Fauchard-glaive-guisarme, or something (pole-arms)

[@brictator]

Tasteful to not show the human sacrifice we hear in the background at 3:20-40

[@quidestveritas659]

Brick Dictator Malta; Catholic with just a touch of Baal-Hamon worship thrown in ;)

[@SmaugTheTerrible]

Brick Dictator Poor Shireen

[@dandannoodles7070]

Slevin Kelevra too soon man

[@agustinvenegas5238]

Well, it definitely sounds like it, what's kids necessity of scream and kick inopportunely?

[@punishedpokemonfanboy1032]

The Aztec invasion is happening!!!!!! THEY DIDNT GET WIPED OUT THEY WENT TO THE STARS!!!

[@demomanchaos]

You know, every weapon used by a Polish man is a Pole-Arm.

[@Taolan8472]

That joke was a bit of a reach, don't you think?

[@fatmatweedell7747]

Taolan8472 Polearm? A bit of reach? _Eh! Eh! Oh, c'mon, you laughed!_

[@No1twelshy]

What a load of Billhooks

[@youthinasia4103]

I see what y’all did there

[@crapphone7744]

No.. it's an armed Pole.

[@lifefindsaway7875]

Make a video of a wounded soldier being brought into an aid station bickering with the medic over which weapon was used to slay him. "So your arm was chopped off by a glave?" "Well, no, not really... It had this little hooky thing that caught my ear, so it was a forchette" "Don't be preposterous, a hook make it a Bill!" And so on

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

It could have been a Monty Python sketch.

[@mareksicinski3726]

*glaive is the spelling

[@rckli]

This person enjoys humor as i do. +10 points.

[@assasinpatates8066]

Why would a medic ask a wounded soldier what wounded him?

[@rckli]

*in character* Oh, i dont know. Maybe the weapon was serrated vs sharp: Different wound patterns ,you know. Regardless, it was clearly done by a glaive

[@sonofangron2969]

I do love the finicky process of categorising all these medieval implements of murder whose only discernible difference between them is 'slightly bigger hook' or 'ornate stabby bit added' - there's a strangely attractively tediousness to it all...

[@DanielLCarrier]

Demonflesh spawn They should just use that for the name. "This is a fuchard-with-an-ornate-stabby-bit".

[@Keimotorider]

Just like when you tell a gun enthusiasts' M901 and call it an M4 rifle and he would correct you that it is actually an M901. carbine, not rifle. And you say its no defferent. People are the same all over the ages

[@DanielLCarrier]

Amirul Syafiq Modern guns are mass-produced. Each one has its own name. I don't think that's the same as polearms that are each made on their own and are only vaguely related to the standards.

[@Keimotorider]

Daniel Carrier I can agree with that.

[@davidgross5826]

Demonflesh spawn it's not murder if you are consensually killing another

[@RyuFireheart]

Batman should exchange that non realistic boomerang for this batglaive.

[@killercour]

RyuFireheart Or is it a batfauche?

[@jake_russ]

LandoCowDelicion Pfft no, Its a quad-spike reverse batbill. What are you, dumb?

[@killercour]

TheJakester Ah yes of course, excuse my ignorance.

[@GunFunZS]

***** That is a playable item in Munchkin Bites.

[@nicynodle2]

I convinced a friend that a batayman was a real pole arm, and he didn't get the joke, even when I drew hi a picture of the baterang.

[@jaymz6473]

I love the way there are people wandering around while men fight with polearms. If that was the UK, there'd be men in hi vis jackets, barriers and local councilmen with health and safety forms everywhere.

[@McFasty3924]

+James McCrickerd Yeah I know what you mean. When I was in Greece I saw two blokes having what could be described as a casual mma fight, just on the pavement. But there was no drama, everyone was clearly friends and at the same time they were throwing some pretty serious strikes. People walking past with their shopping just moved around them without even looking, as if they were some roadwork's. Was a really cool thing is witness.

[@christophercole5219]

+jaymz _mc If it was in America, there would be lawyers there ready to sue if one got scratched in any way.

[@GameFreak7744]

Except thats total bollocks as any quick search for reenactment fights in the UK would demonstrate. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqDXaIt4ht2tatE

[@badlandskid]

Have them wear burkas and the authorities wouldn't even see it.

[@manofwealthandtaste136]

+badlandskid Careful, you might actually get stabbed by BNP mouth breathers.. the main difference between them and your colleague being that they'll use a Stanley knife.

[@AdhocHoopla]

50 shades of glaive.

[@DudemeisterNL]

Ha!

