He's done it, swordsisters! The Shadman has defeated the tyranny of the pointy stick and proven the superiority of the blade.
How come nobody is talking about this? Is /k/ really just a bunch of LARPing spear homosexuals?
He's done it, swordsisters! The Shadman has defeated the tyranny of the pointy stick and proven the superiority of the blade.
How come nobody is talking about this? Is /k/ really just a bunch of LARPing spear homosexuals?
Also demonstrated at Cynoscephalae
Demonstrated what? That a phalanx that don't lower its front spears horizontally against advancing infantry gets what it deserves for not grasping the primary intention of their weapons and unit type?
Absolutely not what happened. Actually the romans were pretty fricked until they managed to flank the sarissa phalanx. Greeks were giving them hell. Spears are amazing but if a swordman manages to flank you or get close, it's all lost.
So basically the artist got it wrong? Because that drawing show a frontal assault not a flank one.
It was both, actually. The Greek (macedonian, but Greek is faster to type) army was marching along the top of the hill while the Roman army was marching along it's foot. Then the fog cleared and both armies spotted each other and formed up for battle. It's a head on pushing battle. The Roman right pushed backed the Greek left (uphill, no less) while the Greek Right pushed back the Roman Left. Then some Roman lieutenant (tribune) on the Roman right looks left, realizes the Greek right is wide open, and leads a charge right into it.
Cynoscephalae was such a weird battle. I mean, you had Romans using elephants. That practically never happened.
I think you're confusing it with Pydna
Rome used elephants in both, actually. What a strange pair of battles.
It was also a pitched battle neither side had prep for. Ambushes were common and you usually spent a couple hours before a set piece battle setting up formations but this encounter surprised both sides and they both just went for it.
>Also demonstrated at Cynoscephalae
>Not the fact that they were flanked hard up the ass
As a spear gay, you're wrong
Not accounting for terrain.
>guy in the bottom right
I really hope this is not you, Shad.
Sad to see a father waste time on chans.
I don't think he uses language like that even to bait morons on /k/.
>chans
Oh, I forgot that weapons board is safe, BLUE board, so channels.
No, this is very obviously his fanbase. He doesn't cultivate a 'tone' with them at all, and they write like this where ever they are.
shad is actually very /k/
>extremely autistic
>obsessed with very specific facets of weaponry while discounting entire categories
>hates troons, gays and liberals
>fat
Nunchuks will never be a real weapon.
correct
>Folding club isn't a club
Plus agricultural flails and military flails being a very real thing. You wouldn't prefer a nunchuck if you had better options.
Military clubs were precisely sized so that the chain isn't long enough to hit the hand. Also, it only counts as a folding club if you can lock it in an unfolded position.
>Military clubs
*Flails. I need sleep.
>hates troons, gays and liberals
doesn't this guy get gay furry porn commissioned by artists?
you could be thinking of Skallagrim
That's Skall. Shad is a legit Mormon with like 5 kids
>People still watch this braindead aussie?
The thing with Youtube is that if you are one of the first people to create videos on niche topics/hobbies and do so at a regular interval than you're set for fricking life
>Shad is a legit Mormon with like 5 kids
wtf based. I had assumed he was a skal tier sperg. I'll actually watch his content now
>hates troons, gays and liberals
When has he ever said this?
He is married with five children, he is basically on watchlist already.
He is Mormon, which means he works for the FBI and is actually the one writing the watch list.
How the frick does an Australian end up mormon?
Also he's a loser but now I feel obligated to save him from damnable heresy.
>How the frick does an Australian end up mormon?
pic related.
Shilling for new products would just revert into written format, either old school blogs or maybe even magazines.
>How the frick does an Australian end up mormon?
He 'strayan?
Well, shit. I always thought they'd all be at least 5' 6'' and not as pudgey.
Most of us fit that description. But there's not much we can do if someone ends up home schooled.
Good luck fighting against Christ. You will fail.
this is correct, and exactly why Joseph Smith is burning in Hell for his perversion of the Bible and leading millions astray
Do Mormons for real think they’re Christians?
Christians for real think they're israelites so yeah
Do Trinitarians consider themselves Christian?
