@@mariomaiorano1859 pls hand your internet license to the nearest authority, your incapability of processing sarcasm has forced us to take this step. You can regain your license and thereby the right to comment by successfully finishing a humor rehabilitation course in a local ERP certified establishment.
Lived near a stable when I was younger, one of the horses broke it's leg in a paddock about a km away from our house. The shrieking it produced still haunts me. Wouldn't want to experience that on a large scale.
Swiss Pikeman are a highly specialised unit. They were a trained, paid and elite unit. He is talking about pikeman in the general sense, and even the Swiss could be outflanked when using long pole-arm. It is the same as you comparing the Swiss with a proper phalanx from the Greek period where the lances were gigantic in length.
@@Sunderas this is why you need these badass to kill every knight in Europe, except the Mongols who would just shoot from a distance.These swiss stood toe to toe with the Marauding Landsknecht in rome and did a awesome last stand defense before was overrun as you said. Mounted and foot fears them this is why they are the exception.
@@Sunderas They became highly specialized unit later. In their first few battles with Habsburg they were just common farmers who were trying to defend their land and sovreignity. While trying to solve the issue they came up with Halbred as it used less metal and it was very effective strategy against the knights with their comparitively shorter lances.
@Fred Smith I by no means believe that taut cloth will stop an arrow of any draw weight. Cloth that is loose and is flapping around is fantastic at taking the energy out of a projectile as it moves with the impact, increasing the collision time similar to how airbags work to reduce the impact of a person, not to mention the potential for the projectile to tangle in the fabric. Owning a compound bow for hunting I can tell you if an arrow hits something solid it will fuck it up such as a horse or taut cloth but if it can't make a solid impact the arrow loses all energy very quickly and will be lucky to do much more than break skin. An archer at distance with a long bow will be shooting with a wide curve most likely to hit a horse from a higher angle ignoring any protective material it may be wearing however when faced with an archer at a close distance the angle of curvature will be much smaller and the arrow will be moving with much less momentum which I certainly believe will make non-taut cloth hanging freely from the front of the horse a factor in reducing the impact of an arrow, not a definite defense but a factor in raising the chance of non-fatal impact for certain. The key point I'm making is that taut cloth behaves very differently from how loose cloth does when an arrow makes impact and passes through.
Archers did stop cavalry charges, most notably at the three English victories over the French - Crecy, 1346, and Agincourt 1415 and to a lesser extent Poitiers in 1356. English archers, who like the French knights, had trained since boyhood, could shoot 12 or more arrows accurately in a minute (I've seen it done by a modern longbowman) and were said to be able to have three aimed shots in the air at the same time. There were 5,000 archers at Agincourt which meant they could have put 60,000 arrows every minute into the French ranks. It was called "the arrow storm." The English yew wood longbow could kill at over 300 yards and was very effective in the hands of trained men at 200 yards. Horses were a bigger target and they didn't have to kill them. They were much less completely armoured than their riders. Being struck by several arrows would madden horses and threaten to make them uncontrollable. Of course every horse brought down in the front rank would be likely to bring down several more following behind - as we see these days in the Grand National. The French cavalry horse, slowed by their burdens, at Agincourt were further slowed by heavy mud and the need to keep some sort of order and would have been under constant accurate shooting the whole way. Of course an essential part of the archer's equipment were the sharpened stakes, the field defences, he stood behind. Any elements which survived would be disrupted and could be shot at very close range while trying to get through. Where the defences were not prepared as at Patay in 1429 the longbowmen could be, and were, ridden down. Nevertheless, generally speaking, it was a bold (or foolish) knight who set his horse at an English longbowman.
these people are the equivalent of the people who say they would shoot a terrorist or criminal firing at you to the leg and take their weapon away in a split second
If you have done hunting, or is grown up on a farm (like me), you have probably grown up half laughing about those "kill the horse with 1 swift blow" idea. Its not impossible, but near enough. Besides, a knight with a dead horse is probably a fairly pissed of armed man with nothing else to do but look for the dude killing his extremley expensive steed. If you are going for the horse, best option is probably to - somehow - get the four legged thing a bit panicky. A panicking horse is something one knight wpuld try to calm down and manage - wish means not trying to kill you. Not it would be än easy task to scare a trained war horse.
Yep even getting a horse to panic can be extremely dangerous if you're close. A horse on the other hand can "kill a man with 1 swift blow" even in a peaceful context, not a beast you want to mess with.
One point I would like to make about "holding the line" is that the average peasant-infantryman didn't have much ingrained loyalty to their government. Often you were a serf, which by modern standards was a slave. You were born in a hovel, labored outside of a hovel, then you died of cholera. In a hovel. Your lord (owner) didn't care about you other than your labor. Also, a "national" identity was a much more nebulous concept at the time. Perhaps rulers don't care about their people nowadays, but at least they are likely to get fired or jailed when they do a bad job. Few may like their rulers, but most like their country nowadays. Soldiers are actually given good training and good food. It's a lot easier to be courageous when your family isn't starving because you have been drafted, leaving your family without you for the harvest.
I watched the medieval dead. They looked at a body found in a stirling castle Scotland. The shoulder bones had ridges in them ,they said this was because since the age of 7 he had been heavy lifting he was 6ft tall and built like a brick /hithouse.He had been killed by an arrow. They believe he was the 25 year old English 2nd in command
And this is why war is absolute trash. Imagine spending your whole life training, and then being killed by a stray arrow. It's even worse in modern times. You could be the smartest person in the world, mister universe, and the best fighter in the world with multiple fighting styles mastered, training since the age of 4 years old... and then someone drops a bomb on you from 10 miles in the sky... or launches a rocket at you from the other side of the planet...
True, because a lot of medieval army mostly consist of conscripts, which are peasants whom not trained mentally. Of course they will break and run, that's human nature. Why do you think we run from wild beast? Even in modern standard, which is more terrible by the way, you will run. Not only from warfare, but from disaster and the like too. You need to train and train to not run away. And there are somethings that make run away a right decision.
I think you overestimate the resilience of horses man (and knights). You don’t have to kill the horse, merely break or dislocate one of the 4 spindly legs. Even today, racing horses are put down for leg injuries. You don’t even need to use weapons to do this, you just direct the knight into an area where there are pitfall traps. Horse is crippled and can be dinner later. Knight is thrown off horse, to be taken out by someone else, and he can be dinner when you run out of horse meat.
If your a medivel fantasy need wondering why eliphants were not used more often in medivel war fare, the answer is specificaly because it was very easy for a single person to kill them in combat. In countries where they were deployed more eegulary, such as india, spacialised steal dagers were developed specificaly for pricing elephant barding and crippling them in there massive legs. An elephant is simply too tall for a rider to protect in close quarters, and therefore was slowly phases out of use in combat as counter measures were developed for them, eventually only being used as a mobile command center for royalty and generals in places like the java islands (where the animal's hight posed an advantage for being able to see the location of your troops in active combat.)
I'm a member of a Civil War Reenactment group. Many times we've fought mock combat, both mounted and dismounted. Even in mock battles knowing that you won't be killed, it's hard to face a mounted charge without trying not to bolt. The temptation is overwhelming. What many people don't realize is that a horse/equine can cover ground very quickly, measured in seconds. Imagine a line of men charging you, screaming and yelling, firing weapons, often 4 to 8 pistols, along with a couple of sawed-off shotguns, all coming at you at an incredible speed. You hear the pounding of their hooves and feel it in the ground through your feet, spelling your DOOM! it's very nerve-racking. In ancient warfare, it was even more profound as along with the above, there was banging & clashing of weapons, men screaming death wails, accompanied by the unmistakable smell of fresh blood and bowels. Truly overwhelming!
Just imaging a modern Battelfield, a german Leopard A7 Battletank charges you directly, even with some sort of small Anti-Tank Weapon like a LAW or an RPG etc, you are knowing, you need a (very) Lucky hit to do more than just scratch it's Paintings, you will run - thats exactly what medieval Infantryman experienced when Knights charged: an nearly unstoppable State of the Art Killing machine, best avaiable and expensive Technic of their time, trained at best for just killing them if they do not run
plus they wernt used to that large gatherings of people so the first time you see 1000 people , 200 on horses 200 shooting bows at you and 600 charging you ,all trying to murder you
It's really hard to imagine just how intimidating a big horse bearing down on you is unless you've been there. I've only been in reenactments, a couple of demos and on the edge of a racetrack. It's bloody terrifying and you just want to run or hug the ground. I can barely imagine hundreds of them charging you then you have the knights on top of them. How anyone stood there ground against that is amazing to me.
Due to actual pyhsics, you only have to stop the horse in front of you. Then you are not trampled. That wouldn´t protect you from any lances of the other knights going past you where your buddies went of running. I say, I´d be a lot more scared of the lances then of the horses, but I have worked with animals a lot. Don´t forget that people at that time were used to working with animals, not so much working with (or rather against) lances and knights.
Especially if you weren't familiar with a horse or knew to stand your ground. The Spanish would use this in the Americas: the native peoples had no familiarity with it. Like Romans against Pyrrhus' elephants, they would run rather than risk getting tramples. Unlike the Romans, they weren't given enough time to develop counter tactics until it was too late.
Without joking though, that detail is actually pretty big. A lot of people don't realise that the thought you have put into stuff like this, or the training you have had, is not much different from what most others have had in the same span of time. A modern example would be video games. Try to compare PvE content to PvP. It's easy enough to theory craft a strategy against the AI, but implementing it vs real people is another thing. And even then there is comparing low-level PvP to high-level PvP.
@@barbiquearea Nah, the longsword is heavy for a toddler. THAT came later. When he was able to walk, the first training, it was something like the Roman Gladius, or Frodo's Sting. And the weawy fi'tht timeth - with a wooden training sword.
Conversely, competitive players often have a hard time playing the campaigns for the first time, at least on higher difficulties. Campaigns require a different play style than 1v1 matches. Eventually however, their ability to formulate a working strategy lets them steamroll missions.
11:56 I read that when they filmed "Breavhart" they had dificulties to make the extras stay in line while riders and horses aporached them to simulate a charge. THEY KNEW it was fake, and that the riders would stop before reaching them, and even so they couldn´t hold the line. Now imagine this was seriuos.........I think I would have run.
I swear, it was in that article online I can't fight anymore! It was really there! I do, however, believe Mettatron more with that than my groupmates for a project.
