1 knight easily kills 1 Peasant. The technique I would use is MANY Peasants trained with Polearms. Even knife tied on a stick. As long as our sticks are longer than Knight's weapon. Have spare sticks available for when he cuts our sticks. 20 Peasants surround Knight. We trip him over with our long sticks. Immediately, 5 Peasants jump on top of him and pin him down. Then daggers. The technique to inspire Peasant Revolt is Printing Press and Astronomy and Communion in Both Kinds.
Not necessarily. Medieval farmers usually weren't particularily well fed or healthy. Against someone who regularily does labour in modern times they would probably have the short end of the stick. Then again, against someone who spends most of their time infront of a screen they might have a decent chance.
Every time I go to a museum that's what I do, just pretend that everything there is merely the remnants of the many nations I've crushed..... in civilization.
@@Smackosynthesis *france after 1920* before that they held their own against or beat the spanish, british, the germans ect. As many times as not. Even the holy roman empire before Germany was a nation, and pushing England straight off the continent before Great Britain was founded.
It baffles me how a real life person could think they could beat someone who's trained their whole life to fight because they aren't wearing armour. What do they think the entire purpose of armour is? A masochist medieval version of an ankle weight?
i could beat a knight (with a modern high powered rifle) ;) in the chaos of battle, getting the right cercomstance a commoner possible could take a knight by capture or kill. in single combat, the knight would have the advantage. they have the training, the gear and the experience.
Exactly. It's like in fencing saying "I'd just stab him" or in a street fight "I'd just beat him up" or for absolutely any task "I'd just win". Well sure but that's the hard part, lol.
A medival hardened armor of stellplate, would cost the same as a house. And since the only one who could afford this would be born into wealth, would have trained all his life. This is like a modern day tank going against an civillian throwing rocks.
What if the civilian had a sling? That guy's gonna have a shitty time trying to hit Tommy down the Lane when he keeps running away and ringing his helmet like a dinner bell from afar.
Simon Kjær lol that doesn't mean they trained all their life and it definitely isn't worth more than a house you idiot. False facts constructed by a 12 year old boy
What would I do if I had to face a knight who's wearing full armour? Um... probably run, kill a bunch of rats for experience and gold, then return when I'm better equipped and have leveled up a bit. Or if I had to fight him, poke him with something long and pointy while staying out of his range and hope he doesn't kill me before I get lucky. Yes, my combat experience comes exclusively from video games.
*Silence!* filthy peasant I say. If ye are in need to defeat a knight, then ye shall unscrew and throw your pommel at your foe vigorously, thus *Ending him Rightly*
@@MrWeAllAreOne Mediaeval is also an accepted spelling. You could've Googled it and found it in tons of official dictionaries. In fact, one could even consider mediaeval a more correct spelling as the word is derived from the Latin "medium aevum", meaning "middle age."
Yeah man! The fighters of the fossil fuel age carried a lot of weight in their kit, so I would simply be able to push him over and stab him. Their armor didn’t even cover their faces!
To be fair, if For Honor was realistic the knights would be so OP that I'd honestly feel bad for how badly one sided the fights would be in favor of the knights. And I say that as a Knight player who mains Warden and Lawbringer.
Knights were short, stalky, toothless, hairy, and uneducated bunch that got paid in 3 silver per service, and they had a life expectancy of 30, those who live past 50 become wardens. They didn't have the education to school soldiers, so the monks and priest educated them.
And knights were more encourage to perform loyal and honorable duties so they can be rewarded, with a title, a land , and a bride that bestow them to nobility. Those who have not earn any form of merit and past their military age, they wondered the land bullying farmers for food and shelter, rape women, work as bodyguards, and ultimately put down by neighboring lords for crimes. They were either kept in the cells till they turn lepers or hang.
What the fuck are you talking about? "uneducated, short, toothless" They were nobility part of their training and upbringing aside from combat training was learning Latin, read and write and holy scriptures. depending on their income they would have the best food on offer and a good diet, even the poorest knight could afford decent food. Where the fuck do you get your information from?
+munkofpunk you assume they were born royalty. Where did you get that. Food then were scarce; wheat, barley, firebread( hardtack on oven mounts) salted pork, and beer. The average man then were 5,3-5,7, unless they were born with Anomegaly then they're 6ft. Poor nutrition and poor hygiene. Knights were no more than sons of landlords, and those in royalty they wore emblemed armor to represent their landlord and house( village mayor, representative). They were all illiterate and can only distinguish their house banner and the house banner of their king. Monks and priest were literate to latin, german, franc, and old english and it was only taught to squires who chooses to monks and the king. All of em. Were illiterate. They have a royal aswiper and a messenger department. Yes they were short and illiterate. They died from aids, smallpox, rocky mountain spotted fever, typhoid, measles, birth defect, and diarrhea. Yes diarrhea.
Funny thing is that 97% of those who say that beating a knight is easy would end up being a levy peasant armed with a spear, a shield and a knife at best, and with a pitchfork or a knife at worst. Then fighting against a knight would prove nigh impossible.
Stick to an overlapping shield, maybe a little bit of mail and a round and affordable helmet to deflect swords or spears, and carry a cheap mace, or a warhammer, or a club...options, cheap options. Still not an easy fight at all against a real Knight with even little to no war experience.
actualy not. If you can use the standart pike technique, you can ultimately corner him to the point he has no chance of hitting you. alternatively, if you have an hammer, you should try and use it on him, provided you get close
These people are just idiots most of them are probably too weak to even thrust the sword for more than a few seconds and the knight would side-step their attack with ease anyway.
Id be in plate with no sheild, then have a Estoc and Knife, maybe a mace too. Estoc: Disarm Knight > Half Sword stab in armpit Dagger: Push down knight > Stab through eye slits/ Through visor Mace: I've worked with these less, so maybe a swing up the chin should dizzy him enough to slam it down onto his head.
Catsaretheworst Try to stab through a thick jacket + padded linen + mail in a small gap at an awkward angle into a moving opponent that will do whatever he can to stop you from doing it. It’s not easy, and the Knight is not a moron. Even if you do get the tip through so what? It won’t hit a vital organ because the sword won’t even reach that far in. It’ll hurt, sure, but even if you get it through it doesn’t matter.
Catsaretheworst You would still have quite the time with all of these methods. These knights were no fools and knew how to handle themselves against all weaponry and forms of combat. A mace to the head would be difficult and not kill him outright. Yes it would hurt and damage the armour, but it would take more than a single blow.
Well, to sum it up quickly: Y'know Astartes from 40K? Or Spartans from Halo? Knights are basically the closest thing to those that existed in Medieval Europe.
@@wazson3178 Depends on the historical period. They've often went for what is the most effective and obtainable by them. Thus they were the fighting elite of their historical periods, which varied by available armour a lot. Full plate armour, as we know the beautiful, well-fitted gothic version, appeared in renaissance, which is not medieval anymore. Plate armour did exist before that, but it was not articulated. Before that, they've often went for either mail armour or scale armour, and so on. Nevertheless, they were trained in wielding their weapons and wearing their armour, knowing their strenghts and weaknesses. If a mail armour knight faced an enemy with dangerous enough weapon or tactics, they most often did take the necessary precautions in combat as well.
@@SirDemonLord I know that , And Articulated plate armour existed before the Renaissance as is proven by the existence of the churburg set #13. And according to this video : ua-cam.com/video/0VaNfeBj6jA/v-deo.html There seems to be plate armour before the 15th century, although not as evolved and distinct in styles as gothic and florentine .
that and the true samurai way . Arrange this fight near a tree in the summer .wait in the tree for him to arrive in the sun ,wait for the heat to boil he's armor nice and hot and let him get thirsty,get him tired ,let him give up .then... option one- like a survivor sneak away . option two - like a samurai sneakily climb down the tree ,sneak up behind him draw sword ,then get the weak spots. (back of neck ,legs, armpits ish ).kill him /sell him
@@matteo.d.h6770 Dude I know its been 8 months but WTF are you talking about?First of all 14th century palte steel with mail and gamberson is still heavy, you can move in it if you have the strength for it(most people now dont, they die from only wearing a badly made mail shirt). Then a simple white cloak will surely help but wont cut it in the long run because the knight will get tired. Supply lines were dog shit in medieval times, they raided the countryside most of the time for food. siege weapons? srsly? strategy doesnt play a role and the experience of a samurai and a knight would be about equal as the samurai class could be compared to low/med class european nobility. Yes the steel is worse thats why they IMPORTED it from china for the exspensive Nodachi's and Katana's. Thier armor was made of overlapping plates not one thicc plate meaning the quality could be lower for it to be effective in combat
Great video as always Raff! :D Anyways, HEMA practitioner here. The treatises that show armored fighting are generally for one of two situations: 1) You are both in armor. Your opponent is using the same techniques, more or less, that you are. In this case, the better fighter has the advantage. 2) You are not in armor. These techniques are last resorts meant to be what you TRY to do when fighting an opponent in armor. The reality is that they still have to worry about defense a hell of a lot less than you do, and in addition to that they probably have significantly more training than you do given their status. Think of it like knife defense. Yes, you CAN defend yourself against a knife when unarmed, but the reality is that if someone decides they're gonna stab you, your options are either run or a 90% chance that your defense fails and you get stabbed. This is true in medieval dagger defense (as shown in Fiore's treatise) and also in modern knife defense. Also, the thing about half swording and the mordschlag that people don't realize is that if you're not in armor, you can't just approach the armored fighter like this. A half sworded grip significantly shortens your reach and your ability to bind. If the knight is using standard blossfechten (unarmored fighting) techniques, they will probably kill you before you manage to enter. Your only chance is to bind/cover yourself as you enter, THEN change grips, THEN try to grapple or access one of the weak points. Meanwhile your opponent has a huge advantage in grappling (their armored fists), and a HUGE advantage in accessing weak points (your entire body).
if i had to fight a person in harness with a longsword while being unarmored, i wouldn't try the murder stroke or poking the gaps while half-swording; i would try to close in and apply wrestling techniques (ringen/abrazare). this negates the reach advantage the knight has (if i was half-swording) and somewhat the advantage of armor, since armor won't protect you from locks or the leverage the sword affords me. while the armored person still has some advantage in ringen (more mass and able to injure me with basically any part of his body) i think the biggest problem would be the difference in skill: i've been training with a longsword 3 times a week for almost 2 years, but the knight probably started when he was 6-years-old :(
Yup haha. He also has a rondel, and probably has better training in wrestling since there are limitations to what we can safely do in HEMA (i.e. applying the Fiore joint locks/breaks/dislocations is a no no x'D).
