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@GreoGreo

6 ай бұрын

Ok bro!

@NobleKorhedron

6 ай бұрын

Are those retro games behind you, @Metatron? They look like #N64 boxes...

@user-xf7bf5bg8o

6 ай бұрын

Ha

@user-xf7bf5bg8o

6 ай бұрын

Mercy dagger!!

@ReasonablySkeptic

6 ай бұрын

*Fun fact:* Bullet proof vest don't cover hands, arms, legs, or the head. That's why it is more intelligent for people in gun fights to go naked than with bullet proof vests. This is what these people sound like.

"Why people think that medieval people were idiots?" - dude, a lot of people don't even think about anything that goes back more that their own life time, it's like humanity never had a brain for them just because modern technology didn't existed. It's insane.

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

if you don't know any history, did it really happen?

@jasonlewis5350

6 ай бұрын

@@marcogenovesi8570yes

@Superabound2

6 ай бұрын

The entire basis of Cultural Marxism is to deny the wisdom and traditions of the past

@irmar

6 ай бұрын

My son who is 30, constantly asks me: "Oh, you really already had [INSERT TECHNOLOGY] in your time? As if the 70s and 80s were the time of the dinosaurs and we were living in caves. Seriously!

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

@@irmar It's proven that color wasn't invented until the 90s, all we boomers were living in black and white back then

A funny thing. If a knight complained about an arrow piercing the side of his visor, it means he survived and the visor did it’s job,

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

the ladies love scars

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

6 ай бұрын

@@marcogenovesi8570 huhh... l i t e r a l l y . . .

@ChocolateMilk..

6 ай бұрын

*its

@ascended8174

6 ай бұрын

@@ChocolateMilk.. *sit'

@gringott12

6 ай бұрын

It means his head was behind the deepest side of the opening the visor covered.

7 ways a medieval armor was worse than wearing nothing: 1. While swimming 2. While emptying your bowels 3. While having sex 4. While sleeping 5. While getting out of your PJs and into your daily clothes 6. While cave crawling 7. While giving birth (no one specified the sex of the wearer) :D

@PhilJonesIII

6 ай бұрын

Nah, not buying this video. Get attacked by dwarfs while wading through boiling water and it's pretty much curtains for you. :)

@Eisenwulf666

6 ай бұрын

3. while having sex : Well, excuse me if i want an extra layer of protection!

@Sephiroth144

6 ай бұрын

@@Eisenwulf666 "I thought you said you were wearing protection?" "I WAS WEARING MY ARMOR!!"

@evannationarmy7769

6 ай бұрын

1. Frederick Barbarossa learned that the hard way…

@Eisenwulf666

6 ай бұрын

@@evannationarmy7769 more like the WET way, am i right?.....thank you, thank you, we have a wonderful crowd tonight

A good rule to remember: if you're ever thinking about history and find yourself thinking "Wow. Historical people sure were idiots!", there's an excellent chance you're misunderstanding something.

@pRahvi0

6 ай бұрын

Also applies to current events. I mean, people have always been idiots occasionally and there's a whole lot of proverbs about that. But eventually, most people usually tend to adopt things they see working better and ditch those that don't. So if something _is_ widely done, it has to make at least some sense.

@henryneubert7798

6 ай бұрын

@pRahvi0 I don't think that applies to our present day, when people in 200 years will look back. The amount of stupidity that people present is bigger than what we see from the past. People in the future might have an explaination, but that doesn't make "our" current stupidity better.

@plmokm33

6 ай бұрын

Looking at just how many idiots there are in the modern day I'm not sure why you would think this is the case, if the ratio is the same as it is now then most people were indeed idiots.

@Thor-Orion

6 ай бұрын

But if you’re thinking about modernity you’re probably overestimating the masses intelligence on account of the accomplishments of a very small subset.

@Thor-Orion

6 ай бұрын

But if you’re thinking about modernity you’re probably overestimating the masses intelligence on account of the accomplishments of a very small subset.

"Medieval people are so stupid and lazy, these are things they wanted to be able to have" *describes modern standards of living*

@Disgruntled_Grunt

6 ай бұрын

If they didn't waste all their money on video games and avocado toast, they could've afforded armor that actually worked!

@firepower7017

6 ай бұрын

No, they're poor and..... What was the second description?

@Thor-Orion

6 ай бұрын

“Filthy entitled peasantry, just like the peasants of today! Thinking that free speech and practice of a faith of their choosing are ‘rights!’ They need to bow down to “the experts” of our new WEF Globalist Religion like us media members have so smartly done!”

@Dieci-9

6 ай бұрын

Describes exactly what my utopia would be. No need to work. Endless food. Endless alcohol. No poverty. No starvation. No wars. Everyone just enjoying themselves. And dude goes: "Wow, this is still so bleak." Like, wtf?! I want to know what their ideal world/paradise looks like.

@khfan4life365

5 ай бұрын

I mean, I’m sure they wanted convenient clean running water (like we have now), but they sure as hell didn’t want iPhones or social media.

Metatron slowly becoming the Historical Roast Master

@The_Ragequit_Cannon

6 ай бұрын

The best kind of HRM

@anthonyjbargeman5280

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, ain't it great !😀

@LastGoatKnight

6 ай бұрын

"part of the ship, part of the crew"

@christophermichaelclarence6003

6 ай бұрын

As French. I can confirm that Comme Français, je peux le confirmer

@kwestionariusz1

6 ай бұрын

Historian oncologist 😊

Had a chuckle about the "war is tiring" portion. I'm former Australian Army and remember having a discussion with my partner's friend who worked at an outdoor shop. She was discussing all her hiking experience and related it to soldiering. She wouldn't believe me when I told her that carrying 40kg for 30km on

The fact you can see a single picture of a suit of armor *and tell me what collection it belongs to* is astonishing to me. Not just, "I know who made this" or "I know when and where it was used," "I know this is at the Met in NYC." That's an insane knowledge of the subject.

@meppho

6 ай бұрын

In fairness that was because he's familiar with the expositions themselves, as he mentioned it was the background tipping him off. Still impressive, just a bit different.

@CyberChrist

6 ай бұрын

Knowing who made it would be quite nice, too.

@skepticalbadger

6 ай бұрын

He may well know that piece specifically as well.@@meppho

@Parasiteve

6 ай бұрын

thats what we call being a nerd and its why i love nerds. they have passion on a subject like no other.

I'm a US Navy veteran and an early medieval reenactor. I can confirm that sometimes you get tired when carrying all of your gear, but you just deal with it and keep going. Eventually you even get used to it!!!

@shinrailp1416

6 ай бұрын

That's kind of the biggest problem with these "arguments" they are all assuming the guy in the armor is a complete beginner with no training whatsoever.

@lasko24

6 ай бұрын

Even if the armour was 100 pounds the weight is distributed over the whole body so a person wouldn't really notice it.

@devlian

6 ай бұрын

As a Navy veteran, and past SCA heavy fighter, I only noticed getting tired when wearing my gear after my corpse was pulled from the battlefield.

@plmokm33

6 ай бұрын

@@lasko24 Oh they would sure as shit notice it but it wouldn't be nearly as bad as people imply.

@FuknKms

6 ай бұрын

​@@plmokm33Agreed, at least at first. Metatron did a video about wearing roman armor for several days straight, and while he was fine the first day he was miserable the next two, until his body started to get used to it. I think this was without padding, also, but i could be wrong.