@@Favour135 I heard different things in Zeughaus Graz Styria (the biggest armory of medieval weapons in Europe). A knight lying on the ground is dead meat if nobody helps him up. But hey if I am wrong it is also okay for me :)
8:35 - The other big factors at Agincourt were not the amount of English archers and their dense formation. But also the dense formation of the French. Hence English 'arrow storm' was almost always going to hit something.
@@needparalegal Well there are tales of people eating their war horses out of desperation. The siege of Antioch for example of the first crusade. Yes, they were expensive, but no cost is high enough for your survival.
Until you realize a spear is unwieldy and you have not trained with the spear properly and that shit gets yanked out of your hands or deflected by a buckler or you aimed for the limbs like a moron and they got past the business end of the spear.
The horse was also considered to be a spoil of war. A infantry grunt could use a horse on his plot of land to plow and haul heavy things to clear more land for planting.
i highly doubt a medieval levy would get their hands on a full on war horse let alone use if for plane old field work. if it were me at least, i’d sell it.
@@irisallender6796 Spoils of war figured out to be who got to what first. A plow horse would be priceless for a infantry footman's plot of land. He'd sell his wife and kids before parting with that horse. Also many a poor Knight also had to use his horse to plow his fields. Not everybody who had a title actually had heaps of money. Armies didn't get paid to fight as they do now. What you could snatch from someone's home is what you got paid with. That's what Pillaging ment.
Something extremely valuable like that would likely "go in the pool" so to speak, a communal pot of goods which the units quartermaster would then distribute out based on rank and performance. Although someone capturing a war horse would almost certainly get a bonus for doing so the horse itself would likely be paid out to a knight, with priority to any one who actually *did* get their horse killed out from under them.
Yeah that is if the knight gets up. Pending how the horse stopped the knight would have a good chance of being fucked. If it did run into thick, braced spears, the abrupt stop of the horse would send the rider flying behind enemy lines and hitting the ground really hard if the enemy lines didn't break his fall, and people die all the time from falling off a horse but this knight was just thrown at like 30mph-40mph from a charging horse, his armor would help soften the impact but he is still at high risk. Aside from probable injuries from being thrown if not out right dead already, he is now on the ground surrounded by enemy soldiers stabbing him in every joint. Dead knight is dead. If the horse slows down trying to stop, gets stabbed and rears up then falls over, well now there is a very good chance the knight's leg is pinned under the horse and broken (possibly with the horse failing causing more pain and injury). Unable to move the knight either gets trampled by other horses or stabbed because he is pinned and can't move or fight back.
@@Zankaroo I'm assuming if the horse is armored the only way to take it down as its charging you is to go for the legs by either cutting one clean off or simply placing your weapon in its path matador style, in which case it will fall out from underneath him, putting him into a somersault or a roll(as long as it doesn't flip over entirely), both of which are relatively safe. The weight of all he has on will keep him from being flung such a long distance as any normal rider would, as well as protecting him from the brunt of the impact like you mentioned, so when he gets up he won't be too happy with you.
@@Zankaroo this is an assumed instance where its just one knight and one guy(you), otherwise you're talking a full cavalry charge and a full line of infantry and it would be nearly impossible to get away with those variables.
As I have pointed out. We know for a fact that it was common for a knight to be out and out killed when his horse went down. A king of Poland died when his horse rolled over onto him.
@@lilslavboi2171 Such a tired meme. Tyson had plans. He prepared for fights. Having a plan and preparing for your opponent is what every successful fighter does. The problem is *bad* plans.
@@lilslavboi2171 The more accurate statement I’ve found is everyone has a plan until they get hot with a high single leg and are now on their back. A situation where 98% of humans apparently are entirely unprepared to be in.
So very accurate, everyone thinks it would be easy to take out elite warriors for some reason. They tend to forget that these people have been training for combat and/or have been in combat for a good portion of their lives.
Thats just foolish to believe. Yes, those horses were worth a lot, but as Metatron said, when the knights charge, you are likely in the worst scenario you could ever imagine finding yourself in. It is utterly ridiculous to assume, that even for a second one would think of spoils, profit, or gain in that case. Your brain shuts down and you rely entirely on instincts. The only thing that matters is how you will get out of this alive and with all your limbs in place.
@@woodys9841 you would think that but in modern and ancient warfare money was always a concern for leadership. Yes the individual war fighters might say screw it but those cases are the minority.
A wall of horses that are not skittish, but trained as well as the knight in obeying and trusting the knight. The hunting of Boar, Wolves, and Bear could be more dangerous than the average battle. No knight would take a horse into battle that had shown any tendency toward skittishness or disobedience in stressful conditions, and knights could afford to be picky... Not to mention the knights would spend a good deal of their training on horse back, learning to control it with the slightest leg or body movement causing a corresponding movement from the horse. And I've herd some knights were known to be closer and more connected with their horses than with their wives.
I'm thinking another thing to consider is that the horse is coming at you at high speed. even if you manage to kill it, the thing would still be coming at you and there is a high chance you'd be crushed by the combined weight and momentum of the horse and the armoured knight falling on you.
@@mathias3721 Carry 20 KG of sand bag on your back and see if you can still running faster than me. Knights were fast because of Horse. there was a time British long bowmen crushed French Knights, their horses were killed and knights got captured by longbow-men.
@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 Agincourt was mostly won due to the muddy terrain, it was also not JUST English yeomen, the English also had infantry and cavalry. Also, it's not a backpack, the weight is distributed over your entire body making it a lot easier to carry. AND knights were trained to fight IN armour, so it was barely a hindrance. A modern soldier carries more weight than a Medieval knight as well as having the weight mostly distributed in a backpack making it more cumbersome
@@mathias3721 No matter what you said, carrying 20 KG or wear clothes that heavy you simply can not outrun me. Unless i'm an daily American with 300 pounds of meat. LOL
Sigurd Torvaldsson not every line will be broken though so it won’t be that easy. Lines get broken almost all the time it’s just how long you can hold them
william: we'll make spears. twice as long as a man. hamish: some men are longer than others. campbell: your mother been telling ya stories about me again, eh?
@@Inquisitor_Vex It's even more funny knowing the actor playing the Irish guy is actually Scottish and Brendan Gleeson playing hamish is actually Irish 👍🏻
this was also the first thing that came to my mind. I started wondering whether anyone ever successfully pulled the "surprise" pike trick in history. My guess is no, since the enemy would see you carrying a bunch of pikes when you move into battle formation. I don't remember how they pull it off in Braveheart.
plus, those horses are bloody valuable, a friend of mine trains horses, and she told me that a knight's warhorse was heavily trained and selected, so capturing one would make you rich. (hoping that your superiors don't take all the merit...)
It's just like modern times, you do all the hard work and your boss takes all the credit and the money. He MIGHT buy you a beer thougn if you're lucky 😜😜
@White-Van Helsing you aint never been to a paddock then. A lot have ppl have been killed or maimed by ornery horses. They warn you first to back off, but if you dont they kick harder than Hollie Holmes on Rowdy's face.
Well agree back in medieval times Hores was basically like a car about 2-3 decades ago(nowadays it's not that much of a luxury good really) a luxury that had a lot of utility, but still was expensive as hell to get and maintain, so bet that probably a typical grunt would prefer to knock knight off horse (what could be still hard thing but bit easier especially with polearms) and just keep horse for self, for transport or maybe even combat
@@laytenci "oh man! You've really done it now!" "What? I killed his horse so that his height and reach advantage are diminished. " "Yeah, but now the knight wants you dead!" "Wait, the knight didn't want me dead a second ago when he was charging at me with a Lance?" "Well, yeah, but now he's angry and wants to kill you." I don't understand how this stupid argument is going around still as it's completely devoid of any sort of critical thinking. He's an enemy knight. Killing his horse is just step one of taking down a deadly threat of you're infantry. It's difficult, so most couldn't pull it off alone, but infantry are rarely alone whereas knights often are.
Dana Gray knights don’t charge alone, regardless of how armed they are because that would be suicide. by the time he reaches the fray and his horse has been downed most likely his company will be right with him. and if it’s a pikemen or something similar that killed his horse than the pikemen’s in trouble. The knight’s now most likely in close range and in the optimal distance for his weaponry. the situation is madly in the favor of the knight
@@kleinmeisterlein I've seen people say claymores are made to cut through armour like butter. These knuckleheads think wielding a big ass chunk of metal is realistic and historically accurate. I'll let you decide whether the latter or former are stupid.
Also, thanks to movies, we tend to imagine that by stabbing enemies they just die. That's not how it works. Instant ko can only be obtained by striking the head or the heart, and even in the second case the heart leaves you some 10-20 seconds of activity before you drop dead. I have seen bulls at the Spanish corrida getting stabbed with swords a ton of times and still charging.
My husband was a soldier and he did wonder how he'd really perform when the shtf. Then he went overseas. After witnessing a few atrocities (that really jacked him up), seeing what was done to the family of one of his local contacts, and what was DONE to one of his local contacts, he got over it. He very much wanted to kill the enemy. But it took a lot to awaken a bloodlust in this regular man. Nobody walks into war really understanding it. We can't imagine it until we've witnessed it for ourselves. Even for my husband, it wasn't the sights that got to him. He'd seen enough movies. It was the damn smell. The smells are what made it all real and that changed him.
The studies he's referencing have a lot of problems. I dont recall a great deal about it b/c I only looked into it a little bit, but its doubtful it was as big of an issue that its made out to be here.
@@metatronyt I love watching your videos and will continue to do so, but this may need a lot more research. Look up battles like Golden Spurs and Bannockburn along with many others, a well trained horse by most accounts WILL charge into a line of spears, I'm not sure if they would even see the points much less perceive the danger. Sadly many of the knights may not have been much smarter in those waning days of chivalry, being so used to being able to ride down any opposing infantry. As far as how easy it was to actually kill a horse look up the duel between Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir Thomas of Canterbury. I really hate to write this but I'm somewhat disappointed with this video, normally yours are much more thorough. I might be wrong in my assertions but even then I hope you make another video on this subject to answer these concerns as I doubt I'm the only one who has them. Best of luck with your future vids and hope to hear from you!
@@Eldariur depends on the time period. By the High Middle Ages knights were starting to have less and less of an effect, which is why they went into decline.
People often forget that, not only was the Knight trained, the horse the Knight is riding was specially trained, too. And it would be wearing its own armor to boot.
