Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1
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Published 2022-12-06
Perhaps even more harrowing than the progression towards these new weapons, was the regression back towards the basic weapons from the past. In stark contrast to the advancing technology of the twentieth century, many soldiers who were stuck in the close-corridors of trench warfare found themselves back in the medieval era.
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All Comments (21)
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Fun fact alot of medieval melee weapons during ww1 were also crude because soldiers were annoyed with weapons like the bayonet getting stuck in enemies
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Interesting fact about the US trench knife: a lot of the blades used for those knives were repurposed blades from surplus civil war swords
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WW1 is one of those wars that came with rare conditions and allowed for lots of things seemingly out of fiction to come about. And it's really cool to see stuff about that kind of thing.
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World war 1 is one of the most interesting conflicts of all time. The mixture of modern and medieval technology combined with the harshness and brutality of trench warfare are just….I feel it gets overshadowed a lot by WWII in media
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Bro imagine chilling in a trench just for king Arthur to pull up full suit and with a machine gun
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“Reject modernity, embrace tradition.” moment in history.
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Imagine being a 17 year old farmer in 1914, and joining WW1 thinking it's "the war to end all wars" and you're there long enough to see this, imagine what went on in there heads "am I seeing ghosts?" "Why is there stuff from the 1500s?" "Knights in shining armor? What on earth?" And then planes and everything else starts getting made, what a confusing time to be alive then. "The war that started with horses ended with planes"
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You can really tell how firearms and equipment went through its own Renaissance period of development. When Renaissance came it was a blast from the past when it comes to art and other aspects, in WW1 it was also a throwback to medieval warfare...
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Definitely the most unique war. It was almost like they were purposely romanticizing the Middle Ages when Europe was last truly at war with each other. Pretty cool
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10:34 me trying to kill the sentry Elite class in Bf1 with my mace while he is calmly reloading his MG 08/15...
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Medieval weapons were used in WW2 as well. A British officer named "Mad" Jack Churchill carried a long bow and Scottish style broadsword...and used them. He was documented to have used the bow for sentry removal on at least one occasion. He also carried a set of bagpipes around, just because he was like that. Look him up, it's worth the read.
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Using Medieval weapons in WW1 showed just how unabashedly brutal and wide ranging the war went to. Those two soldiers bonking each other at the end made me chuckle in this informative entry.
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The British Brody helmet and the German stahlhelm we're both based on 14th l century designs. The originals were designed to protect infantry from arrows. The 20th century versions were inspired by these in order to protect against shrapnel.
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10:34 i don't know why, but i find this part really funny, the way theyre both hitting each other and doing apsolutely no damage + the dink sounds 🤣
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I gotta say the Sentinel is pretty badass, kind of a shame it never got put into use
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8:16 the original Juggernaut
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There was a department of the Italian army during the First World War, the Arditi, which used cuirasses called "farina" as basic equipment and were deployed on the front lines above all for the assault on the fortifications.
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8:30 I make armor as a semi professional hobby. In my practical research based on the finds in europe, I have found that distributing the weight onto the shoulder, and the hips through articulated plates would fix the back strain issue. It would still be heavy, but as long as you aren't expecting the man to move as a regular soldier would, then yes i could easily see this being used in ww1. The problem is it wouldn't be hard to just bring a larger gun to defeat the armor.
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Man simple history has been really churning out bangers lately
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Always nice to see new WW1 content on your Channel.
