The impenetrable armor? I IT'S HISTORY
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- In today's episode we move past the 13th century to talk about the plate armor.
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Putting such an armor on is kind of a childhood dream... just to feel like a badass knight there. Must be a cool feeling, isn´t it?
as LARPer which wore armor - HOLY HELL YESSSS!
You are one lucky guy xD
"Must be a cool feeling"
Quite the contrary, you'd get very hot inside that suit!
greg77389 I am from the middle east. I actually wore armor in the heat of may. People placed bets on how long before I get dehydrated... the look in their eyes when I sat there completely fine at the end XD yes. It's hot af but not deadly as long as you keep drinking water.
As someone who had the same dream and got to wear iron plate mail... I wouldn’t describe it as cool, and more like exhausting. And I wasn’t even wearing the full kit either.
"I'm ready to go to combat"- fails to un sheath sword
Exactly wat i was about to say haha
Lol his Pauldrons were too loose, otherwise it would've been much easier. Haha
Love how you just gave up with trying to pull the sword out of the scabbard at the end there...
that's because its at his wrong side
No it's fucking not?
It's on the correct side. If you are right-handed, you hold your shield with your left hand and your sword with your right. So you put your scabbard on your right hip, so that when you need to draw your sword you can do it with your right hand.
If you don't believe me, hold a long stick on your right hip and try to draw it with the right hand. (hint: you can't)
buahahah the Romans are literally the only and very weird EXCEPTION in that they held their scabbard on the right side. LITERALLY EVERYONE ALWAYS kept their sword on the left fucking side. Where the fuck did you come up with such A STUPID idea and how could you possibly remain so convinced about it when confronted. Jeezus. You sure you haven't confused your scabbard-on-the-back mythbusting a little? Because THAT'S where you can't draw your longer swords from.
I mean fucking seriously, I just tried it WITH MY SWORD and it's ON THE RIGHT SIDE where I CAN'T FUCKING DRAW IT FROM.
The Romans used bigger shields and shorter swords though.
But Hollywood told me that in medieval times everything was primitive and that a katana can cut through the armor, the knight and the boulder behind him
Lol
Could you give some examples of this?
Glorious Nippon Steel can cut through the planet if it were not in a scabbard
A longbow arrow will go right through plate though.
@@thenewpav543 You are at very close range or getting very lucky.
If the former you are also being charged at.
the thing is, you dont need to penetrate to kill the guy inside, its one of those problems that can be fixed with big mace or hammer
Matt Easton, is that you?
Yeah you still need to give the guy a big wallop on the head, multiple times to do any damage. Mate, BotN, HMB et al. fighters use weapons heavier than medieval with armours as light as possible, yet even concussions occur fewer times than in American Football.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan gold bullets... Like anyone in their right mind would throw gold around.
Now as for lead ones, from period guns yeah they can penetrate thinner plates (arms and legs). From slings not really.
And in BotN people are hitting at full force. And the people who do it are usually pretty fit.
@@RockerMarcee96
Yeah but in battle of the nations you notice most of the contestants aren't using historically accurate maces or warhammers and the polearm heads have to be under a certain weight in order to not be crippling or lethal. Otherwise most of the contestants would be dead or severely injured by day's end.
How else do you think contestants can shrug off a direct hit to the head with a poleaxe and not get knocked down or staggered at least?
@@alfatazer_8991 Under a certain weight yes, but if you notice the rulings of past years they are allowed to have swords about twice the weight of historical weapons and polearms near 1.5 times...
Good that people know that even though armor weighs a lot, but when it’s evenly distributed across the body it’s really not that heavy and just takes a person in shape to be pretty mobile in it, the human body can take lots of weight if it’s all around the body.
Exactly. It's not like piling on a sixty or eighty pound rucksack - it's more like increasing gravity by about 40%. Everything is heavier, but it's all equally heavier.