Totally agree, to fight against a well trained combatant in armour would be no different from suicide. An unarmored person has overwhelmingly more weak spots that his/her opponent can simply exploit. A broken finger or a slice in the arm can easily disable a common guy.
The best way for someone to experience just how dangerous a knife attack is, would be the pen drill. For those who don't know what that is, basically take your t-shirt off, hand someone a pen (preferably a marker) and tell them to not hold back and attempt to stab you to death. Now try and take that pen from them without getting any ink on your body, as ink = cut/stab
How would this one face a European knight in full armor: 1.) Realize that she is screwed in epic proportions. 2.) Flees from the battle. 3.) Comes back with a powerful magnet. 4.) Turns it on. Yes, that was cartoonish, but the alternative was to slap around some Heartless until the Magnet, Stop, or Gravity spells are leveled up.
Not all steels are ferromagnetic, and considering knights wear woven armor (which is what Kevlar is) under their intentionally deflectively designed plate, both of these plans seem kind of poor to count on, especially if it is a low caliber gun.
All these serious answers from chess enthusiasts while I get the impression that the tiger thing thinks you can only capture a piece with a piece of higher value. Some very straight forward answers too. Nice thread.
Knights in ground-melee combat would bash each other's heads and bodies until one of them fell. Occasionally your allies would get a good push in and you were able to smash some enemies that would get separated from their line.... if you were unlucky, you'd be the one to get grabbed, and smashed. Hammers and halberds rain down on you, the blows shaking your vision and making your knees buckle. You don't even feel the pain until later... once you fell, you'd be trampled under hundreds of feet and hooves, stabbed, kicked, smashed until your body was broken and you couldn't move. If you were lucky someone would put you out of your misery once the fray was won, otherwise you'd lay there with busted ribs, brain-rattling concussion, bleeding profusely for hours or more until you finally expired. Even if you survived, there's infections, concussions, fractures, sprains, and all matter of fatigue and exhaustion, your entire body is on fire, sore. Your brothers lay dead, or screaming in agony. You sleep in spurts of 30 minutes or so, when you can sneak naps in between all the smoke and stink and horns and fighting. You eat what you can, when you can, its never enough, you're lucky if it doesn't give you runny diarrhea, and you're always hungry from burning so many calories on the field, your mouth aches with thirst, your throat and eyes burn from the smoke. Everyone stinks, it smells like the worst, nastiest gym you've ever been in. It doesn't get better. It sticks with you forever, for eternity. And these guys lived and breathed it, and they were good at it. It's how they made their living. Now, you think any of us living in this modern age would even stand a chance? One in a million, maybe. Not me, I'd take one hit on the noggin and be so shook I couldn't even think straight. And that knight would laugh, and keep on swinging. No chance. If I had to fight him, I'd try to grab him and set his clothing on fire, or wet his armor with oil and set it alight, or toss shaved metal in his face, or some other uncouth tactic because I wouldn't last five seconds against him in a fight.
jameszwilliams, yeah exactly. If you were in medeival times with only medeival stuff and tried to attack a knight, chances are the knight would kill you.
I'v never read such bullshit. These guys "lived and breathed it"? Such bullshit. You would be lucky to survive even 1 battle. You make it sound like it's something people did thousands of times, getting stronger and better, winning every time. I hear that same shit about war. You are lucky to survive even 1 battle. The rest of the time is waiting and doing other shit.
Lived and breathed it MY ASS. You would be lucky to survive even 1 battle. You make it sound like people go around killing people for 80 hours a week for years. Like, nowadays a soldier might spend 5 minutes in a firefight out of a 25 year career. So what the fuck are you on about?
His talking about Dark Souls, where if your equip load over 70% of the limit, you can preferm only fatrolls, which is not a good things for your evasion capabilitys. On top of that Dark Souls have huge amount of full plate armor sets, but for ballance non of them made of harden steel(they can be cut through like butter with anything). So that statement of him is sarcasm.
can't believe anyone think fighting a professional soldier of any era would be easy. Too much media these days. Haven't watched your videos in awhile. At first I wanted to just check this out but now I see so many interesting videos in the recommendation by you. Got to watch them all! Once I start watching I can't stop
How to kill not only one knight, but an entire order of them: accuse them of heresy and have them burned at the stake. Note: this works well if you're the king of a powerful kingdom, say... France. Otherwise it might not work.
Honestly, in many films, armor appears to be made of wet cardboard. People end up with swords thrusting straight through plate and out the back.... Myself, if I were to face a knight in armor while I had limited armor, my first thought would be to run and hope that he tires before I do, not because I could then beat him, but because I could get away and survive. And similarly versus a samurai. If I were absolutely cornered, I would try to take advantage of the limited field of vision that a full plate helm gives, I guess, but really, I think I'd be dead. Maybe the best thing to do would be to try to close the distance very quickly so I could grapple? I doubt this would work terribly well but it might give me a slightly higher chance of surviving. Half-swording and murder strokes usually seem to assume that both parties are decently armored, although I could be wrong.
The knight would probably outrun you/not tire before you xP. Knights were professional warriors that trained extensively in their armor (which didn't actually weigh all too much). Unless you run a lot, you're probably fucked x'D. Also, I'd say grappling is actually a bad idea, both because both warriors will be trained extensively in unarmed combat, and also because the last thing you want is to have your face shattered by an armored gauntlet haha. As for the mordschlag, actually no, it is shown in some sources being used by unarmored individuals. Blades only cut when they slide - you can hold a sharp blade without hand protection and not get cut, even if you're hammering the hilt into someone's face. Obviously you have to be careful, but its absolutely doable.
Assuming you survive after closing the distance, I would try a take down and run. Even when he is on the floor he can kill you unless you manage to disarm him which is near impossible.
You raise an excellent point, but I happen to be a distance runner :D Not a great one, but I think it would be my best shot. And I know what it is like to run with a lot of weight on your body, because I've done it for training. It really does decrease your ability to run pretty substantially when you are carrying it around. Now, armor may be easier to carry than the weight vest, simply because of how it is distributed on your body, but still...
Thrifikionor Should be *grabs crossbow* Knughts and their armour were rendered obsolte by the invention of crossbows, muskets shots are actually much weaker and wouldn't go through most metal armour. Their only advantage over crossbows is that bullets are much cheaper and easier to produce. In the 30 years war soldiers even started wearing breast plates again as protrction from early firearms
Julia Mavroidi STOP. BREATHING. Please, it will help humanity a lot. A fucking 800 lbs crossbow launches it's bolt at ~200 J of energy, even a 9×19 mm Parabellum has more than twice that energy. And even someting like .45 ACP doesn't stand a chance to penetrate plate harness at a range where you'd be still shooting.
If by "most of us" you mean the noble ones (members of my community) or people watching Schola gladiatoria, skallagrim Knyght Errant or Lindy then I agree with you, but you wouldn't believe how many people (adults) whenever they hear me mention the word "knight" come up with the craziest concepts and misconceptions, always the same. The other day I went to a family reunion, and we started talking about my samurai armour, and then a person said "this looks very nice, not like those European super heavy armours the knights wore, you couln't ever walk properly while wearing them". see my point?
Robert Bones Every time I mention I'm a youtuber who deals with these topics to people who don't know that, they ALWAYS bring to the table things they have heard or seen in films or old and dated tv shows, to which I can only say:.."Mamma mia" xD
Humans are incredibly good at learning by doing. Imagine you have been training sword fighting since your early youth. You would know every detail, it would be like constructing a house if you studied architecture.
Yeap, that's the key point I think many of the boasters are missing: The knight has been trained from a young age in fighting and use of his armor. He is, or is supposed to be a *professional* combatant, likely expected to actually kill people (and maybe has done so already). Then there's the fact that actual violence is a pretty nasty and terrifying thing that most people in civilized societies nowadays (fortunately) don't have experience with. I've seen a few violent events during my life (drunken brawls essentially), and the general response from other bystanders has been complete shock, to the point of completely freezing and being able to do nothing but trying to pretend they aren't there so none of the aggressive people actually fighting wouldn't notice them. You know, not even being able to call the cops or something. Sparring can grant experience in dealing with a human opponent, but in sparring there's no actual threat from the other person, whereas if you fight a knight in full plate, and know that the guy wants you dead... Well, it's a terrifying, even paralyzing moment when one is reminded of one's mortality and one realizes that his/her life just might end now, in severe pain at that. I don't think all that many modern people would actually beat a knight in a duel, even if they're trained in HEMA and the use of armor.
Oddly, that's something I've noticed in more recent times, is that growing up, my concept of a knight in full armor if this guy that's so metaled up that he has to lumber around like a robot or something. You know, like the whole "crane to put them on a horse" type of thing. Namely as that's kind of what we were taught in schools. That said, I've seen some of the knight armor that's reproduced from actual armor from back then and... it's looks pretty damn mobile. I talked to one guy that had it made for him (Like I'd assume the knights of old would have) and he'd said that his armor fit like a glove and that it's actually pretty easy to maneuver in. That most people look at it and think "All that weight, it must be hard to move" when the distribution of that weight isn't like it's all in one place. Also the whole "Training with it since being young" thing, surely the weight wasn't that much of a problem. Perhaps the lack of ventilation would be, but still. +RuSosan Oddly enough, that's what I try to tell people, that when it comes to things like war, the only preparation is experience. Sure, you could read books and manuals and it's good to at least have an idea, but even in a modern age, you can train a lot, yet the first time most people hear an AK go off like "Klak-klak-klak!!!" in their direction, their heart's going to be in their throat. I imagine that it's the confidence of having been through enough of those situations and coming out alive that kind of gives someone the perspective to not have that happen. Same thing with fighting, I suppose.
This remembers me people who say, while watching professional sports, “I could beat this guy”. Yeah, sure! That’s why he’s making millions doing it and you’re watching it...
I've never done any HEMA (to my sadness) but half swording has to be one of the coolest things, ever. I'd equate fighting a knight to saying something like "Oh, I could just shoot a marine in his face. I know how from using Airsoft guns" Yeeeaahhh, no don't.
