Being a Time Traveler in the Middle Ages - Probably Sucks!
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- Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2017
- Time travel is awesome in movies and games. But would you really turn into this indomitable hero of knowledge and superior technology? Or would it rather be a dangerous and miserable experience?
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I swore off time travel ever since I accidentally killed an Austrian Archduke, and then blamed it on the Serbs.
M'aiq The Liar get back to Tamriel you piece of shit
best comment award goes to you
M'aiq wishes he'd remembered to speak in the third person during his confession.
Lazy nords, leave M'aiq alone
M'aiq The Liar, fucking WWI* is too confusing for meh...
I bet a 15th century knight out there thought to himself "man if I could travel back in time 400 years with my kickass plate aromor those peasants wouldn't be able to touch me."
So underrated
Agreed lol
@@NerdyNEET Yeah but wealthy knights were probally pretty cocky and full of themselves with their social status so it seens like the majority would think that. And yeah they wouldn't have a massaive advantage but still a pretty good one unless a gang of bandits rolled up to the club with maces.
@@NerdyNEET Precisely! The Industrial Revolution gave us more improvements in technology, comfort, travel ability, quality of food and life expectancy than all the improvements in the milennia before that since the dawn of agriculture.
A blue collar worker who slaves off 50+ hrs day nowadays in a factory, still has better education, food, life expectancy, hygiene, clothing, chance his children will live and better(although probably not bigger) housing than even the richest kings end emperors in the history of mankind prior to the industrial revolution. It's mind-boggling how good we have it nowadays.
Doubt it.
Imagine shooting a guy in the Middle Ages, then you just dissolve in thin air because u killed your great great great great great grandfather
With my luck
It would probably be like that
Yeah but that would create a paradox because how could you shoot them if you didn't exist to shoot them? Time travel is way too tricky to wrap your head around.
@ohgas I think you would still kill your ancestor but then if you used king crimson before you disappeared then you should stay alive. In the jojo universe your ancestor would have been fated to die by your hand and cause you to also die but if you use king crimson then he will still die but you can negate fate and live on.
In conclusion just use king crimson as you kill your ancestor or immediately after and then you shouldn’t disappear
What if you dissolve into thick air instead?
@@finalcam1740 That's a good one
Expectation: people kneeling to you because guns
Reality: gets burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy
they are the heretics, brother. THEY WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF MY BOLTER!!!
Bring nukes somehow
Just shoot them
Until a guard suddenly dies affter a loud bang. Everybody ganna stop affter that
@@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam they know what a gun is
I used to be a adventurer like you, until I took a 7.62 round to the knee....
This comment is underrated
Right? Got a little shrapmetal myself
Time traveler our you trying to tell us the September 20th raid was a failure
@@quentinking1188 shrapmetal? do you mean shrapnel?
I took a round to the wrist a little over 2 years ago now. I have just recently been able to get back to doing basic exercising and playing my 6-string. I feel your pain. At least I didn't get hit in the knee... damn.
Me: Brings a gun
*Shoots*
_Sorry this only works in later versions please update_
MarcYTz underrated
@@td9250 I meant that in a good way bruvvv :/
Like "Shutt uuup" but in a good way cmon man im not that big of an a hole
Dammit hate it when that happens
Or it turns out to be a DLC you have to buy.
"Roleplayers hate him!"
"Discover how this man destroyed the concept of time travel in one simple video"
I mean I’m sure if you time traveled to the americas instead they would praise you like a god if you wore an elaborate outfit or something
@@malachi4838 then you realize it’s sacrificial robes
Or go to ancient egypt
he didn't
Lol
"And so that's called electricty"
"So how do you make this electricity work?"
"..."
COPPER COILS SPINNING
A form of energy. In nature you see it as lightning.
Moving magnets near metal coils.
And then you've got a host of equations to teach them to actually make the electricity useful, and actually you probably have to teach them pretty well all modern math beyond like a 3rd grade level, and industrialization of manufacturing would likely be necessary to make enough wire to actually do much of anything with the electricity, and good grief this has become a very large project indeed...
Hohoho, you see, I have watched Doctor Stone
Jokes on you, I can make batteries myself. All I'd need is a bit of aluminium foil and f- I want back.
Me in the middle ages:
“How much money would you trade for this eolic mystical artefact “
*shows a fidget spinner*
*they kill u because u are a witch*
pablo el tio perez they'd be like
" what kind of sorcery is this?!"
I'd definitely bring a bunch of useless crap to trade 😂
Witchcraft! Get him!
What does it do?!
Don't be a fool, we're in 2018... just go with your laptop and hack their security systems and transfer all of their gold and horses to your account.
The Chronomancer
* inhales
Nvm
Yeah, you right The Chronomancer, we could also take their horses and put them in the capot of our cars, we gonna pass from 50 horssepower to 150! They would look us awfully how we try to add the horses inside the car! LMAO
just say you represent a germanic prince that has been held captive and you need gold to secure his release and in return he'll triple the investment
OR
"Your Swedish uncle has died and left you 1,000,000,000 gold that is currently being held in a treasury and they should give some you 45 gold to cover the treasury fee to secure its release"
Remember to bring your bitcoin wallet so you can pay for the electricity when laptop needs recharging
I'm dying 😂
You shoot the evil King and every one starts shouting "king slayer" and you head ends up on a spike.
Because being a king slayer was super frowned upon throughout much of history.
Welp, time to get the MP5 out
Unless you're Roman.
Well ya they'd frown but only frown the Roman's just took the country.
ChrisW good plan until the king’s fleet of archers pick you off when you go to reload.
He killed one king and everyone started calling him Stoneface the kingslayer, it's not like it was a hobby!
Sci-fi and fantasy author Poul Anderson actually wrote a short story called "The Man Who Came Early" about a US Army officer and MP who went back in time with a 1911 Colt.45 to Viking Era Iceland during the pagan period. He expected to save the day and get the girl but ended up instead being accused of being a sorcerer because of his "magic tool" and sparking a blood feud when he used the gun to cheat during holmgaang. He dies being hacked to pieces by a hoard of warriors after he runs out of ammo. They're shown to believe that his magic has failed him because the gods have answered their prayers. It also has a very clever workaround for the language barrier with him being trained in Icelandic as he was to be stationed there in the modern-day, allowing him to actually understand Old Norse due to how similar the languages are even now. This whole video reminds me of that story.
Reminds me of the story of usa vs caesar
...Ends up being hacked to pieces when he ran out of ammo. Lmao THIS. Relying on a loaded gun for protection actually sucks as a time travel strategy because you'd be forced to use it on a person or object to prove its superiority but doing this would immediately make the locals hostile towards you.
@@babyramses5066What’s also interesting is now you’re left with a useless weapon while everyone else has a weapon they’ve basically mastered.
Probably not even really magic in their eyes. I know we like to think of medieval people as being of unparalleled levels of superstitious but people aren't idiots just because they lack modern tech. Once they examined the gun and the bullets they'd probably realize it's just some really intricate type of weapon and machinery.
The Aztecs didn't think Spanish cannons were some sort of insane magic, they knew they could just run around them entirely.
People are still people and they know how to connect dots.
So cool to see this story referenced! Though it truly is a short story, it remains one of my favorite time travel yarns.
Highly recommended!
Just pickpocket everything, if you get caught just load to your last save.
Stop! You have violated the law.
Pay the court a fine or serve your sentace.
> Resist arrest
THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD
(You're making a mistake...)
There's no mistake. You're a wanted man... and it's time to pay for your crimes.
Thats fine but what ever you do dont kill the villagers chicken.
