Why was the Rapier so DEADLY?
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When medicine sucks, all weapons have +15 poison damage.
Time to be an asshole and use this in dnd 😈
Oh you got stabbed in that battle? Sorry, medicine sucks and you're now gonna take 5 poison damage every hour. Have fun! :D
@@plazma0325 That's actually a pretty fun idea. Ill make them roll for it
@@BadgerSaidSo seems fitting for gritty campagns, then. Tell me how they react if you do it!
Put manure on it for that extra +25% percent increment.
@@KyranSparda 'You encounter a squad of ill-equipped soldiers in nothing but rags and just a few pieces of tattered leather armor between them. You snicker as you draw your weapons while your opponents return in kind.. after which they all promptly stick what look to be well-maintained rapiers right into a pile of very pungent manure. 'Fools' you think as you engage..'
Ah yes, the one handed spear
Best way of putting it
SPEARS NUMBER 1!!!!! Also all spears are able to be used in one hand. If it can’t be used in one hand it’s a pike
@@MikeHawkaMildlyStank thx ma'e 'preciate ya
@@MikeHawkaMildlyStank I mean you can STILL use a pike with one hand. It's just... not smart.
@@dutchdragon2472 I’d love to see someone attempt this. The image in my mind is quite funny
My favourite rapier duels are the ones filled with spins and 10 minute sword binds.
Nooooo
@@SellswordArts Haha
same lol, I love those anime fights with the rapier since I think it's pretty badasss.
on a side note, try looking up "asuna vs weiss" you are gonna have a treat if you like rapier duels. It's one of my favorite animations(?) ever.
For clarification, the video I mean is the one from "hyun's dojo community"
@@nothingtoseehere6071*Griffith vs. Guts' quite accurate, you either break or gets trough
The old addage is : the loser of a knife fight dies in the street, and the winner dies on the way to the hospital. Sword duels must have been gnarly
Yes, but surprisingly, a lot of people survived, pretty often both. Plus, not all duels were to the death, just to first blood.
If it's a duel of passion (aka they're both fucking pissed) then yeah it gets gnarly. I heard of one account where they ran each other through with both sword and dagger, one broke off the sword in the other guy and then beat him to death with the hilt.
@@atom8248 That’s raw as fuck tho
Duel with pistol too btw....
Cool ! !
Never heard that, but kinda makes sense for back then.
Thanks 🙂😎👍
In fact. Duelling were rarely pursued until death. Most common were ´´first blood´´ or until one of combatants resigned - especially late medieval period had whole books of laws dedicated to duelling and ´´divine trial´´. Sure there was deaths and sometime winner died from his injuries but generally they tried to avoid it
"Why was it so deadly?"
"Pointy and Sharp"
"Ah."
Well fighting against it ive learned it is VERY nimble to get to you and tricky to tell where its coming from. And good at keeping you at bay when thrusting
my man's got that drip
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It also lets you use your Dex instead of Str if you want which is pretty nifty.
Those things are somewhat hefty too, unlike the popular belief
Ironically, longswords are better suited for weaker people compared to rapiers, sabres, spears, and bows. They all demand a LOT more strength in muscle groups you're probably neglecting right now!
Just compare the default rapier guard and the low longsword guard. Try it with a stick and see which one you can hold longer...
Yea, I bought a rapier to satiate my hunger for more swords. It's anything but light. Yes, the pointwork is nimble since its center of mass is almost on my fist: moving 1 or 2 fingers on the ricasso makes it even nimbler. But its overall weight is nothing to scoff at. The ornate hilt design, the long crossguard, the beefy pommel, the long blade, they all make it rather heavy for a one handed sword.
Don’t forget it’s cavalry and armor effective
@@carsonist501If its good enough for a lord, its good enough for me 👍
Rapier has been my favorite sword ever since I watched the princess bride. Great fights and choreography
If I'm remembering correctly, Inigo's sword shows up in The Crow. I think it's the one Top Dollar uses to kill Gideon.
@@seanheath4492 The 1994 film with Brandon Lee?
@@xCorvus7x Indeed.