They are different things. I played paintball in high school every weekend. The marines and soldiers who would play could never keep up with us experienced people. They were too careful, kinda used to the “don’t get shot” mentality rather than the “Meh, if I get shot it will hurt a little but who cares”. They also could not get used to the slower speed of the balls. Would I fight one of them in real combat? Hell no.
Excellent video,I remember being 'that guy' who went on about the complete superiority of samurai and their magical katana that can easily cut through diamond and never break.First thing to realise is knights were not slow,they were well able to move in armour,and were equally deadly as samurai in martial training.
It suprises me that people say they can "easily" defeat a fully armored knight in a 1v1 combat. Knights are terrifying to face in a combat! They're like the Medieval version of Tanks.
Knights did not represent a large number of soldiers in a battle for being high maintenance cost units, such as the high value of their armor in his time. I believe that the best way to deal with a knight would teamwork, a formation of infantry with polearms, surrounding the knight looking for gaps in their joints helping the ally Knight to fight against this opponent.
Alexandros grivas Then I expressed it badly sorry. What comes to my mind when I think of "men-at-arms" is that soldier with a gambeson, helmet and other metal pieces of armor. That typical soldier who enters the military branch without a wealthy family behind. Use as equipment that the Lord gives.
I would use the ancient ninja technique of blowing itching powder onto the European night......then wait for him to start peeling off armor.....I know it will work as I saw it in a movie from the 1980's. And those movies are the best for training....right?......lol
You couldn't get the powder into the armor and past all the layers of clothing underneath. You might be able to get crushed glass through the eye holes and into their eyes though. Then you hit them multiple times with a mace while they're blind.
Bah amateurs. I can destroy a knight with nothing but a dagger. As long as it is sharpened. And the knight is not moving. Nor retaliating. Give me a week. If that fail, I can Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start.
As an Italophile, and lover of history - can I say how good your English is. My Italian friends who speak very good English are bot even close to you. Even a friend who has an English mum and Italian father!
finally someone with logic.... ive been saying all this shit for years man, people watch a few movies and play some games and suddenly become combat experts
Metatron started to explain about fighting and then and ad about LOTR came and epic fighting and afterwards Metatron said "And this is an example of it" XDD
Against an armored knight? I would use my gun and aim for the head. Other wise I don't think there is anything to be done unless I had the drop on him, takedown from behind is the answer to everything. And then loot him and sell the stuff to the hema people.
Seeing as how I've never been trained in formal combat, the best way for me to best a knight is to put as much distance between him and I as I can. I'd probably say about a continent or two. But if he was fully plated, and I was actually trained and likewise fully plated, I might try to deflect any attack with my shield (like hell I'm fighting a knight without one) and, while half-swording, jab him with the hand guard in the neck for a mini-murder stroke. I'm not familiar with how durable chain armor is, but my hope is that I can hit something vital.
How to kill a Knight? Gun that's my answer, I may train with a sword every week but I know I can't beat a man who has spent his entire life training to fight, when he's in armor and when I'm not.
***** Damn right, I'm not a fool, I know I can't win that fight which is why I would use a modern gun. I don't think that it matters how much I train with my sword at the group I train with I probably wont become as skilled a fighter as most Knights as from a young age they learned how to fight and to handle the sword and wear armor.
I love armchair warriors claiming: "Oh, it'd be easy to beat a knight/samurai because they were slow and had weak spots"! RIIIIIIGHT, that's why they were the PREMIER soldiers of there respective era's!
My methods for fighting a knight, in order of preference: Run like hell, maybe set up a few impromptu traps along the way (and by "traps" I mean things like "knocking over objects for him to trip over as I'm running past"), and find a better position to deal with him. Second best option: shoot him. I don't necessarily mean with a firearm (crossbows were pretty good about penetrating armor, which is why the Pope tried to ban them), but SOMETHING that lets me shoot at him from cover. Third best option: Poleaxe, spear, or similar distance weapon. The more distance I can put between myself and the highly trained professional warrior who is accustomed to athletic movements for sustained periods even while weighed down by his equipment, the better. (And all of these presuppose that I'M not a knight myself. Gimme dat armor!)
sometimes fighting dirty is how u defeat a stronger opponent... u make a good point but still I rather have comrades to take him on, safety in numbers perhaps we can hold the knights for ransom and get gold in exchange for him
Better position to deal with him is not to deal with him - when you so lucky to have a river behind you, run like hell to jump in that river he not go swimm after you. Maybe you not drawn. It's a better chance to survive.
I think another assumption people get wrong is thinking that a knight would be awkward or slow. In my opinion, i think they would catch those people by surprise with how quick they were. As you said, they were professional fighters. Trained since childhood and probably very accustomed to their armor.
Fighting a knight is really very simple. .308 from cover at around 300 yards should make short work of him. should be out of range of anything in his arsenal and, as you are in cover, you will be a difficult target if you happen to be wrong. the round should go through a knights armour like it would basically any other semi hard surface. as a bonus the armour will keep most of the mess inside.
at that range a longbow might work against you .yes you might be undetectable but people if you was sent back to the past and tried to make this good luck getting any" decent" gun powder .and furthermore dude just be nice to the guy about to die and you know stand like in a short range to him (30 feet or less ) .I mean he is gonna die ,so at least let him see your face .lets face it ,are you gonna miss at that range and will that load of bullets not kill him ?
Gavin Romero tell that to Ned Kelly. FYI people steel plate armour was stopping bullets in 1880, only 138 years ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_of_the_Kelly_gang notice the 18 bullet marks, not holes.
I was one of those people that underestimated knights, and how full plate armor (for example) worked. Perhaps from the same sources you talked about, unrealistic games, badly done documentaries (ikr), movies/tv series, etc. But after watching some youtube videos and playing more "realistic" games and actually thinking a little bit (lol) I realized how stupid I was. But still, there's a ton of disinformation of the same sorts about archery in those times, and maybe earlier, sometimes from the same people that gave me the more realistic and correct image of a knight or warrior of old times. And so far I've only seen one person giving another image to archers of those old times that actually makes more sense, and supposedly there's old books that actually shows those more natural and effective techniques, and that person is Lars Andersen. Unfortunately there's still no change on the way archers are depicted in all types of media and I would like to see more of that. Specially in games because I would like to have fun playing as a real good effective archer.
Why didn't they carry pots of boiling water, with little fires setup near the battlefield to keep them hot? Just throw it at a knight and it gets into all the holes and scalds them.
One shot is enough and we are talking about 15th century knight armor which probably wasnt designed to stop musket balls. Its not the cuirasse of the french gendarmes
Crossbows and early guns would certainly do their damage to platemail, but I don't think that a single shot to the cuirass would be enough to kill. It would no doubt dent the armor and shatter some ribs, maybe temporarily immobilize the knight, but he'd probably survive. Head/neck shots are a different story though.
@@realtissaye Muskets and Arquebusses from the 1450s couldnt penetrate armor that well though especially well crafted ones. Even in the THirty Years War some 300 years later, you still have soldiers wearing armor for protections
A friend of mine has a full plate armour and is LARPing. So there he was, walking around in his plate and not really seeing much because of the helmet, while somebody had the idea they could sneak up and hit the armpit from below. My friend was just walking and suddenly heard a big CRUNCH, at which point the foot of his would-be opponent was crushed by the weight of a muscular man wearing heavy full plate armour. He barely noticed anything being different about the ground he was stepping on, either. The would-be rogue did not manage to hit the armpit. Nor did he manage to unbalance anybody.
hi there. could you make a video of armor and weapon costs of the medival knight and put it in perception to modern currency ? you hinted at it briefly. but i am curious to hear more about that.
As a modern student of MMA, with some experience in amateur competition, the concept of fighting a fully plated, well disciplined and trained Knight is TERRIFYING. That said, if I had to fight one, I would go to my one skill that could be better than theirs: GRAPPLING. I'd try to feint to provoke a defensive reaction, then immediately lunge in for a tackle. Once on the ground, I believe I would have the advantage- students of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu know what I am saying, but when you hit the floor with a BJJ fighter who knows more than you, they can control you like a cheap toy. I'd try to use my greater understanding of ground fighting to tire out the Knight until I could get a dominant position from which to attack a limb with joint locks. I have zero experience in swordplay, but pugilism studies have shown that there are fundamentals in hand-to-hand with or without melee weapons. My only chance would be use footwork to avoid attacks till I could drag to ground, exhaust him, then draw dagger and start hunting those weak points. No chance of success if he isn't tired. Also, at 6'2, I am considerably larger than most Knights were- I'd be considered a giant back then. Perhaps that could be a bit of intimidation factor?
I think they were much bigger than average on account of being selected for their talent and SIZE. Just like professional athletes today are selected and trained. Size is HUGE advantage in hand to hand combat. So most of "knights" were members of retinues of major landlords selected for their ability to fight and equiped at landlords expence. That was their game and they were good at it. We have Visby for proof.
Many Interests wasn't most of this "selecting" done based on who the parents were, as in only nobility got to be knights? So the bigger ones probably were most successful, but you also had the all the inbred children with unhelpful genetic traits who also got to be knights.
If I understand Matt from Schola Gladiatoria correctly, knights did learn to grapple. It is one of the more effective methods against another knight. And since they expected to meet a few on the field of battle, I expect the also trained that. Plus, according to Ian LaSpina of Knyght Errant, plate armour prevents over extension of joints.
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How would I beat a knight? "Easy"! I would use a ranged weapon like a gun or a crossbow. What? Did anyone think I would try to take on a trained, armored combatant in a direct fight?
You exhaust them, or after they swung, grab the arm holding the sword and jam a blade through an opening in their helmet, neck, or the joint between the pubic. They don't die, but they'll bleed from a severed carotid and femoral artery.
Lvl100MagiKarp Splash That strategy only works if you are physically strong and agile enough to tire them in the first place. And as his video pointed out, Armored knights are far more skilled and agile than they look. Don't bother trying to taking them head on. Picking a hand to hand fight with them will only result in you taking a dirty nap in the floor.
***** Maybe... But the guy still is covered in steel armor, so tackling him will probably hurt. Also, you better hope that this knock him unconciouss, or at least that you are fast enough to get away from him from the ground, or he will still beat you up.
Its like saying "yeah i can beat a professional MMA Fighter, I just punch him against the chin and knock him out. Thats his weak spot So easy...". We all know who will have to be carried to the hospital later.
All your buddies will have no armor or proper weapons against a knight, meaning all of you can die just from their hardened iron gauntlets hitting you like a train. If you try to hit them you'll break knuckles, kicking is dumb since you can easily be stabbed, or they can just resort to a sidearm, a dagger to easily dispose of five unarmed unarmored inexperienced opponents.
