm not sure about all the details, but he's kinda immortal I think. That explains how he survived the stab, and the fall.
In terms of weaponry, people tend to misunderstand the weight of weapons and armor because in ES, weapons and armor are much heavier than they'd be irl. The knight's sword would likely weigh around 17-26lbs in the game setting, which is very unrealistic. The Knight's armor would be 64-94lbs total. (Numbers taken from Oblivion and Skyrim for the Steel Claymore and Steel Greatsword, and for Steel Armor, which is the closest I could get to his armor and weapon)
You guys are legit nerds, I love it, subbed.
This made a happy history crew - thank you. And for the record Miles some of us writing papers are in your corner I swear 😝
I'm pretty sure Miles would make an exception for your research.
What if the armor is actually built around his superhuman strength? What if it's actually a sandwiched honeycomb structure with the plates riveted together in order to provide a crush zone and stress distribution?
Such a structure would be incomprehensibly heavy and seem visually weak on the outer layer, but it would solve the last vulnerability that exists in full plate: debilitation from impact deformation.
In a lot of settings enchantment is limited to individual pieces. Having more pieces could allow different types and distributions of enhancement, similar to the composite armors of today.
This also explains the apparent "double bracers". The small even mass of a bracer across your forearm for the sake of deflection can be overcome with strength enough that the mass itself is more likely to help your momentum than hurt it.
Having even more mass on your promixal forearm requires more strength to move with the same swiftness, but it won't change the way you move. Adding the same extra mass at the distal forearm and wrist will drastically alter the mechanics of your movements. The armor's center of balance in now more impactful than your own, so it has to match yours perfectly.
No explanation for the super sized pauldrons though, I they're just neat looking. Also the rondels look almost like they're upside down, but it occurs to me that upside down pentagons tend to be disliked in western cultures.
27:28 whaat ive seen sabatons bend that much, even more
Man, I just came across this after looking for stuff on this trailer. And now I want so much more of this content to see! I hope there is more of this in your future!
strike fast: HE LIVES
The knight survived btw
If you ask man, well undoubtedly the armor being so segmented constantly is like 99% for Style, one thing to consider is that in the Elder Scrolls Universe, enchanting is something that can be done but very often each item has its own limit to how much magical power it can withstand so theoretically if you wanted to heavily enchant your armor, rather than having giant pieces of armor that perhaps would have as much lower maximum enchantment limit, you do with numerous segmented plates with each one being enchanted with either protection enchantments or warding enchantments and so on. Beyond that that's also likely at least for the male characters why they're not wearing too much actual metal and it's mostly just leather since I wouldn't be surprised if the leather is Enchanted to be as strong as at least iron if not steel while maintaining the lightweight nature and the flexibility of the leather. Imagine Metals only used for areas that genuinely would be good to have a little bit of extra durability at the cost of a bit more weight like shoulders so that way if someone were to bring a heavy weapon down on top of you, they'd give you a better chance to survive it and I wouldn't be surprised with the Nord for example if he doesn't have some metal plates underneath the chest area of all the leather. I mean to be fair also when people are strong enough with normal weapons that aren't even Enchanted in this world to slaughter dragons and Giants, I'd say it's a very fair point to use the extra strength also to have Beyond ridiculously thick armor with so many extra segmented plates of Enchanted metal in order to try that make sure you have some extra level of protection especially against Magic
30:00 the thing to consider is that enchantments are very variable with there is also improved carry weight enchantments in Skyrim for example which very easily could be seen as making your armor lighter or drastically improving your speed and strength and never mind again that even with unenchanted gear, a powerful warrior in this world without magic could take down a dragon with an iron sword... like at a base level we could assume these people are probably on a base physical level like at least 10 or so times stronger than even the stronger people in our world and on top of that, why they wouldn't be using ranged weapons or magic especially would likely be because right now they assume that he is a Breton and britons are not only very magically resistant an able to even absorb some amount of magic but again, magical Ward enchantments and armor fortification enchantment exist So based Magic on its own needs to either be from a very ridiculously powerful mage or may as well just be a parlor trick.