@@seanheath4492really? Damn dude that's a deep cut ;)
Inconceivable
I love how the rapier basically started off as a sword then slowly turned into a spear but with more blade than handle
And light enough that it replaced the Arming Swords for civilians that can afford them.
Bruh 15 and 16 hundreds were crazy, imagine challenging a guy to a fight then they pull this s**t out.
Most of the time the sword is quote visible. If your balls are big enough to challenge a swordmaster in a real fight and he accepted, most of the time you would have the same weapon as him on your hips. Or else he wouldn't even take you seriously and kicked you in the balls instead
Pull out a smooth bored firearm, load, aim, shoot, punch a hole in the wall next to the opponent, die
Swords are a great self defense weapon because of this in part. They're impossible to hide and expensive so they're bad for crime, and they're pretty nice as a defensive tool besides the offensive capability.
@@Nerthos tell that to Zorro :P
@@TheHippyProductions Zorro is not a criminal though. He is an outlaw, which is often, but not always, an overlapping concept. He deliberately brings attention upon himself, contrary to what a criminal would do, as a means of criticizing and sabotaging officials who are unfaithful to Spain and misapply the law for personal gain.
He's also hyper cool so he gets a pass.
Puncture wounds were a nightmare to deal with, there's a reason why many improvised trench melee weapons in ww1 were puncture based. When doing surgery to fix them, you leave a cavity in the body it'll get infected and if it's in the torso, the infection has a very short distance to the heart and lungs.
was that the reason? I'm sure they cared about effectively putting the enemy out of action, rather than what would happen to them in the hospital bed.
@@gordonlekfors2708 Definitely. Killing by puncturing a vital organ is much safer and deadlier than slashing. Especially in trench warfare were a regular soldier wouldn't have the protection needed for a thrusting weapon. A pneumothorax or liver, stomach wound would be sure death and theyre bigger targets than those who aim for slashes.
@@gordonlekfors2708 Actually no. 1 dead enemy soldier is just that; dead. 1 heavily wounded soldier is binding at least 2 or 3+ other soldiers to carry him away and treat him. 3-4 wounded soldiers take a whole squad out of a fight.
@@gordonlekfors2708 well as for bayonets, it's easier to get through rather thick clothes by stabbing eith effectively a speae rather than cutting.
Also improvised weapons were mostly Clubs, with sometimes nails on them or other things they could find.
I don’t think you understand at all how an infection kills an individual.
I'm currently reading The Three Musketeers and it's quite disturbing how even the slightest insult could result a duel. Those guys were either very brave or very stupid, but most likely both.
It got so bad during the Napoleonic Wars that duels were basically outlawed by him.
What's interesting in history is how the majority of recorded deaths by rapier are not in a dueling context, but just a brawl or personal murder, and the killer happened to be armed with one.
Good point, though I imagine it's true of a lot of weapons, if not all of them. Guessing the "stab that dude in the back" crowd outnumbers the "confront them in a duel" group substantially. It is interesting that the rapier, as the weapon most likely to be used in a duel, was still mostly used in, shall we say, less-than-honourable contexts.
Rapiers are my favorite one handed swords. Short swords and sabers are cool and all, but I like my swords to have class and style 😎
But but sabers got that to :(
Especially those Big boss Pirate ones extra fancy looking and all both are my favorite actually third is prob either Katana(2handed one is even more badass forgot the name oops) or the typical European longsword.
@@DreYeon you mean a cutlass and kriegsmesser.
@@DreYeon The pirate one isn't a saber, t
it's a Cutlass. You can tell because it doesn't look as ridiculous.
@@thespanishinquisition4078 saber looks ridiculous?
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Rapier and cutlass are the sexiest weapons.. Aside from ofc the zweihänder
I claim yes
Idk man, falchions are pretty great too
@@keladwynsolkas scimitar > falchion
Sabre?