@@SlyBlu7 ...but still exhausting to a certain degree, when you run around a few hours with that stuff....my feets, oh my feets killing me........^^
It's not actually that heavy, at best it's only 20 kilos, or 40 lbs, the armor that you're thinking of is Tournament armor which was especially made to be heavy to keep the knight safe. Also knight's are a lot more mobile than you'd think even if you aren't a very athletic person. Also see 7:31
Heavy, or not much heavy - I speak for my personal experience, when I say: Me and my fellow mates use every chance to sit, lean or rest our feets in an reenactment battle when you are active for hours - even with less then 20 kg, mounted or on foot......old fashioned footwear sucks......^^
My buddy describes this situaton as some sort of crucifixion - lever your body on a horse with your feets at the stirrups, to get your ass rested - and feel intantly the pain in the feet......^^
@@mikeromney4712 Imagine 60kg thin guy and 90kg fatty guy. 90kg guy with lots of fat = 60 kg guy with equally distributed 30 kg armor
Fun Fact: The armor that covers your feet is called a Sabaton.
He doesn't wear sabatons in the video...
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!!
Spanish for “ Zapatos “or “ sapatos” dated far back 11 th century
Lorrenzzo The magnificent aw man ya beat me to it
Eos sabatons did not come till later
Maybe tone down the music next time. I can’t hear buggar all what he’s saying
i couldn't actually hear the music until you mentioned it
Yeah, sometimes it is a bit hard to hear him.
Came looking for this comment.
I can still hear my own farts over the music
@@Me88230 That's because you have the volume low, it's just that the music is way too loud for his speech. at 5:15 you can barely hear him.
"Greetings, peasants, how goes the - ...BY THE POPE"
Oh raf. What did you do...
looking for this
Nah, you just need to equip it on your inventory.
This is so nice to see properly fitting armour, with all the right details. Please do more
Vadim Heldar technically for what I can see its almost 100% correct this video.
The only errors than I see is than the mail isn't big enough letting openings in the armor , no feet protection , and the most important of all they are slow as fuck an good knight would put half of the armor without any help , but in general the video is correct .
@@thetemplar8167 they didn't wear big mail things they just wore chainmail on the arms
THE MUSIC IS TOO SUBTLE! should be louder!
WHAT? I CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD
Hugo Schmitz Wooosh
@@thomasbarden8180 r/wooosh
@@aaronsinson3263 WHAT DID YOU SAY? IS THAT A WIND? CANT HEAR A DAMN THING OVER THIS MUSIC
Helix Ghost. R/whoosh
I bet it takes a lot of training to maintain your cool inside this claustrophobic helmet in Battle. Beats getting a mace in the face tough.
Rafael Ribeiro
Well, that's part of the reason why they started so young.
even with a helmet a mace to the face would throw you down
Maces were actually made to counter knights
The Knight ain’t gonna just stand there let you smash him with a mace. Plus mace doesn’t even has a hand guard.
Polearm is the king of battlefield
@Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi Or you can get the best of all worlds and get a halberd or poleaxe
Definitely knock the music down a little.
1600’s armor and the “bullet proof” quality of that era, next?
plot armor?
by the 1600 armor is much more simple than full plate from the 1400's, very rare since most people used clothes (padded and leather) officers used the so called ''munition armor'' which covered the essential parts of the body (arms/chest/legs down to the knee) others just used a chestplate (mainly cavalry units) and helmets such as burgonets or morrions, some soldiers in the conquests done in america during the 1600 might have worn old 15th/16th century armors along mail and in some really rare instances scale
don't forget the full plate armour (the fully plated kind from for honor game) was so expsenive that most king couldn't even affort (damm you matpat)
jimmy cruble a knight or a king that couldnt afford, armor was bankrupt lol, it wasnt that expensive, the more expensive ones would be worn by kings or high nobles like dukes or some counts, the expensive part was the process of making it fit to the wearers body, mass produced chestplates and smaller parts were cheaper
The expensive part was the gilding and decoration. The cost of an armor could be multiplied by 10 or 20 just from embellishments.
Excellent video, sir. Good job pointing out the misconceptions that are associated with wearing armor.
Might I also recommend Ian at the Knyght Errant channel, he goes into the details of specific types of armor and the overall context that influenced the design of the pieces.