31:10 I'll just reiterate that again this is a world where people out of Base physical level are Beyond much stronger than people in our world and enchantments are a thing that changes very much so how armor would be created if you want to actually factor-in the best way to protect yourself from physical and magical attacks especially since I'd wager that his breastplate in the area that he was stabbed was actually Beyond much sicker than any armor would have in reality and it looks like he was stabbed through the area where there wasn't a segment which makes sense when you consider the fact that Nords are absolute Monsters of strength and I'm damn near certain that sword would have enchantments to improve its deadliness and its durability meaning putting in the hands of someone who could probably easily kill a fucking elephant with an iron Dagger by managing to stab so deeply into its brain that it dies instantly, I'm fairly certain he'd be able to Ram that heavy ass sword through his chest which just goes to show how even this amount of armor ultimately can be overcome meaning in this world if you really want to actually protect yourself you really have to go all in and have not just the physical strength to wield it but either the magical strength or the magical know how to make the correct enchantments
56:43 this is where I think you got to consider the strengths and the magic / reality of the world you're looking at because when you're writing a story, if all of your characters have superhuman strength and things like magical wards are the easiest thing people who are magically inclined should be able to do and especially those who are very skilled at least in terms of Raw magical power should be able to make Beyond strong hence why the only real reason she even seemed to go for that magic glass for example was seemingly to try to blast him out just off the roof but all the way off the cliff that it seemed there was past the ground below and especially since point-blank magic was about the only hope to get it on him and a time where he wouldn't be able to brace for it both physically and magically and again, no words are basically super Danes if they were given the same super soldier serum as Captain America at a wound like that while it would be very dangerous and could be fatal in this world, healing potions and especially very powerful healing potions and healing magic exist so as long as there isn't a curse or Affliction that preventing any healing, there really shouldn't be any issues in dealing with a wound like that it's so long as you don't die before you can find yourself help and I wouldn't be surprised if you can use basic healing Magic
@@C_A_I_N_N Also in addition to enchanting your plate w/ Reduce Weight & Fortification & Warding enchantments, he could also be casting buff-type magic on himself to boost his own physique as well in addition to the buffs already given by enchanted armor pieces, as well as his racial spell resistance & magicka absorption (does anyone know if you can absorb magicka from magicka damage enchantments on weapons through gear, or does it actually have to physically hit your Breton meat to count?). Hell he could have rings under the demigauntlets too, each enchanted w/ shit like passive HP regen, or other support stuff, as well as maybe a thin chain necklace around his neck w/ enchantment too, IDK how in-universe shit w/o game balance stuff works in regards to jewelry usage, like can you stack 10x rly thinboi barebones chains that are all enchanted w/ various or stacking things around your neck, maybe having 3 thin af rings on each of your 10 fingers too (maybe on each of your 10 toes too?). If you are rich enough & still train & have good racials + magic skills, how fucking OP could you theoretically get as a mortal person in-universe?
@@skebaba918 things can get pretty ridiculous with enchantments because the very nature of enchantments isn't in the same boat as normal Magic because Normal magic is done via taking in Magicka and then using your will to convert that Magica into an effect in the real world with this is completely separate from Enchantment Where one takes a soul gem with the only legal types of souls you can put in these gems are what are considered whitesell's or another words The Souls of animals with the greater the power of the animal Soul, the greater the size of the Soul Gem you need which is why is Azura's star is so coveted because it can hold literally any size soul with also the Amulet of Kings from Oblivion is also a Soul Gem and in fact is the most powerful soul gem in all of existence. Back on topic, essentially you take this Soldier and you offer it to a group known only as the ideal Masters who are thought to be necromancers who managed to create their own plane of Oblivion and essentially become minor deities however their realm and their power is 100% based around having Souls constantly put into their Realm to get to use the power of their souls so this is how they get those Soul since by having enchanters offer them those souls and then based on the enchanter skill, understanding, and Desire with the deal the ideal Masters will then imbue the piece of equipment with the appropriate amount of magical power in essentially a FMA style Equivalent Exchange.
The comment about Dutch height is so true. My maternal family is Dutch and they are all HUGE! My uncle had to buy custom clothes his whole life he is so tall.
The Knight Is Existentially The Hero and The Main Character
Incredible Analysis
20:22
Er, no it isn't segmented down the middle?