* goes back to ancient Greece *
Whats up?
Socrates: What IS up?
I'll do you a better one:
WHY is up?
@@tlotpwist3417 why is up, "UP"?
*VSauce music starts playing
@@tlotpwist3417 I'll do you one better WHO is up?
When is up?
A lot of these challenges sound like a great idea for a video game or DnD campaign.
Showing up as a powerful mysterious nobody; making difficult decisions and connections to survive. Careful planning because all you have and do could just as easily kill you as elevate you. Scouring the world for resources and companions to repair, replace, or alter your equipment. Gradually becoming someone prominent and trying to figure out how to get back home or make a new one.
Would make a good video game
True
Underrated comment
@@WinterB312 way ahead of yaa. forgotten city..
And we've got Forspoken....
3021: "Being a time travel in the digital ages - probably sucks!"
I mean, possibly. After all, if you are accustomed to low gravity enviroments and telephatic comunication (thanks to brain chips), it's going to feel very clunky going to the early 2000s, that said maybe having augmentations could solve that and make your life in the information age not as bad.
Goes back in time: *kills random guy*
*disappears because that guy was your ancestor*
but then you couldnt even go back to kill him in the first place. U call it ''Grandfather Paradox''
Steven Wieland Fuck. My head hurts now.
As Stephen hawking points out in his short story of time you won't be able to travel into the past because you can't overcome the speed of light. You will only be able to travel into the future.
@W Winterheart jep, the multivers theorem is the only possibility you could travel back in time without any paradoxes. But as stated before would a timetravel just be possible into the future and not into the past. (if corse based on our current knowledge of time and space.)
what if you could enter a black hole with some special suit and watch as the universe reversed in time, going backwards, rather than forward, due to its near infinite gravity, able to pull things FTL...... then, just get out of the blackhole somehow and experience the past?
"Doctor! Doctor! I have a scratch on my finger."
*Doctor takes rusty saw*
*Doctor amputates your arm*
*Also the other arm, just to be sure*
Lennert Van Dyck you have that coming if you visit the doctor all alarmed like that over a scratched finger
The doctor seems to have quite the...disarming...bedside manner!
Can confirm this is how I lost my practice
@@DamonNomad82 Lol!!! Thanks No Mad! :D
that other arm and a leg is to pay the doctor
The language barrier is what always kills this fantasy, so unless you take guns and a small armed militia, you really couldnt take anything into that timeline that would make you wealthy because you would be a stranger to them in their lands, unable to really communicate. Any lords in the area that were alerted to your presence would most likely think you were a theif, trying to sell your previous score of stolen goods and they would most likely cut your off hands, just to be safe, even if you were trying to tell them you you were a priest the whole time lol, without a way to communicate, you wouldnt get very far in those times.
But if you do want to make money and stay safe, Than you go with lots of guns, ammo and a well armed militia to protect you and eachother with and you find the richest lord or king to be a Mercenary for. At least until you can speak the language
Just be careful, cause they'll kill you when you sleep to get those guns, but then if they reneg on any deal like that, then you just kill the lord, or hell kill the king, and sit on his throne, if you and your militia storm the castle they could never get you out. You could stay until you ran out of bullets, and then your .
…..Royally Fucked! Lol Pun intended!
So, the langugae barriere, i am from Bavaria, the Bavarian Dialect didnt changed much in the last few hundrets years, i think it would be totaly possible to somehow talk and try to look like a merchant from far lands
I would go in the with and mg42 and just shoot people that were dicks
The reality is that bringing something back to the past is only as worthwhile as how much you can do with it. With a gun and crew you can kill people and force yourself into places sure, but if you don't have any sort of long term plan you'll eventually devolve to just being like other people in an era without toilet paper, at which point you lose. Knowledge on more industrious topics (chemistry, medicine, engineering) and how to apply them in the place you're going o would earn you a lot more than roleplaying as a lightning bolt for the local lord to throw at his enemies.
@@DuckieMcduck exactly, thats where you could really have fun being a man from the future. If you could go back and build the first machining platform that can cut metals to exact dimensions, then from there you can build the first factory that builds machining equipment and you could start the industrial revolution on a dime within 10 to 15 years the world would look nothing like it did when you got there. Of course the other things you take with you are a few biology and chemistry books, and instructions on how to make antibiotics and other medications, and how to break down raw Oil into all the difference Petroleum Products; kerosene, lubricant, Motor Oil, Gasoline, Diesel etc.
The reason you need to build a machining factory as soon as you get here is because without it, you cant really build machines that could run on those fossil fuels because a blacksmith cant build exact precision and duplicate it over and over, to try to make something like a piston.
Me personally, I think it would be cool to go back to a time when resources were abundant and people were used to something like building a house taking a long-time. Well what if you introduced them to some modern tools. You might be able to eradicate homelessness for once in the history of this damn planet.
@@DuckieMcduck "Knowledge on more industrious topics (chemistry, medicine, engineering) and how to apply them in the place" And therein lies the problem. You lack the foundations in the society to apply that knowledge. Most of what you need as a foundation to build upon won't be around until the 1850's.
Suppose you know how an internal combustion engine works in detail and manage to explain this to a Medieval scholar. You still can't manufacture even the engine block much less smaller, more complex parts such as a carburetor, fuel pumps and spark plugs. Casting processes are awfully crude and milling machines are still centuries into the future. How will you even manage to create a crude steam machine without the ability to make the parts?
Do you want to show them how to make a steel bridge or steel building? Good luck, without a huge blast furnace you can't even produce steel in sufficient quantities. Do you even know how the chemical process of a modern blast furnace works? How will you be able to build a strong enough furnace which can take the very high smelting temperatures?
Want to "invent" concrete for them? Good luck. You need aggregate cement first. Do you know what it consists of? They have crude concrete in the Middle Ages but none of that will be very useful for you. Also, concrete structures crumble fast without steel bars - which you don't possess in the quantities needed unless you invented the Bessemere process some 500 years ahead of time (and also solved the blast furnace problem).
As for chemistry. Sigh. Aside from alcohol what could you possibly make? You need a whole chemistry industry just to make anti-septics.
Medicine? The only thing you can possibly teach them is that wounds should be kept clean and that there is something called germs which we can't see but still exist and spread from people to people.
Let me give you an example of how the manufacturing of certain products and goods are impossible once you reach a certain time period. Imagine if a computer designed from 2021 brought a modern laptop to the 1950's. Explaining how an integrated circuit and microprocessor works to 1950's computer scientists is the easy part. Unfortunately they lack the tools and technology to manufacture 21st century integrated circuits.
There was somebody who suggested what a F-16 fighter traveling back to 1917 in WWI could do. Somebody more knowledgeable in technology stated that they simply can't reverse-engineer a F-16 in 1917 eve with technicians explaining to 1917 aviation designers how it works. Here's the funny part. They couldn't even replicate the RUBBER used in the wheels of the landing gear in 1917 much less manufacture composite materials for which advanced machines are required.
There's a sci-fi novel called "The Man Who Came too Early" (1956) a 20th century American engineer somehow time-travels back to Iceland during the Viking Age. He was stationed at the American base on Iceland and speaks Icelandic which has changed little from the Viking age. While trying to implement his modern day engineering knowledge and theories for modern bridges and such he quickly realizes there's no practical way for him to build any of that with the crude tools and smithy they have. One viking observer retells one of the many failures of this American to his friends and says:"This man says that he lacks the tools to create the tools he needs."
Like I said. Unless you just plan on demonstrating the most crude manufacturing methods which are possible with the "technology" they have in the Medieval era, your vast knowledge of modern medicine, engineering etc is useless.
