Weird Weapons of History with @tods_workshop and @scholagladiatoria

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  @Skallagrim · 1 year ago · pinned

  In hindsight I realize I neglected to comment much on Tod&apos;s work itself, as I was just focused on the practical aspects of those historical designs. Regardless of whatever they were thinking back then, his craftsmanship here and now is outstanding. That&apos;s why he has earned the right to harshly criticize some features of historical originals... see Matt&apos;s video on that. :)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD7HmlZqdDM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD7HmlZqdDM</a>

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• SC

  @scholagladiatoria · 1 year ago

  This was such a fun day - thanks to Skall and Tod for hanging out!

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• DO

  @DogansPCRiot · 1 year ago

  Enjoying Skall&apos;s POV camera of Tod&apos;s weird weapons. &nbsp;Really shows off the quality Tod puts into every piece, even these projects.

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• OM

  @ominousblackknight · 1 year ago

  About the very long rondel dagger:<br><br>I&apos;m an art student and very good friends with an historian and an engineer. I also happen to be a HEMA instructor and we&apos;ve been doing an academic research about these long stabbing daggers that are essentially short sword length. In Italy we have a few southern italian sources which talk about and showcase such weapons. The neapolitan infantrymen in the battle of Otranto (1460) are shown carrying these short estoques/long daggers. After a bit more research we came up with the sources talking about southern italian infantrymwn carrying &quot;stocchi/ mezzi stocchi/ daghette&quot; (short tucks) as secondary weapons that could be more serviceable for their manner of doing war (3 infantrymen attack one guy, the familiar comes in with one of these or a woodsplitting axe and finishes them off). <br><br>I won&apos;t cite the entire research because it&apos;s very vast and we&apos;re planning on publishing it as a book, but we found that extremely long stabbing daggers or short swords are rather common as weapons for southern italian foot soldiers since the age of Federico II up until the half of the XVI century. It&apos;s a regional specialty, and we found specimens with three-lobed guards (almost like a tri-bollock tuck) and fishtail pommels both in iconography and as physical specimens. Baselards were also common, often in the place of swords even, as it&apos;s been understood from a research in the church of S. Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples. The Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were still very fixated on the manner of late roman legions in warfare, it seems, favoring short, stabbing tucks for taking down enemies in groups.<br><br>It&apos;s an intresting topic of research, might be worth looking into because southern italian medieval weaponry is very peculiar.

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• JO

  @josephlongbone4255 · 1 year ago

  King: &quot;Stop carrying swords in the street! They are Dangerous battlefield weapons!&quot;<br><br>Noble: &quot;Ok.&quot; (Pulls out comically large dagger.)

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• WO

  @wolschou · 1 year ago

  Judicial Duel were all about even odds, so givng the opponents unusual or even weird weapons would help to ensure that no one had an advantage from being used to it.

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• BI

  @Biele98 · 1 year ago

  This is what I imagine my companions in Skyrim talking about my inventory.

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• JA

  @jan_kisan · 1 year ago

  a collab i wasn&apos;t even hoping for! thanks! ❤‍🔥

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• TH

  @TheOnlyToblin · 1 year ago

  That Street Fighter intro though? Chef&apos;s kiss!

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  @Umbra_Nocturnus · 1 year ago

  The excessively long Rondel dagger is for when you need to perform a stealth-takedown on a VERY fat guy, or two guys standing next to each other :P

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  @rafis117 · 1 year ago

  I can definitely imagine the armorer who was visited by the &quot;good idea fairy&quot; trying to hawk a blingy flick spear.<br><br>Or the journeyman presenting the piece to his guild: &quot;yeah it&apos;s probably not practical, but look how COOL and well made it is&quot;.

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• JO

  @johndee2990 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAMSMRAlz0U&amp;t=1560">26:00</a> Weird Weapons of History are as much a showcase of Technical Skills and Craftsmanship as much as Experimentations in Practicality.

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