I still don't understand the chains, surely you would transfer more force if the ball is stuck on the stick. Is it to go over shields, or entangle a sword?
Its to go over the shields, and to entangle or break long wooden weapons such as pikes
Similar how almost every melee infantry units used to throw axes at wooden shields before engaging in direct combat just to make shield weight more.
The fact that spiked metal ball is coming right over the shield should be intimidating enough.
Actually it does pack a punch and the fact that it's articulated means it goes around whatever it hits. The other guy may block the stick and still get hit with the ball. It can also hit some vulnerable parts like the back of the torso/neck/head/leg.
Spears are also intuitive to use and are 1.5-2.5 the length of a man. The picture you are showing is during the time when everyone was transitioning from the now obsolete tactics of a previous era by gunpowder weapons, meaning metal plates and mail being dropped and phased out. Peasants using clubs as the primary weapon during that time is because they were never given a gun and essentially just existed to soak up gunfire until they got close enough.
but we're talking about a village large enough to have a blacksmith. a blacksmith who would be reliant on a supply of iron and charcoal anyway, so a charcoaler and an iron mine somewhere close. that's overall not a insignificant urbane population... network? again, the blacksmith would have a furnace to melt iron; but more importantly for the technical point, if you had this many people around to supply a hypothetical blacksmith, you'd also have the expertise to use the manpower to build a furnace large enough to reach the temperature. and if you yourself because of some statistical oddity don't have anyone who can build a furnace in your village, there will almost certainly be someone around in another village or larger urban center who is a blacksmith or will known something about blacksmithing.
what I'm trying to say is that you're not starting from zero. if that were the case, the people wouldn't live in the houses they do, wear the kinds of clothes, practise such and such religion, do fieldwork in this way or use their produce from that in another. where there is the structure to support feudalism there is feudalism or will be. it may sound tautological, but it's not. if it were only formal that'd be the case but this is, as shown, practical and from there concrete.
OP unit. Decent amount of HP, very fast movement, quick to make, relatively cheap, fast attacks that hit strongly, no wonder Pig is so much stronger than other 3 enemies.
morning star or just mace is a much more refined weapon of a men-at-arms. These are crude weapons made by commoners, the flail being inspired by an agriculture tool they are familiar with. It gets way over used in hollywood.
PIG FC
WE ARE THE NORFMEN
>pałkarz
Which would make him a clubman, to make it even weirder
What is a flail if not a mace with a chain
I know how you feel. They also call halberdiers pikeman.
Maces were weapons for armored cavalrymen to fight other armored cavalrymen. It is not realistic for lightly armored infantry to use them.
I thought these were rather common in infantry units. After all, they're inexpensive, easy to make and intuitive to use to your average villager.
I still don't understand the chains, surely you would transfer more force if the ball is stuck on the stick. Is it to go over shields, or entangle a sword?
Its to go over the shields, and to entangle or break long wooden weapons such as pikes
Similar how almost every melee infantry units used to throw axes at wooden shields before engaging in direct combat just to make shield weight more.
The fact that spiked metal ball is coming right over the shield should be intimidating enough.
Actually it does pack a punch and the fact that it's articulated means it goes around whatever it hits. The other guy may block the stick and still get hit with the ball. It can also hit some vulnerable parts like the back of the torso/neck/head/leg.
>intuitive to use
iunno it looks to me like the average peasant would hit himself flailing that around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail
>what are pre-mechanisation agricultural skills
And Americans know more about the difference between then and than, than you do.
flails are mostly a movie meme peasants would just use a spear
Jan Zizka would like to beat your little ass for that.
I said "most"
hussites are the exception to the nomr
Spears are also intuitive to use and are 1.5-2.5 the length of a man. The picture you are showing is during the time when everyone was transitioning from the now obsolete tactics of a previous era by gunpowder weapons, meaning metal plates and mail being dropped and phased out. Peasants using clubs as the primary weapon during that time is because they were never given a gun and essentially just existed to soak up gunfire until they got close enough.
I wish historically illiterate americans would stop posting about shit they know nothing about
Americans know more about guns then you do.
t. American homosexual
Yes, the peasant meatshield armies of the Hussites...
How accessible iron was for peasants? I think the chains and the spiked ball was pretty time consuming in comparison with a pointy stick.
Very, blacksmiths weren't that rare, and any moron can cold-forge spikes out of old farm equipment.
Yeah but melting iron wanst that simple as carving wood.
but we're talking about a village large enough to have a blacksmith. a blacksmith who would be reliant on a supply of iron and charcoal anyway, so a charcoaler and an iron mine somewhere close. that's overall not a insignificant urbane population... network? again, the blacksmith would have a furnace to melt iron; but more importantly for the technical point, if you had this many people around to supply a hypothetical blacksmith, you'd also have the expertise to use the manpower to build a furnace large enough to reach the temperature. and if you yourself because of some statistical oddity don't have anyone who can build a furnace in your village, there will almost certainly be someone around in another village or larger urban center who is a blacksmith or will known something about blacksmithing.
what I'm trying to say is that you're not starting from zero. if that were the case, the people wouldn't live in the houses they do, wear the kinds of clothes, practise such and such religion, do fieldwork in this way or use their produce from that in another. where there is the structure to support feudalism there is feudalism or will be. it may sound tautological, but it's not. if it were only formal that'd be the case but this is, as shown, practical and from there concrete.
Iron is soft.
Is called Pałkarze
Workshop produces Wekiera
>Be lvl 1 spearman guarding the keep
>Ugly bastard ENTERS
>"Oi, Imma smash thy quean, lad!"
>"Ahhwwwww"
>Get one hitted into oblivion.
WE AH THA MACEMEYN
MOOHVE YOU DOHGS
WOT AWL DAT WAE?
I ATE MOWT DIGGIN
OP unit. Decent amount of HP, very fast movement, quick to make, relatively cheap, fast attacks that hit strongly, no wonder Pig is so much stronger than other 3 enemies.
>*sounds of a mass of fishing poles being cranked*
And when the macemen start stacking up during a fight, just 1 big blob of dps driving towards the enemy's keep
I always thought it was a morning-star.
morning star or just mace is a much more refined weapon of a men-at-arms. These are crude weapons made by commoners, the flail being inspired by an agriculture tool they are familiar with. It gets way over used in hollywood.
I hate this motherfricker like you wouldn't believe
t. pikeman
>flail
So a chain mace?
>chain mace
Sounds like a gas-powered device designed to pulverize foes with chain driven flanges (see chainsaw/chainsword).
>Called pikeman
>Very clearly uses a halberd
WE arehanjn a machemen