My French professor was very adamant that we could go back farther in history knowing French than knowing English as it has seen less change than what English has over time.
Not so. Old French was pronounced very differently to modern Parisian French. It sounded a lot closer to how it's spelled, just like with Middle English.
Scrisoarea lui Neacșu (Neacșu's letter) - 1521 is "the oldest preserved document, written in Romanian . It was discovered in 1894 by Friedrich Stenner in the National Archives of Brașov County, where it is still preserved today. The original paper document, with seals applied on the back, refers to the Ottoman military movements on the Danube and the passage of Mohammed-Beg through Wallachia." The language is still understandable to a Romanian speaker of today.
@@denispopescu913 wow awesome
@@denispopescu913 Interesting. It always fascinates me the idea that we can understand ancient documents. As an Arabic speaker, I can read inscriptions and documents from 1500 years ago with complete comprehension mostly because of the Quran and Hadith that most of us memorize. It preserved the old Arabic language that we now call Fusha (the most eloquent).
@@wtalkie Fascinating, isn't it? It brings a sense of continuity and belonging hardly to be achieved by other languages. Especially languages which have suffered from major changes until they reached their present day form
Bro I would just bring a bucket of purple colour 🤔🤔🤔
Yes
An incredibly well thought out plan! You would be filthy rich in no time!
I don't get it?
@@ivonahumpalot538 purple is the colour of the wealthy, bc it is expensive as hell, so it would sell for much!
50000 iq and just say its purpur
"I hail from New South Wales."
"So you're a Welshman?"
"No, it's a region in the British colony of Australia."
"Austria?"
You mean The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen (that was the full name)
@@foty8679 I'm glad we have more marketable names for places now.
@@foty8679 the full name of wales,south wales or new south wales
@@Bruh-hq1hx he said "imperial" so probably new south wales i guess
@@henriquetolentino1055 what about new north wales or zealand
The book Timeline by Michael Crichton presents this issue beautifully. The researchers in the book spent their whole lives researching medieval culture, and prepped for months prior to their expedition, and were still HORRIBLY unprepared for almost all of the reasons mentioned in this video.
It’s crazy how in old Anglo Saxon I can make out modern English words that probably have a whole different meaning. It’s almost like English but played backwards on a cassette tape.
*brings back a 20$ fantasy sword,
Sells it for huge stacks of gold
Me: *STONKS*
Thing is give how advanced modern smelting is in comparison that may actually be a legitimate way
That is, until you try to sell it for too much and it turns out you can't say where you got it and get accused and jailed for stealing from a noble
They would kill you after you sold them a cheap chinese cast iron POS sword
@@pkbjorn35 lol
@@pkbjorn35 they would be dead because someone with a proper sword would just break it with a hard swing and kill them
@@pkbjorn35 Chinese weapons were considered of higher value during a gap of time.
"Doctor I have a paper cut, can you mend me?"
*Hacks off arm*
@Lics Norgi or you'd get tortured for witchery
My head hurts
Solution: hit it with the hamer
Im not joking that's true midle ages method
@@gamergrill4933 It'll definitely stop the headache.... eeeeeeh!!!
@@gamergrill4933 pls tell me you're being sarcastic.
@@tahabashir3779 nope it's not a joke, for example if you was left hand writing guy, they would burn you alive for beeing 'satanist'
Bring multiple friends who also are well versed on the Middle Ages with rare salts like pink salt or Even sea salt, you could also bring dye, cloth, leather, grain, meat, and if you and multiple people act like traders and bring some coin you might just pass as people with expensive wares.
This must be a common thought, I had a dream I was a sniper who was up on a hill far away sniping archers whilst a siege is occurring, then I remember calling in air support and an attack helicopter strafed the castle...
Then I realised I might have played too much CoD
Lol
Me: uses flamethrower in medival ages.
Every knight: "Imma kill this dragon"
Edit: I am aware of greek fire but this is a joke.
Lol
😂😂
Tank w/ napalm flamethrowers
Wait i thought middle age people know pyromancy
@@bromomento5913 depends wich timr
Bruh i would buy their whole Castle and troops with 20kg bag of salt
People tend to overestimate the price of salt in the Middle Ages.
Consider that salt wasn't just used in cooking but also in preserving food, and for that you need a lot of it. To get it you can just mine it or boil sea water. Every household but the very poorest would've always had salt on hand.
Try bringing stuff that's either extremely difficult or impossible to make or something that requires long and dangerous transportation routes. Clean cooking oil, cinnamon, pepper, clear glass or even just ordinary household sugar would be great trade goods. Anything made from aluminum would be priceless. You can bring a bag of your old plastic bottles or jugs and cooks as well as housewives and anyone who travels would kill each other over them since they had no storage vessels that could form an airtight seal and were sturdy and light at the same time.
Wheat flour was relatively rare and highly sought after as well - most households lived on rye or barley breads and gruel and even those who could afford it would reserve white bread for special occasions, and you could sell it way under the local asking price because of how cheap it is for us.
I mean shit, bring a box of good quality paper notebooks, some bottles of ink and a fountain pen to sell to a monastery and you might actually be able to afford that castle.
I spend way too much of my time at work thinking about these things ;)
@@Krawurxus I heard pepper was so valueable in certain times, you could pay your debts with it.
I would also like the idea that you could teleport back and forth in time to bring stuff and experiment with certain goods. You could bring quality steel with you. Heck you could buy burgers from burgerking. I bet the would sell for alot in the middle ages considering how "otherwordly" it would taste and look like. It might become a food for kings and nobles. And unlike skallagrim i wouldnt advise bringing a sniper or hunting rifle with you. I would take a semi or fully auto rifle with 100 round mags. It makes the difference between fighting off a few people and being able to decimate 20 charging cavalry. And if you arrive with serious armor like those "juggernauts", a 100 round mag you could spread so much fear and terror among people no bandit would dare coming near you when the word spreads there is some kind of demon who can kill 20 horsemen with ease and eat arrows like they are flies. I think it some point you would have to take over a small village or a "fort". Where you can rest and be safe when you are not wearing your combat armor. And with the money you made you could pay to have guards or even befriend someone.
I agree its really exciting to think about this scenario
@@MrKrusten Sure, traveling back and forth at a whim would be great and make the whole thing much safer and more convenient.
The price for pepper was heavily dependent on availability, especially before sea routes to China and the Middle East were discovered because getting it meant months of overland travel through unfamiliar terrain with a caravan full of valuable goods. Same for cinnamon, saffron etc. but generally it'd fetch a good price, certainly at the quality you could deliver.
We have no way of knowing how well received a modern burger would be in the Middle Ages. Chances are pretty well if you leave out the mustard and ketchup which people wouldn't be used to, and people would certainly appreciate the quality and the fact that it contains meat at all. Medieval people would be on a vegetarian diet most of the time, partly because you were only allowed to eat meat on some days due to religious reasons (lent and such) and because most people would only slaughter an animal if it stopped producing milk or laying eggs, which were a much more valuable and reliable food source. Hunting required a permit which people without either money or influence weren't granted. So having meat just because you feel like it was a display of wealth, showing you didn't really need that chicken or that cow or were allowed to go hunting. Meat is also highly perishable so unless you were gonna cook and eat the whole animal at once you had to either prepare preservation measures or get some others on board to quickly sell off the surplus. Also, some may have preferred to sell an animal for slaughter and just pocket the money, covering part of the cost for a new one.
