🜲 #KinglyTip 3. #Violence #Gore If you ⚜re wondering wh⚜t ex⚜ctly to ⚜rm your men with, look to wh⚜t your enemies ⚜re using. No ⚜rmor, it's recommended to use pole⚜rms like spe⚜rs. Gr⚜nts you gre⚜t dist⚜nce from the enemy ⚜nd ⚜ddition⚜lly ⚜re gre⚜t for those who mount hoofbe⚜sts. But you might be ⚜s🜲 wh⚜t if your enemy we⚜rs ⚜rmor? Either pl⚜ted or ch⚜inm⚜il which respectfully do gre⚜t ⚜g⚜inst spe⚜rs ⚜nd bl⚜des. Well, this might be ⚜ bit extreme of ⚜ description. Once I found ⚜ oliveblood knight of mine h⚜d to fight ch⚜inm⚜in ⚜nd pl⚜ted ⚜nd in ⚜ fit of desper⚜tion he gr⚜bbed the ne⚜rest rock ⚜nd beg⚜n to b⚜sh without remorse. Eventu⚜lly, we discovered his opponent's body ribs crushed inw⚜rds like the dent in ⚜ h⚜nd-me-down p⚜n. Since then we've ⚜scribed fl⚜ils ⚜nd gre⚜th⚜mmers to units who ⚜re to f⚜ce off ⚜rmored individu⚜ls. No ⚜mount of met⚜l c⚜n s⚜ve the inner body from being brut⚜lized by blunt force. But gre⚜th⚜mmers ⚜re weighty. Slow, quicker individu⚜ls c⚜n e⚜sily dodge it. Bl⚜des ⚜re gre⚜t for this re⚜son. But c⚜rrying ⚜ bl⚜de, ⚜ spe⚜r ⚜nd ⚜ h⚜mmer is too much for the ⚜ver⚜ge footsoldier. So this eventu⚜lly led to me comm⚜nding my bl⚜cksmith cre⚜te us ⚜n ⚜rmory of h⚜lberds. They're ⚜ll ⚜ spe⚜r, ⚜xe, ⚜nd h⚜mmer in combin⚜tion. Of course there ⚜re still niches th⚜t the other we⚜ponry c⚜n fill, but h⚜lberds ⚜re the one size fits ⚜ll of the world. ⋆.˚𓅆࿐
As someone who read some of that and got the general gist, I agree with this tip! And, if you particularly enjoy weapons of the Slashing and Stabbing kind, don't forget to participate tomorrow in #SlashingSaturday, invention of yours truly! Heheheh...
|nterest|ng. | Was Frankly Under The |mpress|on Blades Were Mostly Useless |n Large Scale Warfare When Compared To Ranged Tact|cs L|ke The Spear, Arrows Or Tra|ned Beasts W|th Long Range Capab|l|t|es Such As Dragons Or B|clops. So |'m Not Too Surpr|sed That One Would Phase Them Out For Halberds As You Stated.
Someone's heard of the weapon triangle.
[|87 :: 1 feel armor penetrat;on ;s a v;able ranged alternat;ve. Trebuchets, ball;stas, and even black powder matchlocks are g00d. Only ;ssue ;s that they are slow. Ult;mately you want several d;fferent types of un;ts ;n your army to su;t the needed roles aga;nst any g;ven enemy.
🜲 Oh of course. R⚜nged w⚜rf⚜re is it's own topic though. ⋆.˚𓅆࿐
[|87 :: Th;s ;s true. Theoret;cally there are melee opt;ons des;gned around armor penetrat;on such as p;ck hammers but that ;s qu;te n;che and ;ts alternat;ve ;s st;ll effect;ve aga;nst armor regardless.