As a soldier, modern military-issued armor can be BRUTAL on the wearer. So after the first half or so of the Iraq war they started making these quick release systems for the plate carrier (which is the part of the armor that carries the actual ceramic or steel plates that stop the rifle rounds, it can also have some kevlar pads and stuff for fragmentation on other parts, typically the chest and back are the only areas covered by the plates) so that medics could pull a rip cord and remove the whole thing in a second if they need to get under the rig to treat you (also gives your buddies a great way of messing with you... pull your cord and your whole rig crashes to the ground in front of behind you and suddenly you have 20 minutes of extra work to do putting all your stuff back on; truly hilarious, the height of mirth and jest) The drawback to this quick-release system is that it's accomplished by placing the entire load of the front and back halves of your rig onto a single thin steel cable that's draped around you to rest between your neck and shoulders on both sides... and EVERY OUNCE of weight is transmitted from that tiny cable, through a thin fabric pad and directly into the meat of your traps and collar bone. Keep in mind it's not just your armor plates hanging off that thing. All of your magazines are hanging off of it too, and those aren't light either. Add to that anything else that you might happen to be carrying: radio, GPS, water, firstaid kit, smoke; it all adds up. If you wear that thing for 14 hours a day you will still feel the dent of that cable in your traps even after you take it off and the pain will still feel fresh by the time you have to put it back on and go out again.

@alanmcbride6658

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the grim actual information. Some things never change.

@vrannotbran4745

6 ай бұрын

So true... add a Backpack, Rifle, knife, sidearm, Shovel, helmet, and other essentials to the mix and well.. I guess you know..

@chrisbasarab2446

6 ай бұрын

Who wants to bet that wire was not invented by anyone who had to wear it daily? This reminds me of that 'wonderful" invention just ready for the invasion of Normandy in 1944 - the leg-bag. It was the source of many a broken leg, especially for the poor sods who got to carry the SAW or some mortar tube. For some reason, the damn leg-bag never broke. The jumper's tibia always had that honour.

@tristantonti9514

6 ай бұрын

The plate carriers we use today don't have the rip cord go on the shoulders or near the neck anymore. Now they hold the cummerbunds to the back of the carrier and the rip cord is threaded in a way that you don't even know it's there and is velcroed under the left or right cummerbund for easy use but not in the way. We also have velcro and buckles on the shoulders now so it's a lot more comfortable with all the weight. I'd say full combat loadout for a Marine without his assault pack and weapon and just the plate carrier and kevlar is roughly 45-50 pounds which still sucks on extended patrols but it's more feasible. As for the plates we use in U.S. Military now it's ceramic plates for front, back, and side SAPI's and the carrier itself is soft armor. Also like to add the newest plate carriers the Marine Corp infantry use have the molle laser cut into the carriers fabric instead of sewn on which makes it slightly lighter as well.

@rustyhowe3907

6 ай бұрын

I have a buddy in the Marines who says his joints and especially his back hurts permanently from the workload and weight, accompanied with losing his hearing. Poor lad's only 26 yet his mileage is like a 40+ year old man.

My biggest pet peeve about articles like this is when they refer to the abstract _"they"_ like every single person within a vast range of several centuries all over Europe were exactly the same. Like individuality wasn't invented until the 1900s!

@dreadcthulhu5

6 ай бұрын

To the youth of today it wasn't. Every generation before theirs are pretty much neanderthals who didn't know any better until they came along and now theirs is so enlightened they must teach us the error of our ways. That's why you will get lectured to like a toddler and told to educate yourself when you get into a disagreement with them.

@mallorycarpinski1160

6 ай бұрын

Even with our obvious greater ability to see individuality across time and space, many people today (I almost said a vague "we" and caught myself, thanks for that😅) see ethnicities, economic areas, generations etc to mean be able to describe all people under those headings.

@mojowasabi8823

6 ай бұрын

These publications hate individuality now.. it goes against their entire ideology

@wolfetteplays8894

6 ай бұрын

Individuality wasn’t as radical back then, this was back when collectivism was a bigger thing, and quite honestly, it should be a thing once more.

@thepubknight6144

6 ай бұрын

Like their nonsensical "beliefs" that medieval pheasants weren't healthy When they were stronger and faster than most marathon runners because they walked everywhere usually learned to camp up somewhere even ones who didn't eat meat , learned to create veggie meals I mean where does these think Survivorlists and veggie meats came from ???

"There was no way that medieval people could craft this armor without cnc machines and laser beams" these are my favorite podcast type claims surrounding people of the past. Whether its stones that are cut accurately or some agricultural feat, its like no human had any talent, skill, or ability before the year 1990.

@TossMySalad69

6 ай бұрын

"ThE pYrAmIdS wErE bUiLt By AlIeNs" is a certified classic.

@donnaschmink1801

6 ай бұрын

@@TossMySalad69 Exactly, makes me want to bang my head on the wall!

@ingridschack4806

5 ай бұрын

And man could not possibly have landed on the moon with 1960's technology so it must be a fake.

ACTUAL ways that wearing armor is worse than wearing nothing: You're fighting Magneto (he can just fling you) You need to beat Usain Bolt in the 100 meter dash first (You're slightly slower) You fall into the sea (you're still heavier) Someone hit you with a sticky bomb in the chest (you can't see it if you have a visorless close-faced helm) You have to jump over a rapidly-expanding chasm

@vojtik135

6 ай бұрын

6 You are alergic to iron 7 You accidentally put on the Iron-maiden version of the armour 8 You are fighting a swarm of hungry rats 9 You got a sudden heart attack

@johnhighway7399

6 ай бұрын

@@vojtik135 I can't think of any other piece of clothing better suited to fighting a swarm of rats than full-body plate

@kommissarkillemall2848

6 ай бұрын

Your local alchemist is the inventor of itching-powder and has a grunch against you for not taking him serious ..

@TheKrispyfort

6 ай бұрын

🏆

@sonoftheway3528

6 ай бұрын

Very few people are ever gonna beat Usain anyway...

Random Websites: "Here's why medieval armor was terrible, for some bizarre reason." Metatron: "NONE SHALL PASS."

@cosettapessa6417

6 ай бұрын

Ahahaahah

@TheRyujinLP

6 ай бұрын

Even worse then that, here's why armor is horrible because it wasn't 100% perfect so you might as not even bother. Like what is going through their heads? {Sane Person}: So does armor make it harder for them to kill you? {Insane Article People}: Yes! {Sane Person}: Soooo... ahhhhh.... what's the problem? {Insane Article People}: You could still die in it so you might as well not even bother! {Sane Person}: But.... ummmm... yes... but you can also die if you don't wear armor and even if armor gave you, say, only a 15% better chance of living doesn't that make it better then not wearing it? {Insane Article People}: Yes! But, did you bother to factor in the most important thing? {Sane Person}: Most import.. wait.. what? {Insane Article People}: Giving bad advise with horrible titles drives more clicks! More click more money baby! {Sane Person}: But... you could get someone killed with your horrible nonsense! Live could be at stake! {Insane Article People}: Sorry, can't here from the top off all these piles of money!

@lasko24

6 ай бұрын

@@TheRyujinLP Even bullet proof vests aren't 100 percent effective but people still wear them.

"Sometimes I feel like I can relate more to medieval people than Gen Z... " I feel ya...

I was Marine Corps infantry and yes, modern gear gets heavy when you're training. Even an M16 gets heavy when you're sprinting from place to place.

@Tespri

6 ай бұрын

I did serve in Finnish army. People really underestimates how much stamina and strength actually plays role in modern warfare. Army of leftists wouldn't even be able to march one kilometer while wearing full gear. Not to mention that lack muscles affects directly on how well you hold the recoil which affects will you hit the target...

@thepubknight6144

6 ай бұрын

​​@@Tespri I remember watching game of thrones and as a medieval history buff I said there was definitely big muscular men and women then especially ones who were knights and women who were farmers and blacksmiths So seeing lots of very big muscular men in that show was accurate at least

@Tespri

6 ай бұрын

@@thepubknight6144 Thing is that women don't naturally get that big. In modern world with PEDS it's possible to make them bigger than average dude who never works out, but in setting where no such thing as hormonal treatment exists it's virtually impossible. At least he vast majority of the cast was done well and seemingly possible.

I hold degrees in both Classical Studies and Medieval Studies, BA in both and MA in Classics, and it makes me weep knowing that many who have graduated with similar degrees uphold a lot of these stupid ideas.