Garret LeBuis knight*
This certainly was a very informative and interesting series on medieval armor! Thanks for going through the trouble of putting all that stuff on just to show us how tedious it was to prepare for combat back then! Can't wait to see what you guys have up next!
Knyght Errant channel has much more armour related content. And ian knows much more and makes less mistakes than them.
Latin writing on the shield:
"Nulla vis major pietate vera est"
"Amor tollit timorem"
Feel quite hungry
T B no one cares
Then eat bro
Saderwor ?
Saderwor r/whoosh*
TheGamingGeek R/Wooooooosh
I would really like to see the armour from the thumbnail
Evilsamar
Greatings peasants, how goes th...
By the Pope!
*Late, but it is clickbait*
Everyone: take knights hostage, we need the money
Władysław Jagiełło: well yes but actually no
good guess but actually no
I love the info + the fact that the squire is "hammering" the helmet with the dagger and the breath, no breath....great interactions....love the commedy....brilliant....
It’s always enjoyable to watch someone who you can tell appreciates well-made armor.
Such a good video :)
He gets ready in all that gear faster than my wife does to go to.... well, anywhere but then again he doesn’t do all the intricate war paint on his face
Polish winged hussars/ or polish Lancers (napoleonic wars era) next?
The Noobinator Yes, unique warriors and armor of the medieval realm!
The Noobinator full winged hussar armor is hard to find, especially the authentic wings but i guess everything is posiblle
It will more than likely to be from the period around the siege of Vienna by the ottomans.
The Noobinator The funny thing is that this guy is polish and one of the first videos (or even the very first one) on his channel was about Napoleonic era
Lukas the Polish winged hussars were purely made of Polish born nobility.
Thanks for the upload!
Lmao the squire's smug facial expression at 10:30 when he goes to knock on the top of his struggling knight's helmet
Awesome and informative
I love the Knight's plate armour, my number one type of armour out there. My second ought to be the Lorica Segmenta.
i love this; how you get in the armour of each different era. please keep this up when you can
Awesome and interesting as always!
Sir! The enemy is at the gates!
*Hold up, dear fellow! Let me put my armor on!
--Five eternities later--
This video is inaccurate for how armor is built. You just need a crafting table and assemble iron ingots into the shape of the armor.
Love that he has some squire dude helping put the armour on!
That set of armor was actually kind of cool looking at the end
Hey you guys are a ton of fun keep up the great work. *just one suggestion turn the theme music down a tad there were times i had a hard time hearing the speech (and i have healthy hearing ha).
the armor in the thumbnail is so much sicker.
Whats the name of that armor
11:58 me walking out of the history museum during a zombie apocalypse.
Yup same here my man 😂
Wróciłem tutaj przypadkiem po dwóch latach. Zajebisty progres, tak trzymaj brachu
I wish there were more videos about the medieval era. Thanks for the laughs and loads of awesome info guys!
Be Laine Gibs, Son. I would recommend the channel Knyght Errant, if you would like more information on armour. If you would like more than that, then the channels Blood and Iron HEMA, Pursuing the Knightly Arts, and Scholagladitoria, will suit your needs. (Also I suppose Shadiversity is a good resource for castles and other structures.)
Nickolas Holmes I am familiar with Shadiversity. He's uh... eccentric to say the least. Thanks for the recommendations!
Be Laine Gibs, Son. No problem, hope you have a good day. Edit: *Swords*
PursuingThe KnightlyArts and Knyght Errant should be the two go-to channels for armour.
wheres the warhammer, polearm or mace? Knights dont go just with a sword onto the Battlefield :D
yeah was thining that too. Matt Easton and Lloyd (LindyBeige) have made the point several times that swords in this time frame are side arms. EVERYONES main weapon was a pole arm
Except archers. ;P
He wasn’t infantry but, cavalry.
Grab a Halberd and go to look for Daubeny, cuz that bastard wont ever show himself
Revan The No-Life Demon and when you do take him for a trial he says its a an EXECUTION the balls on him
That was awesome!