People also like to think they'd have to fight off armored knights constantly, but in day-to-day life you'd never even see anyone wearing armor. That's like expecting a modern soldier wearing full combat gear every day. Of course they only do that on deployment and even then only when they know they're gonna see action.
@@Krawurxus why travel back and forth. Pepper comes from plants, and given the right kind of knowledge, you can grow them in virtually any climate. A modern day horticulturist would make a killing in the Middle Ages, as they would know what plants to sell where, and what to tell the locals about those plants. Not to mention the poisons and drugs that can be made from plants.
@@ccvcharger It'd be easier to just get whatever supplies you need from the present. And maybe you'd just want to take a shower.
Stranding yourself in the 12th century isn't nearly as fun as you might think, no matter how well prepared you are. Supplies run out and unexpected situations arise. So a week or two might make for an interesting vacation, anything beyond that quickly becomes an ordeal.
To hammer that point home: Compared to people in the Middle Ages we don't live like kings - we live like gods. No matter their resources, no king could have had the kind of lifestyle we enjoy:
We make light appear with a wave of our hand or the press of a button or a spoken word, have multile places in our house where clean, potable hot and cold water flows at our whim. Our surroundings are kepte at a stable, comfortable temperature even in the coldest winter. We can directly talk to anyone on earth whenever we want and be anywhere on earth in a matter of hours. We can access the wealth of all of humanitys knowledge in seconds. Almost any goods we want are delivered to us in a few days at most and we need not fear a bad harvest and starvation because we just go and buy what we want without a second thought. Our food is kept fresh for days, even weeks and of the highest quality. Our surroundings are absurdly clean to Medieval people, and we have medicines that easily and reliably cure most diseases that would condemn any of them to a lifetime of suffering and an early death.
Going back to a completely medieval life with no option to return to the present would suck a lot.
BTW: Pepper needs a pretty hot climate to grow and can't tolerate frost at all so most of Europe is out for cultivating it 😉
Something nobody ever goes into depth about is... how much time do you have to prepare, can you go back and forth in time, how much are you allowed to take etc.
I like to think that if we ever actually figured out how to travel into the past, and if it's even possible, by that point we would have armored time traveling mech-suits and stuff designed to counter the issues you bring up :-P
Also, I may be late to the party, but I'm so happy I recently and finally found your videos. Keep up the great work.
1. Travel to the future
2. Aquire iron man armor and a nuclear fusion reactor in exchange for a firsthand account of history
3. Go to medieval times
4. Get immediately burned at the stake as a witch
5. Profit
Self distruct and nuke em
Unknown point. Observe how the future people look perplexed at you as someone from the past has a time travel machine
Why would they trade iron man armour and a reactor for a firsthand account of history if they clearly have time machines too since they're in the future?
Stefan
Well, what if they don’t? What if the time machines eventually became too difficult to manufacture, and so eventually the means by which to build one became lost. At that point, you could exchange that information for a massive sum.
@@narrenitsuwaru8052 But things like that just don't happen without _some_ cause; a technology that could once be made wouldn't just stop being manufacturable in the preservation of a robust scientific and technological society. For this to be the case one must imply that a massive deficit in our technological abilities ("became too difficult to manufacture") _must_ have occurred between the future date being travelled to and now, either in terms of material wealth and/or scientific learning. Both of which, given our current trajectories, would imply a massive and likely abrupt economic and societal downturn (nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, etc.) has taken place, and if that were so then yes, your knowledge of the present would be valuable, *but they would have nothing to offer you* (like a powersuit and micro-fusion) in return, making the point kind of moot as there would be no advantage to going to the future before going to the past anymore.
But I already memorized my "This is my Boomstick!" speech.
Shop smart, shop S-Mart!... Ya got that?!
Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up....
See this... This is my *BOOMSTICK!!!*
And I would love to hear it.
Evil dead?
When you said "10 archers" I just had a flashback to this RP game I used to play where the frequency with which characters were murdered by a bunch of bowmen popping out of the woods and filling them with arrows led to the creation of the "12 Crossbow Club". Yes, I was a founding member lol.
If I got sucked into a time portal to medieval Europe I’d do my best to recite Latin prayers to at least try and stave off suspicion of being a demon
Why do you need a first aid kit when you can buy health potions?
Becose you dont have HP bar to fill. Maybe ask admins for some mods to fix that, time travel update wasnt planed back in those times
Because the fucking Potion Seller won't sell anything, even if you're going into battle.
The real issue is that the vendors then had a reputation blockade which didn't enable trade until you were at least on "unsuspicious".
That took a shit ton of grinding though, and the grinding quests were really shit, compared to nowadays.
The other problem was that for new players on the server, without a guild the npc's were all on "unfriendly"; if you were 'lucky'.
And even if you would manage to survive until you reached "unsuspicious" you still would pay ridiculously high prices.
Marcel Monroe why would you buy health potions if you can just heal yourself with a spell ?
Get some mana potions
Same problem as health potion vendors.
*sees king's horsemen charging*
*downs a 5 hour energy and Flintstones vitamin*
It's Nerf...or nothin.
😂😂😂
Well aren't you quite the jester??
You are not a clown,
You are the whole circus.
Ikjjaaj Jajaja 🤡
Arkansas Man Here
Essential list of things for medieval time travel:
Speak Latin.
Wear traditional medieval armor like Brigantine and gambeson.
Learn medieval combat (swords and bows). You don't want to stand out too much
Bring a handgun or two and ammo. You can easily carry that without drawing attention and it's good for emergencies.
Carry medical supplies. Like a lot. General antibiotics are great, since bacteria was less resistant back then. But make sure you have specific tratements for common illnesses. Also know how to make medicines (you can make penicillin with moldy bread for example).
Have a good cover story
Mounted Minigun on an Apache
“It’s England, just walk up and talk to people.”
The Irish: Observe.
there are no comments to the 138 likes this has. can someone please explain?
David Linn No, I don’t think I will
@@DavidLinn we are all irish
Im Irish... Northen
Some Irish scents are so different from common British English that they sound like a different language.
just grow a beard, hit the gym and cosplay Zeus in ancient Greece with a camera flash mounted on your gun. You wouldn;t need to throw more than a dozen "lightning bolts" hopefully to convince people.
Highly underrated comment
hopefully
*Gun flashes*
Peasants:FAST LIGHTNING!
You need to be white too
@@JinoJiwan_Jari_Pensil IDK, it would help, but Zeus was a shapeshifter so you could just claimed that you had decided to spice things up.
Its super nice of you to give both metric and imperial units. The reasons why the US still uses the imperial system is super interesting, one of which is its actually better in many applications because its built off factors of four rather than base ten math like metric. This is less useful in our very current time, but even going back as little as 80 years it makes a very big difference.
nice cope Americans who still use the old british system that even they abondan because its shit
I always had this conquest dream of having a front end bucket loader brought back in time, the kind of enormous machine they use in rock quarries. You could fill in a moat (or dig a moat), destroy a castle wall, and with the thick shatterproof cabin glass you would be impervious to ANY weapon present in that day. You could single handedly win a war, or lay siege to anything.
and pay 7$ a gallon in gas.. u would go broke before u got to the castle
*Pulls gun* "Give me all of your gold"
*Mercenaries pull pommels* "Whomst'dve thou be knave"
*drops gun*
*Pulls out Blunderbuss shotgun capable of launching pommels*
"Whomst'dve indeed."
Idiots
Just take out the butt stock
Welcome to the future.
The future is now, old man
Who needs pommels if you have buttstocks? Its 2017 kids.
