utterly brutal medieval weapon.
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Jason, armed with a heavy two-handed falchion, goes to war with...an innocent piece of willow-wood...
For those interested, it was custom made for me by Josef Dawes of White Wells Arms here in England. It's a ferocious choppy boi.
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Legend has it he's having one last swing to this day.
I was watching the end of the video very closely in case he would do it again.
I kinda don't blame him. I wa t to swing it one last time
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LOL, bro.
🤣
This just reinforces how utterly brutal up close and personal medieval combat must have been...
That's true, but maybe because of that loss of life was a lot lower than it is in today's battles.
@@Chraan Is that really true, though? Was the loss of life in medieval war smaller in proportion? I have doubts...
@@fab006 Once we started using black powder weapons on a large scale casualties were actually reduced. Nobody wants to get into brutal hand to hand combat if they don't have to. Not that mass casualties haven't occurred since then, but it was mostly during routs. It differs country to country, of course.
@@fab006 To put it into perspective it is estimated that in the Hundred Years War 2,3 to 3,3 million people died. In WW1 it is 9 to 11 million military personnel in less than 5 years.
@@Chraan but that is a population of 300 million vs 2 billion
Jason: "This is a very impressive weapon. I'm going to use one more time."
*repeatedly swings*
*cameraman slowly backs away*
🤣😅 I'm on the floor, here
Still there today, I believe.
Boss: I am going full beserk on you now!
@@beastinsight9825 im on the floor xD
Woodcutter: "My axes are getting old, got anything new?"
Jason: "Here's the latest falchion"
Eyyyyy
This guy really is my hero. He's so passionate and so into it, I watch the videos half of the time just to see him enjoy himself.
Couldn't agree more - it just makes me smile!
I'm sure he'd let you nosh him off and you'd get to see him really passionate and enjoying himself.
It's the cheeky grin when he says he'd recomend everyone should have one.
I feel the same about Joerg from The Slingshot Channel
They always say, do what you love and its never work. I enjoy all ancient and primitive weapons demonstrated!
His wife was wondering where he was for the rest of the day. She found him out there with a large pile of willow chips around his feet a big smile on his face.
And primly berates him for wasting a work having fun... Your Wrong and you know it.
"What happened to the willow forest next door?"
"Oh yeah, funny story about that dear...."
Damn it, another addition to my "historical weapons i absolutely don´t need but still desperately want for some reason"-list.
Knight cuts off head...l “nice swing Sir”
You'll need it soon enough..... Oh, bring a shield too.
With me it’s “I need another rifle (or pistol) like I need another hole in my head” as I’m reaching for my wallet
@@weswolever7477 Probably a good thing i don´t live in some really gun-friendly state in the U.S. It would be a disaster for my economy lol
Dont feel bad we all have one of those lists lol
Mount and Blade Rhodok “War Cleaver” in action
LESS TALKING, MORE RAIDING !
That's a nice head you have on your shoulders.
Ryan Than My men and I would like a word with you about your purse and your belongings
@@msb8792 everything has a price, even your life!
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When you build a weapon and put all of your points into damage.
That's a lot of damage.
@@Joe-pi9bx Flex tape can't fix that.
My favorite was when he looked confused that his expensive custom made slashing weapon was somehow being dulled by *swinging it into a tree over and over*
Thats a machete and a half!
*a clubchete*
Just the thing for dealing with the motherfuckers of the world.
Or indeed the Zombie Apocalypse. Which as every informed citizen knows is real and is just around the corner.
More like a machete and a haft
@@kronos1794 You earned my once daily obligatory chuckle.
"It is Ferocious!"
Captions: _"It is Precious!"_
Note to self: Aquire one of these for zombie apocalypse.
"It looks arguibly a bit ugly." No it's beautiful :O
It has an elegant simplicity to it, the form being perfect to its function
He has a very good aim to hit that chunk of wood at the exact same spot over and over again.