Remember that in battles of knights v knights, the horses would STILL be running towards lots of pointy things aimed at them, called lances, as well as at other horses, both of which were moving right at them. War horses were trained NOT to stop or shy away The armor that you see on horses pictured here was of the LATER period, and much of it was mostly for parade, rather than combat. An EARLIER war horse, if it had armor at all, would have a headpiece and chest protector made of boiled leather
Massive horse armour was most likely only used for tournaments and parades. It would be much too heavy to use on campaigns and battles. In battle, the horses would probably wear no or very limited armour.
When I was young, I used to always walk on the side of the road adjacent to oncoming traffic. This way, I imagined, I would easily just run up the hood of any swerving car and jump safely over it. This is like the medieval equivalent of that delusion. Lmao
most horses where blind folded and trained to run/gallop with the blindfold. even today "peasants" use a type of blind fold that let's the horse only see forward(he can still turn his/her head around though) so they go straight and only start turning when you pull him/her too. cavalry is formed by the horse AND human, doesnt make sense only the human or knight to be trained.
I'd use fire magic first to scare away the horse then I would impale the knight with an ice spike and then I would revive the undead knight with necromancy and use him to kill the other knights
Also, killing a charging horse with a sword or spear or any melee weapon there is a huge chance of you snapping your wrist, breaking your arm (both o which would lead to you dropping your weapon and being screwed) and even if you managed to kill it, it doesn't jus stop, it tumbles and falls at a high speed and if you didn't evade enough before you attacked it, there is a good chance it will just fall on you and crush you
That's literally the most depressing image I've ever had.. "Not only did he die horribly in shit armour, with shit weapons... Skewered by a medieval tank... He died a virgin."
@Anthony Johnson He never even said anything about incels. Just because incels use the same words doesn't make him an incel, oh and what happened to being "tolerant"?
@@PoppaPlacidPenis Yeah, people whose lives were spent (and in very high numbers lost) at war, not tryhards sitting in front of a screen with (generally speaking) not a single second of fighting experience.
@@PoppaPlacidPenis yes people did kill knights. But what they would probably say to you is not to be overconfident when fighting an athletic man who is has been trained since infancy clad in full plate armour with a weapon designed for war. And people who did kill a Knight would never, ever, say “I’d just kill the Knight!”.
Reason Number 3 is a VERY valid one. So much so that its the exact reason why the military began using Human shaped targets in their training of soldiers to shoot and use bayonets. And by doing so they noticed that more soldiers were less likely to hesitate shooting someone and it made it easier for them to simply consider another person as nothing more then simply a target if they got them use to shooting the human form, to recognize a human shape as the target/enemy. And they continue to do this to this very day as when I was in basic training ALL of our target where of exact size as a human torso.
The lance is pretty fucking cool lookin' though. Not the plain ones that lesser knights had. The really expensive ones with ornaments and shit. That look awesome.
The problem with pole weapons on horseback like lances and spears is that they easily become stuck in your opponent and you have very little time to retrieve it. Even sticking a sword in a body can be very difficult to retrieve after lunging at a gallop. Hacking and slashing weapons are simply easier to retain, whereas pole weapons are essentially one shot deals. I've been a cavalry reenactor of multiple periods for 13 years, since I was 13 years old and I've been riding my entire life, and I can't even retain a lance after the first blow. Either you ditch the lance or you're pulled from the saddle.
@@Jake_Steiner yea I always thought how you dont fall after someone is impaled because I bet with armour on and one hand holding the steer thing for the horse and one holding a big heavy pole that now also have a fully sized human on it probably also in some sort of armour luke how do can you keep one hand holding it theres atleast like 80-90 kg if it was light poles with a few on your back which you can ditch after a hit I'd get it but how the fuck did it work
To be honest, in the medieval times knights were basicly divine beings, covered in more armor than your entire peasent batallion can muster in their lifetime. So basicly an iron man, blessed by the God.
@Senpaii Desuu I think you got the wrong idea.(1) Knights in armor were virtually impossible to kill. Unless you use special can openers (the spear is not) you won't get any results. (2) Knights are not slow and they don't have reduced movement. That's a fairy tale, you could just look that up on UA-cam for example. (3) Maybe 10 people could bring down a single knight, it's not impossible, but in a battle it's not possible to surround every knight with 10 guys, the knights will form battle formations. Most of your peasant soldiers would block each other. (4) Morale works for the knights. You can't imagine how desperate soldiers become when they just can't open up the plate armor. The knights would just slice through their ranks. Remember, you don't see 50000 vs 5000 in a battle, you only see those near you. And out of those few you will see your men getting slaughtered. You will rush forward to replace your own men getting slaughtered, realizing it's you who is next.
They were literally another species of human too because of their diet and regime. They analysed the remains of a knight found in Scotland and his diet was 90% fish (you know like power lifters pound basa by the kilo? Yeah that) and he was built like a modern rugby player.
@Senpaii Desuu I am sorry, I gave you valid reasons, but apparently you lack the knowledge to understand them. You seem to draw you knowledge from computer games and don't know anything about medieval battle tactics. Attacking infantry with ballistas? Simply attacking a battle formation from behind? That's some fantasy stuff right there. And what is a "Batista" anyway? A quick google search indicates you seem to be interested in wrestling rather than medieval warfare. Listen dude, heavy armored fighters were the way to go up until decent guns were invented. History already disproves your claims.
@senpaii Desuu yeah video games you really seem to compare cost like in a game. You can't just round up 50000 peasants theire not endless. And by the way if the knights have devimated 20% of the troops people would rout. These battes were more aboutshowing strengt not fight till the last man.
Thank you for giving such a detailed video. The psychological part is so often overlooked. Most of these farm-boy medieval infantry would be fricking terrified at the advance of the cavalry. Whether it's medieval knights or BC steppe nomads, a non-disciplined, amateur soldier was pissing himself while he non-consciously decided to fight or flee.
farmers typically had pretty good discipline also consider how everyone back then lived MUCH more communally than today so were probably used to working as groups
#1 it's a horse #2 you don't hurt horses #3 horses are our friends #4 horse did nothing wrong #5 if you kill the horse you now have an elite warrior who is very focused on killing VERY SPECIFICALLY... you.
@@gundorstoneskin5900 Oh no! The knight who was already trying to kill you is still trying to kill you! Wow, I guess you're in a worse spot than a moment ago when the knight was on horseback and out of reach of any attack you might level at him!
A "grunt" who captured a horse wouldn't have it LONG enough to ransom it(unless you were part of a PROFESSIONAL war band, in which case your boss MIGHT pay you for it). War trained horses were ENORMOUSLY expensive(about the equivalent of buying a top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce), and the guy you worked for, knight, baron, earl, whatever, would immediately claim any horses captured from the enemy as HIS property; "I'm a NOBLEMAN. YOU'RE a PEASANT. I have a hundred swords to back me up. YOU have NO ONE to back YOU up. The horse is MINE. You want to ARGUE?" If your lord was a nice guy, he might REWARD you for capturing the horse; a couple of shillings, for an animal worth over two hundred marks of silver. Either way, the horse would belong to HIM, not YOU
I was thinking good quality food... A knights horse had to be fed good, all that yummy meat on it... Big strong horse with lots of lean, clean, well fed meat. It would feed the village for a week!
Basically folks explaining how they'd easily beat a medieval knight... would also use the same certainty, and the same tone of voice, to explain how they'd beat a UFC champion in a match in the octagon. Just do steps A, B, C, easy!
Actually that's what I said about Ronda Rousey And then she took her first loss EXACTLY as I said.... Although she was fighting one of the best kick boxers EVER. I said: 1. Know how to escape any arm hold submissions 2. Out box her But Like you said..... And the same as the video While you were playing Mario Cart He was training for battly While u were eating Snickers He was training for battle While you were drunk and flirting he was IN A BATTLE and WON
to be fair this guy isn't a historian he makes a lot of incorrect assumptions like all knights on horseback carry lances i don't actually know where this came from ive asked two actual military historians now and they don't know either normally lances were just used to attack enemy knights or break the enemy lines but they were often dropped and swapped out for their other weapons the problem i feel with these youtubers is that they read manuals and go "ok this is what happened always" but they don't actually read about the battles that took place because war and manuals aren't the same thing we can actually see this today the Chinese and Japanese (and ive seen this 8 years infantry) have not been in combat since pretty much WW2 so they follow doctrine to a T the problem with this is that they do things too text book and they don't have the ability to adapt and think on the fly simply because they have not got that experience both nations tend to panic if they are thrown a curve ball that their textbooks cannot combat and their go to response is to just withdraw
It's like someone saying they'd beat a tank with a handgrenade. Sure if you MAKE it to its latch you're good.. Good fucking luck making it across that open field without dying, and good luck avoiding the 15 other tanks beside it.
Ok so just to sum it up: 1. Have alot of penetration and precision 2. A horse is not a bike but a leaving being. 3. If your horse says "heeehehe" it means get off my back. 4. Play the game of chickens and you might win a chicken dinner 5. Stay away from Tom and Michael 6. It's not easy to dodge and sla sluh sli slit his throat 7. Keep your shit together
Dodging a knight is not the best idea simply because during a charge there would be another knight next to him, and probably another, and another, and another, and another... And if an entire formation of infantry starts dodging at the same time in different direction, well, that's called a certain death.
Yeah, think the best would be to drop on earth. Despite this seemed very unintuitive, horses would certainly try to avoid you and don't trampled you, because they are animals and they don't want to stumple. Well, of course it's not 100% efficient, and not a viable tactic for an entire army. But it would certainly offer more chance of surviving than trying to outrun an horse ^^
@@onyxdragon1179 Well, from what I know throughout most ages spear was the base weapon of a footsoldier had he a shield or not. All the short weapons like swords and axes were backup for when it gets to a close melee, or they lose their spear. So yes, a well braced wall of spears does have a chance of repelling cavalry, or at least being threatening enough that they wouldn't charge at all. At least not from the front ;)
@@krankarvolund7771 If you're talking about knights that had the time and money to spend their lives training in warfare, chances are they could also afford to have an actual war horse as their mount. And, unlike the horse out in the pasture, who might not step on you if you lie down in front of them, a trained war horse would simply be SURE to step on you as they went over you. War horses were often stallions (rather than mares or geldings used as riding horses), and their natural aggressive instincts were trained and enhanced - so they WOULD step on you if you lay down in front of them. Being stepped on by a horse at full gallop (where the horse's entire weight is often supported on a single leg), with or without its own armor, ridden by an armored knight, would almost certainly be a death sentence.
