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Fantasy settings love a weird weapon, from chain weapons to laser swords to energy bows, but while a magic sword is a classic weapon for a main character,
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in a lot of settings even the normal folk wield things that are a little bit strange.
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After all, nothing makes a character stand out from a crowd more than giving them a unique bit of kit.
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And while some of these distinctive items have a strong basis in history, many of them would have been quite rare on an actual battlefield, and others might not have been very useful at all.
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So today I'm gonna take some of those weirder bits of kit, talk about their pros and cons, and maybe test some of them out But there's a problem
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Because while my collection of equipment is big enough
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that it would seem unrealistic
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if you found it in a post-apocalyptic game There are a lot of bits of kit
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that I don't have Which is why I'm all the way down here in Hereford, where you can find the largest number of blacksmiths per capita in the UK To train with Historian Armanis
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and raid their kit box But even here, surrounded by smiths and weapons nerds, there are a few things we're missing So first things first, to the forge!
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After these messages.
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What is the best weapon for a fantasy character?
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Even in real life, the answer depended massively on context.
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A setup that's designed to be effective for dueling might struggle in an open battle against something heavier.
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And something that lets you be fast and mobile might be less used against armour than something a bit more mass.
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But fantasy makes it even more complicated.
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A shield that protects against arrows might not help if you need to cast spells.
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while a weapon that relies heavily on intimidation might be less useful against mindless undead.
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But then there's the character.
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Some characters will prefer a backup weapon with secondary applications over a more martially effective sword,
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while a simple ranger who's carrying an expensive backup might have a story to tell.
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Ultimately, a fantasy character's choice of weapon can be more than just a bit of equipment.
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Alright, I'm here at the forge with Ben and Vincent and we are gonna make some stuff.
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Alright, the word we might have been invoking exaggeration here, but cue the montage!
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Right, that's
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a few things to talk about, let's get started!
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First things first, and for no other reason than that we've got to start somewhere, let's have a look at hammers!
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Now a realistic sized historical warhammer might look something like this But when you find them in fantasy,
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they're very often a lot bigger and a lot heavier and the problem with this
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Is that it takes a damn lot of effort to swing the thing around
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and if you need to change direction in response to someone else's movements It's not easy
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And given the actual weapons of
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that size tended to be more likely to be either hollow
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or smaller in their mass and could be swung more quickly and direction changed more easily,
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then it seems like a bit of a waste of effort to have something that chunky.
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But there are some upsides.
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In a fantasy setting where some characters are stronger than others,
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even with good form, there's a limit to how much you can block one of these.
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So unless you're incredibly confident with the dodge timing, you're better staying out of their reach.
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but how would something like this fare against the shield?
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Let's give it a go.
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How was that?
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Unpleasantly.
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Like you absolutely would have had time to stab me afterwards.
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Yes. Do you want another?
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Absolutely.
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Okay, cool.
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Yeah, if I can get that round fast enough, there's something in it.
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it properly throws you.
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The only way that I'm going to get you there is by dodging out of there
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and being in position before you bring it round.
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But if you're fast enough, you can swing that faster than I can turn, then I'm screwed.
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Yeah, that is not...
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Even if I stab you, you're still going to cave my head in.
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It's like just dropping it on someone's going to hurt killed me before I got the swinging.
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But that fall would be great.
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You wouldn't want to have it in battle as a regular human, but if you've got some giant rakes coming up against you, that's horrendous.
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So if a character is that strong, if you've got a Minotaur or a Cyclops or I don't know, even a particularly burly orc, and they've got something like this,
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or I don't know, a blacksmith in a situation where you're not necessarily fighting trained soldiers, but you're like defending your home or something, there probably is some potential.
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I certainly wouldn't want to go against it.
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And then there's the Morningstar.
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This is not necessarily representative of these.
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The word is used to describe anything from a one-handed mace to a flail.
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It's basically any weapon that has a metal ball with spikes in it.
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But these are a relatively common type of them.
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The ball itself is hollow because if this thing was solid, it would weigh an absolute ton.
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And what that achieves is something that's still quite heavy for a polearm, but it gives me the opportunity to stab, thrust, and strike.
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But also I can keep it back like this, strike with this end, and then make a big blow when I need to.
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The extended spike on the end lets it function a little bit like a spear, but the main purpose of something like this, despite the incredibly spiky bits,
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is not the damage that it causes, but the fear that it inflicts.