Giantdad noises
Puss in boots raised my interest in this weapon
Same
real
The moment Puss in Boots drew that tiny thing against a giant rock monster he lied to you lmao
Like John Flanagan wrote multiple times in his Brotherband series
"Three centimeters of the point is just as deadly as 30 centimeters of the edge"
Goated series. I’ve used that bit of advice from Thorn is many things that weren’t even swordfighting.
got a degree in dripology holyyy
I've heard in a Stuntmen React episode by Corridor Crew that instead of being diamond shaped when you face the tip of the blade, the rapier is triangle shaped, with one side flat and the other split in two faces. This ensured wounds could not heal and close properly, and the flat face would shove the fabric of your clothes into the open wound, alongside all of the bacterias accumulated on its surface. This is nastier than nasty.
Best thing about Rapiers is the OODLES of off-hand pairings you can have.
Dagger, cape, lantern, pocket sand, a GUN,
if you're playing dnd, you can have another rapier as well!
For anyone who isn't asking, It was very used in the spanish infantry during the Tercios system
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@@joeerickson516Incomplete sentence
"What do you mean?"
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I’ve never even held a sword but I still want to duel you in hopes of winning your outfit 😂
The drop rate is not that high, you'll probably need to kill this boss like 15 times before you can pick up the whole set outfit. Better start farming with weaker mobs to level up some more before you challenge him in his castle
@@ethanfreeman1106 I love you 😂
If you want the outfit intact aim for the head
@@ethanfreeman1106 hes in another castle!
He doesn't drop the clothes unless you go to the four corners of the world and say yabadabadu on each
I'm just having Fire Emblem flashbacks to all the Lord's who use this.
Lyn lmao
That boost against armored units was always a blessing
@@UncleMerlin Lyn used swords and blades. Eliwood was the one who uses rapiers.
To add to this, only the last few inches of the rapier's blade are sharpened for cutting, meaning the weapon could ONLY be utilized at range. That's a big part of why it was so deadly as a civilian weapon and also why it was popular for first blood duels.
"SILVA CHARIOTE!"
-Some random frenchman that went into a bizarre adventure
Winning the fight and then dying a weak later is an underrepresented outcome of a fight in media I feel.
Bring back rapiers for self defence fr
I didn't hear a word he said, was way too distracted by how HARD that outfit goes to pay any attention.
That is incredible DRIP.
The rapier was worn as much as fashion as for function as well. It was not only deadly, but some were very beautifully decorated, and was a symbol of your status and wealth.
We need to bring back some of the older fashion trends. That outfit goes hard!
"Silver Chariot!!"
Jojo reference
@@sinefine7726 nah seriously i wouldn't know
"'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve"
Bro went from longsword enthusiast to rapier enjoyer
A good rapier is nice, but I prefer a schiavona. Good in the cut and thrust.
So happy I've influenced David into dressing like a swordsman :)
And in turn indirectly reminded me to do the same!
Just that completely off size problem
There will always be something about the rapier that i cannot describe with words,its quite a joy its to see its sleekness,specially in action,and while i dont see myself mastering outside of games,something about a poke weapon with elegance is just sublime to the eyes
It was mostly used in Three Musketeers movies
"One, 1⃣ for all and all for one!"1⃣
Lookin real dapper there meng
One of my favorite weapons, in my high school we used to have a historical fencing club. Rapiers and sabers are my favorite weapons to fight with... I really got to find a club to just train and have intense duels again..
The old adage that "the point arrives about a week before the edge." IIRC that was Patton on his redesign of the US cavalry sabre.
Where can I find that nice drip? I want the half cape too.
People call it the Rapier because it doesn’t require consent.
😂😂😂
Please seek professional therapy and stop stalking woman
@@whats0my0agenda I am offended…..I stalk men not women. Stop assuming sexualities.
All of you deserve nothing less than an exorcism 😂
@@daralic2255HEHEHEHEHEHE
Double deaths are common in knife fights too, it's much harder than people think to not get cut badly even if you win the fight
Don't you mean even if you lose less than the other guy?
That red glow on the blade.
It just be a cursed artifact.
Weird question but is that the Castille Armory Economy Rapier? Because if so my HEMA instructor has that rapier and has been suggesting that if we ever want to branch of from Longsword we should consider getting some. Further more I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
Yes and no.
It is the economy hilt, but i had them change the blade from the "economy" to the "standard"
The economy is very light, and it's great, but it doesn't have the blade presence i like. It is good for thrusts but feels wimpy in cuts, and it's not as good in the bind.