The rear back plate is, as far as I can tell
If you guys wanna do another vid similar to this you should check out some of the For Honor trailers
Didn’t show him the knight surviving that
To be fair about all your points of some of the ridiculousness in the fight, it's a fictitious world........witch magic, elves, vampires and werewolves, animated rocks shaped like humanoids, etc
Internal consistency is still somewhat important
I legitimately did a search specifically for people with armored/longsword fighting experience reviewing this trailer. Is good.
Thank you!
51:52, I love the talk coming soon of "you have armour, just get hit" vs "disarm and don't get hit."
In Skyrim, there's a perk in one of the magic skill trees that enhances your spell casting abilities the less armor you have, so that's probably why both the Knight and Elf had very little finger protection.
Bro unironically just stated his pronouns like no one would know. 😂😂
So a couple things that I think were intended- one is that the first big hit against the Nord was blocked by the axe haft (I think there's also a later hit to that same part of the haft, actually)- and so the barehand break was on an already weakened part of the axe haft.
The stab... I think that the Nord was strong enough to penetrate and stab the Lord- but it wasn't a DEEP penetration. It's a very chonky blade (no flex to it, you see) which could penetrate without breaking, and would also have more resistance. So he got stabbed, but it wasn't deep enough to fully incapacitate, so he could pull it out after. Injured, but not out of the fight. Because ARMOR. There's definitely some odd orientation going on, though.
Fantastic video!
This was much better fight than any anime big flashy fights where half of the city is destroyed
50:33 For the comment of "why didn't she use magic previously" I think it's quite obvious why she didn't: she did. That's quite literally how she started the fight. And then the dude was fine despite a big explosion. At that point it's now fallen into the camp of "to land an unconventional blow you must first present a conventional threat" because if the dude was fine blasted through a wall, safe to say it's probably not going to be that effective in a direct context and probably needs to come by surprise to maybe discombobulate him
In all fairness all the races in the elder scrolls even the humans are way stronger, agile, and durable than us regular earth humans.
I believe the hooded figures are Breton battlemages, or battlemages in general. In Oblivion you can fight along side some battlemages, and they have hoods too. Might just be Elder Scrolls thing to distinquish mages from knights.
Marks was a swords man
50:30 they might have missed that knight also redirected her hand so that it couldn't be aimed at him with the swords guard.
47:13 after replaying the video frame by frame here's what happened: the nord actually blocked that swing with his axe but it sent him flying for some reason, hits like that also might've been the reason why the knight was able to later break the axe in half with just a punch
Basically what im getting is the Acendant Lord basically won multiple times but was defeated by plot armor.
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Well that's just the one woman though
I have never seen or heard of paint being used on armor to prevent rusting (during the medieval and Early modern era) can you please provide one of your sources related to this claim.
Based breton
A 3 minute video into an hour of commentary
The ax was already half way cut
So in regards to the zweihanders/2 hand swords vs pike conversation you guys have around the 45min mark, you say it would probably get you killed pushing a bunch of pikes around.
This is very true, and thats why the Landsknecht had a specific role that was "double pay for extra risk" called Doppelsöldner. Those trained with the zweihander could automatically join that pay scheme as they were used to push in and cut down pike formations during the shot and pike era.
Bretons are basically Half elves, and basically fantasy Britons.
That pauldron looks big, but looking at it at 1:04:48 I think the fur is making a lot of the volume and its a lot thinner than you might expect, the fin is still too tall and it's still top thick, but at least it's like 1 inch thick vs 3-4.
Armor weight rests on your hips primarily.
he also is not human
I do want to see a part 2 of this
Ya want a swole elf? Halsin from Baldur's Gate 3 is the most swole character in the entire game and one of the tallest. And he's a wood elf, typically weedy and short in most fantasy depictions.
41:10 is there a way to negate the leather shifting in a gauntlet? like, you said when you punched someone, your hand moved forward. is there ways to like, stop that? or is the leather intentionally looser? or would there be ways to support your arms and wrists in the gauntlet?
hmm, now I'm thinking of all sorts of ideas.
