Spears vs Swords

[Jubal]

I found this a fairly interesting one - some experiments with shields & spears & swords to work out why people used spears so damn much (answer - sticking a pointy stick in someone's face never goes out of fashion).

[Phoenixguard09]

Lloyd always has good material.

[Tusky]

That is super interesting. I often wondered about that, didn't realise how effective they can be.

I like that they ran group bouts too - because I was about to say that would have been useful against cavalry too. Plus with the extra reach you'd to get up to the mounted person

[Jubal]

Yeah it's neat stuff. I seem to remember lb having odd views on other topics outside warfare though I may be misremembering. He's very good indeed on this weapon handling stuff etc though.

And yeah, spears are simple and effective enough that even I coukd probably use one!

[dubsartur]

Matt Easton has another few videos on the demos of sabre vs. spear on foot which he makes his Victorian fencing students do. 

Lindybeige strikes me as one of those eccentric autodidacts who says a lot of things and is happy to drink a pint and argue about which he was wrong about.  He reminds readers and watchers that he is not an expert on anything, just someone with opinions, so I'm not too worried that sometimes he messes up, even though his audience is much bigger than it used to be!

[Jubal]

Yes, there are tricky lines to grasp I guess as someone's audience gets bigger, regarding how power should scale with responsibility - but yes, I agree that broadly he's a harmlessly eccentric autodidact so far as I can tell.

[Ierne]

Thanks so much for sharing the video! It really made sense of why spears are so much more common than swords in Saxon and Viking era warrior graves, which is something always pointed out in lectures but never explained. It was also useful from a fantasy warfare perspective. And just very funny XD