Great video man! To clarify one bit for people who don't know though, when he said that that kind of armor wasn't used for foot combat, he meant that breastplate design, not plate armor itself. Some people have the conception that plate armor was only used on horseback, but a foot soldier's breast plate would simply cover the stomach more, and usually slope down like a pear shape rather than a mid section bulge as seen here.
Was the small hammer regular kit for a good squire???
It's a dagger/hammer multitool. Btw the forefather of the swiss army knife is of course the swiss mercenary dagger/hammer with corkscrew.
Hal Incandenza- Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.
He is trolling, that's a combat dagger being utilized as a makeshift tool.
@@RockerMarcee96 locks like a Baselard.
Next episode, Gothic and Milanese armours, sallets, Armets, Longswords and hopefully Culverin!
I doubt he has the money for even half of that, this shit ain't cheap my dude.
Great video man!!!
Keep up the great work!
I really love the content you post
I noticed as he adorned his armor his persona increased, have fun my friend.
Just a few myths to bust:
No you can't stab through mail ( riveted mail that is), it's theoretically possible but there wouldn't be a knight who was that strong in the 14th century, unless you're thinking of Half Swording, even then all you would do is give the knight a prick. Using a technique called the Murder Stroke would be more effective against this armor.
Gambeson and any type of cloth is hard to cut so it's not too much of a problem and will do extremely well against blunt weapons, maces etc
5:54 not really a myth but the term for that is Brigandine if anyone is wondering
Really, you're better off hitting his metal helmet really hard to fuck up his brain, then stab him somewhere without armor when he falls over, then you are trying to stab through mail.
Thanks for touring us again to the past
Great information and really good presentation.
Music is a little loud drowns you out sometimes, otherwise good video.
Havel's ring and you are set to go!
You guys are great!
The guy at 11:16 " BREATHE . DON'T BREATHE." Lol
Yeah the others are saying the same as I am going to write here, turn the music down a notch, it is really hard to hear what he is saying, which the main reason as to why I am watching this...
Background music too much in foreground
I really enjoyed this video, always been interested and excited about medieval armor, and even became a tool and die guy in a machine shop because of my love of metal, this was very entertaining from an educational standpoint and it even had some humor in it as well keep it going!
Loved it!
So I watched a guy getting dressed and mime while super loud music was playing.
Jeez i need that for dark souls :D
nice info!
Also want to mention, while he is wielding a sword here, the arms used by knights were majority polearms or bludgeons with a sword as a sidearm. This was because the protection provided by plate armour made slashing attacks almost pointless, so only the hit from a high impact weapon (e.g. halberd, poleaxe, bec de corbin, war hammer etc) could actually deal any damage to the knight, but even then the padding and strong armour would drastically mitigate the effects of the hit. Plate armour really was the tank of the era.
can you do a video about the byzantine armor?
Emperor Demetrius yeah I always wondered what they wore, as there wasn't any frankish influence, so no knights
mail,scale and lamellar or just clothes but mainly mail like anybody else, also its very likely some nobles might have worn early plate armor before the fall and full plate armor during the fall of constantinople but dull plate was rare there
Scale and lamellar armour is very misunderstood, I definitely would like to see a video on them.
Basically still like Roman Legionairre armor but with some stuff replaced or modified
not even close, legionary armor was super outdated for byzantium times, the byzantines went for 3 kinds of armor generally, a colorful type of padding with padded shoulders, trousers and boots, then mail much like their western neighbours and lamellar(mainly for the chest,faulds and arms) and mail, their helmets seem to be generally conical or kettle hats too for the most part
reduce volume of background music too loud when with narration
10:35 the squire smiles
Thanks for the info and making it fun too.
The real question is what would you do if your body starts itching while you are wearing the armor?
I don't mean to call your video incorrect. but knights of the 15th and 16th century's seldom used shields as they weren't necessary considering the whole of your body was one massive shield. this allowed them to ditch the smaller weapons of the 13th and 14th century since they now had a second hand to use on their weapon. this gave rise to things such as the knightly poleaxes and longsword combat. although during battle the poleaxe usually was the primary weapon.
aside from that, fantastic video!