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These are often depicted in the hands of guardsmen
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and watchmen and people that would be hoping
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that the person they go up against isn't going to pick a fight today
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and in that scenario you probably don't want to fight one of these.
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One of the handy things about a design like this is
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that while it has spikes which are good for puncturing things in a way
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that a round object isn't
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because they're on all sides of it you don't have to worry about alignment it doesn't matter
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which way around you're holding it when you swing it it will hit spike first.
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Now at this point I looked around for a responsible adult
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and it turned out it was us
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so we ran a few shield tests with this at the end of which we managed to knock the mace head loose.
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That's amazing.
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Right you can see like the squares at the very tip of my blade just there big big squares
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and they probably go almost the almost the thickness of the shield itself like it hasn't popped through
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but that's gone really deep that's probably gone about 80% of the thickness of the shield um
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which was probably the very last set which you saw there.
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So, wow, incredible.
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And just to reassure any fans of old Lucy, there was no permanent damage done, it was just that the ring on the top came slightly loose.
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So we managed to knock that back in with a hammer, and now it is back in a form for striking.
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No rattles to be found.
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And then there's the sling.
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And while the stereotypical sling that people sometimes draw is a slingshot, those were not around historically because they require elastic
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which we didn't have the historical sling was either basically just
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this section a piece of rope with a pouch on it
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or it was a piece of rope with a pouch on it on a stick this is a staff sling
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and while you don't see these portrayed quite as often they are pretty cool all right
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so yeah we're out here it's windy we've got space to launch them
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so tell me about the staff sling right
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so these were probably the simplest in terms of your ranged
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weapons easier than a crossbow uh much cheaper as well uh even more
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so than your standard hunting boat
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while most people would have had one you still need a bit of training these it's a stick
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and two bits of them yeah you stick it on you put a rock in there
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and you throw it it could take five minutes to learn how to do it
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and within an hour you can do it effectively in order
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to throw enough big rocks over a fence at an advancing army well it just
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so happens that i have some rocks how convenient right so now this isn't staged at all
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so i'm gonna put my rock in there i'll show you how to do these
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while it's horizontal i mean like
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that now just in case i do this get this wrong
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don't stand directly behind me all right what we do about a frame unless
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and with a single forward motion ideally stopping right to the vertical
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this is particularly good for those who were doing uh who
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are used to doing any sort of manual labor especially involving hammers
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because this sort of motion here yeah hammering blacksmiths pretty good
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obviously you would have been much more useful making weapons
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and such but in a pinch anyone who could swing a hammer for putting up posts
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and you know we're very used to this style of movement
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it's gone up a bit it's gone up a bit it's not
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so much an accuracy thing is it it's more about you're loving it into an advancing army yeah that's something
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that you that you don't like?
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Yeah, that's the thing.
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You get enough speed on these, you're essentially throwing an almost fist-sized rock at someone over a fence.
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Compared with a normal sling that you might have to sling around a little bit to get it going,
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these can be done in a battlefield formation with a bunch of people in a line without taking up too much space.
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And whoever stood in that direction has a sad time.
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Sorry, I'm just going to get this on camera so that we can talk about it.
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Ben, can you tell me again how you make these safe for reenactment?
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So, sadly, we can't use real rocks in a reenactment scenario because it makes recruitment go through the window
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and we don't want our friends to die.
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So instead of using actual rocks in combat, we use kiwis.
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But something that crops up a lot more in fantasy is the scythe.
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Often associated with death, the reaper for thematic reasons, a scythe
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which was originally designed for cutting things at ground level as
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a harvesting tool is frequently portrayed wielded in two hands as a sort of polearm weapon with elaborate moves.
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The problem with that is that it's really unwieldy.
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Not only is this an incredibly long blade
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that sticks out sort of at right angle but even
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if you wanted to use it for cutting by sort of getting around somebody
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and pulling the angle on the blade as it stands is designed to be level around here
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so for a cut you'd have to come in on the side
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and pull at an angle and twist to get around it
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and you can't actually reach that much further with this than i could with something a lot shorter and one-handed
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while the sheer size makes it really quite unwieldy and heavy and hard to flow with.
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But there was a way to make them more effective.
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In a pinch
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and for a relatively low amount of effort a blacksmith could take the blade on the end of one of these, turn it 90 degrees and have it sticking out.
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And while this isn't a proper war scythe, it's based on a bill hook which is a similar agricultural tool
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that needed relatively small adjustments to become a weapon of war.