[@davidiwata7063]

New book title: 50 shapes of glaive

[@NefariousElasticity]

3:18 love that little kid in the background absorbing information. Future HEMA superstar right there. :P

[@morallyambiguousnet]

Shades of the 1st Edition D&D polearm lists! I think that the Hook Dinglehopper is the superior form of the weapon.

[@lindybeige]

morallyambiguousnet I prefer Hauk Dinkelhauper, since the diagnostic artefacts are from Austria, and the main references are from German treatises.

[@morallyambiguousnet]

Lindybeige What, I'm not allowed to Anglicize? However will I manage to confuse generations of graduate students over the origin of the names?

[@kshadehyaena]

morallyambiguousnet +Lindybeige It's important to know the origins if you want to remember the name! Dinkel is a wheat (just like hop(s)), hauer (no P there, Mr. Beige!) means hewer. So now you know why it's sorta shaped like a flail (the non-military kind of course)! The more you know...

[@lindybeige]

morallyambiguousnet Is that not the point?

[@morallyambiguousnet]

Lindybeige ... or the hook. But yes, of course. Can't have anyone working it out for themselves. What would our universities do?!

[@AlexanderRM1000]

1:40 it suddenly occurred to me- I wonder if, when having a weapon with any of these kinds of hooks and bits on it, it was better if your opponent wasn't familiar with the exact types of hooks your weapon had (and maybe even to vary the hook types within the same formation?), so they couldn't practice against a single type and know all the blocks you could do; could that be part of why there's such an immense degree of variation in the bits sticking off? These two guys are practicing time and time again against each other's weapons, but in a battle you're up against several guys you've never met before in your life and if you mess up once you don't get a second try.

[@SquireComedy]

God I can't wait to holiday in Malta. Splendidly nice chaps, wouldn't want to fight them. Unless I had a service revolver.

[@Tuchulu]

***** or a Katana! just kidding

[@Herpkid56]

Maybe you could make a nature documentary about the fauna there?

[@MrAbood900]

Marc Latorre you just need a pommel really

[@T3hRogue]

***** Malta International Airport doesnt serve Spitfires anymore, chap!

[@wariscoming.]

***** squire make a nature documentary on all the katana anime cult kids and show how dumb they and there sword is

[@wyvernlord23]

5:07 V...Vernon... Roche?

[@sonofangron2969]

wyvernlord23 Don't worry; he knows how to use Igni...

[@Lucasmcz17]

wyvernlord23 thought the same, how amazing. lol. For Temeria!

[@gloglablyn]

wyvernlord23 Keep the King away from him!

[@armoredp]

wyvernlord23 Which is what I Iike about the Witcher, they are inspired by actual medieval attire, with color and detail, outside of the oh so popular "standard" plated knight armor and the brown peasant rags most hollywood movies tend to fill their medieval movies with.

[@mustarastas88]

armoredp People wearing colors looks nice. Green, red, blue, yellow and white look better than brown and black.

[@tackyman2011]

Child in background screaming in what I can only assume is battle agony.

[@Dr.Jiggles]

I love how studious the little fellow in the back looks around 3:15

[@Judicial78]

"But they still havent invented pockets" meanwhile in the future they are laughing at us for not inventing some simple unknown device we dont have right now.

[@demonstructie]

Judicial78 oh yeah like what?

[@xxXthekevXxx]

demonstructie we don't know, because we don't have it yet.

[@MetalAsFork]

3 Seashells

[@Love-you-too]

Did gay people invent pockets for themselves ? Or was it invented by straight people for the gay people? Or was it invented by gay people for the straight ones? Are gay people pockets? Am I gay ? I have pockets for sure! Am I a pocket?

[@woodchopy]

What did they have that they would keep in their pockets? I don't think their was much of a need for pockets

[@brooksmiller5597]

0:50 - Really visually appealing way of describing this. Very useful animation

[@Prolakk]

2:09 Holy crap a black knight halberd from Dark Souls! Well, now i know where the inspiration came from.

[@HamsterPants522]

Andre of Astora Yup. Though the one in the game is actually wielded backwards compared to how the real life one is supposed to be used. Developer's uninformed interpretation, I guess.

[@Prolakk]

HamsterPants522 Seems so. It would look a bit weird in-game tho :P

[@Snurf35751]

Andre of Astora I knew that looked familiar ! Good catch.

[@danielguest2902]

Andre of Astora Holy polearms, Batman!