@RedFloyd469

6 ай бұрын

That's assuming they have similar degrees to begin with. It doesn't take a masters degree student or bachelors for that matter, to write an article online. All you need are functioning fingers. You can write any crap you want. Half of these articles don't do their own research, merely copying (often times very poorly paraphrasing, perhaps more often straight up plagiarizing) people that did. Clickbait articles are designed to have people click on them for ad revenue. The people that write these articles know that the title need not match the content (hence why the article shown here contradicted the title's premise on several occasions.) You can make up your own stuff or poorly summarize some crap some other online article spouted, and call it a day, moving on to the next article for that sweet paycheck. So long as we (well, not me personally but you know what I mean) keep clicking on these things, so long will these myths spread. Unfortunately, having a brain is not a requirement to have internet access, so I still absolutely approve of debunkers ripping these articles to shreds in a way that even the smoothbrains can understand, provided they have the mental capacity to even comprehend human language.

@lalaboards

6 ай бұрын

In Mao's China they placed low IQ ideologues into administrative positions and put dunce caps on the actual professors who were actually intelligent .They were paraded through crowds of young students who dressed in rags and made themselves look ugly on purpose , chanting simpleminded slogans .Oh and the ideologue taught a fake history of China .Good thing nothing like that is happening here in the US .

@buzzular8198

6 ай бұрын

as an extremely casual hobbyist... agreed, its so stupid common sense falls out of the grasp of most modern degree holders in general, but especially history.

@gadflyfiction

6 ай бұрын

Yeah for sure, a lot of these articles are written by people who have no degree in the field, but what I am referring to is people I have studied with. @@RedFloyd469

@thebrotherskrynn

6 ай бұрын

Agreed, I have a BA in Japanese Medieval Studies and many of the beliefs some have are genuinely horrifying, and to accomplish that degree I also had to study in pretty good measure a good measure of Medieval Studies (which was fun, and I continue to research) and what some believe is as you say; horrifying.

"wearing armor could kill u but wearing no armor could kill you even faster" this should be a good article to read or make lol

I love how all the armor is "ineffective" parts are MUCH more lethal if you're not actually wearing any armor. I'd much rather take a mace or warhammer to the head with a helmet on and get a concussion than have my skull definitely caved in without it.

@OperatorMax1993

6 ай бұрын

Same here Atleast you actually have a chance of survival

@houndofculann1793

6 ай бұрын

The article would be much more accurate if the headline was "ways you can still die while wearing armor". Not exactly a good article in that case either but much better at least

Veteran (Retired Navy SARC), Yes, wearing our full battle rattle makes us “heavier”, but it’s part of why we train so often, and the gear is designed to feel good in terms of load bearing, you honestly don’t notice it after a while and I’d literally be dead if not for my gear. I came out with a few scrapes and cuts so to speak, but being “not dead” because of my gear, feels pretty excellent.

@Other8arry

6 ай бұрын

To add, and to be fair, not all modern armor / protection is awesome all the time. During the 2003 Iraq invasion, the marine unit I was attached to was ordered to wear our MOP gear at level 3, which is suit and boots, for 18 days. This increased body heat exponentially and because our boots no longer breathe; I had marines whose skin was over saturated by sweat and running off their feet - like raw. I pulled the “senior medical department representative”’card with my unit CO and he agreed we could ditch the boots, but the ordered overuse of MOP gear nearly immobilized my unit.

I suspect that article was mostly written by AI. It's happening a lot and I'm beginning to recognise the style of writing and presentation.

@Oldtanktapper

6 ай бұрын

Yep, it’s got that cobbled together, bits and pieces feel about it. Kind of like an essay by a first year degree student. No fluency or style. I’m finding it everywhere these days.

@danthiel8623

6 ай бұрын

huh interesting

@metatronyt

6 ай бұрын

At this point, I’m starting to hope it was, since the cringe level was beyond human :)

@nb2078

6 ай бұрын

@@metatronytbeyond human? So YOURE the AI 😮

@nox5555

6 ай бұрын

@@Oldtanktapper That cobbled together feeling is the clear sign of a human "journalist" AI texts sound like a Kamala speech, they repeat the same information about 5 times in a sentece.

You might not know this, but honestly, your channel is a breath of fresh air in this shit hole of a world we live in.

@jennymulhall816

6 ай бұрын

Hear, hear!!

@birthemuller7310

6 ай бұрын

True and so educational! I learn so much from this man ❤

@BattlerEvil

6 ай бұрын

​​​@@birthemuller7310yup. He is also sooooo entertaining! Love him❤❤❤❤

I served in the Dutch army for five years and us getting exhausted of wearing our gear (during high activities) is an understatement. 😅

@user-wi9hv2pb2q

6 ай бұрын

We have members suffer heat related emergencies from turnout gear but I'd still rather wear it. Frankly, you will not be able to make entry without it.

@Thunderbolt22A10

6 ай бұрын

US Army here, rucking in full battle rattle is not a good time.

@Thunderbolt22A10

6 ай бұрын

@@user-wi9hv2pb2q I've become a heat casualty, I'd rather wear my armor as well.

@-Master_Of_Disaster

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember my service too. It was a lot of "fun" running around all day every day in combat gear. Even the light gear was around 20 kg (44 lbs). That's what I always think when someone talks about the weight of medieval armor and can't understand how people were able to carry this around. Try out modern gear, it's not lighter and somehow we carry it around anyway.

@catocall7323

6 ай бұрын

@@-Master_Of_Disaster It's almost like warriors in all ages carried around the amount of weight that a well trained man is capable of whenever the added weight could improve their chance of survival.

I am a medieval food enthusiast, and the fact that peasants saw their houses built in fish pies make so much sense to me! Any kind of pastry, bread or pie has to be bought already made or you had to "rent" an oven to bake it, making it a luxury. Regular people didn't have an oven and had to default to boiled soups, poridge or stews. Anything roasted, grilled or baked was a party, so dreaming of pie-made houses was something close enough to their reality so they can imagine it, but so luxurious that it felt like a paradise. And fish pie? Hey, you can eat that every day, even on Fridays, what more can a guy ask!😅

@justwonder1404

6 ай бұрын

Ah, the days when people appreciated simple pleasures.

@ulrikjensen6841

6 ай бұрын

I am schocked that Metatron doesn't like fish! Never cod or salmon? I still admire his historical knowledge and insight not to mention his English speaking

@ivanastein2671

6 ай бұрын

​@ulrikjensen6841 most people that don't like fish change their taste when they realize fish has to be eaten fresh

@emmitstewart1921

6 ай бұрын

I am thinking that there are too many examples of community ovens around the world fabricated out of mud to believe that medieval peasants could not have bread. Maybe the wheat flour was sparse and expensive, but peasants who couldn't afford it could go out into the woods, gather acorns and make bread from that. Once some kind of flour was found they knew how to make it into bread.

@MissRora

6 ай бұрын

@@ivanastein2671 Or frozen, if you live far enough from the ocean. My part of the US is at least 1000 miles from the coast in every direction, so if the fish wasn't still swimming when I bought it (which is rare), then I'm getting frozen.

As you asked sir. I am a Vietnam and Cold War veteran. I can assure you that in modern full kit, you ARE expected to move around the battle field as needed to preform you duty. Or you can DIE. I also do reenactments, in period gear. I can tell you today's kit is much more weighty.

@musashidanmcgrath

6 ай бұрын

Roman legions often force marched 20-30 miles straight, wearing sandles, into a 10 hour hand to hand battle, or straight into engineering their fortificaciones - that they rebuilt EVERY day they marched - by felling trees and digging trenches. Please don't compare what modern soldiers do. It's not anywhere near the same level.

@juliondueck2947

6 ай бұрын

Please actually check what modern soldiers do before posting something stupid like this. Not to mention special forces units

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

@@musashidanmcgrath roman legionaires weren't expected to move around with 200+ pounds of gear like modern infantry has to. Romans had a supply train with them to carry the food and other stuff. Their own gear was around 60 pounds in battle-ready condition.