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and when you compare the two the difference is obvious the scythe just has
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so much less reach it's much harder to angle the point into anything
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and even if i'm trying to attack you i might be able to get your hand
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but you're already in my neck plus if i'm trying to fight, you can not only hook my blade, but if you got in a bit closer, you could also probably catch these bits.
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Yes, probably could.
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And cause me some problem.
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Like, that's really difficult for me to...
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Yeah, I mean, like, the actual capacity to hook onto weapons, because it's much more central line,
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you know, I can provide all the forces necessary to control a weapon or a shield.
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because of that amount of extra leverage that can be used just against you.
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Yeah, I can't twist that where I want you to go.
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Yeah, but if you've got me, because technically you have me as well, all I have to do is just rotate and twist right off that.
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But if I want to remove, I have to do a quite big motion to achieve that.
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Yeah.
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It looks cool.
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It does.
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Probably not all that useful.
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No. And another tool that was not specifically designed for war, but shows up a lot for thematic reasons is the trident
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you look really cool standing there it does yeah i mean
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it's cool silhouette you know what can i what can i
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what can i say it feels badass to just a hold you know even my shadow looks awesome yeah it's
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and it shows up like you see it in all the
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classical mythologies you've got like poseidon with his trident you've got the the gladiators
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that will do them in gladiatorial combat um and
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so that's they've made their way into fantasy through
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that you see like any any seafaring folk use it it's
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a standard martial weapon in dnd it's not like a niche bit of kit it's i'm sure
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if i asked anyone you know a picture of this you
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know some people may even associate it more as a weapon than even a tool sometimes
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because they've seen it so many times depicted yeah yeah
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but what they're originally for was for fishing right you've got three barbed heads on it
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so you're more likely to catch and snag something
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and it's less likely to get away after you've stabbed it that's why they've got the throwing property yes um
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but you have made this i have yes
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and you pissed about with it a little bit yeah i
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did i did some sparring with someone earlier on uh as
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soon as i made it actually you know it was barely cooled down for me making it
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and i put i put it on the haft
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and i did some light sparring with my friend
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and i discovered something really effective about it as
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if i managed to actually get a intersect onto the shaft
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if i just twist slightly it becomes very Very difficult for you to remove that.
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Yes, the barbed shape there is locking into the weapon.
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And even though this is just a smooth haft, it's quite difficult to pull free.
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By the time you've managed to get that away, someone else beside me could have just stabbed you.
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Yeah, and you're already in a stabbing position.
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So while I'm trying to pull back like this, if you wanted to release that quickly, you can get me before I've realized what's happening.
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Yes, so something else about it reminds me of axes, is the fact that because it's protruding off to one side, I can do this, pull it,
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and your shield completely goes to one side.
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Yeah.
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And even if I don't, even if I don't take advantage and stab you, somebody else can't help, you know?
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Yeah.
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Which is kind of upsetting really, because to be honest, when I wanted to talk about this, I assumed it was going to be rubbish as a weapon.
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Yeah, but I've been pleasantly surprised by it, you know, like when I wanted to make a trident because of all the different depictions that I see, but I didn't expect it to be actually quite good.
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Obviously there are some limitations with this compared that to a spear
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which is a lot more versatile of a weapon and still in my opinion Because not only is it you know, it does have a point that you can use to stab But
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because it's got three points it definitely would limit on this
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penetrative power You know a spear is dedicated for just
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that one thrust But if there were massive protrusions out in the way of
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that blade I can imagine
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that could snag on things get caught on things You know
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how much how much harder is it to make something like this than a spear?
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Yes, now a spear obviously is just a point that goes up, you know, you can make a socket, you can make a point upwards and then just, you know, put bevels on it.
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And then you have- You knocked one together in the forge.
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I did, yes.
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That was relatively straightforward.
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Yeah, relatively simple.
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But this, I had to start from a bar, split the bar in two different places,
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bend the bar out, upset the corners really nice and tight to make sure, you know, it was actually strong you know this cross section you see here was in itself quite difficult
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and then i had to
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awkwardly maneuver it in different places in order to make the different prongs forge down the edges
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while still being able to bend it around
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and have the right amount of length at the end
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so i had to do a whole bunch of other things
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in order to even make this to have it equal
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and have enough mass where it needed to be do you
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think they might have been more popular in like ancient classical
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times they might have been more likely to be made of perhaps cast bronze
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or something a bit easier to work with yeah that's actually a really good point
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because yeah bronze you can just make
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that cross straight away you don't have to actually forge it
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uh you know all you have to do is fettle it
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take down edges with you know some form of abrasive
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but really that that was all you have to do
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so that's a good point yeah um cool so it is it is a very relatively viable weapon but it's
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got a bunch of limitations that would explain why you didn't actually see it on a battle Cool.
