What are your favorite medieval weapon?

by **MaceyWindu** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:42 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. It does look like maybe the movie versions aare a teensy bit exaggerated.

by **Username** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:50 pm

Ranged: Mongolian Bow
Melee: Kriegsmesser

by **Lord Brian** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:29 pm

1. Scottish highland Claymore

2. Longsword

3. Longbow

by **darkarden** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:17 am

Hehe, my favorite weapon would have to be the Gun-mace, it was a gun fashioned with the head of a mace so that it could be fired at long range but also used in close combat. I saw a picture of it in a medieval weapons book once, i believe it belonged to Henry VIII. either way it was awesome

by **Username** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:20 am

darkarden wrote:Hehe, my favorite weapon would have to be the Gun-mace, it was a gun fashioned with the head of a mace so that it could be fired at long range but also used in close combat. I saw a picture of it in a medieval weapons book once, i believe it belonged to Henry VIII. either way it was awesome

Renaissance era combination weapons are pretty neat.

by **darcsied** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:11 am

I like HeartofDarkness' choise: Longbow and Hand and a half sword.
comeon slim get stuck in
:twisted:

by **doodstormer** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:32 pm

I'd say the flail. The kind with 4 or 5 heads on them, those are niiice.

by **Sir Ninja Pilot** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:12 pm

My favourites are:
1. Hand and a half sword
2. Longbow
3. Pike

by **wallgorn** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:46 pm

I have two favorite weapons. They are the Scottish Claymore and Longsword.

by **Seikfreid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:08 am

My melee weapon would have to be the hand and a half sword. My ranged weapon would be a longbow, though I'm really in love with the shape oof the horsebow.

by **sir aleks the bold** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:26 pm

the spear is the best then a sword then a bow

by **smcginnis** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:36 pm

I've loved all (non-cross) bows since I first saw them. Probably before that even.

They're my favorite weapon of all time. Doesn't matter whether they're Longbows, Composite, Saxon shortbows, Korean, whatever.

But those fancy Olympic and other modern bows just don't cut it.

~smcginnis

by **outcast** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:56 pm

I agree completely with everything smcginnis just wrote.

I particularly like the Mongolian recurve bows (did you know it takes around a year to make just one

)

I hate crossbows. IMO they are ugly, undignified weapons. Compared with longbows they have shorter range, less accuracy and take 25-30 seconds longer to reload. They also need less skill. It takes years to be able to shoot a bow well. You could have the same level of skill with a crossbow in a week.

by **Legoist** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:00 am

1. crossbow (I even have one as a wall decoration)
2. longbow
3. longsword

by **BrianofBrick06** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:56 pm

I would say my favorite weapons were the longbow and the crossbow. Also, I really enjoy the short sword dagger combination for some reason...

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