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Comments on: Q&A: How do you defeat a soldier with a flail, contemplating the weapon is nearly unblockable and unparryable? https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/ Medieval & Renaissance Costumes and Clothing. Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 3kewenay3 https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17884 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:39:31 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17884 If I were a medieval force commander faced with an enemy armed with flails, I would defeat him with the following:

1. Archers / Crossbowmen – Why risk close combat when you can take his troops out safely from a distance? In fact, archers were used to soften up and thin out the infantry before the main attack. They were the artillery of the pre-gunpowder battlefield. Some commanders who didn’t have archers would use also cheap infantry made up of peasants to thin out the enemy ranks. As a peasant in the Middle Ages, life was cheap.

2. Mounted Heavy Cavalry – Armored knights with long lances and spears riding heavy warhorses. You skewer the flail troops before they can strike your boys. The force of the charging heavy horse and armored rider makes the lance blow very deadly.

3. Armored Infantry – Knights. As a last resort, if I had to engage in hand-to-hand combat. The armor gives the knight a better chance of surviving flail hits. Usually armed with a sword and shield, if a knight didn’t have the initiative and missed the first killing blow, he could let the flail take the first shot and get the flail wrapped around his sword, entangling it. The knight could then use his heavy shield to batter the flail off his feet and finish him off.

]]> By: fenrisl0k1 https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17883 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:15:53 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17883 A flail is a little hard to attack with, making it slow. Also, flails are kinda hard to train in; try swinging around a small chain and see how often you smack yourself in the face or groin!

Remember, soldiers were mostly drafted peasants who didn’t do that sort of thing as their day job. Not only were they poor (spears are much cheaper and quicker to produce than a ball-and-chain), they didn’t have the time or inclination to learn how to do much more than keep in a line, don’t run away, and thrust with a pointy thing.

Anyway, as to knights at least, you could always use a shield to deflect the head, or rely on a crossbow or spear to stay out of reach. Best yet, wait till the flail-wielder is busy with someone else and get him while he’s not looking.

]]> By: cme2bleve https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17882 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:57:36 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17882 To defeat….use a crossbow…or better, use a M1A1 Abrams MBT. Let’s see it ‘whip’ around that armor….
Why all did not use? You ever think how a close column of soldiers all trying to swing a flail would kill most of own soldiers?
Sounds like to much D&D guy….

]]> By: hq3 https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17881 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:29:11 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17881 SO many reasons i can’t even begin:

1. A flail is REALLY heavy and expensive
2. Flail cannot be used for defense, also the person who carries a flail cannot carry a shield.
3. A flail man would find it REALLY hard to work in formation with other soldiers — his flail would hit his allies
4. Flail man is vulnerable to archer fire
5. Flail man is vulnerable to any pole arms such as spears

]]> By: lacey https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17880 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:50:59 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17880 Because it was a weapon that could just as easily hurt the wielder. In fact, the same could be said for swords. Not everyone carried one in the field of battle. Military force is about strategy, when one person wields the flail, there’s another to kill the person being attacked.

]]> By: wes297 https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17879 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:16:06 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17879 the flail had no defensive capability, you can only use it in attack, whereas a sword is cheap, anybody can use one and you could attack or parry a blow. so when you weren’t fighting an advancing manouver to flail was useless.

]]> By: Jeebz88 https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17878 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:03:52 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17878 all you have to do is be quick.. a flail is not easy to block or parry, but it can be dodged. It is hard to be accurate with a flail, and someone can also hurt himself using a flail. After one swing, the attacker has to get his bearings again and take time for another swing. For someone with a sword, this is an easy attack.

]]> By: rjfpizzaman https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17877 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:26:06 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17877 you can duck. and then the soldier with the flail can be struck and killed. The flais were heavy and took long to swing and retaliate.

]]> By: melanie https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17876 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:32:54 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17876 have you ever tried to use a flail? its quite difficult to use it and protect yourself too.

any polearm soldier could take one out fairly easy, as well as ranged.

]]> By: Shai https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/07/10/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17875 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:11:06 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/other-medieval-weapons/qa-how-do-you-defeat-a-soldier-with-a-flail-contemplating-the-weapon-is-nearly-unblockable-and-unparryable/#comment-17875 You think like the soldier and get in his mind. ~War of 1812

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