Don’t embarrass yourself further
Being Australian and looking like Shad.
A walking case of "Not letting the Bullies get to you" being WAY worse then if you let them get to you. God but if he would just get rid of that fricking Bunnings castle.
If only. But then again they've been pushing open borders and walking back their pro-White stances so I assume ~~*subversion*~~ at the higher levels like everything else.
Cap, Im LDS and those MFrs stop me everytime I get on a plane. I AM A THREAT TO SOCIETY AND I WILL NOT BE STOPPED
literally all of his coverage of films eventually boils down to "the libs are perverting media with the gay agenda".
to be fair, mostly on his second channel
When did stating facts become hate?
Around 2014-2016
The truth has always been hateful to our deceitful establishment
Two thousand years ago when God gave His only Son, the Way, the Truth and the Life. And ~~*they*~~ crucified Him.
>And ~~*they*~~ crucified ~~*Him*~~
Ftfy.
>"Two thousand years ago when ~~*The Hebrew God Yahweh)) sacrificed ~~*His*~~ only Son ~~*Yeshua Ben Yusef*~~, And //The Romans// crucified Him."
There, fixed that for you so it would actually be accurate, you npc special ed student who drank ALL the koolaid.
maybe not in those terms specifically but pretty much everyone thinks that
t. homosexual
I read his book and it wasn't very good. He has no idea how to write characters. The premise was fairly interesting though
>Shadman
Please do not call him that. That is a name reserved for a Swiss heroin-shooting quadroon pedophile edge lord.
I want to see them duel, but only in the other guy's area of expertise.
> Swiss omniperv getting rekt in hema
> wholesome weapons enthusiast forced to draw egregiously degenerate pornography
Shad does not do HEMA. This is not hyperbole, he literally knows about swords from LARPing
>no experience with antiques so no knowledge of what real swords handle like
>no experience fencing with swords based on antiques
>primarily interested in fantasy, applies this thinking to history
>talks loudly and confidently but without sources
perfect person to give a multi million viewer platform
What’s even worse for me as a HEMAgay getting lumped in with this non-participant homosexual online all the time when he literally doesn’t do what we do. He doesn’t read sources. He doesn’t drill plays. He doesn’t fight live with steel weapons. If I knew where he lived I’d challenge him to a duel.
Yes, I AM a raging autist and I have no shame about it.
he lives about 45 minutes north north east of melbourne, iirc
I’m not an aussie, but I guess this meme should apply to everything this far moron does
Unrelated to the posts but the Duellists in 10/10 kino, Would recommend every /k/ autist watch it. Even if you're not into swords.
its pretty good. one of like, 4? films made wiht good fencing. ever
Thank you fellow based anon
HEMA is LARPing.
Cool studded leather armor.
t. Baldur's Gate
It’s actually not studded leather
wow, really going for the bait like that? no hesitation at all?
Looks like brigandine, not studded leather
I'm guessing that that's the joke ("studded leather" has been one of Shad's big bugaboos for years).
I don't believe that it's you Baldur's gate.
Shad is a homosexual.
>t. nunchaku ninja
t. Overweight michelin man
I don't care about nunchakus.
Shad is a homosexual for spreading misinformation and for being an annoying shit.
>spreading misinformation
Quickly, call some Trust and Safety council, xister.
>Shadman
Did Musashi duel some spear guy and when he blocked the spear with his katana the spear guy just said Musashi is the better fighter and just forfeited the duel? Spears are over rated.
>just keep chopping it bro
holy cope swordgays
has shad ever produced a good, well researched video?
The boob armor videos are pretty good.
I think he did some theory stuff for DnD, in relation to combat mechanics and ranges or areas of control.
I think that actually was taken quite well.
But both he and Skallagrim and all the tatami mat cutting armchair theorists with strong opinions tend to be a bit shit at grasping practical fighting, because they've never actually fought.
Shad's beginning to get over mount stupid though, but the breakthrough in realizing HEMA doesn't give much more realistic a grasp on foightin' as Ole fencing does, seems to have yet eluded him.
Skallagrim is an avid HEMA practitioner so that puts him above you, and many other people.
