so the middle east and the balkan-ish areas

@Nahkasetä maybe like gladiators

When I can, I'll be making my own sword a claymore, but with one side of the guard trailing up higher. This is to use it swung from the shoulder, and not the elbow

@Kealor they didn't have armored units

um tato

@Nahkasetä whips have literally been used in georgia by nobles and know warriors

east has had plenty of armour

lol

the fucking persians were known

for their proto knights

As a large sword is dumb to use from the elbow

the clibinarii

he means chink east lu

actual east

chink east had shitty armour

depends on when luci

but it was still hevy

i believe the persians actually did have less access to metals than most

the top tier meme units arent the bulk of an army after all

the persians were in a prime spot for trade

not everyone is wearing plate armour

@Tato In writing probably yeah, but they're so useless in actual combat that I'd be willing to take 5 free hits from a whip no problem before fighting back if I was in a duel

when people dont have metal armor is when curved swords become relevant

@Kealor scale armour

is the tradition

@Tato and I'm a fucking couch potato whimp lul

Fuck armor. Anything we make will just get shot through by a pistol

plate armour is late medieval

https://youtu.be/0QXxWxti6ks?t=69

@Reprehensibletrash thats completely wrong tho

nahk leather whips yes but if u knot metal pieces in them theyre nutts

bullets are desceptively easy to stop

@Reprehensibletrash yeah why didnt people in the 1300 just use guns smh

Shush fednigger

riot shields are pretty light

considering how good they are

we make mesh that can stop bullets, then we make actual armor

there is a mesh that stops bullets

@Tato Yeah they hurt like hell, which is why whips are so widespread throughout history. But never as combat weapons.

its k3evlar

@Kealor they did use guns