@@Badger77722 Really? I wasn't aware of that, I thought that, you know, a horse would not want to stumple, even a human body may be an obstacle if he's at full speed ^^'
Good point. There was even terminology for specific types of horses, such as destrier, charger, courses and rouncey. George R. R. Martin uses some of these terms in his works.
A halberd was a bearded spear with a axe hook which was designed to hook armor you avoid the horse hook him by the hip or the shoulder and let gravity take him capture him by caving his helmet take the horse ransom him and the horse
Obviously killing the horse triggers a cutscene where the Knight absorbes his horse’s power.
do you think real life works like dark souls?
@@mariomaiorano1859 It does!
@@mariomaiorano1859 pls hand your internet license to the nearest authority, your incapability of processing sarcasm has forced us to take this step. You can regain your license and thereby the right to comment by successfully finishing a humor rehabilitation course in a local ERP certified establishment.
@@stormsoul3162 bro I was also joking lmao
@@mohandasjung I wish😩
Lived near a stable when I was younger, one of the horses broke it's leg in a paddock about a km away from our house. The shrieking it produced still haunts me. Wouldn't want to experience that on a large scale.
Horses do have a strange body-to-leg proportion that seems to suggest a high risk of that.
"WHY you wouldn't Kill the horse of a knight in battle"
Swiss Pikemen: Say that again, but Slowly.
Swiss Pikeman are a highly specialised unit. They were a trained, paid and elite unit. He is talking about pikeman in the general sense, and even the Swiss could be outflanked when using long pole-arm. It is the same as you comparing the Swiss with a proper phalanx from the Greek period where the lances were gigantic in length.
@@Sunderas this is why you need these badass to kill every knight in Europe, except the Mongols who would just shoot from a distance.These swiss stood toe to toe with the Marauding Landsknecht in rome and did a awesome last stand defense before was overrun as you said. Mounted and foot fears them this is why they are the exception.
@@Sunderas They became highly specialized unit later. In their first few battles with Habsburg they were just common farmers who were trying to defend their land and sovreignity. While trying to solve the issue they came up with Halbred as it used less metal and it was very effective strategy against the knights with their comparitively shorter lances.
What did the warhorse say to the foot soldier trying to hurt it?
"Nay!" 《Stomp, stomp》
They were also trained to bite peoples faces off.
What about the Holy Hand Grenade?
yeah but by the time the clergymen are done reading the instructions to you, the battle is long over
No u
While you were learning to count to three, he was training the sword.
well ACTUALLY! the holy hand grenade was not invented till about 15 minutes after the battle was over........ Convenient if you ask me!
If they are the knights who say "NI," better start running
War horses often wore armor or padding as well, didn't they?
Yup.
If the knight was SUPER rich
You could just put padding on your sword so it won't get worn down that much :)
I imagine the cloth livery would do a lot to tangle and catch incoming arrows and blows while its flapping around in the midst of a battle.
@Fred Smith I by no means believe that taut cloth will stop an arrow of any draw weight. Cloth that is loose and is flapping around is fantastic at taking the energy out of a projectile as it moves with the impact, increasing the collision time similar to how airbags work to reduce the impact of a person, not to mention the potential for the projectile to tangle in the fabric. Owning a compound bow for hunting I can tell you if an arrow hits something solid it will fuck it up such as a horse or taut cloth but if it can't make a solid impact the arrow loses all energy very quickly and will be lucky to do much more than break skin. An archer at distance with a long bow will be shooting with a wide curve most likely to hit a horse from a higher angle ignoring any protective material it may be wearing however when faced with an archer at a close distance the angle of curvature will be much smaller and the arrow will be moving with much less momentum which I certainly believe will make non-taut cloth hanging freely from the front of the horse a factor in reducing the impact of an arrow, not a definite defense but a factor in raising the chance of non-fatal impact for certain. The key point I'm making is that taut cloth behaves very differently from how loose cloth does when an arrow makes impact and passes through.
Archers did stop cavalry charges, most notably at the three English victories over the French - Crecy, 1346, and Agincourt 1415 and to a lesser extent Poitiers in 1356. English archers, who like the French knights, had trained since boyhood, could shoot 12 or more arrows accurately in a minute (I've seen it done by a modern longbowman) and were said to be able to have three aimed shots in the air at the same time. There were 5,000 archers at Agincourt which meant they could have put 60,000 arrows every minute into the French ranks. It was called "the arrow storm." The English yew wood longbow could kill at over 300 yards and was very effective in the hands of trained men at 200 yards. Horses were a bigger target and they didn't have to kill them. They were much less completely armoured than their riders. Being struck by several arrows would madden horses and threaten to make them uncontrollable. Of course every horse brought down in the front rank would be likely to bring down several more following behind - as we see these days in the Grand National. The French cavalry horse, slowed by their burdens, at Agincourt were further slowed by heavy mud and the need to keep some sort of order and would have been under constant accurate shooting the whole way. Of course an essential part of the archer's equipment were the sharpened stakes, the field defences, he stood behind. Any elements which survived would be disrupted and could be shot at very close range while trying to get through. Where the defences were not prepared as at Patay in 1429 the longbowmen could be, and were, ridden down. Nevertheless, generally speaking, it was a bold (or foolish) knight who set his horse at an English longbowman.
how i wish a real knight would be interviewed back in time, present the things and call us "imbeciles for thinking such way"
these people are the equivalent of the people who say they would shoot a terrorist or criminal firing at you to the leg and take their weapon away in a split second
saying you would just kill the horse is like saying you would just shoot the pilot in a fighter jet
If you have done hunting, or is grown up on a farm (like me), you have probably grown up half laughing about those "kill the horse with 1 swift blow" idea. Its not impossible, but near enough. Besides, a knight with a dead horse is probably a fairly pissed of armed man with nothing else to do but look for the dude killing his extremley expensive steed. If you are going for the horse, best option is probably to - somehow - get the four legged thing a bit panicky. A panicking horse is something one knight wpuld try to calm down and manage - wish means not trying to kill you. Not it would be än easy task to scare a trained war horse.
Yep even getting a horse to panic can be extremely dangerous if you're close. A horse on the other hand can "kill a man with 1 swift blow" even in a peaceful context, not a beast you want to mess with.
One point I would like to make about "holding the line" is that the average peasant-infantryman didn't have much ingrained loyalty to their government. Often you were a serf, which by modern standards was a slave. You were born in a hovel, labored outside of a hovel, then you died of cholera. In a hovel. Your lord (owner) didn't care about you other than your labor. Also, a "national" identity was a much more nebulous concept at the time.
Perhaps rulers don't care about their people nowadays, but at least they are likely to get fired or jailed when they do a bad job. Few may like their rulers, but most like their country nowadays. Soldiers are actually given good training and good food.
It's a lot easier to be courageous when your family isn't starving because you have been drafted, leaving your family without you for the harvest.
10:25 Most truest and funniest thing I've heard for years!!!
I watched the medieval dead. They looked at a body found in a stirling castle Scotland. The shoulder bones had ridges in them ,they said this was because since the age of 7 he had been heavy lifting he was 6ft tall and built like a brick /hithouse.He had been killed by an arrow. They believe he was the 25 year old English 2nd in command
And this is why war is absolute trash. Imagine spending your whole life training, and then being killed by a stray arrow. It's even worse in modern times. You could be the smartest person in the world, mister universe, and the best fighter in the world with multiple fighting styles mastered, training since the age of 4 years old... and then someone drops a bomb on you from 10 miles in the sky... or launches a rocket at you from the other side of the planet...
You don't aim arrows at a horse's head. That might happen accidentally, but it would not be your primary target.
The way you use Warhammer Fantasy just makes me sad, a reminder of a bygone day when tabletop wargaming was actually good...
True, because a lot of medieval army mostly consist of conscripts, which are peasants whom not trained mentally. Of course they will break and run, that's human nature. Why do you think we run from wild beast? Even in modern standard, which is more terrible by the way, you will run. Not only from warfare, but from disaster and the like too. You need to train and train to not run away. And there are somethings that make run away a right decision.
True, but we do have an exception with Medieval pikemen. They were very well trained.
Amazing diorama. I can only imagine the amount of work that is going into this diorama project!
Thank you for this very informative video ! Cool Job 👌🏻!
I think you overestimate the resilience of horses man (and knights). You don’t have to kill the horse, merely break or dislocate one of the 4 spindly legs. Even today, racing horses are put down for leg injuries.
You don’t even need to use weapons to do this, you just direct the knight into an area where there are pitfall traps. Horse is crippled and can be dinner later. Knight is thrown off horse, to be taken out by someone else, and he can be dinner when you run out of horse meat.
7:42 when I asked my ex what made her leave
Because they had diamond horse armor of course!
If your a medivel fantasy need wondering why eliphants were not used more often in medivel war fare, the answer is specificaly because it was very easy for a single person to kill them in combat. In countries where they were deployed more eegulary, such as india, spacialised steal dagers were developed specificaly for pricing elephant barding and crippling them in there massive legs. An elephant is simply too tall for a rider to protect in close quarters, and therefore was slowly phases out of use in combat as counter measures were developed for them, eventually only being used as a mobile command center for royalty and generals in places like the java islands (where the animal's hight posed an advantage for being able to see the location of your troops in active combat.)
"The wind" is the medieval version of blaming lag
Based and souka-pilled.
"Twas the wind Knave..."
omg God nerf wind pls
@@Verlasian More like "God fix the servers!"
Its always the Wind ... the wind or the Goblins ....
I'm a member of a Civil War Reenactment group. Many times we've fought mock combat, both mounted and dismounted. Even in mock battles knowing that you won't be killed, it's hard to face a mounted charge without trying not to bolt. The temptation is overwhelming. What many people don't realize is that a horse/equine can cover ground very quickly, measured in seconds.
Imagine a line of men charging you, screaming and yelling, firing weapons, often 4 to 8 pistols, along with a couple of sawed-off shotguns, all coming at you at an incredible speed. You hear the pounding of their hooves and feel it in the ground through your feet, spelling your DOOM! it's very nerve-racking. In ancient warfare, it was even more profound as along with the above, there was banging & clashing of weapons, men screaming death wails, accompanied by the unmistakable smell of fresh blood and bowels. Truly overwhelming!
