You'd really need to have a deeper look at the Chinese historical documents, treatises and archeological proofs: essentially everything shown and mentionned in the video originates from there (more than 3 centuries prior), in addition to a ton more inventions such as hand grenades, landmines, rockets of many, many types, etc.

Brilliant work

Take a video about this , The world is now ruled by one community of people, the world Satanic elite, you can also call them the committee to meet the Antichrist and prevent the 2nd coming of Jesus, Trump called them the deep state, at the moment it consists of about 10,000 people, the main ones there are Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Windsors, Baruchs, they, their ancestors, descendants and other people who enter there have the mark of Lucifer, which, if they bring the antichrist and do not allow the 2nd coming, they will receive eternal life after the x hour, and the rest of humanity, for all the time that they have lived, they won't get anything, so all people should know about the existence of a world government (Jesus who was a The Prophet of God, not God.God will send Jesus as a reward to humanity, if humanity deserves it, for this it is necessary to fight Lucifer and his elite)

the knight is also not moving which reduces impact energy and accuracy

Glad you showed the the cranequin crossbow, but there is another even better one, its like the Cranequin or crank is how we call it here, but instead of one arm, you use your two feet on a pedal system like that of a bicycle.

Prueba con armaduras de 3mm de grosor, que son las utilizadas en guerra, las de 2mm son para fiestas y vestimenta elegante.

Battanian Fian Champion VS Vlandian sharp shouter :D

This video is correct for the english context, more, longbos required alot time training, and the law to train in Sunday from dawn to dusk, to anyone made archery very proficient, but regular bows made in Europe had less power and required alot training, longbows were very good in open fields but crossbows, required less training any commoner could take training, and expertise faster allowing to amass more crossbows and they were quite effective for guerrila warfare, well known in iberia during reconquista, before open field battle, was required to weaken enemy lines before

Cool crossbow, and good terrain for testing👍

A Medieval Warcrime

You should dub that weapon the "Cross-Joe"

Arsenic works by disrupting cellurlar respiration. You're cells can't 'breathe'. Even at the (relatively) low doses from these arrows, if it was indoors, it would cause people to sicken for hours or even days, because peoples bodies don't eliminate Arsenic all that effiiciently. In other words, even if it didn't kill them, they would be very tired/feel very run down. I could totally see these fires arrows, fired into a town with wooden buildings, thatched roofs, into ships, etc as a way to degrade the fighitng capacity of a force, even if the defenders managed to put out the larger fires, because they'd become sick when fighting the flames.

i assume you ment you can pour water over the top of them, as some sort of threat? or warning shot or something?

For Kevin

Tried to order one, have tried to contact Tod twice but no response.

Such a good video. Thank you Todd.

Did not understand you made Hollywood fire arrow or you are showing us reaL one?

You have know idea what you are doing

The real thing back in the day was a piece of deadly machinery, compared to the more modern tacticool type crossbows.

whats the device about first off ???

Really good info and delivery. I think if you studied viewing statistics and how to structure your video through time, you'd easily hit 1M.

18:50 - "Ouch! My face meat!"

24,689 meters more

You could have tried gambeson plus mail plus plate

Can you call that dagger a “dirk”?

so we can see that all the crap we are supposed to believe is total bullshit ! no way some lonbowmen beat armored knights on fast horses if they can't penetrate the armor at so close range

looks like a useless weapon

probably prevents the enemy from firing the arrows back if the heads burn off!

Yeah but its not lethal at all to shot arrows as far as you can, the speeding of the projectiles would significantly drop and yet being unable to go even through a light leather armor. I think the main advantage of shooting from a high position with a bow is about getting a longer lethal range cancelling the negative effects of the gravity. Would be interesting to know how far they were lethal from the top of this tower ))

How Tight were Medieval Scabbards? It all depends on which Brothel or Tavern you went to........

fun fact : pure iron self-ignites when exposed to air (think sparks) and the thin oxide layer that forms on the surface of iron objects is what prevents them from spontaneously combusting make of that what you will

An interesting video would be describing what type of cross bow William tell used

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I would have loved to know where the salpeter(KNO_3) was sourced from in what Quantities. Like it is so rare that the modern Haber-Bosch process that turns Nitrogen into Nitrate is soo important. But you are talking about 11th / 12th century alchemy and it is not used as a fertilizer - for that process it must have been a dried concentrated agent. Was there an "industrial" Salpeter city? Like there were for glass, salt, ...

Good one. Noticed you used a hunting cross bow. Suspect it's American made, as the stock and forearm are camo. Bowhunting over there not a thing yet, yet. Xbows here in the US are really well built now. Thanks.

I think it would have to be the ease of manufacturer and lack of expense, as you demonstrated a bow and arrow is clearly superior but I imagine that making a bow and arrow is more involved and takes longer than just making a giant arrow and using a string

The head separating from the shaft so that you have to grab the burning part to pull it out is absolutely wicked

Bloody awesome and interesting channel you have here... great work! Subbed.

Good luck at the doctor.

What about that story about an arrow piercing a french knight’s leg armor, then the mail, then flesh, bone… mail again, armor again and got stuck deep on the horse? I remember reading that account long ago

So that’s why they invented muskets?

Great.

I enjoy all of Tod’s Workshop videos

If you lower the weight of the shot, your speed per second will rise

How did it take UKposts a year to show me this video. For shame UKposts!! For shame!!!!!!

Sorry but you shooting a suppressor shows your ignorance. Sorry but your video is just ignorance on trying to shoe a bullets power.

Looks like we will be having rubber duck for dinner tonight

16:40 That “rocket motor thing” looks like the very earliest form of a firearm in medieval Europe, used between 1380AD to the mid 15th century. It was a very crude and medieval-looking firearm as you can see by its appearance, and was basically a glorified fire lance more than anything, held under the armpit as opposed to modern firearms being aimed on the shoulder, and were typically used only at point blank and short range due to their inaccuracy. They were relatively rare in medieval Europe though not necessarily uncommon either, though mostly used for castle defense than in a pitched battle. However, there is a very large exception to this being the Hussite wars in Bohemia. These early firearms were much more common in this war, accounting for likely up to a quarter of the Hussite’s armament. I’m surprised that according to that manuscript, the English still used them in the mid-16th century when the rest of Europe improved on firearm technology and had arquebuses with matchlock technology and shoulder stocks by then. But I suppose it does make sense since the English were sort of behind on gunpowder weapons compared to the rest of Europe post-hundred years war. IIRC they still even used longbows at least up to around the mid 16th century the same time that manuscript was made.

LindyBeige must be pissed lol

These lads are like the avengers of medieval military history