"People traveled in groups"
Me : laughs in 3000 rounds per minute
hahahahah laughed so hard when i read your comment. Pretty clear they couldn't win an argument against that many bullets :D
There's nothing like good ol' fashion brrrrrrrrrt - until you run out of ammunition and then fuel.
It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds
It costs $0 to eat this sandvich for 4 seconds
*gets backstabbed by a spy*
Ur Gun runs out of amo, suddenly 5 arrows are coming in Hot
You : Cries
About languages, I know you gave England as an example but I wanted to mention this. It also depends on the language, a Spanish speaker could understand one from the 15th century, and if we extend the range to understand something and half transmit information we could include 1200 where if I remember correctly the "Cantar de mío cid" was compiled.
If aliens came down to modern day: Boring
If aliens came down to middle ages: THE WITCHES ARE ATTACKING
Lol
I wonder if there are any "alien invasion in medieval times" stories out there.
@@LendriMujina "Outlander" Starring Jim Caviezel is about an alien crash landing during the Viking era. Not exactly an invasion, but he does bring another alien monster with him.
But imagine your K/D ratio
well if it take 2 or 3 bullets to kill each person on average if you bring 500 bullets you could kill around 200 people.
Suicidal Puppy infinite bullets!!!!!!
Suicidal Puppy not back then pal, think about their medicinal practices they would die after 1 bullet each
#noreload
Matt J imagine if you accidentally killed your ancestors
To overcome the language problem you should learn Latin. This way you could pretend to be an educated foreigner and the local social and scientific elite could communicate with you.
This is probably the best plan I have heard, there is still the matter of how you would dress and an excuse of where you are from. I’ve thought of wearing maybe pants with just a button and no zipper, and a button up trench coat with possible fir lining or something and try to tell them I am from the East like the Ural Mountains or something, somewhere far and most importantly foreign to the place I am going. I had heard someone say something about learning Byzantine Greek and pretending to be a Greek scholar before but that could be a hit or miss especially with how much the Catholic Church disliked Greek orthodoxy and discouraged the learning of Greek except for by very few people
That’s possible, but that means you could only talk to people of the church or high born nobles since merchants and peasants didn’t have education so wouldn’t speak Latin either.
Maybe not, but they'd sure as hell understand you were speaking Latin when they hear it & bring you to someone who can understand you.
People today can read and say sentences, no one can actually 'speak' Latin, it's close to being a dead language
@@atcera8714 kinda
But people in the Catholic Church still can “speak” it as many big sermons are still held in Latin.
fun topic, nice vid skall!
I totally agree... Theres a really neat fictional book called 1632 by Eric Flint, and the difference from the normal trope is that part of a small coal miners city is transplanted back in time (and space), so they kind of have a community with them and they're not all of a single mind/purpose either, they have guns and that's a temporary advantage, but they still face all sorts of hardships, supplies, logistics... Running out of novacane, having history books stolen by spies, etc. It's really neat the level of detail they explore.
"I have a modern gun, I am invincible!"
Rifles don't have pommels.
Bloody Heretic guns are useless you can't end them rightly
but all my glock mags have pommel base plates helps with tactical and speed reloads. pommel has weight so mag drops easily, is a pommel shape easy to grip from glock or mag holsters, added weight steadier aim less felt recoil, pistol whipping is much improved all kinds of benefits or at least they outweigh some negatives. :)
lightningandcloud i don't count that as a pommel. The pommel has to be a part of the weapon. Its better to throw the slide as an improvised pommel.
No but I guess explosive rounds will do the trick
You still can pommel with the butt of a stock
Knight: my armour is the most quality and impenetrable by most arrows.
50.BMG: *WHAT ARMOUR?*
Shrek
Is your username a reference to Fallout 1?
@@charlesdemers1197 I'm 90% sure that its from the holy grail (movie) or worms.. though worms ripped it from the movie
The RedNeckEngineNerd Darn it
5.56 would pen that armor
Crossbows also work similarly to guns in terms of the firing arc and etc and might be among the closest weapons. Somebody with a crossbow was basically like a sniper in the middle ages.
A pistol might not be recognised as a weapon though, as far as they know it's just a piece of metal in a funny shape wich would be highly innefective compared to swords and stuff
Read the short story "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson. A guy who is an MP in the US Army stationed in modern Iceland is transported back in time with only a loaded 1911 Colt.45 pistol to the age of the Vikings. He's seen as a dark sorcerer who has to be taken down after he pulls a Raiders of the Lost Ark during a duel. The story is pretty much a piece-by-piece deconstruction of the notion of time-travelers attempting to change the past without any prior knowledge of a certain period. The author cleverly gets around the language issue by having him know Icelandic per his military training, which is the closest living language to Old Norse and has changed little in over a thousand years.
Well if you were in a fight with some soldiers and you shot at them with your Glock 19 after a while they would understand it
@@robertcorbell1006 thank you
@@Fl4kFire You're quite welcome. The Vikings in the story see his military haircut and note his strange dialect (modern Icelandic which is mostly intelligible) and assume he is a runaway slave. They ignore the pistol as it's assumed to be a religious talisman. He's put to work pumping the bellows for the local blacksmith forge and screws even a simple task like that up. He tries romancing a local woman, but her betrothed challenges him to a duel. He beats the Norseman to a pulp, dishonoring him by being defeated in the manner of slaves. He pulls a sword only for the soldier to shoot him. He then ends up on the run as a feared dark sorcerer until he runs out of bullets and is taken down by arrow and spear. They fear the wrath of the gods if they don't give a seeming master of "clever-craft" a proper burial. His body is unearthed in the 60s by an archeological team who are puzzled by a piece of rusty metal that resembles a pistol. Great story. Google it.
@@robertcorbell1006 true i read it
A gun is probably one of the worst things to take with you - the moment anyone realizes what it is, they will recognize you as an unusual threat, not a good friend. You're only taking one gun, so you obviously don't intend to share it.
I'd bring a bag of cheap solar-powered calculators. Maybe even a few sliderules (with instruction booklets so I can figure them out), which they would be able to reproduce. Add some solar powered calipers, a few micrometers, and maybe even some thermometers.
But most important of all, I'd bring a bunch of wristwatches, preferably both solar-powered and self-winding mechanical.
With accurate timekeeping, you can measure longitude. And if you can measure longitude, you can sail with far more accuracy than any person ever before. The cheapest Timex of today would be worth (literally) a king's ransom in the medieval era.
wow, that's a really interesting perspective.
In regards to the watches thingy, your comment reminded me of a little curiosity I saw on a documentary years ago: the guy who made The Most Accurate Mechanical Clock Ever (TM), around early Rennaissance, precisely for the navigation issue, had to rebuild his clocks like four or five times because no one would believe that a clock could be so accurate, and it took his entire life for them to be convinced that yes, this clock can really be this accurate, can you pay me now for the clock YOU ordered fourty years ago that you specifically asked to be the most accurate ever, and start using his damn clocks XD
Solarpanels, battery bank, laptop and an external hard drive filled with the accumulated knowledge of humanity, maybe even a few tools and stuff, and from there you can work your way up.
Dude, if you can't make those things and some other things to improve your own life, you'll be wasting your time, 'cause all that scrap can be broken any time and you'll be not able to fix it or to make a new one. Also, for medieval time simple good old abacus is much better any computer stuff, because no one will be going to kill you for "talking with demons by ringing weird plate with buttons"
Chris Edwards I would bring metallurgy, paper making, printing press and basic knowledge about magnetism. Also couple books about those subjects.
When I first arrived, I would keep my head down. Work for a local shop or farm for a month or two, then go find and ask a blacksmith to be his apprentice, and then toiling for a few years. After that I would open my own printing workshop and start making books for the rich and also open a school to teach local people (i.e. commoners) how to read and write.