@musashidanmcgrath

6 ай бұрын

@@marcogenovesi8570 200 pound? Come on, mate. 😂 The average is 70 VS Roman 60. 120 average for SOME modern combat loads, but limited to short distances. They're not going to be force marching 30 miles. They won't be fighting 10 hour hand to hand combat battles straight off a forced march. They won't be hand digging massive trenches at the end of a 30 mile march. Plus, modern soldiers have the use of vehicles to move them around. Julius Caesar once marched his legions 1,500 miles in a month, building fortified camps every single night along the way. And remember too, some of these Roman veterans might be marching for 10 years without ever seeing home. Modern soldiers do a few months on tour and rotate out. There's simply no comparison in hardship with a modern soldier VS a Roman soldier.

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

@@musashidanmcgrath full gear is between 120 and 200 for actual combat loads while going alone on foot for a few days ora week. Aka not larp or supply people, or vehicle mounts (where most of the gear is in the vehicle for obvious reasons). Roman legionaries couldn't force march 30 miles with that kind of combat load either, no amount of sucking them off is going to change that. They had carts and animals and whatever to carry the logistics. Also nobody fought "10 hours of hand to hand", there were 10 hour long battles maybe but that's not the same thing. Most of the time in those types of battles is spent waiting and maneuvering, not meleeing. Yeah the rotation was a thing added since the world wars, probably has something to do with the MASSIVE increase in stress from the use of modern weapons. The romans didn't have any form of artillery that compares to even black powder cannons, nor guns that could pick you off at hundreds of meters from god knows where.

In the '80's I was in the so called bush war in Namibia, and yes your battle kit was up to 25 KG depending on your weapons specialty ( 81mm Mortar in my case) and while in the heat of battle adrenaline countered the fatigue at that moment, it was not uncommon to be physically exhausted and literally collapse when the battle was over. War is hell!

@gringott12

6 ай бұрын

In the US light infantry, even the riflemen have to carry mortar rounds, usually 60 mm for the mortar maggots to fire in support.

@methodsocratic

6 ай бұрын

lol I WISH my kit was 25 kg! Not talking shit. We used to hump far, far more, I served from 2004-2013. Not one-upping you bud, I’m saying, shit has gotten worse.

@rorythomson8763

6 ай бұрын

@@methodsocratic I am estimating it was 25 kg, may be more, may be less it was a long time ago and anyway whatever the mass was a week or two out on patrol was like an eternity. Just very glad it is over and that my kids wont need to do it...

My grandmother once told my grandpa to drink water sometimes. My grandpa just responded with, *"I'm not a goldfish"* then proceeds to chug down his wine bottle. Apparently, medieval people are not allowed to make such joke.

@Disgruntled_Grunt

6 ай бұрын

"I never drink water; fish fuck in it!"

"Wearing medieval armour was worse than wearing nothing" has the same energy as saying "wearing seatbelts is more unsafe than not driving".

@Un0r1g1n4l

5 ай бұрын

I have survived those instances. They are very rare (I Got T-boned by a jacked-up truck that literally rolled over my car, had to jump to the other side to keep from being crushed). They represent less than 1% of total accidents. You are USUALLY much better off.

Not to mention if anyone had a giant junkyard magnet they could take out an entire platoon of knights.

@nachoakajrod

6 ай бұрын

That, is an excellent tactic. I would love to see a movie where hundreds of knights get stuck to a junkyard magnet. “Oy, it’s witchcraft I tells ye. A big ole trencher scooped up the whole lot of ‘em!”😂😂😂😂

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

Even those big magnets are pretty much contact-range at best. You'd be better off with a flamethrower

@cftyftyufyfuyfty

6 ай бұрын

@@marcogenovesi8570 that one *may* in fact cook the metal

@starfox300

6 ай бұрын

Also a reason why sieges almost never worked is because the defenders would drop giant pianos on the heads of the attackers

@Arbaaltheundefeated

6 ай бұрын

@@starfox300 Or in the case of the French; assorted livestock.

I´m a German Afghanistan Vet. we had around 60 Kg Combat gear and in Training or traveling around 80Kg. Training was one thing and get´s tiering but in a dynamic combat scenario you are exausted after that shit. Keep up the good work i enjoy watching a historian who thinks before he speaks. Would love to have a Beer/Vino with you and just talk about medival warfare for a day.

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Danke Gaius Marius der die Plage angefangen hat mit der Idee dass jeder Soldat soviel Zeug wie möglich rumschleppen soll. Selbst wenn mit Gentechnik du zum Supersoldaten wirst werden Generäle die Idee statt schwache 60kg Zeug mal 600kg Zeug zu tragen

My disillusion started once I saw an interview with a girl who introduced herself as a "text writer". Interviewer got curious and started asking what kind of "texts" is she talking about. "You, know,- various texts" she answered. Interviewer: "???". "It can be anything, I write in all the topics, depends on my client wishes". So yeah starting from horoscopes, ending with listicles - all were written by early twenties interns who's job is to pull shit out of their arses in huge quantities. A profession that will be first to be replaced by the AI,- humans were recycling old articles anyway.

@HandleDisliker

6 ай бұрын

Yep. There are people who write SEOs (Search Engine Optimized) articles that are designed to refer to specific products or other articles. That's why articles are everywhere in the search results these days, and most of the time these people are only remotely aware of the content they are writing about at best. But the stupid thing is that people actually get their opinions from these articles. A minute example: I was born in 2000. All my childhood, the definitive difference between millennial and gen z was blurred. Until two years ago, I had heard various reports that the defining year was anywhere between 1997 and 2006. Then, the articles started pumping about it. They hivemindedly stated that millennials are "the people who remember 9/11." Six months later, on Reddit I said something along the lines of "I'm apparently Gen z (born 2000)" and I was steamrolled in my opinion that I wasn't Gen z. For a personal note, I think it's wrong to rob people who were born on a literal millenia of the title millennial. That, and my only sibling was born in 1992. I know it "has to be drawn somewhere," but it's really weird to call my own brother a different generation. Again, it's a minute example, and excuse me if that looked like a rant, but I believe it demonstrates my point exactly. People define their opinions on those articles. Articles that are written by hirelings of an interest. What else are people basing their beliefs on from these articles? It's a scary thought to me.

@wolfetteplays8894

6 ай бұрын

It shouldn’t be replaced by AI, it is unethical, and makes humans poor and out of work.

@Colddirector

6 ай бұрын

@@wolfetteplays8894 the real answer to that is "If there's not enough jobs to go around, people shouldn't have to work to live"

20yr retired veteran. Modern armor while not tailored specifically for individuals like it was back then, still comes in various sizes for different sized people because a large vest would make it hard for a small person to move around or do anything and a small vest would not only look silly on a large person, but would also not offer enough protection. Full combat gear even for a small sized person easily weighs more than 35lbs not including the weapon nor magazines. The larger the person is, the heavier the plates inside the vest become. The large plates weigh a lot more than the small ones. It sucks walking around all day in combat gear, but if you have to wear it for long periods of time every day (someone who has a combat job while deployed or anyone during a long field training exercise), you sort of get used to it and it isn't as tiresome, but taking it off makes you feel so much lighter instantly which is a pretty awesome feeling. As for the person saying people were probably miserable during medieval times because they didn't have much, I seriously doubt that. Mostly because they probably grew up never having those things meaning they don't realize what they were missing. They were probably much more appreciative for whatever they did get and thankful for it as well. In fact, I'd almost argue they possibly could have been happier than most of us are today. I say this because if you look into 3rd world countries and places like North Korea, even though those people experience terrible things and don't have much, studies have shown in general, they are happier overall than many people in first would countries. This probably comes from their greater appreciation for the small things that they do have and not really knowing what it is like to have those things most of us take for granted. Many Americans aren't satisfied with their lives despite their quality of life being way better than the lives of people in 3rd world countries because despite all that we have, people feel like it isn't ever enough. Some people are upset when they can't get the newest game system or phone right away. We have the option of being picky, while those people basically are happy to get whatever they can even if it isn't their preferred food or item. Its a weird paradox if you think about it. I don't want to call us ungrateful, more like our own modern conveniences make it hard for us to imagine what it would be like to go without those conveniences meanwhile the people who don't have them, are used to not having them, so it doesn't seem as rough to them.

