#Flanged Mace

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the flanged mace.

This is a weapon that saw extremely widespread use, from Western Europe to the Indian subcontinent. Maces are one of the simplest weapons humans have; a weighted head on the end of a shaft. Maces with flanges like this are slightly more advanced, in that the flanges serve to concentrate the force of a blow, as well as making an effectively larger heat that uses less material. The blunt-force trauma this weapon inflicts makes it extremely effective, even against advanced armor like late medieval plate. The variant seen here is from northern India, and is known as a shishpar; as I mentioned when I talked about the tabar-shishpar, the name is a Persian phrase meaning “six wings.”

[educationaldm]

I care. How about you?

Flanged mace is good, but a good simple warhammer with a pick on the back edges it. The Bec de Corbin for a polearm. It's next on my "to buy" list.

[kultofathena]

Eastern European Medieval Flanged Mace – Wulflund

This Eastern European flanged mace has a large and robustly crafted head of antique finished high carbon steel which is securely pinned and mounted to a thick hardwood haft.

Please Note: Some light pitting or light spotted rust may be present. Most of this cosmetic blemishing can be removed with scuff pads

[flanged-mace]

Welcome to my blog.

[m1dori-eyes]

Huge fan of mauls but flanged maces have a certain allure (sexual) to me 🤤🤤🤤

[wavefoot]

I just want a really nice flanged mace is that to hard to ask for

[unlicensedinvestigator]

battle against the snow queen

[shewithbloodofpaint]

Lorovoi The Goliath Cleric who worships Snoop Dogg.

This commission was a wild ride but I'm super happy how it turned out, especially for getting back into digital art after years and years. It is one of the most creative things I've ever been asked to create and I'm glad I took on the challenge!

Done in Clip Studio Paint

My Instagram

[cactus-pat]

@kaybebog

[writers-potion]

Writing Weapons (4): Clubs, Maces, Axes, Slings and Arrows

Clubs & Maces

Maces are refined versions of clubs, usually made from steel and flanged or spiked.

Perfect for smashing and plate armour and for crushing skulls.

When used on horseback, the rider uses continuous swining motion and leans to the side to hit.

Type of Fight Scene: gritty, historical fiction, smashing armour

Typical user: brawny male with broad shoulders nad bulging biceps

Mostly used in: historical fiction - Stone Age to Middle Ages

Main Action: smash, crush, bludgeon, batter

Main motion: downwards

Typical injury: crushed bones, crushed skull

Strategy for lethal fight: crush skull

Disadvantages: heavy, need to get closer to the opponent

Batle Axes

Used by a peasant or lumberjack

Special battle axes are bigger and heavier, with longer handles

A weapons for attack rather than defence, good at cleaving through armour

Can break through enemy shields and kill a charging horse.

They require intense training, so users are highly skilled elite soldiers, often aristocrats.

Types of Fight Scene: gritty, brutal, battles, attack, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, cutting through armour

Typical User: tall brawny male with broad shoulders and bulging biceps, courageous, elite soldier, Viking, Saxon

Mostly Used In: European Dark Ages to Middle Ages

Main Action: cleave, hack, chop, cut, split

Main Motion: downwards

Typical Injury: severed large limbs, split skulls, cleaved torsos

Strategy for Lethal Fight: severe the arm which holds the sword or the shield, or cleave torso from top to bottom, or cut off a lef then split the skull

Disadvantages: big and heavy

Bows and Arrows

They are weapons of mass use. Hundred of arrows are shot at the enemy to inflict as mcuh damagne as possible from a distance.

In the middle of the battle and for close combat, they're useless.

Castles were designed for the use of bows and arrows, with narrow windows called 'archer slits'. The top of the outer walls were desgined so archers could shoot while remaining under cover.

Arrows are relateively cheap and quickly to produce. Tips an be metal or sharpened stone, wood, bone, glass splinters, etc.

Pieces of feather at the end help the arrows fly better, but knowing which part of the feather to attach how and where is much -treasured knowledge.

Characters can learn the basics of archery can be done quickly at an emergency. However, to be really good it takes years of practice.

Most important skill is to be able to shoot many arrows in quick succession.

Stone Slings

Stone slings are cheap to make - it only takes a piece of leather, string and ammunition are simply pebbls lying around.

This makes it good for low-tech historical periods and for characters of all ages and physical capacities.

Doesn't require great physical strength, but a lot of practice is required to achieve accuracy.