Hopefully, a local noble or some rich merchants will notice my effort and become my patron. From that I would probably start a guild and spreading my knowledge in earnest (but not too radical as to attract church's attention).
If local people are proved to be smart enough to learn my 'modern' metallurgy (i.e. 19th century metallurgy), I would introduce to them a modern gear mechanism, escapement design, electro magnetism, and steam engine.
Otherwise I would just pursue merchant's life. Start selling bonds to people (and possibly founded the first stock exchange), fund an expedition to the Americas and Asia, selling my fine metalwares for spices, tea, and silk.
Once you are out of ammo, remove the stock AND END THEM RIGHTLY
Alex Dagos end them rightly in the modern way
Alex Dagos Underrated comment!!!!
So, I’ll take the grip off my AR and throw it at them?
Certified Map Staring Expert (Chaos Titan approaches) Commisair "A fix bayonettes!!!"
Bad Idea. You'll very likely kill one of your ancestors.
I forgot the name but there was a movie about a group of scientists time traveling to medieval Europe in the early 2000s. They take 2 experts on modern hand to hand combat with them for protection, but those 2 immediately get killed by archers after arriving, which was a interesting curve-ball the movie threw.
That probably is why it is the only thing I can remember about that movie. I have no idea anymore what else happens in it.
Timeline, Gerard Butler
Haha. Loved it.
Likely scenario in a Norman Court c. 1100. Uses modern weapon to kill despotic aristocrat and melee ensues as all the knights pile over the bodies of everyone you shoot to get to you. Not as much for vengence but to possess the cool weapons you brought.
All you need to do is travel back in time to 2009 and mine bitcoin.
Or travel back in time to 2008 and invent bitcoin!
Or buy bitcoin when it's starting out. In 2010, 1 bitcoin was valued at 0,06 USD.
Now it's 18000 dollars.
AAAAAAAAAA.
Money can help change the future in a much more predictable way than changing the past. I'd much rather have resources in present times than go back in time.
I second what Arnold says
1996
Step 1: Travel to the future
Step 2: Obtain a lightsaber
Step 3: Travel to the Middle Ages
Step 4: No further instructions required
The time police are now following you.
*bold of you to assume that i would be smart enough to have a plan like that*
Step 5: Repeat steps 1-4
Plot twist, In the future they use light pomel.
Star Wars was a long time ago in a Galaxy far away... So still go back in time
If I could time travel, assuming I could go back and forward in time, I would do a couple things.
1: print and/or download and/or memorize information such as how to create modern medicine, the basic levels of science and math, etc.
2: Study the oldest language I can find and become fluent.
3: Travel back to when that language was earliest being used.
4: Descend on them claiming in their native tongue to be a god, using my knowledge and technology I brought with me to show them ‘miracles’ such as summoning fire, illusions, controlling weather (I will actually be predicting it with a barometer and other equipment if necessary).
5: Instruct them to develop their society and assist them in the beginning phases, warning them about global warming and establishing a democracy and time traveling forward in increments of 100 years until they reach a society equivalent to the 1900s or so.
6: Instruct them to develop anti-aging technology as their primary priority.
7: Time travel in increments of 100 years until they develop the technology.
8: Become an immortal and explain to the modern people that I am a time-traveler.
9: Live a happy immortal life
"You've got THIS, and it's party time."
That made my night.
I wish this was the plot of game. Like just imagine how fun this would be, seeing how long you can survive and just fucking around.
If i ever make a game, Im gonna do this
@@dkb115 just imagine, like you start in our times, and you can bring some things with you, and then people will react to you depending on what you brought, as a variant you could have different times (Roman Republic's fall, 100 years war, Ottoman Empire's rise, Mongolian invasion, Spanish colonization, the Great Northern War, 7 Years War, American War of Independence, Austro-Prussian war, Franko-Prussian War, pre WW1 and its first part, same for WW2). Just imagine speaking to Caesar, Genghis Khan, George Washington, Bismarck, or even kill baby Hitler.
So, pretty much Assassin's Creed))
@@LolLol-lb6iu i think different times would be either new installments in the series or at least dlcs. it would be too much content for one game. it would be complex enough with programming all the thousands chain reactions and combinations of results bringing in and dealing with different stuff could cause. but yeah it would be mad fun. probably become my fave game of all time. and i like the most realistic approach which would actually make speaking to these historical figures almost impossible, and not /really/ the main drive for playing, it would be mostly fueled by the joy of experimenting and just trying to first survive at all, then live a decent life, only then try to go further and do grand things
This idea is amazing!
@@dkb115 same.
Step.1 get a cold
Step.2 cough on a pesant
Step.3 destroy the world
Shoot just breathing would destroy humans, we carry so much they would not be immune to.
Stop, don't turn 1020 into 2020.
Works both ways, they had pathogens that no longer exists that we do not neccesarily have resistance to. Black plague still shows up every now and then, the only way infected have a chance to live is early identification and immediate medical treatment.
People please don't compare covid to some other pandemics along history, it is sad and ignorant, from both perspectives
@@goncalobaia1574 When did anyone say anything about covid...
I've actually ran this thought excercise in my mind a lot of times and the only good way to carve a life out would be to use my education to MAYBE make a connection with one of the alchemists/scientists and pretty much get an apprentieceship.
Again it relies on making connections but I came to a conclusion it would be the easiest one to make out of all middle/higher ones.
Hell not that I think about it some modern farming knowledge might be actually the best way to get a good living then.
I'm inclined to think that the first thing you need to do when time traveling is research, Research, RESEARCH! Know everything you can about the time and place you're going to, get everything you can that can help set you up when you get there. The second thing is to not go back alone. Take a number of people with different specialties and build a power base from which you can operate and fall back on when things inevitably go bad for you. Finally, expand your sphere of influence so that you can make connections, build a reputation, and finally start making an impact within your lifetime. Whatever you do, you can't rely solely on what you, a single stranger in a strange land, can carry on your person or possess for knowledge and experience.
if there is a reliable and reproduceable way to time travel, why not get the US or any other NATION to manifest destiny and get them to use their own powerbase to do the same thing, you don't even have to bother with going there yourself
I will just wear purple and strut on in.
this man gets it
carlos conde You'll probably get fucked up for your clothes
The thing about purple dye back then was, it was so expensive to dye clothes purple that it was impractical. Only if you had about all the money in the world could you possibly afford purple dye.
That's why red was more common. You still had to be incredibly wealthy, but it wasn't too expensive that it was impractical as a dye.
Wearing purple is a sign of your immense wealth and status.
That's why byzantine emperors used to wear purple clothes and stuff. It was extremely expensive.
no. wealth dictates power. if you brought a whole lot of that purple dye you got yourself an army.
I would just bring my double barrel and explain
"THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK"
Emmanuel Glazer but do you remember the sequence of words for the necronomicon is the real question
Archangel Gaming klatu verata nectar oh wait
Emmanuel Glazer All the time I spent scrolling to see if someone said this yet... and you guys made it totally worth it. :D
Gimme some sugar, baby.
Have fun dying in your sleep or hiding in a forest to sleep and still dying in your sleep because a hunter followed you out of sight or closing yourself in a room and dying from a poison or closing yourself in a room at night alone, refusing food and dying from hnger.
My favorite thing is people saying they'd be worshiped as a god if they brought a gun. Sure, you might impress some people, but if you REALLY wanted to shock them, bring an IPod full of music made with instruments of the time and a speaker with you. You will blow their minds.