@houndofculann1793

6 ай бұрын

We have the option of being picky _and_ everyone who's selling products is doing everything they can to keep people buying them, including the cultural brainwashing of consumerism. That's just the result of high level capitalism

I can remember being told that if a knight fell down in armour, he couldn't get back up more than once in school.

@FUCKYOUTUBEANDITSIDIOTICHANDLE

6 ай бұрын

It's cus they didn't. Many of those knights rest in the land of Rus. XD

@Hekk.

6 ай бұрын

I remember we had a group of "knights" do some medieval presentation to us while I was about 7 or so. Dudes were doing flips and dark souls rolls in full plate, lol.

@martabachynsky8545

6 ай бұрын

That would have been jousting armor. For some reason, people think that all medieval armor was the same. 😩

@malicant123

6 ай бұрын

@@Hekk. It's an insane thing to say. If armour were so heavy and restrict such that the wearer would be immobilised so easily, no one would have worn it.

@Hekk.

6 ай бұрын

What do you even mean, lol? Which part of what I said was "insane"?@@malicant123

A suit of armor will typically have multiple weak spots. If you're naked, you only have one. Your entire body yes, but fewer weak spots. Also I love how the author assumes swords were the default weapons.

@Specter_1125

6 ай бұрын

They were one of the most common weapons in early modern battlefields… because most people had one as a side arm.

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

@@Specter_1125 most common carried not most common used. Main weapon has always been something else like polearms spears whatever

@thiloreichelt4199

6 ай бұрын

Swords were expensive. Polearms and spears need much less expensive steel.

@dejannincic9671

6 ай бұрын

@@thiloreichelt4199 true when it comes to proper made swords thats why peasants usualy buy the cheap garbage that blacksmith would throw away and spears were also cheap considering it was mostly wood with a metal pointy end

@ImperialSenpai

6 ай бұрын

Best reason why armor is terrible and fighting naked is superior.

To be fair, heat exhaustion from wearing armor must have been a real issue. But the fact that historical warriors in the warmest countries and period of the year still chose to wear heavy suits should tell us everything we need about the pros outweighing the cons by a huge amount. Long story shorts: people of the past were smart and pragmatic when it come to design, and knew how to balance armor issues. Another thought I had is that armors are very good at preserving you from WOUNDS, and people tend to severely underestimate how debilitating and dangerous those were (including the long term effects of infections and life disabilities).

I am a US Army veteran and amateur historian. Loved the bit about the weight of the armor. When I deployed to Iraq in '08 my standard gear included body armor weighing about 40 lbs. and helmet that was about 4 lbs. Interesting thing about the body armor is it was quite heavy to carry so we all usually just wore it. The weight distribution made it barely noticeable, especially after training in it for weeks. Running in the stuff was quite difficult but I wasn't deployed as a foot soldier, we rode basically everywhere, and I routinely climbed onto a Humvee wearing my 45-50 lbs. of gear and carrying a 30 lb. machine gun. I loved your bit about cooking the armor. I do find it a little amazing that more crusaders didn't die of heat stroke but they were likely in better shape than me having walked from France to Lebanon/Palestine (1st crusade anyway).

Funny thing of all: armchair fake experts thinking to know more about armors than ancient and medieval people that actually used them in battle for centuries and in that centuries worked always to improve them, never to leave them from battlefield. Good work Raf, spot on as ever.

@Quandry1

6 ай бұрын

Or people that don't actually get out and do anything particularly physical or get outdoors much. Like claiming it was the armor that made the mud tiring. not the fact that moving through mud is really exhausting all on it's own.

@p_mouse8676

6 ай бұрын

That's with wannabe armchair experts everywhere. It's just beyond weird how some people think they can just be an expert with just chatting along.

@solinvictus1234

6 ай бұрын

@@p_mouse8676 Exactely, there's no Expert than ones proficent and specialized in what they do. And if blacksmiths of medieval ages was mastering the art of armors (expecially the Germans and Italians above all, the most skilled craftmans) there was a reason, and it's simple to know even without studying history but using just common sense. Armors was effective as hell.

@CyberChrist

6 ай бұрын

We live in Dunning-Kruger times...

So hilarious,.. the part where he refers to his wife as “that poor beauty” is so historical in its own right! 😂

@bob7975

6 ай бұрын

I can visualize the pained expression on her lovely face. "Yes, dear. More armor. It's very nice."

@kennethleo4471

6 ай бұрын

medieval equivalent to modern man with gunbroker addiction.

@DJWESG1

6 ай бұрын

​@@kennethleo4471 you know what they say about a man with big armour... Good relationships with blacksmiths

US Army Vet: Yes, modern armor and strike plates are very heavy. I was wearing my full battle armer when jumping out of a troop transport, and I hurnied a disc in my lower back. It was the single most painful thing in my life, and I got a medical discharge shortly after.

The water/wine joke definitely works. If I remember correctly, there was a similar joke in Red vs Blue. It went like this: +What was I supposed to drink when we ran out of soda? -You can always drink water. +What are we cavemen?

Back in the Marines I used to carry between 45-70 lbs in total on hikes, and yeah, it was tiring, but it didn’t stop me from moving around. I could never understand the whole “Armor is heavy so it sucks” argument. Even in the modern day and age I’d much rather carry my 45-70 lbs pack into combat and have all my armor, ammunition, medical equipment, etc., than completely remove myself the capabilities afforded to me through the fear I carried.

@gringott12

6 ай бұрын

The Marines have a light load obviously. That would be the load for the Army when going on a raid or a recon, leaving most gear in the patrol base or whatever.

@methodsocratic

6 ай бұрын

One thing, for clarification: are you saying your TOTAL loadout weight was 45-70 pounds, or are you referring to just your pack, and not including your 1st and 2nd line gear? Because if you’re talking total loadout weight of 45-70 pounds, and I’m not talking shit on USMC one bit, then I agree with previous reply regarding that weight-range being more likely a loadout for a “relatively” short mission. My shit in AFG, total, for anything longer than a 24 hour mission, was at the lightest 90 pounds of gear, frequently well over 100, and I had one of the lighter kits on my team. Our deltas and bravos? Fml dude, I didn’t even ever ask, I just offered to carry some of their MREs or whatever for them.

@jacobbaker726

6 ай бұрын

@@methodsocratic I was talking about the pack itself, and having 3 days worth of supplies in it would usually bring me to 75ish. I had spent some good money on lighter weight stuff myself, not to mention a better frame, pads for the straps, etc. I was not really thinking about the weight of my plate carrier and weapon, etc.

I love how the author of the article seems to assume that the guy in armor is just going to let himself be whacked to death, without parrying, or counter attacking... shilds exist for a reason, and the armored guy is also armed...

@shinrailp1416

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention the really dumb argument for Helmets about someone sneaking up on you. You know in the middle of a battlefield surrounded by your allied soldiers, sure someone will sneak up on you and murder you because you don't have eyes in the back of your Head, Skyrim Sneak lvl 100 confirmed true i guess? Not to mention, even with a full peripheral vision you can't watch your own back....

Granted, armor was a disadvantage when your opponent had actual Lightning infusion on their weapon. But that wasn't part of the meta back then.

As a history major graduate myself, it is funny when I talk to people who know nothing about history and yet confuse period dates with people and places 😂

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

what annoys me most that people dont use their brain at all. you dont need History knowledge to knoe that armor is very useful and not suicidal to wear especially when most nobles ,lords and kings wore it for the longest time snd modern soldiers still wear armor. no king or lord would wear armor if it was useless.

The YT channel, Tasting History, has really opened my eyes to historical cooking. He's a guy who researches recipes from all different eras and cooks them while giving historical context. Great channel. I highly recommend it to history and cooking buffs.