Dang ol needa learn how ta chop wood there boy
"And who are you to come before me... you bear the insignia of the Bear, yet you do not wear it as a soldier of the west wears it."
Legate *nods*
Suddenly the swords the Elves used at Helm's Deep in the second LOTR movie make a lot more sense and are that much more terrifying.
''It looks ugly'' Completely disagree, looks so badass, like something an ork warboss would have
So ugly lol
I think it's the sharp lines that makes everyone think it's inelegant. But man that thing is beautiful to me. It's like an axe-sword.
Or a Dwarf, Just great for hacking off Orc legs!
A Uruk Hai wheedling this with one hand riding a warg
I can only imagine what a weapon like that did on the battlefield. I’m sure hacking off someone’s arm, leg, or even head was done quite a bit with that monster blade.
Iirc axe style swords were very devastating in very early warfare as they could easily hack into a shoulder blade or shred a shield open but once metal armours, or any kind really, became popular the axe swords fell out of fashion due to not being that good.
As long as you weren’t wearing any leg armor, sure
@@nicynodle2 I guess piercing swords did slightly better or else they wouldn't have come into fashion. But even WELL MADE mail will stop almost any piercing weapon short of like a Rondel.
But I suppose if you're trying to stab someone in the face, since that's about the only open skin you're likely to see, a piercing weapon is better than a chopper.
I'd just assume go really cheap and say good day to you sir - in German.
Choppy weapons were useful because the main problem of fighting armored opponents is that you can't cut iron with iron, but the force of a choppy weapon can still cause blunt trauma through chain mail which is malleable or split rigid iron which isn't strong enough. As the size of the economy grew, metallurgy improved and so did armor designs which took advantage of superior steel making. Choppy weapons became less favored but axes were still employed by cavalry as late as the 17th century.
I love the brutal simplicity of it.
As an agricultural workers and a fighter, I love tough, unpleasant tools of destruction.
I look at that and see missing limbs
Now THAT is an Orc's Weapon. Give that to someone with big muscles and watch him cleave peasents!
fuck yes
That's one way to solve the homeless problem I suppose...
I remember seeing a video about best weapons for orcs. Would actually be the bow. With such strength they would be able to use very strong bows, meaning arrows going faster and most importantly further. If your archers can shoot at enemy archers long before they can get in range to shoot you, it's a massive advantage. You would basically shred the enemy before they could have a chance to actually fight.
It does look a bit like the weapons the orcs int he LoTR movie has, only longer, more tapered handle and no spike in the back end.
@@sarojolibois6088 Probably Shadiversity's video. :)
Surprised kids in London aren’t running around with these yet
They all have stunted growth from smoking weed from age ten onwards, would never fit down their tracksuit leg.
I'm guessing that the main problem is portability of those things. Also, it's hard to conceal it and discard it when necessary. Too much of a hassle for underage criminals.
Jeremija Krstić it was a joke🤷🏼♂️
@@alexjames3025 Judging by the number of crimes committed with bladed weapons in London, your 'joke' is not that far from reality. The only factor that stops it from becoming a fact, is the size.
@@jeremijakrstic1968 Yeah, can go around that thing peeking over the shoulder and say: "I am for peace, man!"
I love the simplicity of it it looks like a peasant couldve built it from spare scraps
Now you know where the phrase “disarming your opponent” comes from.
Him: brutal, devastating falchion
Me, with my shotgun full of fletchette shells: I'm glad that the world is so much kinder and more civil now days
You don't wanna get hit by this.
I would rather not be hit by a medieval falchion if I had the choice, but thanks for the reinforcement
You just know, by the third swing, that guy was imagining an enemy there instead of that log.
Third?
It's a really extremely simplistic design so it would make sense that there would be quite a few of them.
"just one more time" "just one more time" "just one more time"
He sure is enjoying himself.
Was waiting for a full "war rage scream" chop. But still, very impressive.