Reenactment is just LARP compared to HEMA, which tries to simulate a duel to the death while reenacment is just playing a determined battle where you aren't even allowed to do certain strikes or used properly weighted equipment.
You dumb gorilla Black person.
HEMA can give you a really good approximation of sword fighting as concerns the fencing part, i.e. trying to hit the guy without getting hit yourself. What happens after the hit is much harder. You don't really know how good your hit was, you don't know exactly what you hit (would have hit if not for protective gear), how the opponent would react. Scholagladitatoria has a few videos where he cites historical sources and it's all over the place - from people who drop dead after a single blow, to people who keep fighting after several ones. It only gets more complicated in a group setting.
Still, getting the fencing part right and having basic info on where you should hit the other guy is pretty good already.
Where HEMA has problems is everything you cannot approximate in training - stuff like polearms and armored fighting, which you simply cannot do in a safe way. IMO a modern unarmored swordsman would be fully the equal of a medieval swordsman who spent similar amounts of time training, but a modern man trying to fight with halberd or poleaxe, perhaps even in armor, would have some nasty surprises waiting for him.
the fact is polearms have a much higher skill ceiling than swords and therefore the most skilled polearm wielder beats the most skilled sword wielder.
t. has never done HEMA in his life
There's a reason swords were used as a dueling weapon.
>There's a reason swords were used as a dueling weapon.
It's because they were easier to carry around. That's literally it. If they had handguns in the medieval times, they'd be dueling with those instead.
Sword duels were still a thing when pistols existed though, you dumb Black person.
Have you ever used a melee weapon in your life? Spears are easy as shit to use. SPecially in formation.
Read a medieval fencing book Black person.
Careful with those slurs, buddy. You might not be that bright either. A spear for use in a phalanx is heavy and if you waver, you could mess it up for others. It's up to eight feet long and four pounds heavy, and you wield it with just one hand while the other hold the shield. Maybe you should read a book too.
Black person
>Sword duels were still a thing when pistols existed though, you dumb Black person.
By the time pistols became a duelist weapon in the 19th century, swords as a dueling weapon and the carry of a sword in public was already on the way out, you dumb Black person.
>durrrrr what are first blood duels hurrrr
>durrrrr when did first bood duels fall out of fashion hurrrr
1870ish in italy, somewhat earlier in france (1850ish) and between 1820 and 1830 in england and prussia?
at least, thats when they were outlawed iirc
so basically when pistols started taking over and carrying a sword in public was being outlawed. gotcha
Duels were illegal for all but a select few circumstances even back into the renaissance and sword duels persisted into the 1960s in France. You’re both moronic and don’t know what you’re talking about.
People were not carrying around swords in 1960s France. At least certainly not as much as they were carrying guns.
Ok? Swords being carried inside of towns was illegal for most everyone everywhere since the Middle Ages (even though we know people still did since edicts against carrying weapons were orally issued over and over again.) the point is People still absolutely dueled to first blood well into the 20th century though, even knowing that dueling was illegal. Are you being willfully moronic? Why are insistent on talking about things you know nothing about.
This video is from France, but Italy also especially saw a resurgence in saber dueling during the fascist era. Benito Mussolini himself was pictured with a dueling saber and was an avid fencer.
literally nobody cares about the the microcosms that still played around with swords. They are the exception that are not representative of how duels were being conducted in the 19th century. By the time duels were being outlawed wholesale around the world, firearms had already taken over. Stop being moronic.
But that’s literally not true. Europe maintained a strong fencing tradition that included dueling well into the 20th century. They fought with both swords and pistols. It’s only in America that pistol dueling entirely took over. I actually at one point made an effort to find sword duels recorded in America and the only one I could find involved Lincoln and didn’t even end up happening.
Also duels we’re outlawed nearly everywhere even in the renaissance. For almost its entire history it was a socially acceptable but illegal practice. You literally don’t know what you’re talking about.
Also nadi, multiple time Olympic gold medalist in all three weapon divisions of fencing fought a duel against a sports journalist in fricking 1924. They were still doing it then, too.