Just imaging a modern Battelfield, a german Leopard A7 Battletank charges you directly, even with some sort of small Anti-Tank Weapon like a LAW or an RPG etc, you are knowing, you need a (very) Lucky hit to do more than just scratch it's Paintings, you will run - thats exactly what medieval Infantryman experienced when Knights charged: an nearly unstoppable State of the Art Killing machine, best avaiable and expensive Technic of their time, trained at best for just killing them if they do not run
plus they wernt used to that large gatherings of people so the first time you see 1000 people , 200 on horses 200 shooting bows at you and 600 charging you ,all trying to murder you
@Björn Herzog the new US Abrams is state of the art. Not even close.
During the filming of, IIRC, a napoleon movie, the actors actually fled from a horsecharge out of character because they were genuinely routed.
Jesus loves you
It's really hard to imagine just how intimidating a big horse bearing down on you is unless you've been there. I've only been in reenactments, a couple of demos and on the edge of a racetrack. It's bloody terrifying and you just want to run or hug the ground. I can barely imagine hundreds of them charging you then you have the knights on top of them. How anyone stood there ground against that is amazing to me.
Exactly. A horse is a big and powerful animal that can easily trample and squish a human being, no matter how big or strong the latter is.
Due to actual pyhsics, you only have to stop the horse in front of you. Then you are not trampled. That wouldn´t protect you from any lances of the other knights going past you where your buddies went of running. I say, I´d be a lot more scared of the lances then of the horses, but I have worked with animals a lot. Don´t forget that people at that time were used to working with animals, not so much working with (or rather against) lances and knights.
Especially if you weren't familiar with a horse or knew to stand your ground. The Spanish would use this in the Americas: the native peoples had no familiarity with it. Like Romans against Pyrrhus' elephants, they would run rather than risk getting tramples. Unlike the Romans, they weren't given enough time to develop counter tactics until it was too late.
Why not ride cattles in combat then?
@@hugus800 what does your question relate to? obviously horses work better. I am sure people have been testing these things.
Now I constantly imagine a knight training the sword while I enjoy things
Ahahahahah
Tristan Ich And when your enjoying more things he's enjoying more better than you.
And while he is charging at you, he is imagining you having fun at the tavern while he was training the sword. Imagine his blood lust.
@@owo5869 he probably has sex with Jennifer right now
it.....
it haunts me.....
When you were training the sword, he was training the sword
Without joking though, that detail is actually pretty big. A lot of people don't realise that the thought you have put into stuff like this, or the training you have had, is not much different from what most others have had in the same span of time.
A modern example would be video games. Try to compare PvE content to PvP. It's easy enough to theory craft a strategy against the AI, but implementing it vs real people is another thing. And even then there is comparing low-level PvP to high-level PvP.
More like "when you were training the short sword for the first time, he had been training with a longsword since he was able to walk"
@@barbiquearea Nah, the longsword is heavy for a toddler. THAT came later. When he was able to walk, the first training, it was something like the Roman Gladius, or Frodo's Sting. And the weawy fi'tht timeth - with a wooden training sword.
Conversely, competitive players often have a hard time playing the campaigns for the first time, at least on higher difficulties. Campaigns require a different play style than 1v1 matches. Eventually however, their ability to formulate a working strategy lets them steamroll missions.
Constantine XI
The only thing that will really stop a knight is another knight going in the opposite direction.
11:56 I read that when they filmed "Breavhart" they had dificulties to make the extras stay in line while riders and horses aporached them to simulate a charge. THEY KNEW it was fake, and that the riders would stop before reaching them, and even so they couldn´t hold the line.
Now imagine this was seriuos.........I think I would have run.
ever heard of switzerland? :-)))
@@bernhardwidmer886 No.
@@The_ZeroLine that is a serious lack of knowledge
@@bernhardwidmer886 What’s “knowledge?”
I think he's referencing swiss pikemen and their effectiveness in holding the line against cavalry charges.
While you were on the toilet
He was training the sword
While you were watching Fortnite dance
He was training the sword.
M'lady
I wonder, will the sword ever complete its training?
@@Nerobyrne While you were training the sword
He was training the very sword. He will kill you by just asking the sword to hit you
When you are killing the enemy
He was training the sword
I knew you were multilingual, dude, but I didn't know you could speak horse!
I'm fluent in horse, but that sounded more like Mule to me. :-P
Mr. Ed was fluent in English, so it shouldn't be surprising.
@@averagejo1626 Yup,sounded like Ass to me.
We've all spoken hoarse a time or two....
Name one of his learned languages
*teleports behind you* “While you were smashing Jennifer, I was studying the blade”
While also smashing Jennifer ;)
@@StudlyFudd13 smashing Jennifer with the sword
@@LautaroRRIos Both swords right?
Official winner!
@@MeshuggahDave. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's my aunt tho but still funny as hell😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
10:28 Your horse language pronunciation is perfect, it almost sounds like a native lol
Lmao
He's a natural. I bet all the mares follow him around the stable.
xD
But horses die with their riders. We know that since Age og Empires.
Except from the new unique unite , namely the konnik
"Horatio I am dead. Thou livest. Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied !"
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"It's all written in this book you can't read"
In ROMAN! (lets hope it was times new roman) ;))
I swear, it was in that article online I can't fight anymore! It was really there!
I do, however, believe Mettatron more with that than my groupmates for a project.
That was my university life in nutshell
Well Arial wasn't invented until 1982 and most people find Times New Roman more visually appealing anyway..
It's been tested and all.
$1000% legit
The moral of the story:
If you think you're going to kill Sir Lancelot, you're going to have a very bad knight.
Hey that's the tweaker from aqua teen.
Hehe, they don't call me Sir Lance a lot for nothin
lancelot was basically a french fan fiction of the original myths/histories
The best way to kill a knight was to have a wench give him syphilis!
or water to drink.
@Martin the Warrior so many weapons of mass destruction in those days.
There was no syphilis in medieval Europe.
Im quite certain Syphilis is an American disease, pal.
The middle ages ended with the discovery of the Americas so it doesn't check out.
@@cetus4449 They had other diseases, though.
While you reading and rplying the comment,
He was training the sword
You forgot one thing:
If the knight does recover from the fall...
He'll be *PISSED*
He is probably not able to get up. Stunned by the fall and the armour is so heavy that he can not stand up without help.
@@yesyesyesyes1600 armor is not as heavy as you think, to a knight that is essentially his second skin especially when he's been training.
@@Favour135 I heard different things in Zeughaus Graz Styria (the biggest armory of medieval weapons in Europe). A knight lying on the ground is dead meat if nobody helps him up. But hey if I am wrong it is also okay for me :)
@@yesyesyesyes1600 ua-cam.com/video/qzTwBQniLSc/v-deo.html
You might want to change your mind
@@RyujinNoKami maybe
But these are replicas and not historical armors, right?
Dont kill the horse, trip it and then steal it. Then *BRAVELY* run away.
´´Brave , brave, brave, brave sir Robin``
My friend tried this with my horse.
*My horse put him right into the intensive care.*
edit: simply put, horses can be loyal sons of horses
then eat the horse after
@@andreimarcusmerced4152 How is that funny? That's just cruel.
@@juanvasquez2315 are you a vegan bro? seriously if you eat livestock then what makes horse meat different.
8:35 - The other big factors at Agincourt were not the amount of English archers and their dense formation. But also the dense formation of the French. Hence English 'arrow storm' was almost always going to hit something.
an 'easy' win for the french and plenty (including Harry) to ransom.....ooops!
Theory before I watch: Because horses were high priority loot?
No, that's not it. You can't loot a knight's horse if you get killed by the knight.
Ding Ding Ding.
@HJ bangerter Not "War" horses. They were the most expensive thing on the battle field.
@@needparalegal Well there are tales of people eating their war horses out of desperation. The siege of Antioch for example of the first crusade. Yes, they were expensive, but no cost is high enough for your survival.
@@woodys9841 LOL, logic is not your thing. People turn to cannibalism when they are starving, doesn't mean the people they ate were cheap....
Hold *TF UP*
IS NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION THE FACT THAT HE SHAVED BEFORE REASON 1
Edit fail!!!!...what a noob!!!
Oh my God!
Gh... gh...
GHOST BEARD! 😨😱
I mean he was also wearing a metal chest piece and different clothes, I don't think he was trying to be subtle about it lol.
While he was explaining, the knight was training the sword by shaving him
Oh...
medieval combat guide:
1. get a spear
2. profit
Spears are the best form of melee weapon
Until you realize a spear is unwieldy and you have not trained with the spear properly and that shit gets yanked out of your hands or deflected by a buckler or you aimed for the limbs like a moron and they got past the business end of the spear.
@Bostan Liviu Good luck landing a proper shield bash on someone who is moving on their feet.
@Bostan Liviu Well in formation shield and spear, distance is very important.
wars are generally fought in formations.
@@tarantulathree-one8013 "not trained with the spear properly"
Doesnt this apply to every weapon ? Isnt that a non argument ?
The horse was also considered to be a spoil of war. A infantry grunt could use a horse on his plot of land to plow and haul heavy things to clear more land for planting.
i highly doubt a medieval levy would get their hands on a full on war horse let alone use if for plane old field work. if it were me at least, i’d sell it.
@@irisallender6796 Spoils of war figured out to be who got to what first. A plow horse would be priceless for a infantry footman's plot of land. He'd sell his wife and kids before parting with that horse. Also many a poor Knight also had to use his horse to plow his fields. Not everybody who had a title actually had heaps of money. Armies didn't get paid to fight as they do now. What you could snatch from someone's home is what you got paid with. That's what Pillaging ment.
Or also eaten, by Napoleon’s starving army 😽
@@susandolan9543Sell the war horse, buy a cheaper farm horse, drink the difference.
Something extremely valuable like that would likely "go in the pool" so to speak, a communal pot of goods which the units quartermaster would then distribute out based on rank and performance. Although someone capturing a war horse would almost certainly get a bonus for doing so the horse itself would likely be paid out to a knight, with priority to any one who actually *did* get their horse killed out from under them.
Infantryman: *kills horse*
Knight after standing up: "Ohhh laddie" *draws sword* "you've done it now..."
Yeah that is if the knight gets up. Pending how the horse stopped the knight would have a good chance of being fucked. If it did run into thick, braced spears, the abrupt stop of the horse would send the rider flying behind enemy lines and hitting the ground really hard if the enemy lines didn't break his fall, and people die all the time from falling off a horse but this knight was just thrown at like 30mph-40mph from a charging horse, his armor would help soften the impact but he is still at high risk. Aside from probable injuries from being thrown if not out right dead already, he is now on the ground surrounded by enemy soldiers stabbing him in every joint. Dead knight is dead. If the horse slows down trying to stop, gets stabbed and rears up then falls over, well now there is a very good chance the knight's leg is pinned under the horse and broken (possibly with the horse failing causing more pain and injury). Unable to move the knight either gets trampled by other horses or stabbed because he is pinned and can't move or fight back.