"...in fact, I am using it again....and again....and again....and again....and again....and again....and again....and again....................."
The falchion: a cheap, simple weapon that was devastating against unarmored opponents.
Director shouts cut
He says thanks I will
This MAXIMACHETE deserves to be the national weapon of a country.
2:02 this is the point where Jason is overtaken by the willow-wood bloodlust
Mount and blade has taught me that the war cleaver is a force to be reckoned with
The weapons attributes was shown in Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie.
You know, where the knight in the woods kept saying “tis but a scratch”. 😂
That looks like a buster sword epic drop you'd find in WoW.
Your falchion is fashioned very nicely. I would want a knob on the bottom end of the handle. I may even want a para-chord attached and wrapped around my wrist.
Go-to weapon for close combat during the zombie apocalypse. Excellent limb remover.
"I'll take my shield and spear over that thing any day... I'll poke you from far away and back up with my buddies and laugh as you bleed out." A Roman soldier watching this video
"I'll shoot you full of arrows before you get near me!" An English Longbowman "Plucking Yew"
"Keep that thing away from my horse!" A mounted Knight.
lol, what happened to the mounted knight's 12ft ash lance hitting at 30 mph with 600 kgs of man and horse encased in steel?
@@ModernKnight He still has it, He just doesn't want to get that close!
@@ModernKnight In all seriousness this weapon seems like a dismemberment weapon, With not too much defensive capabilities. Like, It looks like it would be hard to hold a shield and heaft the blade with one hand...
But, if I went into a medieval tavern and the bartender had one of these. I wouldn't cause any problems...
So it's the equivalent to a medieval shotgun. Not an M-16 or Ak, or otherwise a weapon of war... but still it's a devastating weapon.
@@ModernKnight There wasn't anything left.
@@NoalFarstrider I wouldn't cause any problems if a country bar man had one today!
There is a very good chance that the piece of wood was not too happy with this! :)
a longstanding beef with trees comes to a grisly end
Mount and Blade: Warband brought me here.
The rodocks "military cleaver"
Some of those had a slight angle on the blade so that the heads would leave their bodies faster and where even more horrifying used while riding a Horse.
Was there ever such a thing as an utterly gentle medieval weapon?
Looks like a Chinese horsechopper, been used for like a thousand years to chop horse legs. Last used in ww2 against Japanese.
I thought the same, like "that thing looks like some type of Dao", impressive how people sepparated by thousands of miles (and probably hundreds of years) came to a somewhat similar design
horsechopper..... what a delightful name.
It's almost as if simple and functioning designs can be found across the globe
@@AbelDuviant way to miss the point there, champ
@@matthiasthulman4058 The point's that this design has been used both in China and in Europe, my point is that it really shouldn't be surprising that it can be found in two places so far apart both culturally and geographically because simplistic yet entirely functioning designs like these often develop in entirely different places across the globe, entirely independent on eachother, because it's not hard to make a sword of a different shape than normal.
He definitely had some fun with it.
It looks like a lawnmower blade attached to a makeshift handle. It looks bloody effective and fun though.
And it is excellent for chopping firewood to get a cozy fire to warm up and and cook some dinner after the battle.
Right! Yes ALL of them, thank you.
One last time? Easier said than done :)
I do believe this is a project for my forge in the very near future.
What do you want your weapon to be good against?
Yes.
Hi, how did the edge stand up to the swing into what looked like well seasoned wood?
Probably at that point it is a bit rotten or somewhat towards that, and when wood reaches that point it pretty much has a consistency of a pretty much freshly cut tree, ai don't really have words to describe it
Plus it's willow wood, not very dense
It would cure headaches, instantly.
the medieval European katana.
This guy is the spit and image of that king in Lord of the Rings, the one who tried to cremate his son while he was still alive.
Denethor II. Tried to burn Faramir while he was still alive.
Somehow I knew this dude's accent before even clicking on the video
Reminds me of a Chinese pudao, always wondered why they had such long handles, guess it makes sense now
on such weapons a long handle is almost always for leverage.