[@tinezkun]

Andre of Astora ok now that you spotted it is time to forge me one! :D Ps: i've got souls and titanites! XD

[@Scorch1510]

I think that this was your best illustrated video up until today and I'm very glad to see your content's quality constantly improving :D

[@Robovski]

Wailing children, ruining everything everywhere for all time.

[@Maedelrosen]

Robert Turner There shall be absolutely no wailing!

[@peelsreklaw]

Hansl Lavenburg Nor children!

[@Maedelrosen]

No caterwauling, yowling or shrieking!

[@rogerbradley9449]

Absolutely no speaking!

[@bbdawise]

Robert Turner Henceforth, all the children of the land shall have their tongues removed upon birth for the betterment of society!

[@Callordin]

May I say, Mr. Lindybeige, your humorous and yet informed commentary on any topic is generally improving the Human-Life-On-Earth experience. I applaud you!

[@ttlpwn34]

2:07 The Black Knight Glaive! :o

[@smufr9277]

lol thought the same thing

[@cancerousmemes136]

it's called the black knight halberd you casual

[@smufr9277]

Cancerous Memes not ds3 losar get pooped on nerd

[@ttlpwn34]

Cancerous Memes It's a glaive in DS3 because Miyazaki realized the difference between glaives and halberds and how their only shared characteristics are that they are both polearms and both have at at least 1 edged blade. In truth, Gundyr's Halberd should also be called Gundyr's Glaive. You casual.

[@smufr9277]

***** ye u show him boss

[@Snurf35751]

I stumbled across your channel about a week ago, and I must say I'm glad. Not only are you eminently interesting in your choice of subjects, you also know how to weave humour into them, and that makes for very nice videos indeed. Please keep up the good work, it is very much appreciated !

[@Nomadsword]

what's with the banshee screaming that starts at about 2:50?

[@antonholler9913]

MegaHasmat It's called the reason I don't have kids.

[@TowerCrisis]

+ZeroHazard Human sacrifice.

[@alwaysbearded1]

Gelato accident maybe?

[@kevinfox5594]

For formation with bills (and through looking at period texts) we've found about 6 to 8 foot apart in staggered ranks works really well, gives you good room for mobility on the offensive allowing you room to use swings as well as thrusts, but when on the defensive the front rank can easily collapse back two steps into the space in the rank behind to present the enemy with a densely packed wall of thrusting points

[@anaamari5643]

5:05 kind of Vernon Roche to make an appearance!

[@TheThingInMySink]

+Gromnok Windwaker Wow. He's really a lot smaller than i remembered.. I guess all that hiding in caves and waging guerrilla war really takes it's toll on your figure.

[@the-thane]

+Gromnok Windwaker Still as useless as ever, eh?

[@LukaSzent]

Your channel should be called lindybinge, cause I’ve been nonstop watching these videos. I’ve learned more in the few months I’ve been subscribed to you than of my many dreadful years at school.

[@bjmccann1]

Good job, sir! Every time it see a demonstration like this it makes two things very clear: How lethal pre-industrial weapons were. How far off the mark television, movies, and books are. Keep up the good work.

[@skyroskus]

how did you know i've been tearing my hair out all week finding different names for polearms (tabletop game) ^.^ , seriously cool and helpful to see so many, good animation too!!

[@TheFoolishSamurai]

All I was thinking throughout their "sparring" was: *Jesus Christ, that's a loud screaming fit coming from some brat!*

[@lindybeige]

Mario Hyrulia I had to go back and forth through that footage many times. That kid had impressive lungs. I removed almost all of his screaming.

[@ducduckgo]

Lindybeige I didnt even notice it on my first watch, so you did a great job

[@gideonokun5538]

3:30 that sound when they lock... so satisfying!

[@peanutschatzie4129]

Gideon Okun Wow. Too true.

[@TheAgamemnon911]

Unfortunately the polearm emporium does not stock glaive-glaive-glaive-guisarme-glaives.

[@MrHinchapelotas]

What about the glaive fauchard glaive glaive bill glaive? it hasn't got that much glaive in it.

[@DieFlabbergast]

I do like the way you introduce us to esoteric weaponry terminology, like the "hooky-cutty-slicey end". I never knew it was called that!

[@keithlocke2205]

The Bohemian ear spoon.....My FAVORITE Pole arm name of all time....

[@benwoodford5690]

+Keith Locke Thank all that is holy I was not the only one to think on the most celebrated of ignored polearms, the Bohemian Ear Spoon!

