What were the top 3 most effective Medieval weapons?

The sword, that's why it was the most common.

halbred/any polearm would beat the shit out of any other weapon in a 1v1

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>picking a class besides archer
I honestly don’t know how the fuck you people can live with yourselves

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One word
>trebuchet

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The Plague #1

diseased horseflesh dropped in the well

>Plague
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Peasant not bring a spear or billhook? Hastily end thyself naive.

Spear, horse, money.

The Pike. Everyone knows this.

Wuuthrad

>Not a single person ITT discussing the nature of combat.
Fucking retards.

The Sword is the best weapon overall.

Point the sharp bits towards the enemy.

There is only one answer: It depends...
The sword definitely was the best allrounder.

1. Religious fanaticism.
2. Usury.
3. The trebuchet.

Spear is most common retard

it was cheaper and more effective

>Point the sharp bits towards the enemy.
If they're using well made plate armor, then you might as well be holding a stick.
Unless you have a lance, on a strong horse, at full gallop.

The spear. The horse. The shield.
Then we have the bow/sword/axe if you're fighting literal drooling retards.

Sword is actually useless against a spear in a war situation.
The best weapons on the Medieval battlefield are as follows
>Spear
>Halberd
>Crossbow
Crossbows are overpowered in Medieval times and could take out a fully armored knight on horseback with one shot.

Contrarian nice

Longbows.

Imagine being this uneducated, but I guess thats what happens when your country never had a middle age period. Swords were nobles or officers weapons, spears were the most common by fucking far. A peasant with a spear would wreck any fancy fag any day of the week if he had a sword

1. Bow on horseback
2. Pike en masse
3. War hammer one on one.

Club or mace
Even a tard could bring down an armored knight with one

I prefer "great swords" even more than longswords because it takes far more strength and skill to wield proper

I don't know what this has to do with politics but the crossbow, ball and chain and mace I ques?

Nobody asked what cheaper was faggot. I prefer a trained swort fighter vs speer fighter.

What was the most used weapon?

Sword
Bow
Pike

Not even close.

Halberd
Sword
Shield
In that order

Polearm ftw

Crossbow for sure. It meant the speed of the arrow was no longer limited by the strength of the archer. Made chain mail pointless.

Gun. I'm American, I cannot live without my babe.

Go back

Familiars

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Okay and if they have teleportation jutsus and laser guns then that’s bad too

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Most used was spear/dagger for peasant/low level guys, and even a low level guy would win against a trained swordfaggot

The fact you don't know what a morning star is means you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
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Most fatal wounds were inflicted with a pole axe according to archeologist
This guy has a point tho

>Shorter range than a bow.
>Less penetration than a bow.
>Only useful in massed militia with zero training.
>Still completely countered by shields.
>Can't even volley.
Crossbows were shit. That's why only republics like Genoa used them.

>game of thrones is real
reality is the medieval ages were quite boring and there were only a comparative handful of numbers of battles "with knights and shit' kys

Archer Master Race. Always.

I'm not talking about peasant conscripts you fucking retards, I'm talking about professional soldiers.

American education, sigh.

Spears, axes, and maces were generally far more effective as they did not require the training and skill to use a sword well. Any peasant can swing an axe or mace or thrust a spear. Swords were mostly used by nobles, or trained and seasoned warriors. Conscripted peasants would use axes, maces, and spears as they require nearly no training to use.

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Ankle bites.

There is only one sword I would use. If you can even call it a sword at all. It's more like a hulking mass of iron if anything.

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Still the spear or the polearm then, you absolute fucking retard, holy shit.

Variations of the spear, of course.

Nope, professional soldiers most often used swords.

Spear. No training, any plebian can pick one up and be a warrior.
>ball and chain
Terrible. Unweildy enough you hit more friends than foes, even on horseback. Mace/Morning Star was better

This.

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BASED

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t. Plays Tau

Unironically-
>10 foot spear / lance
>Horse
>Falchion

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How do you not know that you don't know?

Professional soldiers used halberds, pikes and lances retard.

Medieval fighting isnt 1v1, its dedicated formations. Spearmen to hold the line, cavalry to flank, archers to whittle away other formations.

This, it's lame but the spear really is the greatest melee weapon you can have. Virtually unchanged since its inception, easy as fuck to use. Surpassed maybe by the halberd, but that weapon takes far more skill to use, a spear is far more simple and cheap.

Right back at you

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Spears and other long formation weapons.

They sure did, but not as often as swords.

Based and Mongol-pilled

>source: I'm retarded

lol @ ranged. ur damage sucks.

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1) spear
2) bow
3) lance

Swords and a lot of one handed weapons were basically side arms.

It takes a special kind of faggot to complain about a lack of sources when they give none of their own.

Lay off the hollywood bullshit.

trebuchet>catapult>long bow>crossbow>pike>lance>polearm>spear>longsword>gladius>axe>mace>dagger

Longsword.
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Swords were just a side arm. There were a few sword/shield soldiers but they were the exception not the rule.

>Halberd
>Spear/Pike
>Longbow

Sword is too broad of a term. It depends on the time period, armour being worn and whether or not you have a shield. To a lightly armoured Gaul with a shield, a sword is a completely different tool than to a 15th century English man-at-arms. How they are used has almost no crossover whatsoever

Anyway, spears and crossbows because battle is about putting holes in people in the most unfair ways possible

Assuming the musket and arquebus are out if the question, ( so we are only considering weapons before the year 1400 then?)

I would say the bow.

Ranged has such a big advantage. The bow can also be fired from horseback.

The combination of range and mobility is tone of the greatest factors in the dominance of the mongols during the middle ages.

For myself personally, I would take a bow. But if I was arming an army, I would give them crossbows because bows take more training to use. Close combat weapons are for plebs.

However if I didn't want to be a little bitch. I would take an axe.

Not just range, speed too. A spear can thrust towards your legs then flick up to the face far more quickly than you can defend with a sword.

Think this through. In a fight of people with pointy things would you rather have the longer or shorter pointy stick?

Bitch I’m a level 10 Bard I deal twice as much damage as the ranger who got me into the game, because I’m an archer, not a ranger.

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Its because its fuckign common knowledge, I dont nees to prove the sun shines, you uncultured swine.

Without knowing the site of the battle, or the specific armor my enemy will be wearing?

AR-15 is the most common gun in America. Is it the best?

obviously the mage casting spells on niggas

Using this currently. OP.

A weapon surviving technological change is the best indicator of its quality. Only one (maybe two, depending on your definition and time frame) medieval weapon survived into the early to middle black powder eras and it sure as shit wasn't the longsword. Spears/pikes are the weaponry master race.

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Chainmail hauberk on a flat more or less dry field of ankle high grass.

Totally contextual.

If you're on horseback and armored, a couched lance. This assumes were not talking early middle ages/late antiquity, because you need stirrups for this.

After you lose the lance, you'll want a sword. If in chainmail and breastplate, longsword and shield. If you have full plate, then a great sword.

If on foot in a formation, a polearm.

If fighting knights in plate, a warhammer or poleaxe.

Against chainmail, an axe or mace might serve you better than a sword if you're in a formation, but 1 v 1 swords are better due to better balance for parrying.

If sneaking up on someone, a crossbow.

Pikes don't always work, or even mostly work. Until shot and pike formations, pikes alone reguarly got wrecked by heavy horse. With a height advantage and momentum, a lance is more effective. Full barding and plate means a pike isn't fully effective.

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Noice

>Zweihander

Not so fast m8

This. Pikes and clubs are supreme

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