@Nyctophora

6 ай бұрын

Townsends is great as well!

@carlosreid51

6 ай бұрын

Townsends rocks too

@Quandry1

6 ай бұрын

i found it hilarious they tried to attack their diet based upon modern health food standards. Most people have no clue that modern healthy eating standards are based upon the fact that most humans, even some fairly active ones are basically extremely lazy. This is why truely active and physical people have completely different dieting standards that break pretty much all of the normal healthy eating standards.

@mallorycarpinski1160

6 ай бұрын

Gonna check that out!

@carlosreid51

6 ай бұрын

@@mallorycarpinski1160 modern history TV also

European full plate armor is the zenith of what humans could come up with regarding cut and thrust protection. Change my mind

@fine9375

6 ай бұрын

Tank

@jeffreygao3956

6 ай бұрын

@@fine9375 Technically that’s not body armor for one individual.

@Cru128

6 ай бұрын

@@fine9375, if you really think about it- plate armor is a tank you can wear that’s actually light enough for a human to reasonably have on.

@amicableenmity9820

6 ай бұрын

Honestly yeah. We're not worried about that sort of thing in modern warfare anymore.

@colmduggan8230

6 ай бұрын

​@@amicableenmity9820modern police armour exists to stop those very things

22:55 You're not kidding there. I was watching an interesting cooking youtuber a while ago that cooks things based on the ingredients found from even the 1700 and 1800s, and it actually looked insanely good. The early version of what would become scrambled eggs used just *so* much butter. You'd get horribly fat if you ate some of that today, but when you were working a farm all day afterwards, it made total sense. Honestly medieval and Roman era cooking could be a fascinating video on this channel in and of itself sometime.

@VesnaVK

6 ай бұрын

What is the channel?

@BlazingOwnager

6 ай бұрын

@@VesnaVK I think it might have been Townsends. He does a lot of interesting cooking videos from period recipes using period tools, mostly from the 1700s. It'd be awesome to see something similar with Roman cooking.

I don't think the author of this article actually did research, they just thought and said "yeah, that probably would be a problem." _Metal gets hot in the sun. It can be hard to see in a helmet. You can be stabbed where there isn't armor. Metal is heavy._ Wow! What genius insight! Couldn't have figured that out myself with five seconds of thinking!

@martabachynsky8545

6 ай бұрын

People are no longer taught how to think. They are taught what to think. My latest classes required using "critical thinking skills". Was it critical thinking really? No. We had to write using modern political points. Starts with a W and rhymes with "toke".

I once was helping in the armory at a joust at a ren faire. I helped the guy suit up, watched him get unhorsed, and then helped him back out of his armor again. I asked if it didn't knock the wind out of him to fall off a horse like that and he said no, the armor fits around the torso and spreads out the impact and it's much more comfortable falling off a horse in armor than without it.

Everyone, and I mean everyone knows that the standard issue medieval G-string was far more protective than chainmail and armor. The sheer mobility allowed skilled combatants to move out of the way of projectiles and handheld armaments with ease thus negating traditional armor altogether. C’mon Megatron tell the truth.

@zeddwulfen7737

6 ай бұрын

LMAO!

@alastairthegreat2887

6 ай бұрын

​@@tc1027So...did you Google it?

@seanheath4492

6 ай бұрын

Only if you were wearing it with a bikini top and stiletto-heeled thigh-highs. :P

@cutenerd1177

6 ай бұрын

Cherry lipgloss 💄 is needed for maximum effect

@BeardedUnited

6 ай бұрын

Even that is paper compared to the almighty plot armor.

As a former soldier, wearing full gear absolutely would wear you out… BUT thats why we did things to mitigate it such as doing pt/running with our plate carriers (bullet proof vest) that could weigh around 45lbs. Im a 100% sure medieval knights and professional soldiers had a strict regimen of training to keep their martial prowess intact as well bc they absolutely werent stupid and without training, youre more dangerous to the people next to you and yourself than any enemy ever could be. In full kit, the total weight of all my gear (my vest including the ceramic plates with fully loaded magazines in mag pouches, first aid kit, canteen/camelbak, knife, kevlar helmet, 24hr backpack and weapon) was around 85-100lbs. But on your body, with the conditioning we did before deploying to iraq, wasnt all that bad. In iraq with the gear on, yes it was hot (around 130 F in august), but as long as you have water, you can continue to operate. We did it daily. Also i was a tanker and yeah you can go without a tank bc it does have vulnerabilities, but do you really think we would rather go dismounted into a fight? Hell no, gimme my tank! Armor is better, throughout all history. There is no way i would leave the base without my kit, the stuff is much better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

I always thought the Renaissance polymaths were absolute geniuses, but I wasn't aware they donned their Renaissance armour, got into their time machines and traavelled to the medieval period.

I used to be a medic in a german mounteneer unit. My full kit weighed about 30 kg, not including my weapon.

I lost it when he demonstrated the cooking temperature of armor. 😂😂

@dianahowell3423

6 ай бұрын

Dinner looked suspiciously like a steel lobster tail...

@kingleech16

6 ай бұрын

@@dianahowell3423 Very pricy!

@bob7975

6 ай бұрын

Plenty of minerals in that. Lots of iron.

"wearing medieval armour is worse than wearing nothing" is the equivalent of "seatbelts take more lives than they save"

Imagine a world full of people living on the default setting that 'happiness' will be the primary pursuit; where tech workers post their minimum effort days. Food delivery, mukbang videos and influencers pointing the finger at people from the past fantasizing about a world where they don't have to work, where food is already grown, cooked and always available within reach, and someone else pays for their lifestyle of leisure.

11:40 my favourite part of the weight complaints is that modern soldiers carry the same amount of weight as any knight did, in some cases more.

@gergokerekes4550

6 ай бұрын

yeah and the knight had it spaced around, on his waist, on his legs. meanwhile modern soldiers carry evry single kilo on their shoulders and back.

@methodsocratic

6 ай бұрын

In most cases, far more. The average loadout on my team was at least 100 pounds.

Ah yes. Plate armor has 3 weak spots: the neck, the armpits and behind the knees. Therefor, it is dangerous, and you might as well not wear anything so that you have 100 more weak spots.

@Apple_Apporu

6 ай бұрын

Uhhhhh, have you forgotten one prominent part of history where there were an abjndance of thunder mages and gigantic weaponized magnets??? 😮‍💨 This is a joke btw

@retroftw4644

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure they are " weak spots" weaker but not weak.like the armpits while wearing an arming doublet would still mean gambeson and chain.

@johnhighway7399

6 ай бұрын

@@retroftw4644 Weak as in weaker than the breast plate

@sboinkthelegday3892

6 ай бұрын

I only count one.

13:00 this reminds me of the time they introduced helmets in military. And saw the number of head injuries skyrockets. And they nearly removed them again. Until an army doctor came in and told thrm, these head injuries would have been fatal headshots if it wasnt for the helmets. The reason head injuries went up, is cause helmets turned deadly headshots into surviveable head injuries.

@silverchairsg

6 ай бұрын

Yep statistics can f**k you over in so many ways if you're not careful, especially for super complex situations where you can't get a direct view of what's going on. Don't blindly follow the numbers and put on your critical thinking cap when perusing statistics.

One topic I wish Metatron could cover on a video is how temperature afected battles. Did knights with a full suit of armour, avoided fighting on some hours of the day, in the Middle East, for example?

Fish was usually food for fasting times. In rivers fishing was often restricted, monasteries had monopoly over fishing in rivers. Usually best rivers. Fishing from sea was mostly free, but poor peasants did not have boats. At least that was case here up north. Monks did not eat all fish themselves, fish was sold in cities. Great video, Metatron. Good work!

@nox5555

6 ай бұрын

Well some strange animals were legally "Fish" in those times.

@059metafrast

6 ай бұрын

@@nox5555 tru also :)

@catocall7323

6 ай бұрын

@@nox5555 like the "pig fish" aka porpoise.