Yeah, its far more similar to a falx or pudao, or a short handled naginata than a falchion.
No logs were harmed in the making of this video.
When you consider how deep that cut into a piece of wood, imagine what it could do to flesh and bone. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it. That's quite a powerful weapon.
Like an oversized war cleaver!
That guy went into beast mode and got medieval 🏰on our ###’s.
Who would win?
A Nippon Katana
VS
One falchy boi
Interesting...! I don't remember ever actually seeing that edged weapon before. It looks really effective.! I need to get one to hang over the fireplace.😁👍
That's not a Machete
THIS is a Machete!
I have love at first sight with this. Man it's soo for me
Seems like a good tool to use if you have some frustrations to get out
probably went out of fashion...because users were missing fingers, from the occasional parry that slid down the blade to the unprotected fingers.
Its funny how most people see that as more of a weapon than a tool. Its very common for commoners and laborers to use tools to go to war. Axes, hammers, and machetes were all tools before they were weapons. It looks like that was used to harvest grain before it ended up on a battlefield.
Mother with the belt is the most brute weapon we all ever face
And I thought he'd bring home a basket full of kindling wood. Look at that lazy lad: just fooling around at playing knight.
Good against willow is one thing...good against the living? That’s something else!
If it buries itself into the opponent and can't self-extract, in battle situations it leaves the user vulnerable until it is freed.
OI DIS GUD FOR ORKZ, CHOPS UMIES REAL GUD
Want one. Would not call it a falchion. I would call it a "tressplatter".
In the rebellion against the Spanish rulers, Cubans adopted a long machete that was much like this weapon - and drove fear into the hearts of the occupiers.
It's like the ureki sword....wait you said fantasy movie..... comment dulled...sad day
That was my first thought too. I loved the Uruk-hai swords!
Ooh, "let's combine a long sword and a machete...", I am INTRIGUED. 😁
Looks like it would make a great home defense weapon
well it is pretty much a full tang weapon and full tang always has the extra bit of heaft in just the right place that makes the swings so strong
Irony not lost this guy's name is Jason. This thing looks like something the fictional Jason would use.
i NEED one of these. might have to make one.
My money says that was probably specialized for taking down horses.
Once you chop you can't stop.
I would be nervous if I was your camera man.
Deal effectively with your enemies on the battle field and makes short work of chunking up some firewood for the campfire at night.
Given the scarcity of guns and ammo these days, these weapons could make a comeback.
Just one more time lol. Obviously, it was surprisingly pleasant to use.
As mentioned over and over again no use against plate however the blade is thick enough that turning it around to the blunt end makes for a nasty club against the head, neck, and shoulders. Enough to cause heavy damage to someone in full plate by blunt trauma.
Any one of those blows would tear a man or beast in two. An extraordinary brute one you would have keep your distance from. Those things would smash and cut through plate and mail armor like butter and disassemble the knight inside with ease. I want one.
Only counter to this is a speedy Mongolian mare and a rider wielding a composite bow. This thing can cut through a horse, if struck true.
Ugly?! The thing is beautiful in its form & function.
That definitely looks like a blade that would be used to cleave up Calvary, a lot like the Nodachi from Japan, a quick swipe to the legs of a Knight's Horse and you'll cripple most strategies.
'I've not swung it in anger yet' usually swings it into a great lump of wood and y declares 'that was pretty impressive. Remind me never to be with a 5 mile radius of you when you do use this weapon in a bad mood!! lol
New vid today with the ‘chopi boi’ vs head! 😵
It does look like a fun way to chop some wood.
It's pretty amazing on that tree....... now try it in the tube station. ;) ;)
It looks similar to the fearsome Dacian Falx, which the Romans came up against on their way to making Romania. Quite a bit earlier than the Middle Ages. It's continued use borne-out by what we've just seen in this video. Blimey.