[@keithlocke2205]

+Ben Woodford Great minds think alike sir.....(grin)

[@manfredconnor3194]

"Mamma just killed a man . . . put my spoon against his ear . . . "

[@keithlocke2205]

@@manfredconnor3194 "Went Pell Mell, now he can't hear. Mamma, duel had Juuust begun, and with one blow put your foe man aaaaa-way!!!.....

[@greenday9090]

Great video as always. I especially enjoyed the animations for the different types of pole-arms.

[@T2xx]

You'd think a fauchard would "fauche", you know, like a scythe. It's in the name and all.

[@lindybeige]

T2xx Reap? Mow? Cut? Yes, it is a weapon that can cut. This doesn't really distinguish it from other cutty weapons, though.

[@T2xx]

I mean a fauche/faucille is a scythe. That's just a direct translation. A fauchard would presumably be something that could "fauche" which, in turn, would imply it has the shape to function as a fauche/faucille/scythe I'm getting this from French etymology, but maybe the blacksmiths of the time just named things willy-nilly. I don't know, I wasn't there, maybe I could ask my grandpa or something.

[@bar-1studios]

Think they were also made by banging a scythe sideways...

[@T2xx]

***** Either way, it implies a curve or a hook of sorts. Fauchard / Faux-ard Faux is right there, it's a scythe, a sickle, a concave curved blade. -ard is basically just a suffix for "hard" Bernard, épinard, canard, connard, etc. That suffix goes everywhere! Anyways, by my own definition, I would say that a fauchard is a polearm version of a sickle. www.le-besson.com/io/shop_produit/0003171/image_Serpe_Rinaldi_n_4_large.jpg If you can see the picture, it's that thing but longer. So that's all I've got! French is my mother tongue, I'm pretty sure people I talk to understand me so I think I did a pretty good job learning it! tl;dr A fauchard is a polearm with a concave curved blade similar to that of a sickle (google serpe for example)

[@axelord4ever]

T2xx Those are not suffixes, though. Just common sounds (rhymes). _Faucher_ is just 'to cut down' or 'to diminish by splitting'. Even then, you can use the verb to explain someone who got run over by a car. You associate the word with scythes and other hooked bladed agricultural tool but it's really the other way around. The meaning is simple but the usage was split. You can find it in a lot of places and most have nothing to do with scythes or forward-curving blades (or talons).

[@mojohns44]

My favorite polearm was adapted from the Chinese man-catcher used by the 13th century Huns. Called a "glisch-gusette" in the Alsace Region it was a useful farm tool that couldbe employed by a large group of untrained peasants to protect a flank against calvary or to slow an infantry surge.

[@jimlawrie9334]

I think most of the classifications arose in the 19th century. I can easily imagine the men who carried them just referred by thier local nomenclature (or just called it a 'sticker')

[@sapientia_et_virtus]

I really appreciate your videos. They are very informative and delightful to watch. I look forward to seeing each new one that you release. From Texas, thank you for all the hard work and wonderful insights. Your channel will always be a favorite of mine and I'm sure many others.

[@shan9usfc]

Fauchard-glaive-guisarme-bardiche-guandao-sling-spear-backpack-fork-rake-broom-leadpipe-basballbat bolter polearm that shoots stakes. Did I miss anything?

[@unpopularopinionguy8480]

You forgot Naginata-Halberd-Voulge-pike-polesword with a double end.

[@sierramatchking7126]

and the Guan dao, Ji, and Ge.

[@zacrigby4426]

Ihaz Noame and the Sodegarami, aldspiess, fangtian ji, partisan, brandistock, Bec de Corbin

[@The1stImmortal]

would be cooler if it shot steaks ;)

[@micahphilson]

The Swiss-Army polearm. Wait, no, the Swiss Guard uses Halberds, don't they? It's the silenced Fauchard-glaive-guisarme-bardiche-guandao-sling-spear-backpack-fork-rake-broom-leadpipe-basballbat bolter polearm that shoots stakes Halberd. There we go.

[@T3DNR3D]

Interesting as always Lindy. Enjoyed the changing polearm animation as well - surprisingly good.

[@Poldovico]

2:08 Black Knight Halberd?

[@DarkSoulSama]

Poldovico I wonder if that one does fire damage :\

[@omier]

DarkSoulSama If it's the one from DS1 then no.

[@DenBeef]

Great video, Always good to hear the opinions of people who have practised with the weapons. very nice CGI as well, many thanks!

[@Christopher_Gibbons]

Extra extra points if the name of the weapon is the name of a food or drink. What do you think, was a caponata a practical weapon?