God speed to Metatron's endeavours against the dark forces.

I had opportunity to have a medieval feast around 20 years ago. I was 17. Won a national historical contest. It was sooooo goooooood! Simplest foods, but so great. We ate chicken tho. It was made with ash and then they made something like soup. Damn I would repeat that. We had opportunity to wear real replicas of medieval armor. We were trained as a soldiers. Then reality hit that swords are sooooo heavy.

The writer(s) of the one about Cockayne apparently haven't even heard of famine, let alone experienced one. Of course people living on the breadline and frequently subject to actual food shortages would daydream about ... having enough food, without having to struggle to get it. The only depressing thing is that this was as high as fantasy aspirations would go, because lack of basics was so easy to relate to. On a happier note, Happy Hallowe'en!

I can remember my dad telling me about his full kit (in the 80ies, 25kg) and having to carry it for days on end sometimes it wrecked him even at that peak level of fitness

@exantiuse497

6 ай бұрын

The kit of a modern soldier is more encumbering than a full-body armor with the same weight because the armor's weight is distributed more equally on the entire body. It's probable that your dad would have had harder time with his equipment than a medieval knight had with his armor, plus he didn't have any servants to take care of his stuff like the knight probably would have had. Modern soldiers' gotta be tough

Gotta love armchair experts. Thank god we have people like Metatron to do what needs to be done, debunk and laugh at them.

@snatchy9837

6 ай бұрын

Person who wrote the article probably knew it was bull or at least low effort, it's not about being good info it's about getting clicks.

@snepping1885

6 ай бұрын

​@@snatchy9837nah journalists are basically lowest of the low of academia so they're often times dumber than rocks its possible that the journo who wrote this actually believed what he wrote

@kittytrail

6 ай бұрын

​@@snatchy9837 you'd be surprised by the confidence of those dunces... 😸

@David_Alvarez77

6 ай бұрын

@@kittytrail You are right. Though it's no reason to denigrate John Duns Scotus, a fantastic medieval theologian, logician, and philosopher, by using his name to indicate their stupidity.

Modern gear is absolutely tiring to wear and operate in. This is why we practice physical conditioning! My gear in Iraq was about 75 lbs, not including water or subsistence: body armor & [lightweight] helmet, SAPI (front & back, as the sides hadn't been issued yet), 300 rds of 5.56mm ammo (I had 3 extra mags), first aid kit, M16 rifle, and a few other minor things. It was a lot, even for a 200 lbs trooper. And that's precisely why we used trucks to lug around even more stuff. Also...how does a man raised on an island not like fish? Do you enjoy other types of seafood?

Love your channel. As a boomer history buff, we were actually taught history in school. Also, as a retired US Marine I have been interested in armor, as we also wear it, over the ages. It appears to me that the authors of these articles cannot imagine battle, personal protective equipment (armor) on or warfare in general.

Your point regarding tanks and visibility is well taken. Long ago I sat in a M113 APC while my friends stood chatting outside. I could hear their voices but when I looked out of a vision block I could not see them because they were standing too close to the hull. The same factors may have effected aMedieval warrior when peering through his visor.

Metatron cooking metal is one thing I never thought I'd need to see, yet now that I have I simply cannot understand how I managed to live this long without it. Who could have known that a man with amazing hair doing silly things with armor could be so entertaining and educational?

The problem with this articles and its clones is that you have to wear full plate (which is not the only type of armour in existance) to understand it. I wore my full plate Mandalorian armour (made by myself) for some hours walking around (knights usually did not have to do that) and felt completely fine while doing that. It only became noticeable after I sat down to take a break (because you should do that). I started to get really cold because it was - and it was raining. In the end it turned out I simply did not drink enough (really have to change that habit, but it feels great wearing that thing and talking to people. I also do not take that slow walking around very seriously). The day after I felt a little muscle soreness, but it was not bad at all. That is because the weight is spread evenly over my entire body. People always ask me how I can wear this, but it really is not bad (granted, I work out, mostly cardio, on a regular basis). What the authors of these articles also forget is that people wearing armour did not just around waiting to be stabbed. They moved. If well trained, I guess it was immensely difficult to get the often mentioned gaps. Mostly like trying to catch a spider, I imagine. You can do it, but you have to be trained to be able to do it.

That scene where he's mocking "the cooking heat of armor" if taken out of context is even more funny! 😂😂

Hi metatron i just wanted to say that your videos and your knowledge of history always help bring a smile to my face. Since i have been really down lately because my step dad was diagnosed with pancriatic cancer two months ago. Sorry for writing alot but as an autistic guy i can't make a long story short so sorry.

@piercebrosnan9528

6 ай бұрын

Many great men of the past were autistic, do not let think yourself lower for being so, it just means you are more in tune with nature and uncomfortable in the modern unnatural world. God bless.

@RedFloyd469

6 ай бұрын

Brother, I'm not autistic yet I can't shorten one of my many tangents to something readable for the average human being if I wanted to. Your comment was three lines long. That's absolutely nothing. No need to apologize. (In fact, why would you apologize for writing something longer? If people don't want to expend the minimal amount of energy required to read your thoughts on something, then they are grown up enough to simply not read it then. To complain about comment length is beyond idiotic.) In any case, I'm sorry to hear about your stepdad. Please take care of both him and yourself. It's good that you can find some joy regardless.

@Nyctophora

6 ай бұрын

I hope your step dad recovers swiftly, and that you also feel better. I'm glad you enjoy the history here, as I do :)

I liked this one mostly because I actually enjoy the sarcasm. You blend it well with facts and present it in your unique style. Quite a needed break from the chaos we're having to live in. Thanks and keep on.

7 Reasons Wearing Armour was worse than wearing Nothing. 1. When Driving a Car 2. When Having a Nap 3. When Having a Bath 4. When Eating Dinner 5. When Enjoying Sexual Relations 6. When Gardening 7. When Taking a Shit. 😛

@Dafuq-is-going-on

6 ай бұрын

Except swimming without proper training.

As an Italian, I can clearly see the parts of the video where Metatron keeps his nice and elegant "aplomb", and other parts where the "angry Italian" takes over

Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect. When knights were mounted, weren't they on war horses which were also trained to fight? I would think that would go quite a way to making up for the lack of their lower field of vision. I also have to agree with you about modern people having a much easier time in working than Medieval folk. We have robots to clean our carpets and clean litter boxes, washing machines take care of our laundry. Sooooo much better now. So we are able to spend much of our time browsing KZread!

@lasko24

6 ай бұрын

I don't think a horse needs to be trained to fight they will do that naturally if threatened but they would have been trained not to get scared of the noise.

@VoodooAngel63

6 ай бұрын

@@lasko24 That's a good point, they will kick and bite. All the horses I've been acquainted with were very gentle so I didn't think about that.

Metatron regreting his life choces 😂 Your work is great keep up the good work !

I really think we should handle that "wearing armor was more dangerous than not" article in the good, old fashioned, "Mythbusters" style. We get a guy in full armor, the guy that wrote the article in casual clothing, give them both a hema longsword and see who comes out on top.

I've understood that mud was the worst enemy of plate armour. I imagine a French knight at Agincourt walking towards the English lines, through the hail of arrows, and then slips, steadies himself but slips and gain ends up face down in the mud. More arrows land around him, some bouncing of the armour. Then the first soldier stands on him and pushes him into the mud and muddy water starts to enter the helmet. Another foot pushes the knight down just as he tries to get up. A soldier tries to pull the knight but, but the weight of the armour and the suction effect of the mud, plus the arrows, make this a difficult task. I don't think it would have ended well for the knight.

One way wearing medieval armor was worse than wearing nothing: I'm in the mood for a bath, and it's better to wear nothing than to wear medieval armor for this purpose.

@eliabeck689

6 ай бұрын

This is... very, very true. I think the bath would be rather detrimental to the armor, too.

@pcenero

6 ай бұрын

Unless it's an oil bath, but then you run the risk of combustion.

