Message from @Grenade123
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if you look at the physics, the best part of the chopping force is in the dead center of the blade. The power comes from how far your arms. With that angle, your arms can travel farther while still hitting with the center of the blade.
look at things like a circle, with your arm going from the center to the edge, and the head of the axe sticking out just beyond the edge of the circle.
now lets say 0 is vertical, and 90% is perfectly horizontal
if you have a normal axe, in which the head is inline with the handle, more or less, to get the head down so that its perfectly perpendicular to the ground, which would put all the force from the swing going down into the ground, you can only go from 0 degrees to 90 degrees.
with the head titled back, you need to go past 90 degrees, to get the head perpendicular to the ground
this gives you more of an are to swing, without changing the starting position
I don't know. That really doesn't seem like it'd make much difference. You don't need your hands to be below your waist to hit max acceleration. There's a reason that wasn't the norm throughout history, but there's got to be a reason they chose to do it there.
I really think if it's done for any reason it's for stabbing, or hooking. Could even just be that it isn't a detriment to its function and was done for fashion.
well, its also possible it just fit better in their kits
also i was talking about it being a tool for chopping wood. where you use the weight of the axe to do the chopping, i.e. its accelerated by gravity.
givings it a little more arc to fall adds just that much more acceleration
Battle axes make for poor tool axes. The blades are way too thin. Also a lot of these have etching on them so they're not just grunt weapons. An officer or whatever wouldn't be chopping wood
It is really cool though that they're so inspired by Dane axes. Guess they were inspired by their heritage
The head of the top one you posted looks almost indistinguishable from a Peterson type M
Actually, the officer idea would lend to the utility IF the culture had a habit of officers fighting from horseback or having some horseback based units. Going back to the idea of being useful for attacking a target lower than you.
The seem pretty big to use from horseback, but really I don't know much about 17th century warfare. My main interest is more 13-15th as far as actual battlefields go
May be they used that axe to hook a shield out of the way and then be able to thrust the tip into the enemy right away
melee weapons in muh firearms chats
Inb4 melee-chat happens and people will cry that others post martial arts on it
Hey, we are talking about a firearm attachment.
haha
I want one.
need autoloading
ok
time to fork this project and then relabel everything
His impression of Israelis is spot on.
it is the funniest shit I've seen for awhile
THAT FUCKING MASK
IS SCARY AS FUCK
kinderguardians
I'll do you one better: Why is america?
Why should america? <:VeRiFiEd:463064374236413962>
that guy is america, that guy is why america is, and that guy is why america should
no trump, no wall, no USA at all!
*seconds after this picture was taken, this guy was sucked up by tornado killed, probably*
seriously, thats some nasty clouds
went out fending off a tornado with both barrels