The standard blade words FANTASTIC on the economy hilt. You will have to call them to get them to switch it out though. But they are great, and they will get it done for you!
@@SellswordArts thank you so much man! You’re one of the channels that really got me into HEMA and I just want to say keep up with the fantastic work.
@@Gabriel-vz9hq thank you! That means a lot to me! Keep training hard, maybe I'll see you at a tournament sometime soon!
@@SellswordArts thanks King. I’ve only been doing it since October but I hope to get to some tournaments eventually.
@@Gabriel-vz9hq well, If you haven't already, join our discord! You can tell us all about your sword journey and tell us when you go to a tournament!
If you're ever in a situation where you're facing someone with a blade, and a wound is inevitable, always, Always, ALWAYS try to make sure it's a cut, and not a puncture.
Cuts might hurt a lot more, but punctures, especially to the torso, are absolutely deadly, even *with* modern medicine.
I would say that a puncture hurt more than a cut, but personal opinions I guess.
@@hoangkienvu7572
Most of the nerve endings, particularly the nociceptors, are in the skin, which is why a shallower injury can hurt a lot more than a deeper one.
The mutual demises you described played a large part in George Silver's DESPISAL of the Rapier.
Thankfully, I’ve only practiced blocking thrusts, I’ll be so prepared for the renaissance
And in Fire Emblem, the rapier is known for decent crit chance, *and* being effective against Cavalry and Armored units
but... in reality rapier sucks against armour
The Rapier also does bonus damage to armored and mounted units.
I wouldn't say that
@@SellswordArts because you're a noob
Fire Emblem intensifies*
@@carlosrobinson7176 lololol
@@SellswordArts u would if you had blue hair lol
“It got thinner and longer then focused on thrust”
💀💀
“But I know something you don’t, I am not left handed.”
Would a slightly rusted rapier a better weapon for killing?
The rust could enter body and do stuff, right?
It’d be harder to pierce and could break easier I think
You know what would be even better a shitty rapier
Spit on the blade.
+5 Poison damage
Just pay some junkie to take a crap on the blade before using it so it adds poison damage
@@tylerthompson3075 bonus points if you have disease
I live the idea of someone squaring up on a huge battlefield with a rapier, thrusting forward, watching as his sword bends on his enemies basic breastplate, then gets fucking demolished by the axe head of a halberd
I don't think rapiers were ever used in mass warfare
Nevermind my question on one of your shorts, I now have a lot more respect for the rapier
When the spanish invaders faced the natives of mexico, one of the main advantages to their survival and battlefield was the thrusting sword/buckler combo, being exceptionally lethal on the first encounters.
Meanwhile most of the natives fought on wide and spread formations (due their main weapons being blunt and slashing ones, requiring space) the spaniards fought tightly, keeping close to each other, making a solid "shield wall" or "schiltron" causing opposite forces to collide on the natives disadvantage.
To the tlaxcalans and Mexicas (aka aztecs) didnt took much to understand the solid lethality of such formations, so they decided to fight with something simpler: range and surprise. Ambushes, durable ranged attacks and terrain traps. Where the bread of each day.
I love these. Yes, i love Rapiers, especially with dagger, but i am talking about your shorts. Your outfits. All of the above. You make amazing content, my man. Keep ut going!!
There's a number of accounts of duels where both parties had dozens of lethal puncture wounds from the rapiers, but neither were enough to stop the duel, hence both of them dying.
Humans began to understand that landing any significant blow first was the primary determinant in who ultimately wins the battle. The idea is to land a crippling, initially non-fatal but debilitating blow.
It's better to land a quick, difficult to defend, safe thrust that debilitates your opponent who dies of infection days later, than risk everything swinging a heavier weapon to go for a kill shot.
Thor beat Eddie Hall because Thor went for safer, disorientating blows while Eddie Hall was determined on going for instant-KO punches.
That one guy misspelling the i 💀
Don’t forget the armor. Armor was expensive and less helpful after the hand-held cannon was invented. Muskets meant that you no longer needed a long, broadsword to penetrate an opponents armor. The rapier was the backup weapon to the musket or pistol and often used with a dagger or cloak.