>but that’s a microcosm
If you say so, but I can tell you I don’t know of many pistol duels that happened in that time period so it sounds like sword dueling outlived it.
>Ok? Swords being carried inside of towns was illegal for most everyone everywhere since the Middle Ages
It was in England and certain places of the Holy Roman Empire, but not really.
Emmy understanding is that generally walking around with swords culturally meant “looking for trouble” in most places even if there wasn’t exact laws forbidding it. I’d compare it to walking around Walmart with an AR today.
>People still absolutely dueled to first blood well into the 20th century though
I've dueled to fricking first blood in the 21st century.
Won by deliberately swinging my half-broken staff into a block as hard as possible as a feint so I could stab under my opponent's guard when my weapon broke (weirdly on topic).
Caught em in the hand with the splintered end when they were forced to try and catch the thrust.
Was quite fun. I'll take that shit over a "light contact" sparring match where nobody bleeds but I'll short kicks with my shins so many fricking times somebody ends up with a limp by the end of it.
Well. Swords were easier to carry at that point because a) technology hand allowed it but also because b) the sword had become the civilian gentleman's weapon. They trained for single combat, not line or cavalry. The military retained mainly heavy swords right up to the flintlock period.
>polearms best weapon for duels
>quad dubs
That's settled then
>Shadman
What could possibly go wrong ?
You mean, beside the sword guy slipping his grip and impaling his buddy on several pounds of sharp metal, or the spear guy stabbing out his buddy's eye? Not much.
No real loss. It's not like youtubers meaningfully contribute to society.
t. Weapons youtuber
Heh. I was into guns before Internet became a thing. All gun info came from glossy catalogs and old books with black and white pics and whatever the lgs guy told us. Nah, weapons youtubers are welcome. They may be wrong at times but they keep the hobby fresh.
That still doesn't mean they contribute meaningfully to society.
Get rid of all weapons youtuber and nothing would change.
Weapon youtubers show me things about the guns I would like to buy that noone else does.
Isn't his name Leo Todeschini? Probably prefers to come across as a british bloke rather than an italian to his english speaking customers.
>I was into guns before Internet became a thing. All gun info came from glossy catalogs and old books with black and white pics and whatever the lgs guy told us.
Ah, different times. Besides the rampant fuddlore and armchair generals, it was good times. Guns weren't so fricking political.
People these days do not realize how good we have it, every sort of knowledge at our fingertips, always from several sources to compare and determine which one knows what it's talking about.
The spear guy's too far away so he can't actually use the spear properly. But the time it takes to raise the sword is already enough time for the spear guy to thrust with all his strength into the sword guy's face.
I blocked that channel ages ago, its just endless shite
Legit the only weaponsgay on YT that i will not watch , the only vid i've ever seen went something like this:
>Constant shouting and phrasing like he has Tourettes
>With authority, claims rooftops made from sticks are just dumb fantasy
Having been under plenty myself during rainfall that was just too much idiocy within 5 minutes
Want to watch someone swing a stick? Skalla
Want to watch someone who actually knows what he is talking about Schola Glad
Want to watch someone craft some cool shit and use it, maybe not always the best way? Tod from Tods workshops and Tod Cutler here from Tods farm and Tods parents, on Tods camera and did I mention im Tod yet?
>did I mention im Tod yet?
Note: actually name Leo
>Want to watch someone who actually knows what he is talking about Schola Glad
schola gladiatoria lives in a bubble and dismisses anything that messes with his preconceived notions. i have watched a decent amount of all of the hema tubers and adjacent and while he may be the most knowledgeable, he is not any more trustworthy than the rest
>lives in a bubble and dismisses anything that messes with his preconceived notions.
isnt that like... literally every content creator?
Pretty much but HEMA practitioners are some of the worst. Massive fricking echo chamber full of elitism.
>t. former HEMAgay
>Skalla
t. Skalla
>Want to watch someone who actually knows what he is talking about
Watch the channel of an actual historian like SandRhoman history, TIK history, Survive the Jive or The Historian's craft instead of watching larpers and hobbyists.
