When people ask me why I don’t have children, this is why. I’ve yet to be beaten in combat.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Imagine a society where men withold sex until they are physically dominated, leading to women becoming more aggressive and violent as their biological clocks tick down until they reach a pinnacle of adeptness and take a mate, or form coalitions of less capable women to secure a mate at the cost of sharing.
If only we had the self control...
Chainmail would not protect your from a flail. chainmail is really only protective against cutting/slashing. Chain does nothing for blunt force.
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Lol. Sorry I do some medieval historical costuming and love medieval history. It's fascinating stuff.
You're good! I don't blame you. I know a very passing amount from playing DnD and a friend who's obsessed himself. He's got a youtube channel where he talks about fighting styles and re-creates fighting styles from videogames and movies. He'd have been embarrassed I made this mistake so let's just pretend it didn't happen...
Lol, we could forget it happened, BUT there's nothing wrong with learning something new!
What would protect you against blunt force?
Plate armor is your best bet. Padding helps, which was worn under chain. The padded garment worn under chainmail is called gambeson. Gambeson would help, but it wasn't close to perfect. Put on a dense, thick puffy coat and have someone hit you with a steel baseball bat as if they were trying to kill you. You'll feel it. Plate armor is the best choice. Obviously with enough blows from a hammer or mace and it could cave in and crush you, but that was rare. Best way to kill a knight in full plate was to get a few of your friends, pile on him, and put a dagger in the gaps of the armor. Throat, thighs, groin, anywhere there would be gaps in the armor.
Plate or padding
Weren't war hammers specifically used to fight against plate?
Pretty much yes. Blunt force is kinda the apex. No amount of personal protection protects you enough when the force hits. With plate you would disperse it to kinda spread it through the area of the plate itself and with padding you would divert force into deformations of the padding. But given enough force neither of them protects you.
That being said those protective options are still the best there are against blunt force and that would remain until the introduction of firearms.
Your dad is right. A flail is an incredibly impractical weapon that's unsafe for the wielder. For close quarters unarmored combat, find yourself a woman who's handy with a dagger or smallsword. With the understanding that she's also proficient with a good polearm or bow for the fighting in the field.
I'm partial to women who are skilled with tonfa.
That's wife material, right there.
As well as ex-wife material.
Widow material if they don't practice safer sex.
the "10 years later" is the most accurate part
I don’t get it.
Well, the father says to the son to practice safe sex. Ten years later the son is in a sexual encounter that involves lethal weaponry being used, thereby making it inherently unsafe sex. The son says "I don't think my dad would approve" because he's referencing the safe sex conversation from childhood.