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I think that's like unless there's anything else you particularly want to say
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or do or whether you want to try throwing it or anything like that.
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That's a good point.
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I could chuck it.
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There's something about a trident where you're holding it.
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It just feels throwable, right?
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I want to throw it.
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I have a primal urge to just chuck this, right?
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But I don't know how good it is to chuck.
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Let me just chuck this.
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Oh, it feels good to throw, right?
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So, you know, I don't even have to hold it, right?
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It went in, and it went all the way through.
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You can see the back end of it there.
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That's incredible.
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That is solid wood as well right there.
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So, I'm very shocked at that.
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And if you see, I will pull it out if I can.
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Come on.
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Let's go.
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You'll see that is a good, maybe, I don't know, about 5mm thick and about 4mm across.
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That is a thick point right there.
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It's been rounded.
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It's not sharpened at all.
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Yeah.
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And the effort it took to remove this, it doesn't matter that someone's blotted out with a shield.
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This shield is not any use for a while.
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And then there's flails fantasy settings flipping love a flail
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because they look weird
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and distinctive you can really make a character stand out by having them um
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but they did exist historically as well this is a reenactment safe version
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so it's safe version uh so it's round but even
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so it will pack an absolute wallop the key with things
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like this is being aware of the where the other end of it is at any given point in time and
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while they are have a few limitations compared with more rigid
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weapons the flexibility of them also has some advantages for this demonstration Ben is kitted up in full bohurt gear
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so that he doesn't get overly damaged but as a general principle
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if I were to try and hit you with a sword
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and you bring your shield up I'm kind of limited in what I can do to get around
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that but if i have a ball on a chain i can go over the top
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and still clock him in the head and even if they try
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and parry with a weapon they can still get clocked
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but not all flails look like this some of them were
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a little bit bigger threshing flails were used for what the
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heck were they used for ben they were used for threshing wheat threshing wheat they were a farm implement
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and and they were basically just two lengths of wood stuck together with a chain
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which acts more like a hinge than a rope but
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that meant they were longer and they had more reach so
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if I want to go up against a big nasty knight in armour I don't have to get quite as close
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you have to clock him in the head over his shield
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and they would have studied these sometimes right? or rat-bandoned them?
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if they had the time
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and the money absolutely they would have they would have put nails in the end of it
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if it was for war but it still works as a club
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when the end of a chain and it still gets around a shield either way.
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If that was studded and swung with like a knot and not just made of pallet wood, like it would absolutely be breaking stuff.
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Yeah, and bear in mind as well, they didn't tend to use that sort of threshing flare by the time that like full plate armor was a thing.
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Like you could still absolutely concuss with it with a few studs in that.
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Every swing of that hit me somewhere.
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Like, no matter where I blocked, it was still coming round and knocking me.
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But there's one weapon that crops up in D&D quite a lot that's weird, not particularly because of how strange it is, but because of how it's a standard weapon there,
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and not almost anywhere else.
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And that is the dart.
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Although it's often depicted in a lot of bits of media as looking a bit like a pub dart, it was probably more intended to be like one of these.
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This is a Roman-style plumbata, it's got a weighted section in the middle which would originally have been made out of lead.
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It's heavier than a regular dart, it's more like a lawn dart designed for warfare.
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And you can chuck it!
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Because they're relatively small, you can keep several of them in a shield and chuck them to disrupt an incoming charge.
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It doesn't particularly matter whether they're taking people out, because they're forcing them to stop what they're doing to either block with a shield
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or to watch out for these darts
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that are flying towards them it's an excellent thing
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when you're in a formation to stop the people running at
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you from being able to just do what they want the fletchings on the back mean they stabilize quite quickly
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so even if you throw them a bit dodgy they kind of end up going point first
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so they're an excellent thing to just grab out in a rush and throw.
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And while they lack the mass range and penetrating power of a more traditional javelin, a Wardot's smaller size meant that it was easy to carry several of them
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and just throw them quickly in a short to mid-range combat.
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And there are loads more weird and wonderful weapons
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that crop up all the time in fiction
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but those are a few of the ones that come across as standard
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that are a little bit more niche in real life.