Or you know, you could read a book on history, but ehh....
you seem to know history youtubers anon
are there any who have made a video on wootz that isnt outdated crap or streetshitting nationalism?
Haven't seen any truly well researched video on that topic, or medieval Indian history in general, sadly.
The ones I mentioned all have something they focus on:
Sandrhoman is about the early modern period.
TIK is about WW2.
STJ is about proto-Indoeuropeans.
Historian's craft is about Rome and Japan.
>read a book
>on history
No, thanks. I'd rather not suicide myself with boredom.
History is great. You can't go five pages without the israelites getting expelled for judaism, or a rival warlord being flayed alive and a dog running off with the skin or a three way war breaking out because of a 0.01 percent tax increase on horse dung.
You want a non-boring historical text?
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
Every page is a chapter.
The Medici have the papacy, Baroque is in full swing, wars are everywhere and this greasy, sleazy polymath enters the scene, and his life becomes this constant fight between his greazy, sleazy ego and his bizarre aptitude for making some of the most beautiful shit you've ever seen in whatever media is available. Also he's not too bad with a hand cannon.
I like sandrhoman but his most recent (I think) video about cannons being irrelevant until some arbitrarily recent period was bizarre
Why?
The video exposed that in the 16th and even 17th centuries, gunpowder artillery was very difficult to procure in meaningful numbers. This doesn't mean that it was irrelevant, just that armies needed a huge effort just to mass a few dozen artillery guns and thus artillery wasn't a decisive factor in war until the 30 years war, thanks to Gustavus Adolphus emphazising the importance of artillery in field battles.
because cannons started providing a pivotal role in the support of sieges long before that period, such as in the south of spain
How many cannons were brought to those sieges?
The argument in the video is not that artillery was irrelevant, just that it wasn't the decisive factor due to the difficulty of massing artillery. At the start of the 17th century, the king of France couldn't put together even 50 guns for a siege spanning over a year.
when historians agree that cannons made a huge difference, what does it matter how many were massed? even one cannon brought to bare, especially against castles not designed with large cannons in mind so running directly counter to the idea that cannons only became a determinate factor in later periods, could expediate a siege by months if not years
The video does mention that cannons had a spur of popularity in the second half of the 15th century since they were facing medieval structures that couldn't cope with artillery, but actually decreased in importance in the 16th century when modern fortifications started being built.
In sieges throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, cannons were mostly used to shell the city beyond the fortifications, since shooting at the walls only resulted in minor damage. Mining and sapping were much more effective at actually tearing down modern walls.
Sieges were won by starving the population, undermining the walls and carrying out sorties to attack the ramparts. Artillery didn't just win sieges outright and it certainly didn't make any of those techniques obsolete.
And that's sieges. In field battles artillery was even harder to come by. It would be rare for an army consisting of thousands upon thousands of men to have even a dozen guns. That is, until Gustavus Adolphus introduced regimental guns. Again, guns weren't useless but they didn't win battles, and the video mentions that their function was mostly breaking the enemy formation and forcing them to attack you.
"cannons are irrelevant because our thicc walled collossus cannot be assaulted, only starved out"
"why did you make such a thing?"
"well, the previous castle got a hole blown through it"
you get my gist. even in the absence of early era overmatch, if you're designing things in a way that is much costlier with a specific capability in mind, i think it's fair to say it is of primary relevance. it would be someone spent half their military budget on air defence and managing to keep an enemy airforce at bay. air power still defined a large part of that situation without having actually achieved tactical success.
Artillery "was so irrelevant " that it brought to life the entire new type of fortifications in the early 16th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort
Aslo artillery became the answer to English tactics of setting up fortified camp and camping there during field battles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Formigny
No one ever claimed that artillery was irrelevant, you are arguing against a strawman. The argument is that in the 16th and 17th centuries, aside from some exceptions like the Swedish army in the 30 years war, militaries just couldn't mass enough guns for artillery to be the decisive element of warfare. It's only in the 18th century that massed artillery becomes feasible. Armies in the 16 and 17th centuries wanted more guns but they just couldn't get them because they weren't available.
Are you mentally capable of grasping the difference between claiming that something is useless on abstract and claiming that the particular use of said thing was ineffective at a given time?