[@fivesidedpixels4991]

Not really. It pales in comparison to the spaghetti, which I have formal training with.

[@NDOhioan]

My tangelo and I could dominate you and your precious spaghetti any day of the week. ... There's a sentence I never thought I'd say.

[@jasonhevans01]

Hey, great video. I used to work at the Southern California renaissance faire and we did pike drill all the time. We even had a battle pageant with the later, Spanish tactic of mixing muskets and pikes together. Our battle pageants would have 70-100 per side with muskets and pole-arms. Good stuff, Lindybeige! Took me back to the old days.

[@havareriksen3395]

That's awesome. We need more formation fighting on fairs. :-D

[@micahphilson]

Legendary Mutant-slayer's Silenced Hardened Long Quick-eject Pipe Sniper Rifle. That counts as a polearm, right?

[@Makofueled]

"To my *opponents* blade... I mean my *colleagues* blade." This reenactor was ready to make a fresco out of his partner.

[@cygil1]

My Bohemian Ear-Spoon pwns your Fauchard-glaive-guisarme. (Despite all the websites claiming that this is a real thing, I still suspect someone was having Gary Gygax on with the Bohemian Ear Spoon.

[@itmademesignup9508]

I'm glad you included the Bat-Glaive, a widely used, but oft-forgotten, variant popular in the 1530s but widely forgotten until it was re-popularized in the 1960s when Batman used one to kill the Jester (a short-run rip-off of the Joker) in the Adam West TV series.

[@reapy_s0ul26]

I hear a banshee baby in the background... Am I going to die? ;-; EDIT: something more related to the topic, how many hooks can something have without being fantasy? any pics?

[@ObatongoSensei]

In Italy we just have only one name for all the glaive/fauchard things: falcione (which means "big scythe" or "big crescent"). No matter the shape of the blade or the accessories attached to it, the name is basically the same. The hooked weapon too has for the most only one name in italian: roncone (which means "big bill-hook"). There is, though, a particular take on the shape of the roncone which today goes by the name "scorpione" (guess what it means in english :) ). One can be seen at 2:01 in the video, the third weapon from the right, just next to the halberd. The scorpione was basically an all-italian fusion of a roncone and a halberd and it too came in many variants. In this particular case, we have an easier time with names than people of english descent. :)

[@XarianTheElf]

This is one of the best videos in my opinion, I come back to have a laugh at the morphing blade and see the poor swordsman every now and then.

[@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg]

Since i began watching this channel and learning more about the various types of weapons and armor game of thrones costume department drives me crazy now.

[@christopherremillard2574]

I really want to see enemies working together like this in a Dark Souls game at some point.

[@harlmol]

Those sounds when the blade-thingies collided were awesome!

[@malhekai]

We could always make up new names.

[@timwhite8780]

Malhekrow OOH I'll go!.. Zeingomhurder. The most dangerous of sharpened sticks

[@eyegrinder94]

Space Walrus Freichespiel-schreiber?

[@scantrontheimmortal]

Malhekrowschwingstabmesser "swinging stick knife" ?

[@cielopachirisu929]

+Malhekrow But then you'll have people running around claiming that that's what they called them back then D:. ...that we shall call 'Byzantine Empire' syndrome.

[@duksingchau8948]

+Malhekrow They are literally hundreds of variations. Why waste time? Why not just call them hybrids and make a clear definition and call it like hybrid fauche-glaive

[@fukyomammason]

I was in the armory in the Doge's Palace, and some of the English placards labeled several bladed polearms (seemingly glaives) as 'falchions' (which is obviously not a polearrm, though the name is derived similarly to fauchard). They had eight billion of them though, and occasionally the placards contradicted themselves (likely because of difficulties with translation), adding further difficulty to the already considerable fuzziness of polearm naming conventions. On a side note, the Italians seemed to have a particular obsession with ranseurs and the glaive/fauchard things, as there were an abundance of them.

[@miscellaneous.7127]

3:16 Child torture demo?

[@NancyFrye]

Well done! Nice camera work and editing. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

[@InternetStudiesGuy]

Thing about these types of (elaborately hooked) Polearms is that they're not battlefield weapons. They're "Policeman weapons", allowing the city guards (working in Teams) to potentially disarm some drunk fool with a Rapier or a Messer or a similar weapon, without having to kill him, which is really what the police is about. The vanilla bladed polearm, the "Glaive", is purely for killing, and so are a few other designs, but given that such things are expensive, would have mostly been used by mounted knights. Normal pikemen in the battlefield would have just used, well, pikes. And with pike duels, the side with longer pikes wins, so you don't add weighty metal doodads to your point that force you to use shorter pikes due to the added weight.