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Some of them like the War Dart or the Morning Star actually existed
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and were used in war but just a lot more rarely than they seem to be in fantasy.
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Others like the Maul are something
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that was really only an improvised weapon used in a pinch by people who were strong enough
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but as an actual primary weapon for warfare would only really work if you had some kind of superpower.
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And then the Trident sits in a weird place where it
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actually is a reasonably viable weapon of war except for the
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logistic aspect of being way harder to make than it has any reason to
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and in fact when you look in later sources there are versions of pole arms
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that regain that trident shape when it got a little bit easier to forge things like
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that but for a very long time they just weren't as viable as a spear
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and don't have enough of an advantage to be worth using let me know below
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if there's weapons you'd like to see me cover in future videos
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and in the meantime here's a little bit more from the
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people i've been working with on this one for those of you wondering about historian Omanis, the fighters who you've seen in the video today.
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We are a Norman Plantagenet re-enactment group based in Hereford and all over the UK.
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Currently, historian Omanis Hereford are trying to raise a little bit of money to help with our storage.
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We have a lot of weaponry, we have a lot of tentage, we have a lot of living history, tools, we have weapons, we have a lot of stuff.
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We're trying to find a way the story that isn't just my moldy garage.
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In order to accomplish this we are all traveling up Lord Hereford's Knob, which is a nearby large hill
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and we're going to be doing it in authentic kit we should also be filming it
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and to be a little bit more entertaining for everyone at
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400 pounds raise we should be doing it in full armor
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at 800 pounds we should be doing it in authentic shoes
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and at 2 000 pounds i should be wearing full armor
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down to my legs covering literally every part of my body
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except the soles of my feet the palms of my hand
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and my eyes i will not be enjoying this whatsoever
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and would rather you didn't raise 2 000 pounds but but any little bit helps, I suppose.
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I'm sure there'll be a link somewhere.
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Please contribute should you wish to.
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And if you don't, that's fine too.
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You're still more than welcome to watch us fumble up a hill in armor.
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Thank you for your support.
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I'm going up the knob.
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I'm going up the knob.
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I'm going up the knob.
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I'm going up the knob.
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I'm going up the knob.
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And I'm not, but I support them going up the knob.
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Yay!
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Contesto e sfondo
Il video analizza armi strane presenti nei mondi fantasy, confrontandole con la storia e testandone l'efficacia. Il dialogo è ricco di espressioni colloquiali e tecniche, ideale per esercitarsi con il shadowspeak, una tecnica che migliora pronuncia e intonazione ripetendo frasi in tempo reale. Imparare l'inglese con YouTube è un modo pratico, e questo video offre un mix di contenuto informativo e linguistico accessibile.
5 frasi chiave per la comunicazione quotidiana
- "What is the best weapon for a fantasy character?" (Qual è l'arma migliore per un personaggio fantasy?) – Utile per porre domande su preferenze.
- "It can be a tool for giving information about both the character and the world." (Può essere uno strumento per dare informazioni sul personaggio e il mondo) – Per spiegare funzioni aggiuntive.
- "Let's give it a go." (Proviamolo) – Espressione informale per iniziare un'azione.
- "You wouldn't want to have it in battle like a regular human." (Non vorresti averla in battaglia come un umano normale) – Per esprimere limitazioni.
- "Let me know below if there's weapons you'd like to see me cover." (Fammi sapere nei commenti se ci sono armi che vuoi che analisi) – Per invitare a interagire.
Guida passo passo al shadowing
Per esercitarti con shadow speech in questo video: 1) Ascolta un frammento di 5-10 secondi e ripetilo immediatamente, cercando di imitare l'intonazione e il ritmo. 2) Concentrati su espressioni come "it takes a damn lot of effort" o "you're better staying out of their reach", che combinano vocabolo tecnico e colloquiale. 3) Ripeti le parti dove la pronuncia è veloce (es. "the problem with this is that it takes...") per migliorare la fluidità. 4) Usa lo shadowspeaks per esercitarti a capire contesti specifici, come le descrizioni di armi. Con la pratica, noterai un miglioramento nella comprensione auditiva e nella pronuncia.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if this thing was solid, it would weigh · if you see, I will pull · if there's weapons you'd like |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | hasn't popped · they've made · they've seen |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | could be swung · are often depicted · be found |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | have Which is · people that would · spikes which are |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.