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Loved the video man very interesting i give the edge to crossbow because it also takes less training

That trebuchet audio is actually kind of awesome.

Damn, I wish you didn't jack the prices up on your daggers! I bought one of your bollock daggers for a friend's birthday and planned to get myself one, but not anymore.

So I'm wondering.... Seeing that Leonardo Di Vinci design for the lever action crossbow with the bottom lever in another video.... Would you be able to do Jorge's Crossbow magazine with a crossbow like that, and make a repeating lever action crossbow? Similar to the Instant Legolas?

I think hardening the gambeson like that defeats the properties that makes gambeson good

Really interesting, thanks for this. Really added to my reading on Roman use of slingshot.

You forgot to add the tap at the fron that uses the index finger to hold the draw. Then, you don't need the muscles to hold the draw with the arm holding the string. You can even release the string hand because of that tap 😉. Joerg pointed out that that tap is important to make shootong a heavy longbow earlier.

The Bollock dagger was a medieval dad joke.

Could you perhaps do a video on why the english rarely used quivers and used arrow bundles? I am interested in how they function, how broadheads dont get caught, how the loose string doesn’t let all the arrows fall to the ground. People often wrongly picture all longbowman with quivers.

In fairness, in the time of gunpowder, a lot of armour was phased out since it was made obsolete by bullets. As long as it can kill unarmoured targets, it would be okay. If they're wearing a curass, you better aim for the head or you're shit outa luck.

Great collaborative work, thanks to so many people who are interested in bringing history to life, with uncanny realism. Have you thought about next steps? Perhaps moving targets? Ive always wondered what might happen to the armour when its also accelerating towards these legendary arrows from legendary archers and guilds.

Is momentum only a good analogue for penetrative in soft target? Because in piercing steel and armor the best penetrative is very small, extremely hard pointy projectiles going very fast. Velocity is what matters in penetrating armor in firearm world.

The last shot is horrific. Like a white phosphorus injection 😧

You know, as you said right at the start, I sometimes get annoyed at the historical inaccuracies in movies. But with movies, I can - most of the time - look past it. Because I understand that when making a movie, you also have to make it entertaining and meet some expectations of the viewers. It irks me when the movie claims to be based in history and/or archaeology; 2004's King Arthur starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley is a prime example (they said it was based on "new archaeological evidence", when in fact it was based around a historical thesis that has been discussed for decades, and then they messed up their dates and spoke of "papal armies" about a thousand years before any pope would have had his own military force, and had fantasy armor and leather bras). But, if the movie is made well, I can still enjoy it - again, King Arthur is a good example, because I like the story and I like that it's a different take on the myth and I think (despite all the inaccuracies) it's visually appealing for the most part. What really annoys me however is when I'm watching documentaries and they get it wrong. Because as I said, with movies you have the entertainment factor, and the question of vievers' expectations, and what the director and the producer envisioned. With a documentary, you're usually trying to show "what was", factually. When I watch a documentary about the celts plundering Rome, I don't want the celtic leader wearing a early medieval Spangenhelm. When I watch a documentary about the military reforms of Marius, I don't want the Romans wearing Corbridge-Style Segmentata armor. When I watch a documentary about Clovis and the rise of the Franks, I don't want Clovis to be having a 12th century sword. Because, in a documentary, I want them to get as close to the current scientific consensus about the time as possible. And yes, I know, they often have limited money, but it makes people watch these documentaries and believing that this is what was worn historically. The next thing they start working on a historic novel, or on their reenactement/living history gear, and they get it wrong and get criticized.

Question: How about making the arrow-heads thinner/pointier? I feel like the arrowheads were too think and not pointy enough to get through.

I think people forget where your carotid artery goes, those shoulder hits are on the subclavian artery which can't be compressed without opening up the chest cavity due to being protected by the clavical. Even today most people bleed out enroute to the hospital when this artery is severed.

Trebuchet + fire = happy fun times. Fantastic video Tod, thank you for all the effort you put into them.

21:13 You might be looking too closely at this one. It's entirely possible that because this was already an expensive weapon, the arsenic was just added as a good measure or for the aesthetics of the flame itself. It's kind of like how computer parts these days sometimes have black, blue, green, purple or even yellow circuit boards. The colours don't actually mean anything, but someone looking back on our era might get confused as to what the colours denoted. The colours of a circuit board are purely aesthetic, but the fact that there is a colour at all means there is a resin layer which insulates the copper. That doesn't mean the colour is vital to that function.

Remember: If you get hit by a fire arrow just stop, drop, and roll

Please do some videos on mongol bows of Genghis’s time. The mongols almost conquered the world, primarily because of their bow quality and archery skills. They were accurately hitting the enemy, from horseback, at 300+ yards. They devastated European armies.

happy to see this channel finally getting the recognition it deserves! keep up the great work tod.

I think there are more kind of crossbows than the windless but i see it in evry crossbow video, you could have a smaller one whtvyou can load with hands, also somebody who use to crossbows can just leave the cranker on the back of the windless and maximizing spped

Crazy Cool 😎

i was 2 mins in till i noticed what you were wearing

Now I want naked pose pictures of Todd with his Bullock Dagger ;-)

I've allways been more of a fan of the fire sword myself, fire fists as well, but fire arrows are kinda lit too!

10:10 cooking spaghetti

Those are perfect for fantasy stuff.

Tod, that’s absolutely heinous and I’m completely horrified, disgusted, and disappointed by you! I’ll take 3

Some craftman in the Middle Ages: crafts a bollock dagger everyone: "I want one too!" Tod Cutler today: crafts a bollock dagger everyone: "I want one too!"

Great video

Sorry to put a lid on the mirth (I am female after all).but don't most of the originals have a thumb groove on top of the handle?

Are you also going to cover the titty axe?

I feel like every year now there's just another reveal that one big "MYTH" that early HEMA RUclips did everything in their power to fight against turns out to be true in some fashion. Obviously Hollywood is still very silly in the way that it employs a lot of historically inauthentic tropes, but I feel like the attempt at a correction what's so over the top that they literally ignored a bunch of real things from history due to their ignorance. Like recently I found out that Spaniards actually did practice dual wielding arming swords at least as far back as the 1300s (According to Godinho who claims to have learned from a manuscript we do not have copies of) at least for court swordmaster roles.

Don't forget your bastard sword and knobkerry ...

Keep it away from your wifes and girlfriends otherwise you might find your handel smelles fishy. 🤣😂🤣

I don't think you would have time to pull your head in the middle of a battle 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Holy mother of Saint Peter that trebuchet looked terrifying. I mean the arrows looked frightening already, but that trebuchet was something else...

Which bow is used at 2:43?

You forget self-defense. That is what the baluster is for self-defense and sniping at very close range.

Finally a dagger right up my alley ! Thanks Tod ! 😂

The men from the east have curved ones.

New definition to 'balls deep'

YOU EVEN CARVED THE CENTRAL VEIN TOD WTF AHAHAHAHHAHA

Oddly, I’ve never seen the male models on the cover of GQ magazine pose with a bollock dagger. Apparently, they aren’t as fashion conscious as I thought they were!

Imagine "fcuk you" in physical form.

What is going on with your hoody

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Terrible form for longbow. He's bending forward with a huge arch in his back. I thought you paid for the best archer?