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Can an AXE break bones?
An axe is most definitely able to cut through bone, and if you have no other option then it can be used for this task.
Can a sword cut through plate?
This is especially the case regarding changes in the sword. The edges can still be used against more lightly-armored opponents: no matter how effective a sword is against forms of armor such as brigandine and mail, no sword, no matter how sharp, can cut directly through plate armor.
Can a sword break a bone?
Swords can effectively go through bone. Whether this is “cutting” the bone or breaking through it may be irrelevant. Some swords can do this better than others and a lot is based on the particular cut.
Can you cut through gambeson?
A gambeson can protect against most swords, unless they’re razor sharp. Yes. And if the sword has a decent point and a sharp edge, it can go quite a distance through.
Can an AXE break armor?
None of them. Blunt weapons do not break through plate armor, they crush it and what’s under it.
Would chainmail stop a sword?
They don’t. They might cause damage through the maille or they can be thrust into maille and maybe break a few links but generally maille stops a sword cut.
What weapons could penetrate plate armor?
There’s a reason guns and armor existed together for so long. What medieval weapons could penetrate heavy steel plated armor? Pikes, heavy crossbows and lances are some. The piercing end of a warhammer or several polearms, if delivered with enough force could penetrate full plate armor.
Can a sword cut a sword?
This myth has been carried over from a story about a Damascus blade owned by Saladin. A katana can chop a regular sword in half. Fact: Any steel sword can break if it’s struck at the wrong angle. Chopping one in half, however, is highly unlikely.
How protective is a gambeson?
Despite being made of soft material, a thick enough gambeson provides excellent protection. Composed of many different layers of fabric, they prove very difficult to cut through; the layers usually consist of linen or wool, but historically people have filled them with many different types of stuffing between layers.
Are Gambesons warm?
I’ve found my gambeson is the greatest heat trapper. My mail voiders and skirt have become warm to the touch under the Kansas sun, but I’ve found it’s really not a big factor. My coat of plates also traps a great amount of heat, as a brigandine would. I have no experience with leather lamellar armours.
What is the difference between an axe and a longsword?
They are quicker and more maneuverable than large swords (the moment of inertia of a long, flat blade is greater than that of a compact axe), have more cutting power (try chopping down a tree with a longsword), and need less room to swing.
What makes a good battle axe?
Weight and effort – battle axes were light. Forget the illustrations of fantasy figures and the oversized (rubber) blades carried in poorly researched medieval-period movies – an axe that could be swung quickly enough to be effective in combat was a very light blade much thinner than the tools used to cut wood.
What are the disadvantages of axe bayonets?
Axe-bayonets would have a lot of disadvantages when attached to a musket type firearm, making it heavier, more difficult to aim, and an unwieldy melee weapon. However, assume instead that your civilization develops rifling and incorporates sharpshooters into its military.
Is the axe-musket hybrid a good idea?
Since axe-musket hybrid is a bad single-use poleaxe and a bad unwieldy musket – it would be far more logical to have two separate type of troops: one heavyarmored with poleaxes and other – no-armored, fast-running shooters (they do not even need any bayonets, if they are usless against beasts and dwarfs).