What was the purpose of flails?
Where they a useful weapon?
What was the purpose of flails?
Gavin Ortiz
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Angel Ross
Swinging around shields.
Also the type of flail in your pic wasn't common. Most flails looked like pic related.
Noah Hughes
>easy to make
>almost no skill required other than being self aware enough not to hit yourself
>would go around shields
>would wrap around other weapons
Hudson Ross
I killed a homeless boomer with one.. Shit was cash.
Leo Wright
The longer staff kind seen here allowed unwashed and malnourished peasants to have a fighting chance against more professional soldiers and it was based on a farm tool so they were experienced in it's handling.
Alexander Wilson
That's some real neat shit man, for some reason every weeb knows about the word kunai but this shit goes under the radar
Kayden Nguyen
So that in mind, would the OP pic be a weapon for more experienced fighters?
Jose Anderson
The only depictions I know of for that time of flail were used from horseback so yeah kinda
David Perez
Doing God’s work user, boomers should be gassed
John Fisher
They didn't really exist.
Not really. They allowed farmers operating in very large groups to kill isolated men who had been violently dismounted. In a straight fight they'd still get fucking slaughtered.
Oliver Wright
It's kind of funny, if you consider the horse expendable, using it on horseback is probably the safest way to use one without whacking your knees accidentally
Camden Thompson
Of course they fucking existed. These flails are a tool to seperate the wheat from the chaff and were used in Europe into the 20th century.
Hudson Kelly
american history month
Adam Cox
>if you consider the horse expendable
>be knight
>hit horse with flail on accident
>horse dies and you get thrown off of it
>now in pain and surrounded by peasants with pikes
Brilliant
Owen Rogers
You drastically underestimate the beating a horse can take. I'm not saying just fuckin hit the thing but if you don't mind the idea of a love tap every now and then, the total amount of self inflicted damage should fall dramatically as opposed to trying to swing one of those things standing. Have you ever tried? You need to put your friggin hips into it like pitching a ball to avoid the flail coming back to hit you should you miss
Kayden Phillips
I've not but I ride horses quite often and I'll tell you that many horses would buck you off for shit like that. So my point still stands, I doubt it's just a love tap from their pov when it hits them in the head or neck.
Samuel Brooks
You call a sharp pointed ball smashing into your body at high speeds "a love tap"?
Robert Jackson
Yes they did
Robert Nelson
Getting around basic barricades and shields and intimidation. And the fact that they were cheap, easy and quick to produce and really didn't require a whole of practice to use semi-effectively.
Blake Sanders
The post is referring to the ball on chain shit in OP. Something that saw little to no use.
Brayden Edwards
Getting stabbed doesn't hurt half as bad as you think it does. It's not very fuckin fun but you do have to realize how much larger the creature is than you. He can take some punishment and if he doesn't see tomorrow, that's fine, he's just got to carry on until the end of battle
Literally just don't hit him in the head, don't know what else to tell you. I don't have a contingency plan for an asteroid impact, either. Some shit is too fucked. A shot to the ribs or the flank though, while shitty, would be perfectly survivable for some time, quote possibly even inconsequential in the long run assuming you don't break anything
Austin Collins
Literally nobody saw their horse as expendable. The fact that you think people would use a sub-par weapon that we have zero evidence for, with obvious, massive disadvantages and NO upside,
at the risk of KILLING OR MAIMING THE MOST EXPENSIVE PART OF THEIR KIT MID FUCKING BATTLE is incredible. Stop posting.
Samuel Rivera
>relying on your horse to carry you through battle
>decide "yeah whatever, I'll just kill my horse, no harm done, right?"
>horse goes down as you club it to death with both ends of your weapon
>you are now 70-90% slower
>everyone else isn't
Jeremiah Robinson
Protip: if the handle is long enough you might even not hit your horse at all!
William Fisher
What about this?
Christopher Parker
How do you use that shit in combat?
Luke Johnson
Hunter Martinez
>I killed a homeless boomer with one
For what purpose? Did he insult your liege?
Nolan Roberts