@@Zankaroo I'm assuming if the horse is armored the only way to take it down as its charging you is to go for the legs by either cutting one clean off or simply placing your weapon in its path matador style, in which case it will fall out from underneath him, putting him into a somersault or a roll(as long as it doesn't flip over entirely), both of which are relatively safe. The weight of all he has on will keep him from being flung such a long distance as any normal rider would, as well as protecting him from the brunt of the impact like you mentioned, so when he gets up he won't be too happy with you.
@@xcritic9671 He would still be a row or two deep surrounded by enemy who most likely started beating or stabbing as soon as he hit the ground.
@@Zankaroo this is an assumed instance where its just one knight and one guy(you), otherwise you're talking a full cavalry charge and a full line of infantry and it would be nearly impossible to get away with those variables.
As I have pointed out. We know for a fact that it was common for a knight to be out and out killed when his horse went down. A king of Poland died when his horse rolled over onto him.
Any strategy that assumes a passive opponent isn't a strategy. It's a daydream.
people should watch more ufc and the interviews they have before hand. you have a perfect plan till you get punched in the face.
@@lilslavboi2171
Such a tired meme. Tyson had plans. He prepared for fights. Having a plan and preparing for your opponent is what every successful fighter does.
The problem is *bad* plans.
@@lilslavboi2171 The more accurate statement I’ve found is everyone has a plan until they get hot with a high single leg and are now on their back. A situation where 98% of humans apparently are entirely unprepared to be in.
Ah. Bretonians Vs warriors of chaos. Classic
A man of kultur
Blood for the Blood God and skulls for the Skull Throne
@@4sh2k8 Milk for the Khorne Flakes!
Chaos wins 60 % of the time
axl dlima Face my Holy grail Knight
Someone 1000 years in the future: "So ez beat the SAS i see where the gun pointing and dodge then quickdraw headshot him"
So very accurate, everyone thinks it would be easy to take out elite warriors for some reason. They tend to forget that these people have been training for combat and/or have been in combat for a good portion of their lives.
To be fair, that is likely a verbatim post already....
Honestly I could take a Knight IF, AND ONLY IF I were allowed to use my own modern weapons.
The Knight charges, I point my gun and shoot.
General Shepard did that!
@@jorenvanderark3567 you would need armor piercing rounds.
SMGs won't work. Rifles maybe. But with AP rounds 100 percent
I just spent 17:21 watching this video when I could have been training the sword
And all this time that knight is still boning Jennifer.
The video is 17:22, you still have one second.
Get to it idler.
You speak amazing horse sir :).
Ye I have a good accent indeed :) although they can always guess I'm an Italian s.... ok I'm not gonna finish this one :D
well...he is multi-lingual...:D
@Shlomo Shekelberg rather shettland pony 😂
Very reliable though.
@MallarRallam true...hmm...how are those huge british horses called, that are used by brewers? 🤔
@MallarRallam Then he would be one of those thin and tall (preferably, beige) horses that do tricks and dance on shows. He's got it all covered.
#1 reason: a war horse could be worth ten years of their salaries.
Yes, I was also thinking that the value of the horse would be one of the reasons
@@ericscire Those medieval folk were all about loot and ransoming.
@Parvonik the leaders on the field are often thinking about things like this.
Thats just foolish to believe. Yes, those horses were worth a lot, but as Metatron said, when the knights charge, you are likely in the worst scenario you could ever imagine finding yourself in. It is utterly ridiculous to assume, that even for a second one would think of spoils, profit, or gain in that case. Your brain shuts down and you rely entirely on instincts. The only thing that matters is how you will get out of this alive and with all your limbs in place.
@@woodys9841 you would think that but in modern and ancient warfare money was always a concern for leadership. Yes the individual war fighters might say screw it but those cases are the minority.
Also, good luck dodging a freaking *wall* of horses charging at you.
Haha
Dark Souls taught me I just need to roll
A wall of horses that are not skittish, but trained as well as the knight in obeying and trusting the knight. The hunting of Boar, Wolves, and Bear could be more dangerous than the average battle. No knight would take a horse into battle that had shown any tendency toward skittishness or disobedience in stressful conditions, and knights could afford to be picky...
Not to mention the knights would spend a good deal of their training on horse back, learning to control it with the slightest leg or body movement causing a corresponding movement from the horse. And I've herd some knights were known to be closer and more connected with their horses than with their wives.
Unless of course you have a wall of pikes that they won't charge at
@@madmun376 - Hey, in that case dodging wouldn't help either;)
Damm knights sleeping with my Jennifer? And this is how i find out? Thanks a bunch Metatron.....
Well better late then never I guess :)
Yes. And just so you know:
All of them.
@@sorsocksfake Be ready for this.. And all night long..tadum tischh
A knight is a Chad in his day.
F
I'm thinking another thing to consider is that the horse is coming at you at high speed. even if you manage to kill it, the thing would still be coming at you and there is a high chance you'd be crushed by the combined weight and momentum of the horse and the armoured knight falling on you.
Yea logical 🙂🙂
"...And that includes Jennifer, unless he is a Templar, if he sticks to the rules that is" :'D hahaha
You are funny ofc almost (except the real really old high masters) all of them broke that rule
I couldnt stop laughing when he said "that includes Jennifer"
If he is a templar he probably prefers you over Jennifer...
...and this makes the Pope angry.
@@xaquko9718 yeah the pope prefers them far younger
What happens when you kill the horse but still have to fight an elite warrior trained to decapitate you since boy hood
Iron man can not run as fast as ya, you don't have so much weights...But running away in front of your officers will be punished... with death
@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 Plate. Armour. Does. Not. Slow. You. Down.
@@mathias3721 Carry 20 KG of sand bag on your back and see if you can still running faster than me. Knights were fast because of Horse. there was a time British long bowmen crushed French Knights, their horses were killed and knights got captured by longbow-men.
@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 Agincourt was mostly won due to the muddy terrain, it was also not JUST English yeomen, the English also had infantry and cavalry. Also, it's not a backpack, the weight is distributed over your entire body making it a lot easier to carry. AND knights were trained to fight IN armour, so it was barely a hindrance. A modern soldier carries more weight than a Medieval knight as well as having the weight mostly distributed in a backpack making it more cumbersome
@@mathias3721 No matter what you said, carrying 20 KG or wear clothes that heavy you simply can not outrun me. Unless i'm an daily American with 300 pounds of meat. LOL
Nothing makes a knight more excited than a broken line
How about a maiden's broken dress?
A broken line of running people is basically free kills.
Except maybe for Jennifer.
Sigurd Torvaldsson not every line will be broken though so it won’t be that easy. Lines get broken almost all the time it’s just how long you can hold them
@@bobrosser1101 yes, but undoubtedly a lot easier than the maintained line, thus the excitement.
"Why kill a noble beast for the quarrels of silly men?"
Cuz I'm fucking starving...
@@MrChase115 Found the German soldier from 1917.
Thou hath spoken the truth :)
The horse counts. You don't.
"Noble beast" is a weird concept that requires discussion.
let me just stop it at 1:57 and get a haircut and continue recording at 2:05
And a shave, don't forget the shave.
william: we'll make spears. twice as long as a man.
hamish: some men are longer than others.
campbell: your mother been telling ya stories about me again, eh?
Hamish: “when you say ‘your island’ - you mean Ireland?”
Irish guy: “Yeah! ... it’s *mine.”*
Reasons why metric system is better than imperial system...
Brave heart
@@Inquisitor_Vex It's even more funny knowing the actor playing the Irish guy is actually Scottish and Brendan Gleeson playing hamish is actually Irish 👍🏻
this was also the first thing that came to my mind. I started wondering whether anyone ever successfully pulled the "surprise" pike trick in history. My guess is no, since the enemy would see you carrying a bunch of pikes when you move into battle formation. I don't remember how they pull it off in Braveheart.
plus, those horses are bloody valuable, a friend of mine trains horses, and she told me that a knight's warhorse was heavily trained and selected, so capturing one would make you rich.
(hoping that your superiors don't take all the merit...)
it's like a equivalent of a sports car back then
You don't get to keep it. The commander pools the loot and doles out shares.
It's just like modern times, you do all the hard work and your boss takes all the credit and the money. He MIGHT buy you a beer thougn if you're lucky 😜😜
@White-Van Helsing you aint never been to a paddock then. A lot have ppl have been killed or maimed by ornery horses. They warn you first to back off, but if you dont they kick harder than Hollie Holmes on Rowdy's face.
Well agree back in medieval times Hores was basically like a car about 2-3 decades ago(nowadays it's not that much of a luxury good really) a luxury that had a lot of utility, but still was expensive as hell to get and maintain, so bet that probably a typical grunt would prefer to knock knight off horse (what could be still hard thing but bit easier especially with polearms) and just keep horse for self, for transport or maybe even combat
Damn that peasant was punching well above his weight with Jennifer lol.
TL;DR
Stop procrastinating! You could be training the sword!
Damn it henry
But what about my date tonight with Jennifer?
While you were reading this comment, I was training the sword.
But..Goddamit, to write this comment I had to drop my sword!
While you are training the sword
HE was training the sword
*Damn it jennifer*
Gonna train the sword and drink some ale, AND NOT CRY IN THE CORNER.
Solider: YEEEES! I killed his horse...
...[sound of dead horse falling on mediveal solider]...
Probably hitting multiple soldiers.
[sound of fellow soldiers' judging stares because you killed a poor beautiful horse]
Filip Kafka [the stare of the now extremely pissed knight in full plate armor and armed to the teeth]
@@laytenci "oh man! You've really done it now!"
"What? I killed his horse so that his height and reach advantage are diminished. "
"Yeah, but now the knight wants you dead!"
"Wait, the knight didn't want me dead a second ago when he was charging at me with a Lance?"
"Well, yeah, but now he's angry and wants to kill you."
I don't understand how this stupid argument is going around still as it's completely devoid of any sort of critical thinking. He's an enemy knight. Killing his horse is just step one of taking down a deadly threat of you're infantry. It's difficult, so most couldn't pull it off alone, but infantry are rarely alone whereas knights often are.