I know how to fight a knight.....he pushes me to the ground and pulls my head off and then tosses it to my mates. i.e Sir Gregor Clegane, Game of Thrones. But seriously these guys job is to kill...you. My hobby is boxing, and HEMA...when I get time.
The best way to defeat a knight is by turtling. Be in a formation in a group where no part of you in exposed. I think the best formation is the front line crouching with there shields up and the second line putting their shields on top of the first line Guy's shield. This makes the front line guy almost impossible to hit. Then the front line guys just have to strike out from the gaps the shields would make. It would also be important for the formation to keep moving to put pressure on the knight.
I view most combat as an exercise in probability. The anti armor techniques have low probability success against a resisting opponent, especially if the opponent isn't limited to the same low probability attacks. They are going to work some times, but I would look for any alternative before betting my life on something with such a low chance of success. If I were to fight in such a situation I would attempt to use neutralize both our swords in a bind then try to win in the grapple. I accept this is as low a probability of success maneuver as half swording or the murder stroke, but it has the advantage of protecting my fingers with the cross guard while I attempt it.
High Master Johannes Liechtenauer Regardless of wither he would survive the blow or not is unimportant. He would be on his ass unable to fight for a very long time with broken rips and possibly a broken sternum.
I agree fully with you. I could write an essay, but I'll refrain from that 😄. A knight trained from early youth to be Elite. 2, they understood their armour, the rich had specially tailored armour made to suit their needs. 3, a sword against flesh is a man devouring monster..... especially in the hands of one trained to wield such a beast. Against armour it became a versatile tool so to speak. 4, two knights didn't just slug it out. It was a game of skill until one got worn out or made a mistake, nobody simply ripped open a visor and delivered a killing stroke. I could go on, but I'll leave it there. I like your insights
Yes a knight in full plate armor is difficult to kill. But it is also silly to assume that a knight who have trained all his life in combat can deal with a couple of seasoned soldier who are also peasent, armed with the right weapons when out numbered. How many times have history proven that supposed super "knight, samurai, red coats" are beaten by properly equiped peasent, low class soldiers.(sometimes under equiped!) There are no the definitive advantage. A knight is still a human with 2 arms and 2 legs, facing 2 lightly armored but equipe opponent would put the knight in disadvantage regardless. How about agincourt, a battle with over whelming knights on the french side and properly armed peasents(or mix) mecenaries. What happen to those Knights?
Bassicly you should ask your self would you be able to take on a navy seal or spaznats? If the answer is no, what makes you think you stand a chance against the medieval version of those guy's in a suite of armor?
Metatron, I hope you weren't trying to say that that sword is a 'longsword' (5:55). That is a single-handed arming sword (Also sometimes referred to as a 'knightly' sword), which would usually be used with a shield. On that note, I wish you would have mentioned that knights typically carried shields, which are severely underestimated since videogames don't know how to do shields right.
I believe that even a medieval farmer could defeat most people who said they would kill a knight
1 knight easily kills 1 Peasant. The technique I would use is MANY Peasants trained with Polearms. Even knife tied on a stick. As long as our sticks are longer than Knight's weapon. Have spare sticks available for when he cuts our sticks.
20 Peasants surround Knight. We trip him over with our long sticks. Immediately, 5 Peasants jump on top of him and pin him down. Then daggers.
The technique to inspire Peasant Revolt is Printing Press and Astronomy and Communion in Both Kinds.
Not necessarily. Medieval farmers usually weren't particularily well fed or healthy. Against someone who regularily does labour in modern times they would probably have the short end of the stick.
Then again, against someone who spends most of their time infront of a screen they might have a decent chance.
@@darthplagueis13 you underestimate the brute force of medieval period
Yup, also a good point.
Dafydd Thomas you act as if the knight won’t fight back
Destroying knights and samurai is easy...
Step 1. Be born in the 20th/21st century
Step 2. Go to museums to witness the remnants of your enemies.
Every time I go to a museum that's what I do, just pretend that everything there is merely the remnants of the many nations I've crushed..... in civilization.
Fuck you I laughed
Destroying a samurai: introduce them to anime & the herbivore lifestyle.
Destroying a knight: introduce his wife to feminism.
Dank Memeage basically any rifle would destroy plate armour
hahah
To destroy a night, turn on a light.
HOW POETIC
to destroy a night, wait till light?
Sherratt Pemberton black night yeah on night they are like black pepole you cant see them
Keith Anderson *cricket chirps
The night will return the following night. Groundhog day style.
I would use a traditional Australian technique called "pissbolting". This involves rapid acceleration in a direction opposite to a threat.
In America it's called "Cheesing it"
kittehdrawrs in France it's called "war"
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@@Smackosynthesis *france after 1920* before that they held their own against or beat the spanish, british, the germans ect. As many times as not. Even the holy roman empire before Germany was a nation, and pushing England straight off the continent before Great Britain was founded.
Preferably towards any location that contains some heavy modern ordnance.
It baffles me how a real life person could think they could beat someone who's trained their whole life to fight because they aren't wearing armour. What do they think the entire purpose of armour is? A masochist medieval version of an ankle weight?
i could beat a knight (with a modern high powered rifle) ;) in the chaos of battle, getting the right cercomstance a commoner possible could take a knight by capture or kill. in single combat, the knight would have the advantage. they have the training, the gear and the experience.
Sean Rea well that changes everything. Obviously a high powered rifle could penetrate a knight's armour.
Depends on the commoners weapon peasants arent trained to fight against armor usually
+Sean Rea And I could beat an army of Knights with a nuclear bomb. What is your point?
Exactly. It's like in fencing saying "I'd just stab him" or in a street fight "I'd just beat him up" or for absolutely any task "I'd just win". Well sure but that's the hard part, lol.
A medival hardened armor of stellplate, would cost the same as a house. And since the only one who could afford this would be born into wealth, would have trained all his life. This is like a modern day tank going against an civillian throwing rocks.
what if its a civilian throwing pommels
then the civilian ends him rightly.
Not 100% accurate analogy, but that was Kool
What if the civilian had a sling? That guy's gonna have a shitty time trying to hit Tommy down the Lane when he keeps running away and ringing his helmet like a dinner bell from afar.
Simon Kjær lol that doesn't mean they trained all their life and it definitely isn't worth more than a house you idiot. False facts constructed by a 12 year old boy
Shit, it's damn near impossible to best a knight, even if you manage to cut off all of their limbs they'll still be able to fight you to a draw.
HAH I get it
thats black knight exclusive!
Nonsense!! 'Tis but a scratch!!!
TheAnonymousMrGrape only the Knights of nee
Goatfood *ni
What would I do if I had to face a knight who's wearing full armour?
Um... probably run, kill a bunch of rats for experience and gold, then return when I'm better equipped and have leveled up a bit. Or if I had to fight him, poke him with something long and pointy while staying out of his range and hope he doesn't kill me before I get lucky.
Yes, my combat experience comes exclusively from video games.
This comment chain, although small, is pure, liquid gold.
I would try a murder stroke
i would grind the rats until im way overleveled and then oneshot him
*Silence!* filthy peasant I say.
If ye are in need to defeat a knight, then ye shall unscrew and throw your pommel at your foe vigorously, thus *Ending him Rightly*
Press ~, then type setpos(z=10000), press ~ again and watch him for.
Of course Mediaeval knights didn't do HEMA - because in those days it was just EMA!
Michael Wilkinson genius
Wouldn't it just be MA by that logic?
Mediaeval?
Seriously dude you couldn't Google that word?
@@MrWeAllAreOne Mediaeval is also an accepted spelling. You could've Googled it and found it in tons of official dictionaries. In fact, one could even consider mediaeval a more correct spelling as the word is derived from the Latin "medium aevum", meaning "middle age."
@@bigblackbats rev up that stake because you just burned that peasant!!
How to destroy a knight in two easy steps:
1- Unscrew the pommel of your sword.
2- Throw it at the knight, thus ending him rightly.
For best effect, bounce it off the ground directly into the groin.
Throwing pommel is a distraction, but a good tactic.
White343
No, it's a hyper lethal finishing blow.
Groin shots always win!!! Plus they get great laffs!
I saw a knight get beheaded with a thrown pommel
I wonder if in 600 years people will say "I would really destroy a 2000s soldier for sure" lol
Fantastic_Timez yeah just use a futuristic weapon
Yeah man! The fighters of the fossil fuel age carried a lot of weight in their kit, so I would simply be able to push him over and stab him. Their armor didn’t even cover their faces!
@@garchamp9844 Or their feet for that matter. Just imagne the little toe all exposed! what were they thinking back then..
how would they look like? dwarfs? idk
Ho I could destroy a tank with my bare hands!!
Nah, none of those. I'd just cut right through his armor at the thickest part with my katana. I've learned in For honor that that's how it works.
tahi laci, um, wrong! Plate armor is uncuttable by any sword. Plus for honor is a game, games are not real, you idiot!😡😡😡😡
XD
Skye Waybright he's just kidding XD
To be fair, if For Honor was realistic the knights would be so OP that I'd honestly feel bad for how badly one sided the fights would be in favor of the knights.
And I say that as a Knight player who mains Warden and Lawbringer.
Skye Waybright That's the joke
i use to think knights were weak against speed but later on i realize that armor is more than meets the eye. movies and junk make them look weaker
Knights were short, stalky, toothless, hairy, and uneducated bunch that got paid in 3 silver per service, and they had a life expectancy of 30, those who live past 50 become wardens. They didn't have the education to school soldiers, so the monks and priest educated them.
And knights were more encourage to perform loyal and honorable duties so they can be rewarded, with a title, a land , and a bride that bestow them to nobility. Those who have not earn any form of merit and past their military age, they wondered the land bullying farmers for food and shelter, rape women, work as bodyguards, and ultimately put down by neighboring lords for crimes. They were either kept in the cells till they turn lepers or hang.
If you started running around a knight they could just stand their until you got tired
What the fuck are you talking about? "uneducated, short, toothless" They were nobility part of their training and upbringing aside from combat training was learning Latin, read and write and holy scriptures. depending on their income they would have the best food on offer and a good diet, even the poorest knight could afford decent food. Where the fuck do you get your information from?