Also, this reminds me of a debate I had with someone about Dungeons and Dragons. They were complaining on the Weight system, mostly about food rations. Now, if all that ration was was a dozen sticks of jerky and a few carrots, I'd understand, but that's not what your carrying. You are an adventuring party burning calories faster than a snowball in the Saharan sun. This is salted meats and dried vegetables and probably a metal cooking pot and stand. That gets pretty dang heavy in bulk, kinda like how people forget that Ammo gets pretty dang heavy in bulk.
Anything that attracts a lot of attention to you is bad. iPod would be bad bad. People would see it as a magical item which they probably wouldn’t initially care about, but if something weird happened in town shortly after you came, you could get blamed as putting a magical spell on someone. Also bandits and thieves would want the magical item and that’s attention you don’t want
alternative scenario: a master chemist going back to the early middle ages posing as a master alchemist.
Sire Walter, you must cooketh thy blue
Maybe someone already went back in time and wrote the throw the pommel thing in that fencing treatise to mess with us. Maybe the reason why that joke never dies or gets old is because it's actually a temporal paradox created by this time traveler.
Maybe he also brought back future bacteria and created the black plague....
Maybe it was Scholagradiatora...
Ok this is getting pretty deep now. Please coontinue
Matt Easton that rascal! Should've suspected this!
I had a dream that I time traveled with Skall to the Middle Ages then we got attacked by bandits so I unscrewed the pommel of my sword and ended them rightly then someone wrote about it in a manuscript.
I had a dream that I time traveled with Skall to the Middle Ages then we got attacked by bandits so I unscrewed the pommel of my sword and ended them rightly then someone wrote about it in a manuscript.
You have to go forward first, get a personal shield system and a good laser blaster with solar recharging cells, and a universal translator. THEN go back and conquer the period of your choice.
We have a genius over here. Just bring a lot of historical record with you for the future WWIII might just have ended and they lost a lot of info.
Your commentary is most excellent and with a little more expounding you would do verh well.
Dont go without robot minions either. I would develop advanced nanotech to inject in people like the borg. Once i have assimilated my rag tag band of viking warriors ill invade the rest of Europe until i have turned all kingdoms into cybernetic minions to do my bidding.
This would make a great book.
Yeah let me quickly reanimate myself into the terminator (with my own conscience), and take along a couple armoured turreted bears.
I was just watching the Ten Commandments today and this reminded me of a scene
Paraphrasing:
"This cloth is woven by the gods themselves; it's called silk"
Tangentially related, there is a Japanese film called (iirc) Timeslip, about a modern JSDF squad ending up back in time. It's kinda campy, but I love it, and essentially they start out doing super well and wrecking everything they came up against, but they gradually run low on ammo and their vehicles are damaged and start doing... you know considerably LESS well.
Worth a watch if you get a chance.
But why are they even fighting random people in the first place? Honestly, that seems like the worst possible strategy when you have limited... everything.
Plus, isn't there a risk that they're going to kill their ancestors or something like that? (Or do they go to some other country's past?)
@@popsicleman8816 well, their justification for fighting initially is that they just kind of landed in the middle of a battlefield and acted to defend themselves. After that, they picked sides and KEPT fighting because... Well, greed and arrogance, mostly. But it caught up with them lol.
If that film was a video game, they got the bad ending.
"The Pope might decide that you are in league with the Devil and you 'll have a bunch of crusaders after you". Sorry but this sounds immersely epic and awsome.
nikos731 now get a speaker and play some epic music as you smite the enemy
this is basically Shield Hero
Having a bunch of people trying to kill you sounds awesome to you?
@@2MeterLP Yes
@@forkrolls until they pierce your heart that is.
"even worse, if a higher ranking individual has some kind of issue with you and they accuse you of something"...
So anyway, I started blasting
AK-47 noises intensify
Indeed
Then all their friends swarm you because your one guy against their entire retinue.
@@Aliyah_666 drum fed 300 round 50 bmg machine gun.
@@seanmcloughlin5983 dude, they tried that on all the beaches in ww2. And they had guns of their own. What makes you think people with swords and inadequate cover and armor is gonna be any better?
Thompson Center?
Love the super sweet bolt.. so smooth
I swear ive been suggested this exact type of video incessantly over the past several days. I dont know if google is trying to tell me something i havent done yet or what but i love it! I have not googled middle ages in... Probably ever? So thats why its so quirky it's happening
This... Is my BOOM STICK!
💥
VidarOdinson79 and you are S-smart! (Cinema sins)
KLAATU VARADA N... N... Oh damn
William Halter always good to see another cotf haha
VidarOdinson79 now all you need is a chainsaw hand!
Why would i care about all the weight I'm carrying when I can buy endurance potions and strength potions?
I would sell them EPO, amphetamins, steroids...
Dragon shout = shotgun?
I think specific science and engineering knowledge could give your faction a massive advantage if you could get the influence to wield it, but I suppose that's the challenge.
I'm sure I've already read such stories among the prolific isekai fantasy manga or web novels. For example, "Release that witch" Story of a guy with engineering knowledge that reincarnated into a medieval fantasy world as a prince, then used his knowledge to build a significant economic and military advantage for his faction.
Unfortunately most of those isekai stories are trash, self insertion power fantasies where some average nobody from modern day gains a significant advantage in whatever fantasy setting due to his meagre knowledge.
Some of these things are covered in the 1632 series...a town in West Virginia, in 2000, gets transported to Thuringia, in late 1631. The first novel has the toen beating off an attack by Lithuanian cavalry, which almost takednout the town school(Karl Gustav, King of Sweden, rides to the rescue!)
Skalla: you can only do so much with guns
Me: Brings a tank and more people
Red flag and PAPA STALIN
Tsar BOMBA is good enough.
How are you gonna fix the tank when it breaks down. What will you do when you run out of ammo/fuel.
@@themaninblack993 nuke the fuckers
@@YaBoyN3XUS hell yea lol
I'd argue that wearing funny clothes and speaking modern English is actually your best bet for blending in. If you show up dressed in a rough approximation of what the locals were dressed in with a broken accent and no connections they'd probably think you were some kind of spy or an insane person. Meanwhile if you show up in a hoodie and loose fitting sweat pants while speaking in a completely unintelligible language and haggling with alien coinage (no paper money since that wouldn't catch on until the late renaissance) they'd probably just assume you're some foreigner from the east, maybe a trader or a merchant if you're carrying around a lot of exotic modern produce and strange money. Going out of your way to not blend in may be a better alternative than trying to act like one of them since you'd probably end up falling into the uncanny valley while attempting to fit in, whereas just not bothering could make them drop their guard. So long as you don't do anything that would make you look like a witch or a sorcerer (bringing electronics, for instance).
also modern colors were very expensive at the times so even more to the trader facade
Erik Gonzalez And getting an audience with a noble would be easy, just bring a shitload of purple bathrobes with you.
Trustory, as long as you fix the security issue, I very much doubt any trader would walk with his goods and no mercenaries.
+Dídac Mateu Martínez de valdivieso
Well naturally that's when you whip out your assault rifle while blasting Metallica on your portable speaker! Or alternatively just invite a few friends on your time travel expedition to act as your guards, have them bring modern but slightly exotic reproduction weapons (Chinese Daos, Persian Shamshirs, etc) so that none of the locals could tell that they weren't authentic. Some of them (mostly craftsmen and smiths) may be able to tell that a reproduction English longsword is "off", but I doubt anyone who's never seen an eastern sword in person and has only heard about them through rumors and secondhand accounts would be able to tell that your buddy's talwar wasn't the real deal.
