![]() ![]() What are they looking at? What are they thinking? Are they thinking? And where on earth do they find these people? Pay particular attention to the expressions on the weapons experts' faces. As ever, Czech developer Warhorse goes a bit overboard, and it makes for bizarrely entertaining viewing. Just like the Kingdom Come: Deliverance video where we learned about layering armour - why does he kick him, by the way? - today we're learning another history lesson about how weapons affect armour. And that's what this Kingdom Come: Deliverance video is all about - that and slicing up meat like a butcher. In The Witcher 3 you can cleave armoured opponents diagonally in half, but nope, wouldn't happen in real life - not even with a brute like Geralt wielding the blade. Not all swords had blunt edges of course, but my example was a very long-winded way of saying that most games or even TV shows and films don't realistically portray what would actually happen in a sword fight with an armoured opponent. It fascinates me, the whole science of creating armour to counter weapons, and then weapons to overcome that armour, and so on and so on until boring guns. Simply thrust through the legs and pull up and back. Do you know what those hooks were for on those long halberd weapons? Well, you know where the weak point is on suits of armour don't you? Back of the legs - crotch specifically. They were designed to be as effective at their task as possible. It's horrid isn't it? But that's what weapons were for: killing. Oh and that groove down the middle of the sword: that's there to let the air into the wound so you can pull the sword back out. It's just the tip that's razor sharp for the plunging stab that kills them. The edges are blunt and the sword is heavy so that people can try and break the bones of their opponent underneath the armour, or at least severely bruise them, and immobilise them. what? But in the films and stories and games they slice people up like meat in a butcher's shop. I learnt that not all the edges of a sword were sharpened for slicing. I had this steel breastplate on and I was holding a huge pike when I learnt a cool fact about swords.
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