Dana Gray knights don’t charge alone, regardless of how armed they are because that would be suicide. by the time he reaches the fray and his horse has been downed most likely his company will be right with him. and if it’s a pikemen or something similar that killed his horse than the pikemen’s in trouble. The knight’s now most likely in close range and in the optimal distance for his weaponry. the situation is madly in the favor of the knight
People who say "I'll JUST do..." have never actually done anything outside of fantasy play
But neither have people who say "People who say...".
@@kleinmeisterlein The former are annoying, cringe inducing fools, the latter are not ;)
@@kleinmeisterlein I've seen people say claymores are made to cut through armour like butter. These knuckleheads think wielding a big ass chunk of metal is realistic and historically accurate. I'll let you decide whether the latter or former are stupid.
I'll just grab an ak and rocket jump to mars while simultaniously doing back flips then shoot the horse from outer space and dodge cosmic radiation
@@eeelaina5588 Exactly, I'll just grab the Infinity Gauntlet and snap the enemies out of existence.
Also, thanks to movies, we tend to imagine that by stabbing enemies they just die. That's not how it works. Instant ko can only be obtained by striking the head or the heart, and even in the second case the heart leaves you some 10-20 seconds of activity before you drop dead. I have seen bulls at the Spanish corrida getting stabbed with swords a ton of times and still charging.
As Sir Michael Tyson famously said "everyone has a plan until they get lanced in the mouf"
I also like his other quote, "I broke my back. Thpinal"
As someone else said: "Run thru a mothafukka face - they you don have to worry bout em no mo"
"Lanthed"
Metatron=greatness
:D
I knew they were effective... But not this effective...
@@krishnakantbhatt9947 Thing is, they weren't.
He also didn't mention that well off knight had horse armor o.o
Yah but they had to pay 3$ to Bethesda, which was alot of money in that time period.
@@CDNShuffle or sum mods from the nexus and make the horse breathe fire
Horse armor for 2.50$?!
Or at least a gambeson that was better than the one used buy our example peasant.
That’s called a catapgtachs or whatever
They are human tanks and they really existed
And it’s not a goofy ass game mod..
My husband was a soldier and he did wonder how he'd really perform when the shtf. Then he went overseas. After witnessing a few atrocities (that really jacked him up), seeing what was done to the family of one of his local contacts, and what was DONE to one of his local contacts, he got over it. He very much wanted to kill the enemy.
But it took a lot to awaken a bloodlust in this regular man. Nobody walks into war really understanding it. We can't imagine it until we've witnessed it for ourselves. Even for my husband, it wasn't the sights that got to him. He'd seen enough movies. It was the damn smell. The smells are what made it all real and that changed him.
Smell is very emotional as we know. It triggers the memory more than sight.
The studies he's referencing have a lot of problems. I dont recall a great deal about it b/c I only looked into it a little bit, but its doubtful it was as big of an issue that its made out to be here.
Thank you and your Husband for your service to the United States.
If you aren't American, then nvm.
@@taylorjensen2787
Wtf even is this comment.
@@Alias_Anybodya meaningless platitude often recited to soldiers
By far one of the funniest videos he's made, I couldn't stop laughing! But still a very good and interesting video, thanks man
Thank you for watching
@@metatronyt I love watching your videos and will continue to do so, but this may need a lot more research. Look up battles like Golden Spurs and Bannockburn along with many others, a well trained horse by most accounts WILL charge into a line of spears, I'm not sure if they would even see the points much less perceive the danger. Sadly many of the knights may not have been much smarter in those waning days of chivalry, being so used to being able to ride down any opposing infantry. As far as how easy it was to actually kill a horse look up the duel between Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir Thomas of Canterbury.
I really hate to write this but I'm somewhat disappointed with this video, normally yours are much more thorough. I might be wrong in my assertions but even then I hope you make another video on this subject to answer these concerns as I doubt I'm the only one who has them. Best of luck with your future vids and hope to hear from you!
@@kungfutze4321 , yes but that's still a minor percentage compared to times where knights effectively made charges onto whatever they're facing.
@@Eldariur depends on the time period. By the High Middle Ages knights were starting to have less and less of an effect, which is why they went into decline.
People often forget that, not only was the Knight trained, the horse the Knight is riding was specially trained, too. And it would be wearing its own armor to boot.
Remember that in battles of knights v knights, the horses would STILL be running towards lots of pointy things aimed at them, called lances, as well as at other horses, both of which were moving right at them. War horses were trained NOT to stop or shy away
The armor that you see on horses pictured here was of the LATER period, and much of it was mostly for parade, rather than combat. An EARLIER war horse, if it had armor at all, would have a headpiece and chest protector made of boiled leather
Historical sources have it that horse armor was only issued if you ponied up for the DLC.
@@magicAAA I was looking for this.
Massive horse armour was most likely only used for tournaments and parades. It would be much too heavy to use on campaigns and battles. In battle, the horses would probably wear no or very limited armour.
Thick armor on both horse and knight ya your in trouble
Memes in history video? InstaLIKE.
Potential History intensifies
When I was young, I used to always walk on the side of the road adjacent to oncoming traffic. This way, I imagined, I would easily just run up the hood of any swerving car and jump safely over it. This is like the medieval equivalent of that delusion. Lmao
I thought it was common knowledge to walk on the side of oncoming traffic
@@cptjohnbhewler1529 It is. But it's so you can spot cars that may be veering towards you, not so you can jump over them.
@@Hypernefelos Sherlock Holmes over here. Who said anything about jumping over cars?😂
@@cptjohnbhewler1529 The person we're both replying to 7 months after the fact :P
Why!
I never stopped to think which way the traffic goes. It will haunt me now
10:22 that's why experienced knights used really depressed horses.
LOL
made my day
How do you tell if it's depressed? Do you offer the horse coffee and cigarettes to see if it takes them?
most horses where blind folded and trained to run/gallop with the blindfold.
even today "peasants" use a type of blind fold that let's the horse only see forward(he can still turn his/her head around though) so they go straight and only start turning when you pull him/her too.
cavalry is formed by the horse AND human, doesnt make sense only the human or knight to be trained.
Ahahahaha dude :D
I'd use fire magic first to scare away the horse then I would impale the knight with an ice spike and then I would revive the undead knight with necromancy and use him to kill the other knights
Why didn't they think of that? Medieval people really *were* stupid...
@@random_idiot They forgot to read pvp guides
Magic users where nerfed during the Inquisition patch.
Sigh, no fun allowed...
@@NcrXnbi That is true
All the knights flee and learn to cast counterspell.
Me getting caught by my girlfriend's father in bed with her
the father: What is all this?
me: I am training the sword.
is that training the longsword or the shortsword?
@@jamestown8398 Bastard sword
Claymore
@Some Dude @Jamestown @AnOnEmOs @jack Coleman The Pork Sword
@@jamestown8398 its a Dagger
Also, killing a charging horse with a sword or spear or any melee weapon there is a huge chance of you snapping your wrist, breaking your arm (both o which would lead to you dropping your weapon and being screwed) and even if you managed to kill it, it doesn't jus stop, it tumbles and falls at a high speed and if you didn't evade enough before you attacked it, there is a good chance it will just fall on you and crush you
TL:DR
Knights are chads and you’re just a virgin infantryman
@Anthony Johnson Stop Knightsplaining.
Whoa, I gotta be honest guys, some of these comments are *TRIGGERING* I’m offended
That's literally the most depressing image I've ever had.. "Not only did he die horribly in shit armour, with shit weapons... Skewered by a medieval tank... He died a virgin."
@Anthony Johnson He never even said anything about incels. Just because incels use the same words doesn't make him an incel, oh and what happened to being "tolerant"?
@Anthony Johnson Guess you never knew the whole "chad vs virgin" thing was around before incels, so no it's not analogous to your Nazi example
"I'd just kill the knight" is the medieval equivalent of saying "I'd just pepper spray his leg"
But...people did kills knights
@@PoppaPlacidPenis and i put pepper spray on a burrito. Lets all move on from this.
@@PoppaPlacidPenis Yeah, people whose lives were spent (and in very high numbers lost) at war, not tryhards sitting in front of a screen with (generally speaking) not a single second of fighting experience.
@@PoppaPlacidPenis yes people did kill knights. But what they would probably say to you is not to be overconfident when fighting an athletic man who is has been trained since infancy clad in full plate armour with a weapon designed for war. And people who did kill a Knight would never, ever, say “I’d just kill the Knight!”.
@@PoppaPlacidPenis but people back then would rather caught and ransomed them.
Reason Number 3 is a VERY valid one. So much so that its the exact reason why the military began using Human shaped targets in their training of soldiers to shoot and use bayonets. And by doing so they noticed that more soldiers were less likely to hesitate shooting someone and it made it easier for them to simply consider another person as nothing more then simply a target if they got them use to shooting the human form, to recognize a human shape as the target/enemy. And they continue to do this to this very day as when I was in basic training ALL of our target where of exact size as a human torso.
The reason cavalry in movies use swords more often than any other weapon is simple. It arguably looks way cooler than "long pointy stick"
The lance is pretty fucking cool lookin' though. Not the plain ones that lesser knights had. The really expensive ones with ornaments and shit. That look awesome.
I'd take long pointy stick any day over a sword you just stab from like way over there
The problem with pole weapons on horseback like lances and spears is that they easily become stuck in your opponent and you have very little time to retrieve it. Even sticking a sword in a body can be very difficult to retrieve after lunging at a gallop. Hacking and slashing weapons are simply easier to retain, whereas pole weapons are essentially one shot deals. I've been a cavalry reenactor of multiple periods for 13 years, since I was 13 years old and I've been riding my entire life, and I can't even retain a lance after the first blow. Either you ditch the lance or you're pulled from the saddle.
@@Jake_Steiner yea I always thought how you dont fall after someone is impaled because I bet with armour on and one hand holding the steer thing for the horse and one holding a big heavy pole that now also have a fully sized human on it probably also in some sort of armour luke how do can you keep one hand holding it theres atleast like 80-90 kg if it was light poles with a few on your back which you can ditch after a hit I'd get it but how the fuck did it work
Dark souls pvp Pike bois: "you mock me?"
"Which probably includes Jennifer as well", i died
Yeah, I was thinking it
Then he said it
Edit: and just now he mentioned, penetration
To be honest, in the medieval times knights were basicly divine beings, covered in more armor than your entire peasent batallion can muster in their lifetime. So basicly an iron man, blessed by the God.