Early 15th century knights still used small shields like the heater shield, the armour he's wearing in the video is late 14th-early 15th century so it's still correct for him to have a shield.
You are partially correct, but smaller shields were still used against halberds since halberds were effective against armor alone.
Subbed! Brilliant stuff, thankyou!
It would be really interesting to have series about the evolution of the knight from the romans to the 17th century
04:15 Kingdom Come: Deliverance spoilers! haha
Baldrick get the hammer!!!
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan no one would be throwing gold that's stupid.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan they'd never use gold period.
Love it.
I like how their warfare and combat evolves over time for them. One thing still remain consistent in said era, smash it really hard with a blunt object like a caveman.
Great way to get struck by lightning if you ask me! :D
Mik you should try it and let us know how it works out for you.
The leather would act as an insulator, and there's other pieces it can flow through; he'd be fine
Not for the horse he's riding though, poor horse probably get electrified
Ok, lets assume there is sufficient insulation to withstand up to 1 billion volts and 10's of thousands of amps between the plate armor and the knight. There isn't, but lets pretend. He'd still be engulfed in burning metal and would be cooked alive. If you still don't believe me, you should ask an electrical engineer, not CZcams.
Still a Faraday cage.
This video made me realize i look in soneones right eye when they talk.
Haha omg scrolled through comments forever and didn't know how to put that. Haha
That helmet is a masterpiece!
A lovely video to watch, many thanks!
So what if a knight got fat?
the Onion Knight has you covered fam
Breastplate stretcher
Mermaid Man actually, the king of England was fat in the 16th century and had so T H I C C armor made for him
Mermaid Man I know that, I just thrown that fact out to say how fat people used armor
Mermaid Man well, no, usually not, they had to travel, because no city, except for Konstantinople, had the logistics to feed a royal court. Found that out recently, and I think it’s very funny 😋
perfect type of knight, he can look at two targets at once!
I didn't want to say it, fake eye? Lazy eye? Who knows cool video overall though?
Thank you!
I love videos about medieval music!
Which eye do I look at
I will go hell for laughing at this xD
Rude
Neither eye is interested with your insignificance.
Why did i laugh at this? I guess i like dark humor lol
Seriously thought this comment section was just gonna be filled with people insulting his eyes😂
Society has changed, people are more respectful towards each other these days
@@jimmy250 I disagree with that🖐
Wasnt attacking his eye problem 😂 I clearly said that I was surprised that no one commented about it, since youtube comment sections are filled with dickheads these days
Greg being respectful is definitely great, but in this age? Nope. Many people are still disrespectful, oversensitive and childish.
I'm not sure if my previous comments got posted or not because they had a link to the ArtStation works, but I'm trying again without the link.
If you haven't found the thumbnail yet, search up:
- 'Audeamus' by Francesc Camos, or by David Munoz Velazquez (it's a collaborative work so it'll be on both of their portfolios on ArtStation).
- 'Medieval Knights' by Made In Saturno (a studio co-founded by Velazquez), also uploaded on ArtStation.
Super Video :)
Why is it spelled «armor» in the title, while the thumbnail it’s spelled «armour»?
To bother both English and Americans.
AJGO I think it depends on where you’re from
@@mythguard6865 No, Armour is the correct spelling. Armor is the lazy americanized incorrect spelling.
Persona Slates yeah so I was right
@@mythguard6865 Pretty much. =p
hey man, look at me when I’m talking to you!
A DarkSoul knight can put on his armor on his own.
I love this video, just found the channel and i'm hooked! Very good and informative video!
Cool video, cool channel. Thanks
Thank You for the démonstration! Stéph.
That's some good stuff
Subscribing! Good content, sir!
The gloves really were the coolest pieces.
I'm a new viewer but I definitely have to say your videos are fun and interesting. Look forward to your future videos.
This video host is a trip, love this guy . Great presentation, good job . More, more !
Very nice!