+munkofpunk you assume they were born royalty. Where did you get that. Food then were scarce; wheat, barley, firebread( hardtack on oven mounts) salted pork, and beer. The average man then were 5,3-5,7, unless they were born with Anomegaly then they're 6ft. Poor nutrition and poor hygiene. Knights were no more than sons of landlords, and those in royalty they wore emblemed armor to represent their landlord and house( village mayor, representative). They were all illiterate and can only distinguish their house banner and the house banner of their king. Monks and priest were literate to latin, german, franc, and old english and it was only taught to squires who chooses to monks and the king. All of em. Were illiterate. They have a royal aswiper and a messenger department. Yes they were short and illiterate. They died from aids, smallpox, rocky mountain spotted fever, typhoid, measles, birth defect, and diarrhea. Yes diarrhea.
Funny thing is that 97% of those who say that beating a knight is easy would end up being a levy peasant armed with a spear, a shield and a knife at best, and with a pitchfork or a knife at worst. Then fighting against a knight would prove nigh impossible.
At least those levy peasants would not try to duel the knight. Even with full armor, I would probably avoid running into a formation of spearmen.
Stick to an overlapping shield, maybe a little bit of mail and a round and affordable helmet to deflect swords or spears, and carry a cheap mace, or a warhammer, or a club...options, cheap options. Still not an easy fight at all against a real Knight with even little to no war experience.
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And be very passive, you could likely extend yourself too much and expose weaknesses in your cheap armor around your limbs :D
Unless you have a ton of levys against one night. Then you can overwhelm him.
actualy not. If you can use the standart pike technique, you can ultimately corner him to the point he has no chance of hitting you.
alternatively, if you have an hammer, you should try and use it on him, provided you get close
Yeah , I'm gonna wrestle that guy in full plate armor that's been training since he was nine , Without support! What a great idea!
And that's the bottom line... Cause stone cold says so.
That's why you are thane rather then the skeleton at Dragonsreach.
@@lazulenoc6863 Touché
Even if you half-sword a knight under the arm, you still have mail and padding to stab through.
These people are just idiots most of them are probably too weak to even thrust the sword for more than a few seconds and the knight would side-step their attack with ease anyway.
Id be in plate with no sheild, then have a Estoc and Knife, maybe a mace too.
Estoc: Disarm Knight > Half Sword stab in armpit
Dagger: Push down knight > Stab through eye slits/ Through visor
Mace: I've worked with these less, so maybe a swing up the chin should dizzy him enough to slam it down onto his head.
Catsaretheworst
Try to stab through a thick jacket + padded linen + mail in a small gap at an awkward angle into a moving opponent that will do whatever he can to stop you from doing it. It’s not easy, and the Knight is not a moron. Even if you do get the tip through so what? It won’t hit a vital organ because the sword won’t even reach that far in. It’ll hurt, sure, but even if you get it through it doesn’t matter.
Catsaretheworst You would still have quite the time with all of these methods. These knights were no fools and knew how to handle themselves against all weaponry and forms of combat. A mace to the head would be difficult and not kill him outright. Yes it would hurt and damage the armour, but it would take more than a single blow.
Hugo Wallot that's gets to be unfair though, only one on one in this scenario.
Well, to sum it up quickly:
Y'know Astartes from 40K? Or Spartans from Halo? Knights are basically the closest thing to those that existed in Medieval Europe.
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-Khorne Berserker #3421
if said knight is in full plate armor right ?
@@wazson3178 Depends on the historical period. They've often went for what is the most effective and obtainable by them. Thus they were the fighting elite of their historical periods, which varied by available armour a lot.
Full plate armour, as we know the beautiful, well-fitted gothic version, appeared in renaissance, which is not medieval anymore. Plate armour did exist before that, but it was not articulated. Before that, they've often went for either mail armour or scale armour, and so on.
Nevertheless, they were trained in wielding their weapons and wearing their armour, knowing their strenghts and weaknesses. If a mail armour knight faced an enemy with dangerous enough weapon or tactics, they most often did take the necessary precautions in combat as well.
@@SirDemonLord I know that ,
And Articulated plate armour existed before the Renaissance as is proven by the existence of the churburg set #13.
And according to this video :
ua-cam.com/video/0VaNfeBj6jA/v-deo.html
There seems to be plate armour before the 15th century, although not as evolved and distinct in styles as gothic and florentine .
if history has taught me anything it's that the knights run away from the guy with the flamethrower .
that and the true samurai way .
Arrange this fight near a tree in the summer .wait in the tree for him to arrive in the sun ,wait for the heat to boil he's armor nice and hot and let him get thirsty,get him tired ,let him give up .then...
option one- like a survivor sneak away .
option two - like a samurai sneakily climb down the tree ,sneak up behind him draw sword ,then get the weak spots. (back of neck ,legs, armpits ish ).kill him /sell him
hans please
@@matteo.d.h6770 Dude I know its been 8 months but WTF are you talking about?First of all 14th century palte steel with mail and gamberson is still heavy, you can move in it if you have the strength for it(most people now dont, they die from only wearing a badly made mail shirt). Then a simple white cloak will surely help but wont cut it in the long run because the knight will get tired. Supply lines were dog shit in medieval times, they raided the countryside most of the time for food. siege weapons? srsly? strategy doesnt play a role and the experience of a samurai and a knight would be about equal as the samurai class could be compared to low/med class european nobility. Yes the steel is worse thats why they IMPORTED it from china for the exspensive Nodachi's and Katana's. Thier armor was made of overlapping plates not one thicc plate meaning the quality could be lower for it to be effective in combat
@@tomjongman4797 think hes joking
then they say a shotgun in the trenchies is inhuman XD
Great video as always Raff! :D
Anyways, HEMA practitioner here. The treatises that show armored fighting are generally for one of two situations:
1) You are both in armor. Your opponent is using the same techniques, more or less, that you are. In this case, the better fighter has the advantage.
2) You are not in armor. These techniques are last resorts meant to be what you TRY to do when fighting an opponent in armor. The reality is that they still have to worry about defense a hell of a lot less than you do, and in addition to that they probably have significantly more training than you do given their status. Think of it like knife defense. Yes, you CAN defend yourself against a knife when unarmed, but the reality is that if someone decides they're gonna stab you, your options are either run or a 90% chance that your defense fails and you get stabbed. This is true in medieval dagger defense (as shown in Fiore's treatise) and also in modern knife defense.
Also, the thing about half swording and the mordschlag that people don't realize is that if you're not in armor, you can't just approach the armored fighter like this. A half sworded grip significantly shortens your reach and your ability to bind. If the knight is using standard blossfechten (unarmored fighting) techniques, they will probably kill you before you manage to enter. Your only chance is to bind/cover yourself as you enter, THEN change grips, THEN try to grapple or access one of the weak points. Meanwhile your opponent has a huge advantage in grappling (their armored fists), and a HUGE advantage in accessing weak points (your entire body).
I agree completely :)
if i had to fight a person in harness with a longsword while being unarmored, i wouldn't try the murder stroke or poking the gaps while half-swording; i would try to close in and apply wrestling techniques (ringen/abrazare). this negates the reach advantage the knight has (if i was half-swording) and somewhat the advantage of armor, since armor won't protect you from locks or the leverage the sword affords me. while the armored person still has some advantage in ringen (more mass and able to injure me with basically any part of his body) i think the biggest problem would be the difference in skill: i've been training with a longsword 3 times a week for almost 2 years, but the knight probably started when he was 6-years-old :(
Yup haha. He also has a rondel, and probably has better training in wrestling since there are limitations to what we can safely do in HEMA (i.e. applying the Fiore joint locks/breaks/dislocations is a no no x'D).
Totally agree, to fight against a well trained combatant in armour would be no different from suicide. An unarmored person has overwhelmingly more weak spots that his/her opponent can simply exploit. A broken finger or a slice in the arm can easily disable a common guy.
The best way for someone to experience just how dangerous a knife attack is, would be the pen drill. For those who don't know what that is, basically take your t-shirt off, hand someone a pen (preferably a marker) and tell them to not hold back and attempt to stab you to death.
Now try and take that pen from them without getting any ink on your body, as ink = cut/stab
How would this one face a European knight in full armor:
1.) Realize that she is screwed in epic proportions.
2.) Flees from the battle.
3.) Comes back with a powerful magnet.
4.) Turns it on.
Yes, that was cartoonish, but the alternative was to slap around some Heartless until the Magnet, Stop, or Gravity spells are leveled up.
LMAO electro magnet on a crane>steel armor
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Or you could get a gun.
Not all steels are ferromagnetic, and considering knights wear woven armor (which is what Kevlar is) under their intentionally deflectively designed plate, both of these plans seem kind of poor to count on, especially if it is a low caliber gun.
Or you could unscrew your pommel and throw it at the knight ending him rightly.
What? I can destroy a knight easily! Just capture it with your bishop! Bishops > Knights .
Just a Tiger thing wuajaja
Just a Tiger thing a pair of Knights can be stronger than a pair of Bishops or a bishop and a knight, particularly in an endgame
In professional chess, grandmasters have been known to make pawns into knights instead of queens. Knights are awesome.
Bishops>Knights in a open game, Knights>Bishops in a closed game.
All these serious answers from chess enthusiasts while I get the impression that the tiger thing thinks you can only capture a piece with a piece of higher value. Some very straight forward answers too. Nice thread.
Seriously, how do people thumbs this stuff down? I just wonder about that. This is a great video and very informative.
Thank you friend, I appreciate
Einstein said, "Two things are infinite, the universe and stupidity. But I'm not sure about the first one.," Great video😊
Knights in ground-melee combat would bash each other's heads and bodies until one of them fell. Occasionally your allies would get a good push in and you were able to smash some enemies that would get separated from their line.... if you were unlucky, you'd be the one to get grabbed, and smashed. Hammers and halberds rain down on you, the blows shaking your vision and making your knees buckle. You don't even feel the pain until later... once you fell, you'd be trampled under hundreds of feet and hooves, stabbed, kicked, smashed until your body was broken and you couldn't move. If you were lucky someone would put you out of your misery once the fray was won, otherwise you'd lay there with busted ribs, brain-rattling concussion, bleeding profusely for hours or more until you finally expired. Even if you survived, there's infections, concussions, fractures, sprains, and all matter of fatigue and exhaustion, your entire body is on fire, sore. Your brothers lay dead, or screaming in agony. You sleep in spurts of 30 minutes or so, when you can sneak naps in between all the smoke and stink and horns and fighting. You eat what you can, when you can, its never enough, you're lucky if it doesn't give you runny diarrhea, and you're always hungry from burning so many calories on the field, your mouth aches with thirst, your throat and eyes burn from the smoke. Everyone stinks, it smells like the worst, nastiest gym you've ever been in.