I still think a singing box would be pretty satan like to them, even the hellish noise making metalic sculpture like things that kill people instantly without trace other than a hole, I vote for the reproduction swords, complete "immersion" and social engineering
This is amazing lmao personally thought of this many times
Just imagine being out at night in that period with a gun when bandits spot you and decide to try to lighten your load:
Bandit: Halt! Stand and deliver, your gold or your life!
(Bandit gets shot with modern gun)
(Bandit leader drops dead, his cohorts scream in terror then run away)
At least you would have the edge over criminals of the time, getting shot with whatever modern gun you have would be a horrifying experience for them because they've never seen such a weapon before. Would probably be best to use a silencer therefore you won't attract unwanted attention from patrolling soldiers.
Like he said, guns existed back then, they’d know Atleast know what it does, also silencers aren’t completely quite, you can still very much hear them.
@@Magno_Money But bear in mind there are some guns that look very intimidating and devilish in appearance and staring upon them certainly would make a lot of medieval peasants, thieves, etc. uneasy. Also, given how they were very religious in those times they would think such an instrument came from Satan himself. BTW, good point on the silencers, I do think knights would still hear them and come to see what had happened, probably would be best to flee from the scene as quickly as possible, authorities of the time definitely weren't gentle with lawbreakers so getting caught was the last thing anyone wanted.
@@Magno_Money BTW, if somehow someone time travelled not to medieval Europe but Feudal Japan, there were many samurai warlords who were interested in guns (by about the late 1500s) and if someone brought a modern gun to a lord's castle (if they happen to win the daimyo or shogun's favor and he respects them enough not to kill them) he would most likely be fascinated by it (especially when he sees what it can do!) and probably would ask his best gunsmith to study it and try to reproduce it for his ashigaru units. That would definitely be a memorable visit for sure if you survive!
I would just leave stories about the modern era and come back to the present to watch historians desperately trying to figure it out. 😂
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didnt saw that coming LOL
the guy that started to paint all those snails across medieval books :D
And the peasants did lol at the musings of this strange traveler.
Me in the middle ages: You guys take this gun from 2020, do research and speed up human intelligence and when I go back home it better be looking like motherfuckin Star Wars
@Klaudia haha if they are then why don't they know how to use a computer?
better give them antibiotics, how to generate electricity and chemistry, the big problem is the mentality of the people of that time everything strange is something of the devil, we change when we begin to know where things come from
Human intelligence hasn't changed for the last 1800 years
@@thanasis-_- we probably have the same number of neurons for thousands of years, but education made us 1000% more smarter
@@arianaxdr7399 this is research and knowledge not intelligence
Muzzle loaders often had wrought iron barrels when puddling was more common than the Bessemer process.
You know after watching about 12 of your videos I think we would be good friends if we were to meet. Great job on your videos. Keep it up 😃
You should bring a flashbang. When you timetravel into powerful Christian court you can throw it, and afterwards pretend the blinding light was heaven breaking open, and you coming out. You might get a long way if you sell it well.
yeah but i think pretending that youre god is big big deadly sin
@@swolzer Just pretend you're an angel then, ezpz
damn, this idea deservers more attention, it could really work, if you did this and proclaim yourself some sort of messiah.
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just start a cult ezpz
@@swolzer who cares lmfao not like theyll find out anytime soon
I would just show up and not do anything substantial. I would act normal enough to talk to but tell them vague things about the future in the form of phrases like "Where I come from..." or "Back in my homeland." I would then sneak off and head back to the future, disappearing without explanation. When I get back to the present I'll do some research to see if there are any legends about me.
"A legend tells of the mysterious figure who appeared as mysteriously and tracelessly as he disappeared"
It'd probably go along those lines or something
It'd probably be vague depending on how much of an effect you have on the world though
When you come back you find a new religion and unhappened industrial revolution
Cam That sounds like that one European aristocrat.
@@SahiPie It would seem someone's already ahead of us.
Just use "Where I come from..." and "Back in my homeland..." on a daily business, or whenever you do something weird.
Oh my days, Skallagrim knows the word Shag?? That's supremely awesome!
I would like to see him talk about a concept I saw in another video where an entire marine platoon goes back in time and how they would fare
By a marine platoon, do you mean an infantry rifleman platoon (which according wikipedia is 43 marines + 1 platoon commander) with no supporting soldiers? Would they know and be prepared for the challenges ahead of time, or are they just being thrown in with standardized equipment? What's their goal anyways? Do they want to take over the world, or survive for as long as possible, or try to find a way home?
they would be toast unless there was a supply line from the FUTURE
Honestly, the best way to survive time travel in the Middle Ages:
Learn to read and write Latin in the correct hand for the era you're traveling to.
Learn the vernacular of the era.
Get an exacting replica of the sort of outfit a well-heeled pilgrim would wear.
Tell them you're an earl from a made-up kingdom on your way to see the shrine of a major saint in the area.
Travel with an "entourage" of trusted people from your own time who are trained in HEMA and first aid.
Stay in abbeys and use pilgrim accommodations at inns.
That's the only way you could arrive in some place with no connections and not seem suspicious. Also, you would have to leave the gun at home because they'd probably guess what it was if it's after about 1350 and if some rogue knight heard there was a traveler with a most exquisite sort of handgonne that could fire multiple times without reloading nearby, he'd be so eager to get his hands on it he'd get a couple of his lackies to hunt you and your party down. You'd have to be lucky a dozen times, but Sir Wants-Your-Gun only has to be lucky once.
Not bad. I think i can beat this, though:
Copy your points 1 and 2, but travel as a low-quality art merchant. You have a small cart, or donkey, filled with small pictures of saints, religious scenery etc. Say you are the painter, and you are travelling like this searching for a noble patron, selling your practice.works as a way to feed yourself. You would be seen as 1) a good christian 2) reasonably welloff, but not so much that they would have to kill you, only enough to pay its bill 3) someone that the local noble would be interested into meeting.
Sounds like you've trodden the mysterious corridors of L-space a few times yourself....
Sir Wants-Your-Gun only has one chance to be lucky
This is also true: Machine guns are really good at killing multiple people. If you and your squad are equipped, I’d bet my money on the more well-equipped contenders. And if word also gets out that the person who came to try and take your weapon was completely obliterated along with his whole posse, I’d wager people would be less eager to pick a fight trying to nab anything. Even more so with any subsequent victories in similar situations.
I admit it would be dangerous, but from my understanding, good quality full plate armor made you nearly invincible to most weapons back in the medieval period. And as for the few that could still pose a threat, aside from something totally overkill like a ballista, you could probably take said weapon’s wielder out at a very safe distance with minimal effort when considering your own choice in weaponry.
But hey, this is just my brain trying to logic out a solution based on what knowledge I do have. I’m certainly no expert, and if humans are one thing, it’s unpredictable.
Dude chill
15th century knight dreaming of conquering the stone age.
Nah, probs Rome first.
That's literally what happened to the aztecs/maya when cortez rocked up on the shore with his bois
@Dreymon Green r/whooosh
@@MrAlepedroza r/comedycemetery
Ian Fadie It was moreso the huge sums of enslaved tribes under the Aztecs rebelling against their crazy human sacrificey oppressors when meeting the Spanish. Just to find themselves under a new conqueror.
I miss these videos
Honestly, I’d imagine no matter who you were, even if you traveled to a time you were an expert in, I’m sure there would be many surprises. Piecing together what day to day life at that time was actually like has got to be close to impossible. It is a cool idea though, not something I’d want to actually try doing