@EroNekoKun

6 ай бұрын

Disagree. How am I supposed to battle the evil water dragon (rubber ducky) without my armour? Bring a shield?! To the bath?! That's just silly, It wouldn't fit.

@eliabeck689

6 ай бұрын

@@pcenero True. I can't imagine why I'd want to take an oil bath, though.

@eliabeck689

6 ай бұрын

@@EroNekoKun I guess that depends on the size of the bathtub. :)

I love the one about walking in mud. The French knights would be under fire from English longbows. Would you rather be taking arrow fire with or without armor? Yes, speed and protection would be ideal. That's why we use IFV's, but they were called legs back then.

Your patience with this is admirable. I can not have discussions about armor with too many people. It's too frustrating. Imagine priministers and presidents boar hunting...😂 Medieval History has some very interesting videos discussing medieval diets. The peasants seem to have had a really healthy diet, sometimes better than the Gentry and Nobles.

@kleinjahr

6 ай бұрын

Considering they would eat things most modern people wouldn't go near. When they butchered an animal they used pretty much everything, liver, kidneys, heart, brain. tripe etc. It is rare nowadays to find any of those in the grocery store. They also ate things like hedgehogs and five and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. The only things restricting their diet were availability and religious/legal restrictions.

Its always tiring to carry all your gear; however there's adrenaline, willpower, and the encouragement of your fellow soldiers to push you forward. My IOTV Gen III armor weighed 48lbs. Even with my pack, ammo, and spare barrels with a machine gun, it was probably about 100lbs; but that was not to be carried far as I was in MRAPs about 95% of the time outside of base. I also do reenactment with Nova Roma, and lorica hamata with a leather subarmalis is much easier to move with. Even with a loaded furca. It is a bit hot in the summer, but I do not own a cotton subarmalis yet which makes a huge difference.

In some situations medieval armor is worse than wearing nothing. Medieval combat is not one of those. Also, I suddenly get those words literal depiction - nude warriors running around in battle of Crecy :)

@mojus2890

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was taking a shower earlier today and I can imagine how detrimental medieval armor would be properly scrubbing my back. The article had a point and I don't think I would've ever known to not wear medieval armor when washing myself, cooking, or anything else if it hadn't started mentioning the detriments.

@dwavenminer

6 ай бұрын

​@@mojus2890well it could be beneficial for clumsy people when cooking, less cuts and burns 😜

@baha3alshamari152

6 ай бұрын

Battle of Hatin was lost because of the medieval armor which cooked the knights alive in the summer heat and dehydrated them before the battle (massacre) began

@Dowlphin

6 ай бұрын

You are getting the hang of it. Being naked on the battlefield could be very confusing and give you a tactical advantage.

@laisphinto6372

6 ай бұрын

Are you a gaul?

As I was watching your video I hit the like button but when I saw you trying to get to the cooking point of the armor I wished I could like a video twice. I love your content

Regular, former, run of the mill US Army infantry here. As a dismounted dude doing squad/plt/company live fire exercises; between ACH, IOTV Gen 1 (with front and back plates and soft armor, no ancillary flaps), chest rig, water, ammo, assault pack, rifle (with optic and PEQ) and depending on role in the squad you’re looking at a minimum standard weight of 45-55 pounds. That can go up depending on if you’re toting extra belt fed or mortar rounds, a CLU or other squad specific kit. The weight isn’t fun. That’s all just for specific training sets, not counting a ruck and sustainment gear.

This reminds me of an article someone wrote touting how Bugatti was so special they had their own metrologist. Basically a quality engineer. Like yep, how amazing a car company has what every other company has in the world: a quality control department

The section about armor was understandably maddening, but your enthusiasm talking about food and the Land of Cockaigne was delightful! I'm gonna toddle off to Max Miller's Tasting History and dream about ancient foods... yum! I enjoy all the subjects you cover on this channel. Looking forward to more!

I love your videos. I joined here and then on patreon. I dropped to lower tier here so I could support at higher tier on Patreon. Hopefully you get a higher percentage at Patreon. I really love when "writers" create articles on subjects they know nothing about and totally fail.

I fought at BotN in Croatia in 2015. I just love it when people try to tell me about the things people could and could not do in armour.

Paisan, my parents grew up five blocks down from The Met on 2nd Avenue from big Keltic families and consequently was often 'babysat' at the Met and spent considerable amounts of my youth in the Armor Room and Temple. Before the crowds of today, like me Ma in the Early American Furniture Wing, I viewed the Armor Room and Temple as a 'playhouse' until the guards would step in.

I'm always amazed at how you can pick things which people get totally wrong about history and teach us things relevant about the items or eras. I greatly enjoyed this vid and the fantasy land at the end. I agree. Medieval people were not untalented and food is one way in which this also shows through. I have tried my hand at making some dishes and found them excellent. Take Care and Stay Safe.

"Written, probably under effect of Covid" this one got me 😂 Keep up with great content

The evolution of armour is still ongoing, i used to wear the old stuff, basically a flak suit with added steel plates for the chest and back. Made for great protection, but hell of a hot experience, even in Norway. If you dont get breaks or get enough water, you rendered combat ineffective pretty soon. Then we got the more modern version, kevlar with ceramic plate, with addable pieces to protect neck and groin, that allowed for more ventilation, and you could more easily ventilate it without taking it completly off, problem was, had to have my equipment vest outside the armour. so i got bulky and heavier than nessesary. And still hot, but mainly the heat now accumulated in the thorax/belly area. Then came the molle system where i could add my equipment directly on my armor. wich was heaven. Still hot, but even easier to ventilate. You would not imagine the liters of sweath pouring off even in comfortable weather regardless of type of armour, in the end, we modified our jackets, turned the body of a t-shirt and the arms of a jacket into one piece, allowing out thorax to breathe more and accumulate less heat. but still get the fire-resistand and durable arms from the jacket. To the new generation of soldiers. in warm climate: bring salt-pills and enough water to replace what you sweath, in cold climate: sweath freezes, have wool directly on your skin under the armour, you never know when you have to sit still for hours in -20, cotton= popsicle. Btw, a special kind of hell is sitting in a vehicle (steel box) without good ventilation with +35c outside, and 70c on the inside, with full combat gear and you can not open the hatch, we had to medicate our driver while driving due to heat and dehydration. thanks for your content Meta, Tutti Fratelli

I can't provide professional help, but I can provide a thumbs up 👍... Feel better? Enjoyed the video, and appreciate your content: historical, biblical, and cultural. Also, seeing you in the kitchen makes me interested in seeing a video of you cooking historical foods from Europe.

@christophermichaelclarence6003

6 ай бұрын

I bet you would be interested in Italian foods first

@evanembury5958

6 ай бұрын

But I still want to see you eat with the helmet on...

Carrying around my chem gear, flak vest, and helmet during exercises in Korea was very tiring, and I was fully expected to have all of that either on me, or on my back during an exercise.

Thank you for putting yourself through this, I know it can't be fun dealing with the degree of misinformation floating around but it's definitely appreciated that you take the time to correct it. I can confirm that fresh, unadulterated food straight from where it was grown or reared and in season is *fantastic*. I'm in rural England, I can *walk* to a local farm and buy produce directly, fresh veg and meat. There is literally no comparison to stuff from a supermarket. Fresh local, seasonal produce with just readily available herbs is glorious food. Even what you make with the offal can be great too, e.g. acelet/haslet. And yes, it's easy to find freshwater fish here too as well as rabbit to supplement your diet, something I grew up doing.

Dear Metatron, are you aware of a jolly little book called The Medieval Foundation by Arthur Bryant? My copy of it wasn't illustrated, but I've since found out such versions do exist. What a splendid joy it was to feel a very restorative and reassuring calm arise in me, as the fog of the usual disparagement towards the structures and achievements of those times, lifted... noble and blessed, indeed! I hadn't heard about Cockayne, so thanks for that...😊😊💙💙blue, yeah.