[@samswann3727]

what you have said seems very correct, but the English did use bill hooks a lot and plenty of unusual weapons where used on the battlefield, how ever I would agree that policing would be a primary use for them

[@havareriksen3395]

While your arguments may sound logical, they are not accurate according to history. Pole arms developed from farmers tool, like the scythe, hayfork and billhook. First as improvised weapons and then as specialist weapons of war. It was the poor mans weapon. Forging a sword required more quality steel and more skill. But the head of a pole arm could be made by any blacksmith that could make horse shoes and plow shears. In addition, knights wore full armor and used this for protection, where the lowly footmen primarely had to use their longer reach for protection. Knights generally didn't use pole arms. The few times I find mention of them using pole arms, is usually with a pole axe, which is significantly shorter than these other pole arms. The reason they are thought about as expensive, is because surviving pole arms are often highly decorated. That was not the case for the soldiers fighting in medieval times. But with the advent of the renaissance, gunpowder weapons began to dominate the battlefield and pole arms were no longer in demand there. It was then that pole arms were to be found mostly with guards, and as these guards were often household troops of kings, dukes or barons, their weapons were more decorated, too. The weapon we see most in this role is the halberd. Developed and used as a battle weapon, it usually had a hook on the opposite side of the axe edge. It was generally not used to catch an opponents weapon, but to catch opponents and unhorse knights. The halberds are still used today in the Vatican, by the Swiss Guard. Another reason guards had pole arms, is because they belonged to the garrison of any fortified city, and during a siege a pole arm gives the defender extra reach over the walls or through murder holes in the walls and ceilings. The pole arms mostly mentioned in unfortified and poorer cities in the policing role, is the long hafted morning star. So the ornate, engraved and gilded pole arms we see in museums today are not the medieval weapons of war, but later weapons used by palace guards and such. Pikes and lances did continue to be used for some time, but were finally made obsolete by the advent of the bayonet. The pole arm that was in use most recently on the battlefield, was the spontoon. But then as artillery officers or NCO's weapons.

[@manofwealthandtaste136]

+Havar Eriksen Arguably pole arms stayed relevant until the late 17th and early 18th century, when pikes stopped being used in favour of bayonets.. which were used as substitute pikes.

[@mrwindupbird101]

This is something I've always found funny about the naming of medieval weapons, bladed and blunt particularly. You have one side of people who will spend hours debating (that's what they call it but it sounds like arguing to me) on a certain name or class of weapon. On the other side you have people who know the names but are a lot less finicky about titles, give it the widest branching name (sword, mace, pole-arm) and tell you why that one is good or not. Like explaining why having a hook facing a certain way can be helpful or having a curved blade. Practicality over formality, as it should be.

[@jshadowhunter]

I swear, the guy with a sword at the end is dressed like Vernon Roche from Witcher series. XP

[@Laughing_Individual]

That's pretty common 15th century fashion bro.

[@lilmidjet98]

Definitely

[@Leonard89008]

I thought the same...^^

[@gallendugall8913]

kudos for that very illustrative & instructive animation as a matter of fact I did design a pole arm with a claymore mine duck taped to the end and I named it the Polemore

[@bansheemopar]

Seems to me like th etypical reenactment problem. A lot of i can do this and he can do that, but no even vaguelly useful fighting. You can not give a proper guess on how weapons are used without using them properly.

[@SolyomSzava]

bansheemopar Using the properly would involve killing/wounding people with them, wouldn't it? That might be an issue...

[@bansheemopar]

***** That is one part of the problem. But with proper equipment you can get quite close to the real thing without wounding your comrade. But that extreme careful slow fishing for the opponents weapon while staying out f reach does solve nothing.

[@lindybeige]

bansheemopar They were not fighting, they were demonstrating individual points, moving slowly so that we could see what they were doing.

[@SolyomSzava]

bansheemopar Yeah, I recently saw two HEMA instructors sparring on Skallagrim's channel at much higher speeds. That was way more fun to watch, seemed more real and was over real fast.

[@bansheemopar]

Lindybeige I quote: " Here we see two men fighting..." And that is exactly what we do not see. Any HEMA practitioner should know that actual fighting is a lot different, and foremost leads to the point that all that hooking and fancy ideas most of the time does not work, because the opponent will try to avoid that and move out of the way if needs must.

[@spamhonx56]

The animated bits about the shape of blades are excellent.