It doesn't get better. It sticks with you forever, for eternity. And these guys lived and breathed it, and they were good at it. It's how they made their living. Now, you think any of us living in this modern age would even stand a chance? One in a million, maybe. Not me, I'd take one hit on the noggin and be so shook I couldn't even think straight. And that knight would laugh, and keep on swinging. No chance. If I had to fight him, I'd try to grab him and set his clothing on fire, or wet his armor with oil and set it alight, or toss shaved metal in his face, or some other uncouth tactic because I wouldn't last five seconds against him in a fight.
jameszwilliams, yeah exactly. If you were in medeival times with only medeival stuff and tried to attack a knight, chances are the knight would kill you.
I'v never read such bullshit. These guys "lived and breathed it"? Such bullshit. You would be lucky to survive even 1 battle. You make it sound like it's something people did thousands of times, getting stronger and better, winning every time. I hear that same shit about war. You are lucky to survive even 1 battle. The rest of the time is waiting and doing other shit.
Lived and breathed it MY ASS. You would be lucky to survive even 1 battle. You make it sound like people go around killing people for 80 hours a week for years. Like, nowadays a soldier might spend 5 minutes in a firefight out of a 25 year career. So what the fuck are you on about?
ok, so they either never got in a fight or they died right away, which is it?
Imagine how fucking buff these dudes must have been.
How to fight a knight on hand to hand combat.
1: nope
2: the fuck out
throw him at the ground
+Guilherme Matos Passarini He won't let you do that.
Fucking knights, man!!! Damn it
its pretty easy to beat a knight their carry load is usually over 70 percent so they roll badly.
They carry nothing more than their armor around and full plate was around 25-35 kilos in the 14-15 century
His talking about Dark Souls, where if your equip load over 70% of the limit, you can preferm only fatrolls, which is not a good things for your evasion capabilitys.
On top of that Dark Souls have huge amount of full plate armor sets, but for ballance non of them made of harden steel(they can be cut through like butter with anything).
So that statement of him is sarcasm.
RINGARD k
Pssh, what kind of idiot uses heavy armor at 70%, are you a casul?
Then ya just roll punish amirite
can't believe anyone think fighting a professional soldier of any era would be easy. Too much media these days. Haven't watched your videos in awhile. At first I wanted to just check this out but now I see so many interesting videos in the recommendation by you. Got to watch them all!
Once I start watching I can't stop
What the fuck do you mean with "too much media"?
Against a fully armored knight? I'd run to the hills, Run for my life.
How to kill not only one knight, but an entire order of them: accuse them of heresy and have them burned at the stake.
Note: this works well if you're the king of a powerful kingdom, say... France. Otherwise it might not work.
Especially if you are a king who is indebted with said order.
Lol
Bonus if your name is Philip
Or unscrew the pommel and end them rightly.
and you have enough money to bribe a pope for it
I could destroy a knight...
So long as I had a gun.
in 14th century? good luck
Shrekas 2 Anti tank rifle?
Nich Adams anti tank rifle in 14th century? Good luck
Shrekas 2 What you're saying I can go but I can't bring stuff with me?
+Nich Adams
You can bring NAWLEDGE.
I am imagining someone in 2800 saying
"Oh I can easily kill a US Navy SEAL commando, they have heavy kits so I can just push them!'
Honestly, in many films, armor appears to be made of wet cardboard. People end up with swords thrusting straight through plate and out the back....
Myself, if I were to face a knight in armor while I had limited armor, my first thought would be to run and hope that he tires before I do, not because I could then beat him, but because I could get away and survive. And similarly versus a samurai. If I were absolutely cornered, I would try to take advantage of the limited field of vision that a full plate helm gives, I guess, but really, I think I'd be dead. Maybe the best thing to do would be to try to close the distance very quickly so I could grapple? I doubt this would work terribly well but it might give me a slightly higher chance of surviving.
Half-swording and murder strokes usually seem to assume that both parties are decently armored, although I could be wrong.
Good point on halfswording, spot on.
The knight would probably outrun you/not tire before you xP. Knights were professional warriors that trained extensively in their armor (which didn't actually weigh all too much). Unless you run a lot, you're probably fucked x'D. Also, I'd say grappling is actually a bad idea, both because both warriors will be trained extensively in unarmed combat, and also because the last thing you want is to have your face shattered by an armored gauntlet haha. As for the mordschlag, actually no, it is shown in some sources being used by unarmored individuals. Blades only cut when they slide - you can hold a sharp blade without hand protection and not get cut, even if you're hammering the hilt into someone's face. Obviously you have to be careful, but its absolutely doable.
Assuming you survive after closing the distance, I would try a take down and run. Even when he is on the floor he can kill you unless you manage to disarm him which is near impossible.
You raise an excellent point, but I happen to be a distance runner :D Not a great one, but I think it would be my best shot. And I know what it is like to run with a lot of weight on your body, because I've done it for training. It really does decrease your ability to run pretty substantially when you are carrying it around. Now, armor may be easier to carry than the weight vest, simply because of how it is distributed on your body, but still...
do not get into grappling, kinghts always carried daggers.
Just stumbled upon your channel and I´m already loving it!
Your english is nearly perfect.
Subscribed and liked.
Thank you very much for that and welcome among the noble ones :3
How common was it for someone to try to Mordhau their enemy in battle? and If it can be dun how effective is it ?
ps
love the channel
I can easily defeat any knight in a duel.
*grabs musket
Thrifikionor too bad a musket cant pierce plate mail.
*misses
Thrifikionor Should be *grabs crossbow* Knughts and their armour were rendered obsolte by the invention of crossbows, muskets shots are actually much weaker and wouldn't go through most metal armour. Their only advantage over crossbows is that bullets are much cheaper and easier to produce. In the 30 years war soldiers even started wearing breast plates again as protrction from early firearms
Julia Mavroidi STOP. BREATHING. Please, it will help humanity a lot. A fucking 800 lbs crossbow launches it's bolt at ~200 J of energy, even a 9×19 mm Parabellum has more than twice that energy. And even someting like .45 ACP doesn't stand a chance to penetrate plate harness at a range where you'd be still shooting.
Andrew England Eat a fucking Snickers! People can't make jokes anymore?
Metranon, I think you need to stop speaking with 5 year olds. I think most of us know we'd be totally fucked going up against a knight.
If by "most of us" you mean the noble ones (members of my community) or people watching Schola gladiatoria, skallagrim Knyght Errant or Lindy then I agree with you, but you wouldn't believe how many people (adults) whenever they hear me mention the word "knight" come up with the craziest concepts and misconceptions, always the same.
The other day I went to a family reunion, and we started talking about my samurai armour, and then a person said "this looks very nice, not like those European super heavy armours the knights wore, you couln't ever walk properly while wearing them".
see my point?
wow really? I thought most people knew knights were badass muthaphukkers.
I guess i don't talk about this kind of thing often so i wouldnt know :)
Robert Bones Every time I mention I'm a youtuber who deals with these topics to people who don't know that, they ALWAYS bring to the table things they have heard or seen in films or old and dated tv shows, to which I can only say:.."Mamma mia" xD
+metatron it would still be easy to fight a knight
use a gun and ur good
Nah, I've got AP (armor piercing) ammo.
Humans are incredibly good at learning by doing. Imagine you have been training sword fighting since your early youth. You would know every detail, it would be like constructing a house if you studied architecture.
Yeap, that's the key point I think many of the boasters are missing: The knight has been trained from a young age in fighting and use of his armor. He is, or is supposed to be a *professional* combatant, likely expected to actually kill people (and maybe has done so already).
Then there's the fact that actual violence is a pretty nasty and terrifying thing that most people in civilized societies nowadays (fortunately) don't have experience with.
I've seen a few violent events during my life (drunken brawls essentially), and the general response from other bystanders has been complete shock, to the point of completely freezing and being able to do nothing but trying to pretend they aren't there so none of the aggressive people actually fighting wouldn't notice them. You know, not even being able to call the cops or something.
Sparring can grant experience in dealing with a human opponent, but in sparring there's no actual threat from the other person, whereas if you fight a knight in full plate, and know that the guy wants you dead... Well, it's a terrifying, even paralyzing moment when one is reminded of one's mortality and one realizes that his/her life just might end now, in severe pain at that.
I don't think all that many modern people would actually beat a knight in a duel, even if they're trained in HEMA and the use of armor.
Oddly, that's something I've noticed in more recent times, is that growing up, my concept of a knight in full armor if this guy that's so metaled up that he has to lumber around like a robot or something. You know, like the whole "crane to put them on a horse" type of thing. Namely as that's kind of what we were taught in schools. That said, I've seen some of the knight armor that's reproduced from actual armor from back then and... it's looks pretty damn mobile. I talked to one guy that had it made for him (Like I'd assume the knights of old would have) and he'd said that his armor fit like a glove and that it's actually pretty easy to maneuver in. That most people look at it and think "All that weight, it must be hard to move" when the distribution of that weight isn't like it's all in one place. Also the whole "Training with it since being young" thing, surely the weight wasn't that much of a problem. Perhaps the lack of ventilation would be, but still.
+RuSosan
Oddly enough, that's what I try to tell people, that when it comes to things like war, the only preparation is experience. Sure, you could read books and manuals and it's good to at least have an idea, but even in a modern age, you can train a lot, yet the first time most people hear an AK go off like "Klak-klak-klak!!!" in their direction, their heart's going to be in their throat. I imagine that it's the confidence of having been through enough of those situations and coming out alive that kind of gives someone the perspective to not have that happen. Same thing with fighting, I suppose.
This remembers me people who say, while watching professional sports, “I could beat this guy”. Yeah, sure! That’s why he’s making millions doing it and you’re watching it...
You nailed it - 😆👍
A katana can literally cut through plate as if it was butter.
Give me a Katana and I can take on any knight in any situation.
you really think so? if you're talking about a plate dish, yeah, but plate armor? hell no
+MexxGusta100 m8 thats just a troll
MexxGusta100
Yeah. It's folded about 1.000.000 times, making it essentially light as a feather and sharp as a lightsaber.
You are joking, right?
