Thistbh

they ambushed and kidnapped the pope once

some norman knights who owned a big chunk of southern italy

Gay

been ages since i read about it let me google it

yteah they had some hella great exploits

the conquest of sicily was amazing

with like 600 knights

they took out thousands of moors

lol

obviously the 50k figure is inflated

lololol

but they were still outnumbered by a huge margin

easily ten to one in real life

yeah

the normans were such nutty geezers

i doubt it was 50 to 1

but ten to one holy shit

yeah there's a great documentary i watched on them recently

they were the most effective cavalry in the world at that time

brave as fuck

and their patron saint was a warrior

can't remember which saint it was now

saint morris is one of my favorite saints

martyreed roman legion commander who carried the spoear of longinus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM4TiaDnnYM this is the documentary i was talking about

the 3rd episode is all about their exploits in the med

conquering sicily, southern italy

even a chunk of north africa

and their decisive role in the crusade in the holy land

yea they were pretty based in medievil 2 total war

yeah medieval 2 is LIT

ive been trying to put together a few norman impressions

i have two together mostly

impressions?

reenactmen t impressions

the internet calls them larps

ah

well you've got to get a norman cone helm

the kite shield