[@lpsp442]

Rate my dictum of polearm terminology: Spear Simple spike Partisan Vanguard winged blades/spikes Glaive Sword/Knife/Cleaver-like blade Fauchard Hooked Scythe/Sickle/Reaver/Bill etc. Halberd Axe/Bearded blade Lucerne Hammer Hammer/Blunt Prong/Fork Head Guisarme Wibbly spike'n'hook/spar forks Pike Bonus-length, intended for formations Not included: Bidents and tridents/pitchforks, which aren't real battle weapons so much as improvised converted farm/hunt tools or sporting pieces

[@ianwalker6546]

"Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome." -- Terry Pratchett

[@pant0sand0hat]

Absolutely perfect animation demonstration! Bravo!!

[@ryanbecker6713]

What's the deal with pole-arms? It's not a pole, and it's not an arm!

[@DanielLCarrier]

Ryan Becker It's an arm (i.e. weapon) that's stuck on the end of a pole.

[@DerangedGodLoki]

Ryan Becker When I read that it was as if Seinfeld was saying it.

[@Alexthehuge]

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[@tefras14]

Daniel Carrier I don't get it. Why only Poles are allowed to have arms?

[@stardestroyer19]

tefras14 I dont know, its just how things go down in Poland man

[@Thrand11]

Great Video! Agreed on polearm and pole weapon names very well done and great stuff!

[@lastsaneman19]

I can hear a historical pendant crying about the absense of his favorite bardiche in the background but in all seriousness, jesus christ, children should be illegal

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Thank you, had a very rough understanding of polearms and this helped a fair bit. But yes, one should not be all to fuzzy conerning the names of medieval and renaisance weaponry. The wielders were not themselves after all. Now I imagine two mercenaries having a drunken argument concerning what weapon is what and eventually starting a big fight. All the time.

[@billlupin8345]

I keep trying to tell people; Pearl has a glaive, not a spear! Spears don't have blades.

[@joep041188]

really cool video, nice animation and great actors!

[@Aegox]

I think we should just take from your mace description of being metal hitty things and just call all polearms LONG hitty and smashy things.

[@farmerboy916]

No see, they'd be long hitty-smashy-cutty-stabby things. To me, a long hitty smashy thing would be like a mace on a pole. A pole-mace? I wonder why they never did that; probably because it was so dull in comparison to all the spiked weapons which have no name.

[@Aegox]

More spikes means more stabby! can't go wrong with too many pointy bits... or I guess you can... huh.

[@farmerboy916]

***** Nah, that just makes it a morning-star-glaive.

[@Aegox]

True.

[@farmerboy916]

***** Triple points if you can convince someone that it existed. The question would be if it only had them on the edges, or also on the sides; and which version would look more ridiculous?

[@KincadeCeltoSlav]

my dear Sir....You had the Perfect opportunity to Identify the Halberd/PoleAxey Thingee whilst in the Armory!

[@Urudrim]

it's a stick with a pointy end. end of debate.

[@Ottuln]

Urudrim but what if you add a slicey bit to it as well? Then does it become a pointy-slicey stick?

[@germanvisitor2]

+Wreqt Indeed. Now if we could - perhaps - add something hookey to it, it would be marvelous.

[@buttonwillowmcbuttonwillow5038]

Well... So's a rapier

[@TheRadicalOneNG]

Man, the hopelessness of the swordsman vs those polearms. I never even really thought about how much of a mismatch it would be until now.

[@Anacronian]

These are all the anticonformist hipster weapons who listen to no one name but are all individuals and have "personalities".. you pole weapons make me sick!

[@magnuslauglo5356]

It is fascinating to get some insight into how these might have been used.

[@BrandonBlackmoor]

In days of yore when I played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, I chose a pole arm based on what was shortest (and thus the most convenient) but could still be used to set against a charge: the Lucern Hammer was the clear winner. Short enough to be carried in a dungeon (5 feet long, if I recall correctly), did decent damage (2d8, iirc), and did double damage when set against a charge.

[@audreywinter4553]

Ah yes, the polearms. So much fun that saw so little use in the games I was in. Except for me, because I prefer polearms and spears to swords if I can get away with 'em.

[@douglascole7491]

In GURPS, the pollaxe or dueling halberd is chock full of awesome, so there's good love there.

[@Jmat-tc8zs]

*****I've always been disappointed in Dungeons and Dragons because when given the choice of using any two-handed weapons, people invariably either go for a greatsword or a greataxe. I suppose having greater reach and fanciness just isn't enough for people who just want damage.