He has to
End them rightly.
[screwing sound]
JUST THROW IT!
you shall met the power of the pommel of my sword!
I submit
"I yield good sir! No need for such violence!!!!"
I've never done any HEMA (to my sadness) but half swording has to be one of the coolest things, ever.
I'd equate fighting a knight to saying something like "Oh, I could just shoot a marine in his face. I know how from using Airsoft guns" Yeeeaahhh, no don't.
They are different things. I played paintball in high school every weekend. The marines and soldiers who would play could never keep up with us experienced people. They were too careful, kinda used to the “don’t get shot” mentality rather than the “Meh, if I get shot it will hurt a little but who cares”. They also could not get used to the slower speed of the balls. Would I fight one of them in real combat? Hell no.
I'd submit and plead for mercy and honor, when I don't have a gun against a knight.
Lancor84 we use pommel to throw at them.
Excellent video,I remember being 'that guy' who went on about the complete superiority of samurai and their magical katana that can easily cut through diamond and never break.First thing to realise is knights were not slow,they were well able to move in armour,and were equally deadly as samurai in martial training.
It suprises me that people say they can "easily" defeat a fully armored knight in a 1v1 combat.
Knights are terrifying to face in a combat! They're like the Medieval version of Tanks.
Knights did not represent a large number of soldiers in a battle for being high maintenance cost units, such as the high value of their armor in his time. I believe that the best way to deal with a knight would teamwork, a formation of infantry with polearms, surrounding the knight looking for gaps in their joints helping the ally Knight to fight against this opponent.
Men at arms had the same equipment as knights just not that trained
Alexandros grivas Then I expressed it badly sorry. What comes to my mind when I think of "men-at-arms" is that soldier with a gambeson, helmet and other metal pieces of armor. That typical soldier who enters the military branch without a wealthy family behind. Use as equipment that the Lord gives.
Andy Falavinha Those where normal soldiers a man at arms is this orig08.deviantart.net/26da/f/2007/102/9/a/men_at_arms_by_wraithdt.jpg
Alexandros grivas Okay. Many different results appear when using this term. But I accept that I should have expressed myself badly.
Andy Falavinha no prob
Im pretty sure not only knights knew of their armour weaknesses, but they were also drilled mercilessly in covering their weak spots
I was on the fence about this guy at first, but the more videos I watch the more I like and respect him. He's very knowledgeable.
I would use the ancient ninja technique of blowing itching powder onto the European night......then wait for him to start peeling off armor.....I know it will work as I saw it in a movie from the 1980's. And those movies are the best for training....right?......lol
Surely the ninja turtles can train you, right?
You couldn't get the powder into the armor and past all the layers of clothing underneath. You might be able to get crushed glass through the eye holes and into their eyes though. Then you hit them multiple times with a mace while they're blind.
I'd wade wast deep in water and taunt them
But what happens if you face the European day?
a ninja would just make sure he is far away the knight and shoot him with a musket or something ....ninjas dont exactly play fair
Bah amateurs. I can destroy a knight with nothing but a dagger. As long as it is sharpened. And the knight is not moving. Nor retaliating. Give me a week.
If that fail, I can Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start.
XD
As an Italophile, and lover of history - can I say how good your English is. My Italian friends who speak very good English are bot even close to you. Even a friend who has an English mum and Italian father!
armpits aren't even real
They're a social construct.
They're a myth made by the patriarchy
#NotAllArmpits
Do not insult The Almighty Patriarchy!
You're so bigoted man, I identify as an armpit.
finally someone with logic.... ive been saying all this shit for years man, people watch a few movies and play some games and suddenly become combat experts
Literally watched two of your videos and subscribed. I enjoy your very descriptive and thoughtful insight, good work.
"I can go fight and knock out Mike Tyson all I have to do is punch him in the face."
Yeah, reality is a little different than what's in your head.
The best technique to use against a trained, armored knight: The Nike Defense.
(That's where you panic and run away as fast as you can.)
Metatron started to explain about fighting and then and ad about LOTR came and epic fighting and afterwards Metatron said "And this is an example of it" XDD
100000000% Agree with you again :D
Greve zi
Hola
Against an armored knight? I would use my gun and aim for the head. Other wise I don't think there is anything to be done unless I had the drop on him, takedown from behind is the answer to everything. And then loot him and sell the stuff to the hema people.
Or get in my car and run him over xD
Anglo-Saxon helms were bulletproof to virtually all sidearms, so no. Thrand does a video on it.
+Jacob Baumfalk what if the gun in question was a swordsplosion, or perhaps a conference call, maybe even a Maliwan corrosive smg.
+Jacob Baumfalk With all the layers maybe but I doubt the faceplate was bulletproof to any caliber
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Seeing as how I've never been trained in formal combat, the best way for me to best a knight is to put as much distance between him and I as I can. I'd probably say about a continent or two.
But if he was fully plated, and I was actually trained and likewise fully plated, I might try to deflect any attack with my shield (like hell I'm fighting a knight without one) and, while half-swording, jab him with the hand guard in the neck for a mini-murder stroke. I'm not familiar with how durable chain armor is, but my hope is that I can hit something vital.
I would run away. Because that is the one technique I can do better unarmoured and it doesn't require that much training.
How to kill a Knight? Gun that's my answer, I may train with a sword every week but I know I can't beat a man who has spent his entire life training to fight, when he's in armor and when I'm not.
Wouldn't a rifle be better?
kablouser A rifle or a pistol either way I don't want to fight him hand to hand.
***** Damn right, I'm not a fool, I know I can't win that fight which is why I would use a modern gun. I don't think that it matters how much I train with my sword at the group I train with I probably wont become as skilled a fighter as most Knights as from a young age they learned how to fight and to handle the sword and wear armor.
+Piper Johnson The time period when armors stopped being used, for that very reason.
Of course it's obvious.
Nothing that obvious needs to appear on the comment section
I love armchair warriors claiming: "Oh, it'd be easy to beat a knight/samurai because they were slow and had weak spots"! RIIIIIIGHT, that's why they were the PREMIER soldiers of there respective era's!
My methods for fighting a knight, in order of preference: Run like hell, maybe set up a few impromptu traps along the way (and by "traps" I mean things like "knocking over objects for him to trip over as I'm running past"), and find a better position to deal with him.
Second best option: shoot him. I don't necessarily mean with a firearm (crossbows were pretty good about penetrating armor, which is why the Pope tried to ban them), but SOMETHING that lets me shoot at him from cover.
Third best option: Poleaxe, spear, or similar distance weapon. The more distance I can put between myself and the highly trained professional warrior who is accustomed to athletic movements for sustained periods even while weighed down by his equipment, the better.
(And all of these presuppose that I'M not a knight myself. Gimme dat armor!)
sometimes fighting dirty is how u defeat a stronger opponent... u make a good point but still I rather have comrades to take him on, safety in numbers perhaps we can hold the knights for ransom and get gold in exchange for him
Arkone Axon guns are way more powerful than any sort of primitive bow or crossbow
Gavin Thats pobably not the reason why he decided to exclude them...
Better position to deal with him is not to deal with him - when you so lucky to have a river behind you, run like hell to jump in that river he not go swimm after you.
Maybe you not drawn.
It's a better chance to survive.
"Today we are going to talk about facing a European knight in hand to hand combat."
So... death.
I think another assumption people get wrong is thinking that a knight would be awkward or slow. In my opinion, i think they would catch those people by surprise with how quick they were. As you said, they were professional fighters. Trained since childhood and probably very accustomed to their armor.
Spandau easily beats medieval armour.
No, Bren does. Unless the knight is fingering the guard...
Our best bet against a knight invasion, though, would be a machine gun that fired sword pommels.
+Midget Tosser yes, much more efficient in ending the army rightly...
Ahh yes, but the Bren had better accuracy.
+Chris Iwaniw the memes, I can't take all the memes.
Katana. Just wearing a katana defeats a European knight.
No
meme
***** It's good to keep a certain consistency.
Katanas can cut through plates like butter.
Paper plates.
Jane Murphy Unfortunately butter's not very good at cutting plates.
can you do documentaries on WWII?
European theatre and Asia-Pacific theatre?
Fighting a knight is really very simple. .308 from cover at around 300 yards should make short work of him. should be out of range of anything in his arsenal and, as you are in cover, you will be a difficult target if you happen to be wrong. the round should go through a knights armour like it would basically any other semi hard surface. as a bonus the armour will keep most of the mess inside.
at that range a longbow might work against you .yes you might be undetectable but people if you was sent back to the past and tried to make this good luck getting any" decent" gun powder .and furthermore dude just be nice to the guy about to die and you know stand like in a short range to him (30 feet or less ) .I mean he is gonna die ,so at least let him see your face .lets face it ,are you gonna miss at that range and will that load of bullets not kill him ?
David Gardiner dude it can be a musket rifle... stupid people overestimate the durability of steel plating
Unless the knight is smart and knows how to outwit you.
Gavin Romero tell that to Ned Kelly. FYI people steel plate armour was stopping bullets in 1880, only 138 years ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_of_the_Kelly_gang notice the 18 bullet marks, not holes.
this is not fighting but assasination
What to do when fighting against an knight in full plate:
1) Lie Down
2) Try Not To Cry
3) Cry A Lot
4) ????
5) Profit!!!
HAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa
1a) Run away.
2a) Get friends.
3a) Mob them from all sides.
+Jane Murphy What if his friends don't know how to fight a highly trained combatant in armor when they think the armor is "immobile and vulnerable".
White343
Wouldn't happen in the medieval age.
6) End him rightly.
I was one of those people that underestimated knights, and how full plate armor (for example) worked. Perhaps from the same sources you talked about, unrealistic games, badly done documentaries (ikr), movies/tv series, etc. But after watching some youtube videos and playing more "realistic" games and actually thinking a little bit (lol) I realized how stupid I was. But still, there's a ton of disinformation of the same sorts about archery in those times, and maybe earlier, sometimes from the same people that gave me the more realistic and correct image of a knight or warrior of old times. And so far I've only seen one person giving another image to archers of those old times that actually makes more sense, and supposedly there's old books that actually shows those more natural and effective techniques, and that person is Lars Andersen. Unfortunately there's still no change on the way archers are depicted in all types of media and I would like to see more of that. Specially in games because I would like to have fun playing as a real good effective archer.
Why didn't they carry pots of boiling water, with little fires setup near the battlefield to keep them hot? Just throw it at a knight and it gets into all the holes and scalds them.