The thing is, he could have been aiming to just hurt and disarm them and not kill them tbh I mean why did he just punch them most of the time instead of using the sword to just straight up end them. I mean like he was gonna throw the barbarian off the roof (and from what I've known Barbarian archetypes are not really known to die from falling) like he could've as easily caved his neck in and finish him off.
Also those three are like main characters/good guys so like the knight outright ending their lives would just end the story immediately
(Also the Knight is still alive)
Not a man of the blade but I think that when the knight had the axe stopped he should have pushed it to the side and stabbed the nord in the trough
The thing about elves in tamriel is that they're so arrogant, to the point of making the armor their more an art piece than actual armor, so they use magic to compensate. That's why her armor looks like an absurd piece of crap, it's because it's not actually armor, it's a cosplay costume at worst and barely armor at best.
Yeah, Cataphract armor is badass!
I agree!
was the audio behind or was it a recording error because your talking about scenes that where 2 seconds behind the current viewed screen on the recording.
Swole elves are in baldurs gate 3 hahahah
Those armors are dope
to long , 70 minutes to break down 3 mminutes fight. nevertheless whoever designe/chore this fight for ZeniMax, knows his stuff bout sword fighting.
I believe the sword is a Zweihander-Scottish Claymore marriage, the size and shape makes sense in that case. The knight clearly has the bulk, strength, and experience to use it effectively, thus I don’t think his sword is worthy of critique.
Knights in plate armor were considered, in the time period, to be unbalanced. pay-to-win, bullshit.
Wowza that's gotta be embarassing at 20:35-ish through 20:50, the rivetted bit in particular since the rivets in question are on a separate piece around the collar called a Gorget, which sits on top of the chest piece and is specifically for protecting the neck from glancing blows, and to make it harder for any blows to connect there... Additionally, blacksmith forged rivets are not just going to fail like he's portraying in his comments there, like what? Lol... Dude literally claims to have fought in Brigandine yet says rivets will just immediately fail... That entire armor is held together by forged rivets. Forged rivets if done correctly were literally the basis of connections on most types of armor for HUNDREDS of years. From plate, to Brig, to chain. They are by no means a negative point in the armor. Also no idea what he's smoking claiming the nameless knight's chest piece is segmented right down the middle, because it's not... It's one solid piece, on the front and back, and is joined at the sides.
nc thumbnail. tho very nice...
You cant put human logic to characters who are many time stronger then regular people.
5:7:36 lightsaber moment, its sad how few people grasp the point of armor is to stop blades from effortlessly poking into ones soft tender bits... but the even more likly problem here than ignorence is simple lasiness, most writers are so... sooo ridiculasly disgustingly lazy atleast the ones that seem to infest hollywood, comics and gaming, yes of course there are the rare good writers, im talking about the vast majority.
I heard pronouns. That's a peddling.
He gets stabbed strait through the plate. and nords are basically half giants, Bretons are supposedly of average strength for a human, Stats wise on a scale from 1 to 100 Average human stat is a 40, Nords have a 50 strength, they are THE strongest race on the planet, they do Orks Dirty. That bretons got some magic buffing his stats cause hes not man handling a nord like he does otherwise. but I could see a nord driving a pointy piece of metal through armor if he could set it up and that night wasnt moving like he was.
The Knight is the Ascendant Lord, he's kinda godlike I think. I haven't played High Isle though, but I know some common Nord isn't gonna hold a candle to him
Only Betas call another man a Sigma.
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Pronouns used unironically. Ewww.
Video starts with pronouns. Immediately ruined.
Only a libtard would do such a thing
A world with elves, vampires dragons and demons, but basic language, nah that's too much for you.
I got past it, but it does come off hypocritical to talk about realism while the current real life fantasy that is LGBTQ.
There are two sexes/genders, male and female, the truth. The game has some unrealistic attributes, the truth. Enough said. At least @croswellroberaon3742 is consistent.
@@LT742 sex≠gender, actually.
@@Rose_The_SeraphThere's no such thing as Gender you Eejit. That's just delusion.
This ain’t a reaction
Define “reaction”
What is with this whole "sigma" crap? I think it's something the simps would want to relate to, because it sounds a lot better.
Don’t ask them they’d didn’t make the Sigma title.