#medevial combat

[sassybirdo]

If society collapsed tomorrow and vehicles stopped being a thing, and we had to go back to horse combat, the premier cavalry in the world would be a bunch of young women, they would absolutely dominate any battlefield with the horse advantage, and the matriarchy would begin in blood

[multiimistakes]

☠️: purely fandomless ⭐: fandom oc or has fandom aspects in their lore ☕: has ties to my main oc Clark ❌: closed to romantic shipping $: see end of post for notes

OCs-—

⭐ GAVIN PAYNE (COD/military fiction) (fc: Alexander Sk*rsgard) [ PMC COO. Full time asshole. ] 45. he/him

⭐ EMERICK (Dead By Daylight) (fc: Ch*rlie Day) [ OC Killer who likes teeth too much] 32-35. he/they/it.

☕☠️ KERIAN FINCH (supernatural genre) (fc: D*veed Diggs) [ Mostly peaceful monster hunter ] 40. he/they

☠️ STERLING SPECTER (supernatural genre) (fc: Glen P*well) [ Egotistical reality show possessed by demon ] 36. he/him

☠️ PETER SMITH (supernatural genre) (fc: R*hul Kohli) [ hermit werewolf with a grumpy cat ] 38. he/him

☕☠️ ❌ YUN SEO-YEON (supernatural genre) (fc: H*n so-hee) [ Super not peaceful monster hunter ] 29. she/they

☕☠️ KADEN HURST (supernatural genre) (fc: L*ke Mitchell) [ Nephil with daddy and anger issues ] Physically 39. Actual age 400+ he/him

☕☠️$ MEYA THOMPSON (supernatural genre) (fc: Any* Taylor-Joy) [ half-basilisk running rampant in the business world ] Physical 26-28. Actual age is 67. she/they

☕☠️ ❌ LANCE JOSSON (supernatural genre) (fc: R*gé-Jean Page) [ obnoxious vampire who owns a lot of wine companies ] Physically 35. Actual age is unknown but was likely born sometime around 2,600 B.C.

☠️ LUCIFER (supernatural genre) (fc: G*na Torres) [ ex-ruler of Hell turned fashion mogul ] Physically 55. Actual age predates Man. Younger than Michael. Agender. Goes by she/they but responds to any pronoun.

☠️ MICHAEL (supernatural genre) (fc: G*llian Anderson) [ disgraced archangel banished to earth. writer and hobby artist. ] Physically 56. Actual age predates Man. Gender neutral but going by she/her atm.

☕☠️ CLEO DAWSON (supernatural genre) (fc: S*nequa Martin-Green) [ living database and lifeline for supernatural hunters on the field ] 39. she/they

☠️ KYLE HARPER (supernatural genre) (fc: W*rren Kole) [ retired mean supernatural hunter turned dilf ] 46. he/him

☠️ OLETHA ANDRYT (supernatural genre) (fc: R*by Cruz) [ medieval thief cursed to perpetually reincarnate ] Physically 25. Actual age is complicated. she/her.

☕☠️ ❌ DESTRIAN ANDRYT (supernatural genre) (fc: H*gh Dancy) [ medevial thief/knight cursed to never die ] Physically 37. Actual age around 1000. he/him

☠️ CHOI MI-CHA (crime) (fc: J*on Do-yeon) [ hitwoman in her career twilight years ] 50. she/her

☕☠️ ❌ LILUTHE (supernatural genre) (fc: El*zabeth Gillies / Xolia from TDIAHM / D*ona Cheon from Sadistic Beauty) [ greed demon with a nasty temper ] Physically 31. Actual age unknown. she/her

⭐ JESSE GRANT (Lethal Company) (fc: G*rrett Hedlund) [ PMC to protect those idiots gathering scrap ] 32. he/him

⭐ DUKE FOSTER (Helldivers) (fc: Andr*ew Lincoln) [ Combat medic ] 47. he/him

⭐ WIRE (Helldivers) (fc: Kim Wo*-bin) [ walking orange tic-tac. jaded helldiver with dead brother issues ] 35. he/him

☠️FELIX MATHIEU (slice of life) (fc: Sw*nn Arlaud) [ retired celebrity chef turned jaded food blogger ] 43. he/him

☠️ ELLIOT JONES (crime) (fc: H*yden Christensen) [ sunshine dork IT guy who could totally hack into the FBI ] 25. he/him

☠️ BENNETT "THISTLE" CALHOUN (supernatural) (fc: Kyl* Gallner) [ Typical Southerner with a vague sense for the supernatural ] 29-30. he/him. (find him here)

☠️ GAEL FLORES MORENO (crime) (fc: Alfonso H*rrera) [ Professional bodyguard with a second life ] 40. he/him

☠️ ASHLEY "ASH" KING (horror/slasher) (fc: jschl*tt) [ Social influencer manager, accidental Final Boy ] 25. he/him

$: if we have a ship with Clark on kxllerblond, shipping is off limits for this character.

[wholesomesmith]

It dawned on my why in "historical/medevial" movies, nothing is what it should be, be it the armor of that time, the outfits of that decade (yes, they changed that quickly), the architecture isn't of the time period, or even the accent is incorrect

Either:

A) The people behind it don't care that much

B) The items would be too expensive to produce. Just look at Henry VIII's armor; that stuff is stupid, complicated, and fancy... wait, LOTR has crews slave away at chainmail, which is very time-consuming and can get very complicated

C) You'll never tell who's who on the battlefield... oh wait, banners exist

D) History is too boring or takes forever to hit all the main points over a century... even though there are ways to show the passing of time and, just, game of thrones

E) speaking on an OP or earlier accent can get unintelligible if you're not accustomed to it... but subtitles exist

And finally. 99.99% of the time, axes and swords are worn on the hip, not the back. The only exception is the beast being oo long to wear on the side.

Spears are cheap and are stupid easy to use, especially with a sheild.

Combat is always fast and can lead to a messy ground fight. Yes, getting bonked really hard is an option. Bows were used by strong people and were fired quickly and/or with high precision (trick shots were used to pass the time, not hitting archery targets)

People snuffing it was a normal occurrence, be it from illness, infection, accidents, or fighting.

"But it's a movie," yeah, and my countless hyoerfixations say otherwise

[alpine-hoplite]

I guess it depends on who they're fighting. I'm assuming you're talking medevial England.

I feel like roman strat is TOO linear which leaves room for you to use nonlinear combat which, medevial combat used a surprising amount of.

I wanna say the battle of agincort is the best example.

How could a Medieval-based army beat a Roman-based army on a battlefield?

I hate that GATE makes me think of this sort of question.

[warsofasoiaf]

How can medevial combat devolve into a chaotic masscare?

Fairly easily. Battles are noisy and confusing, first off, and a mass of confused, barely-trained people facing mortal peril isn’t exactly going to be the epitome of discipline and drill. Heavy cavalry in a flying wedge can split or scatter a line, dust and grime covers everything, the sound is so cacophonous it’s almost deafening…all that together is going to be chaotic.

Though a massacre, as I’ve traditionally understood the word, means the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of defenseless people, which doesn’t really fit the qualifications of battle.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King