John Doe that's a really unfeasible idea.
Russian Volka with fire
Yeahhhhhh
Read somewhere before that the normal soldier will pour boiling/burning oils at knights on a massive war scale.
It will not kill them and if something doesn't kill in a battlefield its useless
15th century heavy crossbow or arquebus. job done.
The samurai designed armor with arquebuses in mind, plus you only get one shot with those.
One shot is enough and we are talking about 15th century knight armor which probably wasnt designed to stop musket balls. Its not the cuirasse of the french gendarmes
crossbow? mmm I guess it can make a hole to the armour, but, what about the gambeson below?
+Gabriel Olmedo and the mail...
Crossbows and early guns would certainly do their damage to platemail, but I don't think that a single shot to the cuirass would be enough to kill. It would no doubt dent the armor and shatter some ribs, maybe temporarily immobilize the knight, but he'd probably survive. Head/neck shots are a different story though.
Great video. I've liked all your videos I've seen so far. Great work.
Step 1 throw sand in the knights eyes
Step 2 attack and keep throwing more sand.
its very easy to fight a knight, you just use a barrett .50 cal with armor piercing rounds and make short work of him from a half mile away.
onemadhungrynomad. what if he has a crossbow?
No need for armour piercing ammo... a ball made of lead works fine too
onemadhungrynomad its so stupid its not even funny
onemadhungrynomad you must have missed the hand to hand combat part mentioned several times throughout the video
@@realtissaye Muskets and Arquebusses from the 1450s couldnt penetrate armor that well though especially well crafted ones. Even in the THirty Years War some 300 years later, you still have soldiers wearing armor for protections
A friend of mine has a full plate armour and is LARPing. So there he was, walking around in his plate and not really seeing much because of the helmet, while somebody had the idea they could sneak up and hit the armpit from below.
My friend was just walking and suddenly heard a big CRUNCH, at which point the foot of his would-be opponent was crushed by the weight of a muscular man wearing heavy full plate armour. He barely noticed anything being different about the ground he was stepping on, either.
The would-be rogue did not manage to hit the armpit. Nor did he manage to unbalance anybody.
I hope u were my history teacher
Being punched in the face with metal is not nice
hi there. could you make a video of armor and weapon costs of the medival knight and put it in perception to modern currency ? you hinted at it briefly. but i am curious to hear more about that.
A knight clad in full body armor and arming sword vs a dude with $5 molotov cocktail. Who would win?
As a modern student of MMA, with some experience in amateur competition, the concept of fighting a fully plated, well disciplined and trained Knight is TERRIFYING. That said, if I had to fight one, I would go to my one skill that could be better than theirs: GRAPPLING. I'd try to feint to provoke a defensive reaction, then immediately lunge in for a tackle. Once on the ground, I believe I would have the advantage- students of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu know what I am saying, but when you hit the floor with a BJJ fighter who knows more than you, they can control you like a cheap toy. I'd try to use my greater understanding of ground fighting to tire out the Knight until I could get a dominant position from which to attack a limb with joint locks. I have zero experience in swordplay, but pugilism studies have shown that there are fundamentals in hand-to-hand with or without melee weapons. My only chance would be use footwork to avoid attacks till I could drag to ground, exhaust him, then draw dagger and start hunting those weak points. No chance of success if he isn't tired. Also, at 6'2, I am considerably larger than most Knights were- I'd be considered a giant back then. Perhaps that could be a bit of intimidation factor?
Knights weren't that small.
Joper Amod Im pretty sure people were generally shorter back then. Maybe knights were taller than average on account of being well fed.
I think they were much bigger than average on account of being selected for their talent and SIZE. Just like professional athletes today are selected and trained. Size is HUGE advantage in hand to hand combat. So most of "knights" were members of retinues of major landlords selected for their ability to fight and equiped at landlords expence. That was their game and they were good at it. We have Visby for proof.
Many Interests wasn't most of this "selecting" done based on who the parents were, as in only nobility got to be knights? So the bigger ones probably were most successful, but you also had the all the inbred children with unhelpful genetic traits who also got to be knights.
If I understand Matt from Schola Gladiatoria correctly, knights did learn to grapple. It is one of the more effective methods against another knight. And since they expected to meet a few on the field of battle, I expect the also trained that. Plus, according to Ian LaSpina of Knyght Errant, plate armour prevents over extension of joints.
I found you're channel through watching a Skallagrim video and am stoked that I did. I don't know how many YT Red views you get from Australia but I think a lot of them would be me, I hope it helps you create more great educational content
How would I beat a knight? "Easy"! I would use a ranged weapon like a gun or a crossbow.
What? Did anyone think I would try to take on a trained, armored combatant in a direct fight?
You exhaust them, or after they swung, grab the arm holding the sword and jam a blade through an opening in their helmet, neck, or the joint between the pubic. They don't die, but they'll bleed from a severed carotid and femoral artery.
Lvl100MagiKarp Splash That strategy only works if you are physically strong and agile enough to tire them in the first place. And as his video pointed out, Armored knights are far more skilled and agile than they look. Don't bother trying to taking them head on. Picking a hand to hand fight with them will only result in you taking a dirty nap in the floor.
***** Maybe... But the guy still is covered in steel armor, so tackling him will probably hurt. Also, you better hope that this knock him unconciouss, or at least that you are fast enough to get away from him from the ground, or he will still beat you up.
Just go in the future, take McNuke™ from Ancapistan™ and boom knight ded
Nefarious Cookie Facepalm
I think, i could probably beat up like 10 knights, maybe even 15.. at my school knights are picked on by the nerds and even the emos.. its so sad:(
Its like saying "yeah i can beat a professional MMA Fighter, I just punch him against the chin and knock him out. Thats his weak spot So easy...".
We all know who will have to be carried to the hospital later.
*goes back to 1434*
*Finds knight*
"Lol I'm gonna kill you"
Knight: *brings out sword in full armor and charges*
me: *pulls trigger*
I am fairly sure a trained, experienced killer in full plate armour who makes a living by chopping people into bits would be easy to kill. heh
James Horsey Walsh not always "experienced" most of them where probably just very rich soldiers... not European killing machines
A TRAINED knight would fuck up an untrained internet knowitall. End of story.
Making a living by chopping people into bits? This isn't chopping trees for a living. Very little of what a knight does would come down to that.
Tfw people often forget that knights are actually trained warriors, while most people who say these things aren't.
I watched a documentary where it said that knights were able to jump on and off their horse and do back flips in a full suit of armor
Jet fuel can't melt steel armor.
“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
― Erwin Rommel
I could kill a knight EASY, I would just gather up 5 of my buddies and be willing to loose one or two...
Rick Szalay and all of them would go bite the dusts
All your buddies will have no armor or proper weapons against a knight, meaning all of you can die just from their hardened iron gauntlets hitting you like a train. If you try to hit them you'll break knuckles, kicking is dumb since you can easily be stabbed, or they can just resort to a sidearm, a dagger to easily dispose of five unarmed unarmored inexperienced opponents.
I know how to fight a knight.....he pushes me to the ground and pulls my head off and then tosses it to my mates. i.e Sir Gregor Clegane, Game of Thrones. But seriously these guys job is to kill...you. My hobby is boxing, and HEMA...when I get time.
Gregor had cardboard armor
I know. I have been testing some plate armour and it is literally bullet proof.
Joanna Diver Sword proof*
The best way to defeat a knight is by turtling. Be in a formation in a group where no part of you in exposed. I think the best formation is the front line crouching with there shields up and the second line putting their shields on top of the first line Guy's shield. This makes the front line guy almost impossible to hit. Then the front line guys just have to strike out from the gaps the shields would make. It would also be important for the formation to keep moving to put pressure on the knight.
Steven Ritter You watch too much Got and a pike line cant damage someone in full plate he will just not be able to pass through
I view most combat as an exercise in probability. The anti armor techniques have low probability success against a resisting opponent, especially if the opponent isn't limited to the same low probability attacks. They are going to work some times, but I would look for any alternative before betting my life on something with such a low chance of success. If I were to fight in such a situation I would attempt to use neutralize both our swords in a bind then try to win in the grapple. I accept this is as low a probability of success maneuver as half swording or the murder stroke, but it has the advantage of protecting my fingers with the cross guard while I attempt it.
I'm wasting my time watching these videos, I dont even HAVE a sword
Moron you got a dk.
what is dk?
Dick
still makes no sense
A cooock, use the cooock!
On the contrary I do believe it would be easy to kill a knight. I would just load up my 12 gage with some buckshot and fire center mass :)
Problem with buckshot: everything stops it.
High Master Johannes Liechtenauer Regardless of wither he would survive the blow or not is unimportant. He would be on his ass unable to fight for a very long time with broken rips and possibly a broken sternum.
crossbows have better range
I agree fully with you. I could write an essay, but I'll refrain from that 😄. A knight trained from early youth to be Elite. 2, they understood their armour, the rich had specially tailored armour made to suit their needs. 3, a sword against flesh is a man devouring monster..... especially in the hands of one trained to wield such a beast. Against armour it became a versatile tool so to speak. 4, two knights didn't just slug it out. It was a game of skill until one got worn out or made a mistake, nobody simply ripped open a visor and delivered a killing stroke. I could go on, but I'll leave it there. I like your insights
Yes a knight in full plate armor is difficult to kill. But it is also silly to assume that a knight who have trained all his life in combat can deal with a couple of seasoned soldier who are also peasent, armed with the right weapons when out numbered. How many times have history proven that supposed super "knight, samurai, red coats" are beaten by properly equiped peasent, low class soldiers.(sometimes under equiped!) There are no the definitive advantage. A knight is still a human with 2 arms and 2 legs, facing 2 lightly armored but equipe opponent would put the knight in disadvantage regardless.
How about agincourt, a battle with over whelming knights on the french side and properly armed peasents(or mix) mecenaries. What happen to those Knights?
Bassicly you should ask your self would you be able to take on a navy seal or spaznats? If the answer is no, what makes you think you stand a chance against the medieval version of those guy's in a suite of armor?
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Metatron, I hope you weren't trying to say that that sword is a 'longsword' (5:55). That is a single-handed arming sword (Also sometimes referred to as a 'knightly' sword), which would usually be used with a shield. On that note, I wish you would have mentioned that knights typically carried shields, which are severely underestimated since videogames don't know how to do shields right.