Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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of course a hammer will fuck your day. but it'll have a chance of being deflected if wearing armor, theres no chance if you're not
not everyone has the perfect swing
hammers can go through deflection with the power of weight tho
spear
a sword gets raped by deflecting armour
hmm decent point, but i dont think that came up an awful lot historically, like gear/training sets for dedicated scouts (not spies)
@Lucienne d'Anwyl if its at a good angle you nigger
ill google a bit
sometimes
you swing
and it isnt that good
i mean
spies werent used that much
compared to scouts
reconaissance is like
top tier my dude
as for dedicated builds i dunno
i mean
i assume a bow
scouts probably just had a bow or a sword and clothes
see the thing is
maybe a gambeson
if you collapse a tree
on top of a knight
you can kill him with your dirk
ez
gambeson and chain is what 80% of people had tbh
and a helmet
see the thing is
the helmet still helps you
because most niggers with hammers
wont always have perfect accuracy
yeah the internet seems to be of the mind that dedicated-scouts werent really a thing in medieval period
longbowman stood their ground at Agincourt and killed knights up close
and they may have a bad angle and swing somewhat on point
the other thing
just light infantry/cavalry given scout tasks using their same gear seems to me vastly more common
if a hammer has an armour piercing spike
it dont matter how good your armour is