[@MachoManShark]

I was hoping you'd bring up the spiked pommel-glaive. It's my favorite weapon, and is really good at ending your opponent rightly.

[@MouseAndShiraz]

One does begin to suspect that smiths were just constantly trying new variations on shapes, and even in the period, I suspect that different people from different places *also* would have called the same weapon different things just based on whatever they were most familiar with, or whatever was popular at the time. These two guys were very good to show you some of what they know. One thing I thought was interesting was when the one guy said 'I feel very off-balance.' Because honestly, at a glance the lock looked fairly even, but I know what he means. Controlling a weapon like that comes down to leverage, and it's much harder to push up or down than it is to push forward, so any lock which allows one person to push forward to control the other's weapon, while they have to push up or down or to the side in order to combat that force, is going to be the superior lock. I guess it's kind of obvious now that I've thought about it, but I hadn't considered it before.

[@Patrick-dj9dd]

About time, Lindybeige!

[@wtfBBQ13]

Thanks to Lindybeige I now know that the fellow in red had a Rondel dagger on his waist. Things I wouldn't have noticed before finding this channel.

[@benmasta5814]

i bet the polearms were named after either people or fighting styles used with them. These names would likely be regional and not universal, therefore finding any one name for each one would likely be impossible as it would have different names based on who and where it surfaced in popularity regionally. They seem like a pretty personalized weapon, and adding your own touch that benefits your style/ability would make sense. Small variations were likely attributed to skilled fighters wanting to incorporate unique movements to counter popular fighting styles at the time, and as one became more popular another would surface to counter it. It makes sense that they would just be sub-names based on time-specific people/styles as it would likely be replaced as its hard to say any one polearm is without a weakness against another shape.

[@ClumsyToast]

Hahaha, love the game at the end. I love the versatility of the French pole arm - the ápoux fritá

[@NET1340]

great and helpful animation towards the beginning of the vid

[@hatatfatcat]

Having done the re-enactment thing, I'd suggest that swordsmen are perfectly placed on the wings because if they can take the end bill/glaive/bohemianearspoon/bardiche man out and attack from the side the whole formation can be forced to crumble due to their lack of manouverabilty having to wave big pointy sticks about. Time for another video???

[@forevermorbid8949]

"Then whats this? A fauchard-fauchard?" Too funny. Priceless

[@karthadastim]

The duck-billed-hooky-grabber-pole had a fowl-beak shaped head with a hook on both ends of the weapon as well as a strong fishing line attached with a third hook on the end

[@jeffreygiven4713]

Just returned from touring the zoo in Louisville, KY... where I heard screaming kids all day. Relaxed with this very interesting and informative video... where I heard more screaming kids.

[@absolutelyheretical7132]

Awesome video, I absolutely love polearms like this regardless of what they're called!

[@WarbanderLasty]

i may be horribly wrong but when i was looking at the etymology of the Glaive/Fauchard/Sovnya/Guisarme/Naginata/Billhook most of the names are derived from either "Scythe or Sickle" or something along the lines of "weeding/reaping blade/iron"

[@KinkyFulcrum]

Very nice poleaxes you've got there, but I quite fancied the bardiche. It, paired with the glaive, was much prettier than that cumbersome voulge or the dastardly bill displayed, and it's hooked brethren.

[@OlOleander]

KinkyFulcrum Streltsye would agree. Though they'd usually prefer using their guns anyway.

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

05:20 Dual wielding seems to look pretty pleasing now

[@cyrilgigee4630]

1:46 Why does that batpolearm look awesome?

[@alexgarcia8365]

Basicly a staff with a spiked part so you use it like a staff but use the sharp part to kill . Cool!

[@Nerdnumberone]

Ah the pole arm. Take a stick and put some kill-y bit on the end. You can have a stabby bit, a slicey bit, a bashy bit, a hooky bit, or any combination of these bits in all sorts of variations. From the humble spear to the what looks like a Swiss-army knife on a stick.

[@McJaews]

The luimarchoin has the best possible shape of any weapon used between the 12th and 14th century. The curves all have purpose and can be used both offensively and defensively. A pity they were made with poorer steel since the armorists at the time preferres the bearded ramboches. I believe even the Japanese took inspiration from the luimarchion for their infamous naginata.

[@michaelkeha]

This just helps cement my theory on how a phalanx worked first row spears down low, second spears up high and begin the stabbing.

[@whowantsabighug]

The sockets are surprisingly short on some of those. You'd think they'd be deeper for such a large head, presumably much heavier than a normal spear.