A few cannons were capable of breaking medieval walls. Thus the people start building modern fortifications, and now a few cannons simply don't cut it anymore. Then armies want more cannons but they just can't get them because the supply chain is a mess. Therefore they can't rely on artillery alone to win sieges, at least until a century later in which mass production of artillery becomes a thing and people consequently stop bothering with conventional fortifications. It's not that complicated to understand.
i watched the video when it was posted and haven't thought about it till i saw the name come up again. i admit on rewatch he did cover this stuff in passing. the fact that he continually emphasized the cases where cannons were undersupply or didn't reach the front in time just slants the presentation. it's true it was a problem, but if you choose to focus only on that problem it becomes impossible to make sense of a world where people would bother making the herculean logistical efforts necessary (after all, the battle's always over before the guns matter anyway, right? might as well just focus on the other things instead), or the evolution of fortifications (what do you need them for? that's a whole lot of investment to counter a system that doesn't come into relevance until you've either broken the siege or starved because they never show up). i don't have an issue with what you're saying, but if you paint a picture of 200 years of warfare where cannons redefined the entire battlefield and just say "for 200 years they just got stuck in the mud every time then suddenly started mattering again" of course that sends the opposite message to reality
>couldn't mass enough guns for artillery to be the decisive element of warfare.
but artillery WAS decisive element of warfare.
It made medieval castle completly irrelevant. (That btw promoted rise of absolutist power of the kings, unified France and it's absolute monarchy were built on artillery that can crash any vassal castle and resistance).
Artillery made irrelevant wagenburg tactic that was totally OP in the early days of gunpowder.
Artillery defeated English camping with longbowmen tactics. And won Hundreds years war for France.
Artillery created Bastion Fort, that was at the same time counter to siege artillery and implementation of artillery for defense. And this implementation was so strong that created new positional warfare crisis, turning war into stalemate and series of prolonged "starve them out" sieges were this new type of fortification was implemented.
Artillery broke the walls of the Final Roman Empire in Constantinople and created Ottoman Empire.
Without artillery face of warfare would be completely different. And even political face of the Europe would be different as absolute monarches would not be proped. And Romans still would be living in Constantinople.
Haven't seen the video, but as long as he's specifying the late arrival of artillery to field battles, he's correct. Cannons were revolutionary siege engines, which (together with the rise of the modern, centralized nation-state) led to the end of the castle and the rise of the star fort. But it took a few hundred years before they were common enough--or flexible enough--to become a decisive arm on the battlefield.
But there is no overlap anon. The guys i mentioned just cover weapons, not *warfare* or battles. I know history but I do not know ancient weaponry.
>SandRhoman
Based, but its 90% pike and shot warfare and it is not my thing
>TIK
Aside from clowning on wehrmaboos and holo deniers that guy is an utter idiot. Prime example is the one video he has made on '20 germany inflation wherein he disregards any basics of economy
You're kidding right?
What the frick.
https://www.instagram.com/todsstuff/?hl=de
Well, thanks for the source but now I am even more confused why you'd larp as a brit with this stupid intro in every video.
>such as?
I don't care to dig an old video to go into specifics but he essentially ignored the fact that bread is a basic necessity and that its demand does not magically go away with high price. It is the kind of stuff you learn in grade school.
> From what I've seen, it's mostly commies and nazis who seethe.
Maybe that is so, I never read any of them, am neither and hate both anyway.
Meant to quote
be patient with my autism
>why you'd larp as a brit
He lives in britain, his customers are mostly brits or americans, he talks like he grew up there too and probably isn't italian in any way except by ancestry. Plenty of reasons.
>stupid intro
Tod is his trademark name, so to say, tods workshop and tod cutler are his businesses. Of course he'll tell you about those, he wants you to buy his stuff after all.
It'll really blow your mind to learn that the proprietor of "James Townsend and Sons" isn't named James Townsend.
But his father was, he inherited the company from him
>wherein he disregards any basics of economy
such as?
From what I've seen, it's mostly commies and nazis who seethe immensely at TIK's economic analysis. People are still mad at him for pointing out the obvious fact that the National Socialists were indeed Socialists.
