How are the five new WoM weapons?

Guys, rebind the “Reload” button to your thumb mouse button. It will help so much with the game. Especially on Sienna and venting heat while dodging. But it will also help with the axes a lot. It will take a bit to get used to, but you will get it down.

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Then how am I going to fire the pistol while wielding rapier, huh? :stuck_out_tongue:

Knights used all kinds of polearms at peast IRL. I’m quite sure they knew all too well how to use spear because they were proficient in nearly all.melee weapons available. And well - warhammer or poleaxe with a spike at the end can be used as spear (although not well balanced), so it’s not like “typical knight weapons” didn’t require you to learn accurately to stab with a pointed stick.

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The only type of pole weapon used by medieval knights was the few kinds of lance and it was used only on horseback. Other types of this weapon were used by infantry to which knighthood did not count.
Fantasy and pseudo-historical movies and games are really not a good source in this matter.

Nail a new button to your mouse. There, done. You have to be smart to survive in Vermintide :wink:

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Weapons you listed were used by so-called landknechts - medieval infantry not by knights. In general, such weapons like this were used as plebeian weapons.
Dismounted knight had a sword to defend himself, less often an axe, mace or a flail. Many kinds of daggers (misericordia) also was used and twohanded swords that was appear in XIV.
Knights used lances only when fighting on horseback.

I think you should even deepen your knowledge of the differences between knights and the rest of medieval army…

No man you are wrong. Dismounted knight use weapons I mentioned. Pole weapons for foot combat were considered plebeian weapons and only infantry who were not knights used it. The only pole weapons used by knights were lances and only during horse fighting because of its size.

Dunno maybe you know something more than they are

Yes, tell me more about Polish knights.

And about Two-handed swords

instead of accusing someone of lack of knowledge, learn it yourself.

LOL… take maybe look first to the links I pasted and then speak. I also recommend checking the References section.

Yes, because you traing sword fighting you are now alpha and omega about medieval history LMAO

Hahaha that was credible sources of knowledge? Ok

I see that self discredit is the only thing you do well. I think further conversation doesn’t make sense since you’re starting to be offensive.

BTW. then read carefully what they were used in the link you pasted -for knightly duels…

This section is about Infantry, not knights.,

Oh yeah, because that explains everything LOL. One or two arts. LOL Exceptions were everywhere, but that didn’t mean was a common practice in knights fighting.

Are you mental? I don’t say that polearms weapons like lance’s are not knightly weapon. I only said that knights fights with them on horseback not on foot. Maybe go back to beginning of this conversation. because you are lost your self.

This is irrelevant to the argument, but: I didn’t realise finger guns were popular in the late 14th century :rofl:

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Literally from the first link you posted:
Sometimes either axe type was fitted with a spike at the end of the handle and, in later 14th century CE versions, a top spike. The same century saw further developments such as the use of hammers and the poleaxe (aka pollaxe)

Look at that, knights using pollaxes. Only on horseback you say?
Let’s take a trip to the pollaxe wiki, shall we?

The pollaxe was usually used by knights and other men-at-arms while fighting on foot.

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I guess you have misunderstood something, this link does not mention that knights use such weapons.

From your link

“Although in some nations the knight returned to foot combat in the 14th century, the association of the knight with mounted combat with a spear, and later a lance, remained a strong one”

Okay? I’m just saying knights used pollaxes when fighting on foot. Which you said they didn’t.

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Ok i think there is a misunderstanding here. The weapon you describe in my translation (im from Poland) is a blunt weapon such as a hammer and not a pole weapon such as a lance.
Look at their sizes first 1.2 to 2 m second from 2.5 to even 4.5 m.
And yes if we count pollaxes as a blunt weapons like maces, knights are very likely to use them.
When I wrote about pole weapons I meant specifically something like a lance, halbeared etc. In my country it is a difference.

Ah, I see. Well, then I guess the mystery of the pollaxe is solved. :slight_smile:

Poleaxes are not “blunt weapons”. Neither they are halberds, although a bit similiar. They are pretty damn sharp and pointy.
Bec de corbin and lucerne hammer and special kind of poleweapons that instead of axe head use hammer-like one are blunt, but the thing isn’t about them being shar or pointy, but about the shared characteristics like length and tactics of use (up to 2m, 2h, foot combat only).

Anyway, try google the name next time, chceck wiki etc. Because this whole discussion could have been prevented if you tried to realise we’re not talking about halberd, but shorter weapons for armored melee specialists.

Who cares what real life knights fought with? This is Warhammer. Real life knights didn’t fight Ratmen, or trampled Trolls either. Foot knight Kruber could feasibly fight with pretty much any of the mentioned weapons. Rule of cool.

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The whole point is - knights IRL could use pointed sticks quite well, so there is no reason for Krub not to :slight_smile: