because early guns were useless against horses

so they aded spiky bits

If you break your spear, you might be dead but at least you have a short stick to poke people with. If you break your gun, you might be dead but at least you have a short stick to poke people with.

However, when put against your original weapon in that situation, you have much better chance with spears <:smugon:512048583806025739>

Fix bayonnets!

Most arrows wont do jack shit, but if you got a bodkin tip and a longbow that will puncture chainmail fairly easy- however NO ARROW CAN PENETRATE PLATE, period, that is not even up for debate

@Storin you dont need to pierce armour to kill a knight

kill his horse and hes dead either way

Not really

Standby for another video

armor is no fucking joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhN5iikwjY8

Hitler-chan is sitting on my lap and rubbing her nose on mine asking for patting <:ahegao:462286952335671296>

and all you need to do is sufficiently dent armour and your opponent is dead or crippled anyway

Not easy

metatron is literally retarded

nothing is easy

I will get you another video from shad

but if a horse get hits with an arrow it spooks

and its a huge target anyway

Armor is also stupid heavy if you wear the full setup iirc

@SkeF no its not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO2nM_2iBXA&t=88s

if a horse spooks it hits another horse

chain reaction

video of guy doing military obstacle course is full suit incoming

Horses as targets for nubs who can't even 360 noscope with a longow confirmed

Plate distributes weight quite effectively

I literally put this dude on in the back ground with metatron when I play videogames or come here <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

There's this race they made with a firefighter, a marine I think and a dude in full plate

The guy in full plate was way faster than you'd imagine

I remember reading something about if you fall over in your armor you’re fucked without people helping you back up

knights could do acrobatics in armour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE also here is a dude drawing a longbow (English) and firing an arrow against plate armour

so i think thats rather silly

@SkeF nope

Well yea full plate is only 30KG

The modern soldier carries more tbh

course plate thickness depends on the wearer

every single piece of armour is custom made

so variation does exist

@SkeF here you go for context
https://youtu.be/qzTwBQniLSc