>Keynesian hands typed this post.
How's Modern Monetary Theory working out for you?
Quite well, live like a fricking king on minimum effort. How's your college debt for social studies degree working out for you?
I wouldn't know, I retired young and reasonably well-off. This year's been pretty bad, though; investments are down >30%, and inflation in the areas I actually spend money (particularly food and electricity) are up almost 50% over what they were prior to the introduction of MMT into government policy.
So, yeah, socialist claptrap has been very bad for me and mine. It's not to the point where I'm having to make truly hard choices yet, but the odds of eventually being able to build my dream home have gone way, way down.
Because even if he is of Italian descent, he's still bred and born in Britain.
Fair enough but if it is such a big deal for him ,why not legally change the name. It isn't impossible in bongland, is it?
Didn't know that either actually. At least here such delusions can be chalked off to long term nutmeg poisoning.
Add
>ToldInStone for art and architecture history
>Voices of the Past for primary sources read as they were writen
>Filaxim Historia for romaboo history that goes more in depth into individual legions and service history instead of cult of personality shit
>Imperium Romanum for a group of German reenactors that build and use historically accurate stuff
>BazBattles and HistoryMarche for little squares on a map killing eachother without being woke homosexual shit like HistoriaCivilis or Kangz & Generals
>Invicta for random obscure topics with cool art panels and the occasional interview
>Tasting History with Max Miller and Townsends for food, food and more food
>Townsends
He does quite a bit more than food even if that's what he's most known for
>woke homosexual shit like HistoriaCivilis
???
NTA and I haven't seen any wokeness in his Roman shit but in his congress of Vienna video he goes into a big rant about how the opportunity to end slavery at the congress wasn't taken seriously and it has definite shades of wokeness. Honestly, I find his anti-Caesar bias far more egregious. I don't see how its reasonable to blame Caesar for destroying the Roman Republic when Marius and Sulla had already completely hollowed it out, and Pompey and Crassus pissed on its ashes. Besides it is directly Cato the Younger's fault that Caesar crossed the Rubicon at all.
Anon, are you seriously saying that being anti-Ceasar, a bloke who lived 2 thousand years ago, woke?
How many level of roma-boo is this? That post was clearly made by the order of Ceasar Augustus. True Romans will sage.
No, I am saying that there are woke overtones in his Congress of Vienna video but NO wokeness in the roman videos. Separately from the wokeness topic, I am complaining because I think he is too biased against Caesar. Despite that, I still think his videos are are worth watching.
That's not the woke shit he's done, remember in 2020 when he took a break to post about BLM 24/7 on twitter? or when his homosexualy little Portland ass started celebrating the tumbling of statues all over the US because a good historian celebrates the destruction of "bad history"? Remember that insufferable noble savage shit he did for the Iroquois confederacy where he all but wrote a fanfiction about how advanced and progressive they were?
His Anti Caesar shit isn't even a consistent thing, in his old videos he sucked him off hard but then at some point he went full Cicero was right about everything because DEMOCRACY GOOD NO MATTER WHAT and he tried to make the whole thing an allegory about fricking Trump.
Matt Easton cut off this fat frick's head with his left hand while jacking off with his right. Autistic cow.
Matt Easton would cut off his own wiener with right hand while badly jerking off with his left hand.
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kek
>How come nobody is talking about this?
i dont give a flying frick about WHOtubers or e celebs
The fact that this fat piggy is rich from yt revenue and has a family with money to spare to play knight like a manchild, while i'm 29 and unemployed and alone, makes me so mad. Maybe it'll give me the right kick to finally kill myself, i've been trying to overcome the fear of death for years
to be fair, its probably not so much youtube revenue, as it is sponsors. RPM for historical weapons creators in Aus is about 2-3AUD per thousand views. So even his million view videos only net him like 2-3k AUD
lmao imagine how much of an envious loser you have to be to get mad at the thought of a man being happy
Imagine what kind of scumbag you must be to enjoy throwing low blows to depressed people on the verge of suicide.
