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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)

Posted by cfabbro (edited )
Tags: archaeology.experimental, cherbourg breastplate, arrows, mary rose, bodkin arrowhead, battle of agincourt, armour.plate, weapons.ranged, myth busting, medieval, longbow.english, videos, tods workshop, long watch

MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel

Other extra videos in the series:
Find out More - The Battle
Find out more - The Armour
Find out More - Medieval Arrows

edit: Tod also re-uploaded the previous video with better sound:
Find out More - Medieval Arrows*

4 comments

  1. [4]
    cfabbro
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    Another update, in case anyone is interested. Tod has now released a follow up video of him answering a bunch of viewer questions and discussing future plans: Arrows vs Armour - What YOU had to...

    Another update, in case anyone is interested. Tod has now released a follow up video of him answering a bunch of viewer questions and discussing future plans:
    Arrows vs Armour - What YOU had to say...

    And a few other HEMA / Medieval Arms YouTubers also made videos commenting on the series since I originally posted this too:
    scholagladiatoria - Can Arrows Beat Armor?
    Metatron - ARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting RESPONSE VIDEO
    Shadiversity - The best BOW vs ARMOR test I've ever seen, a response

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      cfabbro
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      Yet another related video was just released by Tod, where he and Dr. Toby Capwell discuss the Battle of Agincourt itself, and answer some viewer questions from the previous videos: AGINCOURT -...

      Yet another related video was just released by Tod, where he and Dr. Toby Capwell discuss the Battle of Agincourt itself, and answer some viewer questions from the previous videos:
      AGINCOURT - Medieval Myth Busting

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        anahata
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        Thank you for bumping this. Sharing it with my D&D friends before the game and we're having a big discussion about all of it. Of course we know that D&D vastly oversimplifies and romanticizes, but...

        Thank you for bumping this. Sharing it with my D&D friends before the game and we're having a big discussion about all of it. Of course we know that D&D vastly oversimplifies and romanticizes, but we've still got an appreciation for anachronism.

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        1. cfabbro
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          No prob. I'm glad other people similarly enjoyed it. And coincidentally enough, my D&D group also all watched and discussed this video series too! It's partially what inspired some of our latest...

          No prob. I'm glad other people similarly enjoyed it.

          And coincidentally enough, my D&D group also all watched and discussed this video series too! It's partially what inspired some of our latest homebrew rules: Slashing weapons do extra damage against light/unarmored opponents; Blunt weapons now "sunder", which ignores half the target's AC; And Piercing weapons have less chance to hit but higher crit chance. :P

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