Is the flail king of the melee weapons?
Melee weapons
Brody Powell
Isaac Roberts
Nope, polearms are the king of melee weapons.
Parker Garcia
this with maces a close second
Landon Miller
sharp things > blunt things
Could still get you fucked up, though, of course.
Adrian Clark
for foot soldiers, Halberds and Pikes are the best because they lend themselves to phalanx tacktics. they are basically the only melee infantry weapons that can stand up to a cavalry charge. for cavalry, lances are the best thing, because you can hit your opponent before your horse's face is in the way.
Flails are not even a weapon to begin with, they were invented to thresh grain, and some peasants that needed to fuck someone up decided to put spikes on them. regular maces have two uses, they are good for beating up someone in armor if you can't afford a good enough sword to cleave through steel, and they were used by Clergy who were banned from carrying swords so as not to draw blood. Bishop Odo can be identified on the Bayeaux tapestry by his mace.You can also use one in a church sanctuary if you need to.
Matthew Richardson
No, and it's pretty debatable if flails were ever widely used as real weapons.
Luis Lopez
>Be modern soldier
>Need melee weapon
>Get polearm
>Fuck
Gavin Lopez
>modern soldier
>melee weapon
Mason Scott
Need more context. Are we talking about modern times? Or ancient times? Cause polearms/spears etc, are kind of the most used melee weapon of all time. If we're going by # of people killed by and # of people utilizing.
Adrian Robinson
No, the war hammer is.
Jaxon Reyes
Get out thor
Parker Stewart
war hammer != hammer
John Ortiz
Rifle/bayonet is technically a polearm.
Dominic Perez
They where used as a secondary for cavalry. They become way less useful once you dismounted
Ian Watson
Two-handed flails certainly were used. One-handed were probably used on horseback for a short amount of time. It's not a big surprise that flails didn't took off, horseman's hammers are just as efficient and much easier to wear and use.
And then if you look elsewhere, the japanese for instance had a flail with a really long chain (2-3m long), but they were more of a restraining and feat weapon, with a much smaller ball.
Jeremiah Carter
How many rifles are long enough these days though, for them to actually be considered pole-arms? A lot of them are much more compact and don't have the length that older rifles use to have, which made them much more pole-arm like.
Ethan Nguyen
only this one
Grayson Wilson
Why not both?
Samuel Butler
Buddy
Austin Collins
what if we put a flail on the end of a polearm?
And on the flail's chain? A can of mace.
Logan Torres
nigger whipper 5000
Ethan Wood
I'm quite partial to the Falaxe/Falax.
Those things would cut through a Roman shield. And the Roman behind it.
Austin Sanders
This looks like meal preparation or some kind of ceremonial ritual in progress more than a weapon