Reminds me of the observation about knife fights" The loser dies in the street, the minner dies in the hospital.
"All men are made of water...did you know this?"
I’ve recently taken up fencing, Brits begin with the foil and I’m loving it, starting to actually be able to think in a match and it’s not just utter chaos.
Lol, you can tell he was about to say "cut over the thrust,"
I love this person already-
Duels were quick and lethal with this weapon.
The medival medicine was by far not as good as it is today, but they did know how to clean wounds and they did know how to remove arrowheads for example. And they had methods (using honey) wich actually helped the body heal itself, so it wasn't as bad as everyone thinks it was).
This meant that with a bit of luck, even pretty nasty wounds could be survived.
However, once a wound actually poisoned the blood (wich ofc also happened a lot) it was game over.
"Like leeches?"
Ah yes, the rapier; the ancestor of the hypodermic syringe.
Their decedents, the fencing small swords were notorious for leading to lethal injuries during fights amongst students. The term "Lungenfuchser" described the usually deadly injuries to the lungs one could receive.
All the more reason why these are my favorite swords.
Such an elegant yet violently deadly weapon.
It rapiers
I think people miss that the reason rapiers have a larger ratio of civilian use vs military use isn’t that they weren’t used by the military
But instead that they were suddenly so common with civilians
Rapiers came from sideswords which came from arming swords
Yeah the military used them as backups
There was limited used of the rapier, but the saber is the weapon that dominated military sword use
@@SellswordArts I’m meaning more 15-16th century sabres were more common 17th onward
Like I said, it was an evolution of the common sidearm
But there’s also a difference between the tougher military sidearm and the lighter more nimble sword people would duel with, which lead to smallswords during the time of sabres.
Like kinda wrong time period to use as an example
Rapiers started military but became popular with civilians
Sabres (as Americans would understand them to be) came after from the backsword
Kinda like it’s all historical fact
History, not just choreography
I need this man to teach me every technique he knows with a rapier.
Basically when you go to battlefield with a rapier, Basically you're an off meta player.
And this is why rapiers are my favorite weapon
Damage over time was meta back then
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The rapier be thrusting
Defending your house from a robbery must have been crazy back in the day.
People who fight without armor are on another level.
If video games taught me anything, rapiers counter chainmail
Great overview! They made them even nastier as time went on: when rapiers progressed into the smallsword, they made the blades triangular so they couldn't be stitched with the medical tech from the day. Torso wounds were ridiculously lethal.
The Rapier...
A weapon of mass destruction
I enjoy these Videos. From one Swordsman to another, I appreciate what you do. And personally I love that you include Lightsabers.
its my personal favorite
cause I love the designs you can see with it
Needle - Stickem with the pointy end
Finally someone giving the rapier the love it deserves
"Arrgh!" 🏴☠️ ☠️ 🦜
And that's pretty much why I love rapier (including in tabletop RPGs, especially in TTRPG in fact XD) !
The appearances on battlefield were mostly captains trying to ban them because they dont were appropiate for combat, and soldiers would use rapiers mostly for duel other soldiers
They were exceedingly widespread on the battlefield. In fact they were pretty much the standard in the late 16th Western Europe. Military rapiers tended to have shorter broader blades tho
While several armies where equipped with them, to my knowledge, most didn’t use it in their battlefield tactics with the Swedish Caroleans being the notable exception. My pet theory is that no army should have had it at all if it wasn’t for the risk of running into caroleans who actually sought melee rather then ring range musket duels.
"If not on the battlefield, then later on a sick bed."
Truly a pointy stick is the most dangerous and true forms of every weapon
And this just reminds me of my favorite dueler, Julie d'Aubigny. Her life story would make a great play, if a chaotic one.
Dudes were really out there with +10 Rapiers and 50 Dex.
Sounds like a good talking point before the rapier duel. It's quite a convincing argument not to go in lightly sinceany participant could later die an agonizing death.
Has been and always will be my favorite and preferred sword.
Once again the Monty Python joke of "how do you defend against a pointed stick?" Proves to be one of the central questions posed by military and combat strategists for most of history
"What do we say to Death? Not today, but maybe later."