You are not in the right place to find sympathy, moron. Fight for what you want or have a nice day, but take your rèddit 'WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE FEEL BAD FOR ME' horseshit elsewhere. Nobody here is your therapist.
you never fought for what you wanted douchebag, you don't even know what that means. stop pretending to be a manly man because you''re not. one day you'll find yourself forlorn and with nobody else, because you're a spiteful bastard that treats people like shit. and when that day will come, it will be YOUR turn on the rope
>muh le depression
Any more made up first world problems?
africa and russia have the world's highest suicide rates tho
Do it homosexual, no one, and I mean absolutely no one will miss you. Three decades in this world and all you have is whinging about others like a woman or a socialist.
>like a woman or a socialist
you're a pathetic /misc/tard peabrain. your opinion is absolutely irrelevant and your insults fall on deaf ears
>t. socialist woman
You don't own any guns because you spent all your money donating to Hassan on Amazon to own capitalist chuds.
He will never own a real castle
literally wouldnt be able to get council planning approval to build it in victoria. 0% chance he ever builds an accurate castle or keep
I swear public building authorities are the greatest stick in the wheel of civilization. Countless men have attempted to build great things on law they own, only for a nameless bureaucrat who has nothing to fricking do with their life to tell them that they can't do it.
The housing crisis in Western cities is quite literally the result of housing authorities preventing developers from building large numbers of residential units because "muh small neighborhood feel".
He's got a plot of land on which he hopes to build 2-3 small keeps to different architectural standards, so he at least seems to think he can get the permitting through some day.
They won't be accurate though. Not in terms of construction. It'll all be facades and fake rock over conventional building methods
People still watch this braindead aussie? Let me guess he "pwned the libs"?
>Let me guess he "pwned the libs"?
Are the swordcucks the libs or is it the speargays?
swordcucks
>People still watch this braindead aussie
apparently
Yes, he pwned you and all you were left with was crying at VanDerLeden to stop misinformation and hate.
>The Shadman has defeated the tyranny of the pointy stick and proven the superiority of the blade.
The title of the video is "How easily can a SWORD cut off a SPEARHEAD?"
The answer is, "not easily enough to save your from dying"
fricking sword homosexuals
>fat nerd swinging a light sword
>vs a giga chad Landsknecht doing flowing cuts with a Zweihander
>Glorified plague ridden rapist in fancy dregs is the apex of teutonic infantry
Germboos are deluded. Greatswords vs pikes is a win for the former only in total war games
>Germcuck soldier
how would speargays beat this?
Bringing firearms.
>living in 2022
>why is nobody talking about sword superiority
homiewhat
>couple of nerds trying to reason and logic their way into conclusions
The fact that spears were used while swords existed is enough to prove their effectiveness.
Lots of weapons were used at the same time. Bayonets exist to turn guns into shitty short spears, combat knifes are basically modern daggers.
4 full force strikes against an static target doesn't count as easily cutting a polearm
you deserve death troony homosexual
Shaqs autistic screaming and shouting really turns me off his content, I just dont understand how anyone can find this amusing or entertaining.
Shad's just figuring out pre-pike and shot pike warfare. The frick did he think swordsmen were doing in pike formations?
>guy who doesn't do HEMA because muh asthma talking about HEMA
discarded
>Shadman
>How come nobody is talking about this? Is /k/ really just a bunch of LARPing spear homosexuals?
Because its stupid. Spending time to destroy a spear haft (which is very durable in itself) rather than parrying it and reaching for the wielder is a good way to get you killed.
This also doesn't take into account people who fricking protect their spearshafts like the Japanese and the Chinese who either wrap them in hide or reinforce the last 1 foot of their hafts with metal bars/collars.
God I hate shad so much. A fat buttery sack of shit who doesn’t know shit is given an audience an declared an authority on historical weaponry.
I remember when this fricking homosexual fought a couple HEMA newbies, edited it so it looked like he won every bout, then said he invented a move that doesn’t exist in HEMA that was just a fricking slip. I genuinely want to beat this motherfrickers head in with a feder.
Absolutely based. Love Shad's videos.
I wish we could be as cool as chinks think we are.
Don't worry, anon. To me, you are.
T. Australian