@Senpaii Desuu 5000 knights could easily take out 25000 of the 50000 men
@Senpaii Desuu I think you got the wrong idea.(1) Knights in armor were virtually impossible to kill. Unless you use special can openers (the spear is not) you won't get any results. (2) Knights are not slow and they don't have reduced movement. That's a fairy tale, you could just look that up on UA-cam for example. (3) Maybe 10 people could bring down a single knight, it's not impossible, but in a battle it's not possible to surround every knight with 10 guys, the knights will form battle formations. Most of your peasant soldiers would block each other. (4) Morale works for the knights. You can't imagine how desperate soldiers become when they just can't open up the plate armor. The knights would just slice through their ranks. Remember, you don't see 50000 vs 5000 in a battle, you only see those near you. And out of those few you will see your men getting slaughtered. You will rush forward to replace your own men getting slaughtered, realizing it's you who is next.
They were literally another species of human too because of their diet and regime. They analysed the remains of a knight found in Scotland and his diet was 90% fish (you know like power lifters pound basa by the kilo? Yeah that) and he was built like a modern rugby player.
@Senpaii Desuu I am sorry, I gave you valid reasons, but apparently you lack the knowledge to understand them. You seem to draw you knowledge from computer games and don't know anything about medieval battle tactics. Attacking infantry with ballistas? Simply attacking a battle formation from behind? That's some fantasy stuff right there. And what is a "Batista" anyway? A quick google search indicates you seem to be interested in wrestling rather than medieval warfare. Listen dude, heavy armored fighters were the way to go up until decent guns were invented. History already disproves your claims.
@senpaii Desuu yeah video games you really seem to compare cost like in a game. You can't just round up 50000 peasants theire not endless. And by the way if the knights have devimated 20% of the troops people would rout. These battes were more aboutshowing strengt not fight till the last man.
Another reason to not kill the horse is because war horses were very expensive and it was very advantageous to capture them.
While you did *insert pretty much anything*
He studied the blade...
...and banging Jenifer... :)
(Discovering yourself for the first time) "He was training the sword."
While you were training with the sword...
HE WAS TRAINING WITH THE SWORD!
SwordTune while you were studying for algebra,
*he was studying the sword*
I`m a horse and i approve this video!
Thank you.
G stands for glitterhoof I guess
@@ozgurbulutkaraosmanoglu4778 Ofc, how else? I will be a consul of Rome!
@@evilparadigm Doing my duty as a horse!
What a coincidence I'm a horse's ass....... 😂
Thank you for giving such a detailed video. The psychological part is so often overlooked. Most of these farm-boy medieval infantry would be fricking terrified at the advance of the cavalry. Whether it's medieval knights or BC steppe nomads, a non-disciplined, amateur soldier was pissing himself while he non-consciously decided to fight or flee.
farmers typically had pretty good discipline also consider how everyone back then lived MUCH more communally than today so were probably used to working as groups
When Jenifer was playing with your sword, he was training the sword
and also training his other meat sword
@@butterskywalker8785 With your mom.
@@brandonhey7797 haha he you commit funny haha
@@brandonhey7797 heheheheh another funne mom joke
@@brandonhey7797 woah ur mom jokes are so 2012 bro grow up
*The Dark Knight doesn't have a Horse*
He has the Batmobile
Was he training the sword, though?
@@jonathanhirst6997 He's training the edge. Close enough, right?
4th reason.
The horse did nothing wrong.
#1 it's a horse
#2 you don't hurt horses
#3 horses are our friends
#4 horse did nothing wrong
#5 if you kill the horse you now have an elite warrior who is very focused on killing VERY SPECIFICALLY... you.
@@gundorstoneskin5900 Oh no! The knight who was already trying to kill you is still trying to kill you! Wow, I guess you're in a worse spot than a moment ago when the knight was on horseback and out of reach of any attack you might level at him!
Are you implying it was only following orders?
@@gundorstoneskin5900 have you ever tried Sauerbraten?
The horse carried my enemy. That's enough for me.
13:03 the terribly accurate accents made me lose it hahahahahaha
Word XD
this one is gold xD
I instantly imagined the soldier looking like Baldrick from the Black Adder.
@@Holtijaar prefect!
The officer sounds like Alfie from the Peaky Fookin' Bloinders
There's another one.
Those horses were so expensive, that you would try to capture and ransom it, like the Knight riding it.
Exactly. That was my first thought when I saw name of the video
A "grunt" who captured a horse wouldn't have it LONG enough to ransom it(unless you were part of a PROFESSIONAL war band, in which case your boss MIGHT pay you for it). War trained horses were ENORMOUSLY expensive(about the equivalent of buying a top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce), and the guy you worked for, knight, baron, earl, whatever, would immediately claim any horses captured from the enemy as HIS property; "I'm a NOBLEMAN. YOU'RE a PEASANT. I have a hundred swords to back me up. YOU have NO ONE to back YOU up. The horse is MINE. You want to ARGUE?"
If your lord was a nice guy, he might REWARD you for capturing the horse; a couple of shillings, for an animal worth over two hundred marks of silver.
Either way, the horse would belong to HIM, not YOU
@@mikegrossberg8624 But at least you aren't being trampled by the horse
I was thinking good quality food...
A knights horse had to be fed good, all that yummy meat on it...
Big strong horse with lots of lean, clean, well fed meat. It would feed the village for a week!
@@AmrothPalantir Only as a last resort. Find somebody to "fence" the horse, and you could get enough gelt to feed the village for longer than that!
Basically folks explaining how they'd easily beat a medieval knight... would also use the same certainty, and the same tone of voice, to explain how they'd beat a UFC champion in a match in the octagon.
Just do steps A, B, C, easy!
Actually that's what I said about Ronda Rousey
And then she took her first loss EXACTLY as I said....
Although she was fighting one of the best kick boxers EVER.
I said:
1. Know how to escape any arm hold submissions
2. Out box her
But
Like you said.....
And the same as the video
While you were playing Mario Cart
He was training for battly
While u were eating Snickers
He was training for battle
While you were drunk and flirting he was IN A BATTLE and WON
to be fair this guy isn't a historian he makes a lot of incorrect assumptions like all knights on horseback carry lances i don't actually know where this came from ive asked two actual military historians now and they don't know either
normally lances were just used to attack enemy knights or break the enemy lines but they were often dropped and swapped out for their other weapons the problem i feel with these youtubers is that they read manuals and go "ok this is what happened always" but they don't actually read about the battles that took place because war and manuals aren't the same thing
we can actually see this today the Chinese and Japanese (and ive seen this 8 years infantry) have not been in combat since pretty much WW2 so they follow doctrine to a T the problem with this is that they do things too text book and they don't have the ability to adapt and think on the fly simply because they have not got that experience both nations tend to panic if they are thrown a curve ball that their textbooks cannot combat and their go to response is to just withdraw
I mean, it's super easy, you just dodge the UFC champion's horse and kill it with a single clean sword strike. Just an average day at the Octagon.
Or basically how a nerd (like me) would explain how to get girls.
Just do step A,B, and C, and you'll be Brad Pitt. EASY.
It's like someone saying they'd beat a tank with a handgrenade. Sure if you MAKE it to its latch you're good.. Good fucking luck making it across that open field without dying, and good luck avoiding the 15 other tanks beside it.
Ok so just to sum it up:
1. Have alot of penetration and precision
2. A horse is not a bike but a leaving being.
3. If your horse says "heeehehe" it means get off my back.
4. Play the game of chickens and you might win a chicken dinner
5. Stay away from Tom and Michael
6. It's not easy to dodge and sla sluh sli slit his throat
7. Keep your shit together
You forgot:
1. "IMPOSSIBLE!"
2. JENNIFER
I don't know why I watched the video. You got it right. What a waste of time.
Do I check if I have No. 1 in the bed? I think I got the precision part done already.
Wouldn't fight a knight in the first place, also i knew Jennifer was a slut. I'm done with medieval times!
Dodging a knight is not the best idea simply because during a charge there would be another knight next to him, and probably another, and another, and another, and another... And if an entire formation of infantry starts dodging at the same time in different direction, well, that's called a certain death.
Yeah, think the best would be to drop on earth. Despite this seemed very unintuitive, horses would certainly try to avoid you and don't trampled you, because they are animals and they don't want to stumple.
Well, of course it's not 100% efficient, and not a viable tactic for an entire army. But it would certainly offer more chance of surviving than trying to outrun an horse ^^
so in other words, hold your ground, brace yourself, and hope for the best
@@onyxdragon1179 Well, from what I know throughout most ages spear was the base weapon of a footsoldier had he a shield or not. All the short weapons like swords and axes were backup for when it gets to a close melee, or they lose their spear. So yes, a well braced wall of spears does have a chance of repelling cavalry, or at least being threatening enough that they wouldn't charge at all. At least not from the front ;)
@@krankarvolund7771 If you're talking about knights that had the time and money to spend their lives training in warfare, chances are they could also afford to have an actual war horse as their mount. And, unlike the horse out in the pasture, who might not step on you if you lie down in front of them, a trained war horse would simply be SURE to step on you as they went over you. War horses were often stallions (rather than mares or geldings used as riding horses), and their natural aggressive instincts were trained and enhanced - so they WOULD step on you if you lay down in front of them. Being stepped on by a horse at full gallop (where the horse's entire weight is often supported on a single leg), with or without its own armor, ridden by an armored knight, would almost certainly be a death sentence.
@@Badger77722 Really? I wasn't aware of that, I thought that, you know, a horse would not want to stumple, even a human body may be an obstacle if he's at full speed ^^'
First time watching, was surprised by how much humor was in this. A fusion of education and humor, love it
9:33 you're welcome
A Fourth Reason, that Trained Warhorse was Worth GOLD. LOTS of GOLD. IF you could Just CATCH him.....
And it didnt smash you when you tried to control him! LOL NO WAY id ever try and handle a strangers Warhorse, thing might eat me
Not as much as the ransom for the knight on top of the warhorse though, and it's hard to capture a knight on a warhorse.
Good point. There was even terminology for specific types of horses, such as destrier, charger, courses and rouncey. George R. R. Martin uses some of these terms in his works.
You Forgot,'The Nag',lol...@@tsundoku5733
A halberd was a bearded spear with a axe hook which was designed to hook armor you avoid the horse hook him by the hip or the shoulder and let gravity take him capture him by caving his helmet take the horse ransom him and the horse
What if you have buckets of apples all over the battlefield? The horses will get distracted and you can take them out of the equation.
Unfortunately so would the infantrymen
the equine equation