Different cultures have different techniques for holding and releasing, none of which includes the continuous frantic whirling around beloved by moview makers. Rotatin is usually done once or twice, or not at all.

(1) the slinger hooks the end of the sling over her fingers (2) holds the hand above the shoulder so the sling's bag with the stone in it hangs down behind her shoulder. (3) flings it straight forward.

Blunders to Avoid

Depicting an axeman as an unkilled brute who chops blindly.

Battles where the archers shoot when sword fighters are already engaged in close fighting

[educationaldm]

I'm still thinking about what my first weapon purchase will be, and a beautiful flanged mace is definitely in the running. Here's Tod from @TodWorkshop talking us through their manufacture and use.

[kultofathena]

Mid 16th Century Gothic Flanged Mace – Wulflund

This Gothic Flanged Mace is more robustly built than most and it has the heft needed to powerfully smash and batter asunder even the heaviest of armored defense. The mace is finely styled in gothic fluting and angular styling and its all steel construction is durable. Unlike cruder maces, a gothic mace such as this was a finely crafted item intended to deliver destruction from the armored fist of a knight or professional man at arms.

Please Note: Some light pitting or light spotted rust may be present. Most of this cosmetic blemishing can be removed with scuff pads

[flanged-mace]

Welcome to the mace zone, pal.

[an-albino-pinetree]

I felt the need to stop by again so hi

On a completely unrelated note

If I give your version carnival AU Jax a comically large flanged mace and bludgeon would he give me a kiss 🥺🥺🥺

Not that I have those on me right this second or anything, eheh...

He’s interested.. :]

[medievalsnippets]

Source: The Medieval Knight -- Christopher Gravett

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Text: Knight, c.1250 This knight still wears the mail coat as his main body-defence, but in addition solid schynbalds over the mail chausses protect the shins and poleyns guard the knees. 1) Helms, from statues on Wells Cathedral, c.1230-40. 2) Two forms of kettle hat. 3) Shaped arming cap for a helm worn under the mail. 4) Arming cap with padded roll and a solid collar. 5) Buckled padded ventail, covered collar, and cervelliere (small iron skull-cap) worn over arming cap. 6) Sleeved surcoat with dagged edges. 7) Gamboised cuisse, which would be tied to a waist belt. 8) Poleyn attached to mail. 9) Poleyn attached to gamboissed cuisse. 10) Sword from the Ouse at Ely. 11) Great sword, c.1250-1300. 12) Scabbared detail. 13) Flanged Mace. 14) Knobbed mace. 15) Various styles of dagger. 16) Horseman's axe. 17) Long axe. 18) Short glaive.

[ythrial]

yippee i finally did one of these 🙏 i was tagged by my sweetie friends @latenna & @ordinarymaine to do some oc associations ^_^v / tagging @camillathe6th, @dannyburke & @greenecreek if youse wanna do it i’ll link a blank version here 🤲

for fialine of course 🫶

animals.

white mountain ermine, buck moth.

colour.

off-white, saffron yellow.

month.

january.

songs.

francis – hayley hendrickx, max garcía conover. (but there’s something on your skin that you can’t get clean, there’s a fawn in the fence that you can’t get free)

mountain spines – marika hackman. (let me hold back the tears i’m sitting on, i will be plagued with your blood)

number.

nine.

plants.

aethusa cynapium, fool’s parsley – foolishness, gullibility, to burn. 

smells.

cinnamon, peppermint, pine. 

gemstone.

thulite – expression, passion.

time of day.

nautical twilight.

season.

winter.

places.

melodia’s garden at moonrise – once full of sweet, powder blue flowers that shimmer in moonlight. / a cove just beyond the gate – isolated and untouched. 

food.

spiced apple porridge, cinnamon hard candies.

drinks.

mulled wine. hot tea with ginger.

element.

earth.

seasonings.

cinnamon, fennel, nutmeg.

sky.

enveloped by nimbostratus clouds, dark and dull with jagged edges.

weather.

the serenity of heavy snowfall. 

magical power.

blindness, command, healing word.

weapons.

eight-flanged mace, imbued with radiant light. lovingly engraved with an ancient prayer. 

method of long distance travel.

on foot.

art style.

neo-impressionism.

fear.

irrelevance. 

mythological creature.

strix.

piece of stationary.

a worn, unremarkable carte de visite.

three emojis.

🫀🪽🌒

celestial body.

cepheus – the constellation named after the myth of king cepheus, who attempted to sacrifice his daughter to appease poseidon. one of its brightest stars, alfirk, loosely means “flock of sheep.”