Timeline for How can medieval knights protect themselves against modern guns?
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 5:26 | comment | added | o.m. | @pluckedkiwi, you are reading more into my words than I said. Medieval knights did have a code of honor which prescribed how they acted and fought. This does not mean only cavalry charges, and quite a lot was fair against non-nobles, but even those who did not believe in the code were forced to look for their public image. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 2:36 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | @o.m. The idea that chivalry meant knights were ethical men of honor only fighting in equal conditions is children's story book fantasy. It has no basis in reality. They pillaged and plundered, raped and murdered, slaughtered their way through the countryside, with no concern for "honorable combat". Sneaking through the dark with a dagger and attacking people in the middle of getting dressed or in their sleep was celebrated if you could manage it. If it means coming from under a garderobe and stabbing them in the bottom while they sit on the toilet, they did it. | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 5:36 | comment | added | o.m. | @MadPhysicist, I was talkling about the effort to use napalm or agent orange on an entire countryside. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 19:43 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @o.m. The weapons used in Vietnam were not exactly medieval. A home made land mine or fire bomb is still quite a modern invention. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 19:41 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | @DKNguyen the problem is that particular notion has been around for years, and protective gear has been getting substantially better during that time. It might still be true for the lightest, lowest-grade body armour, but that isn't used by front line troops these days. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @StarfishPrime Are you sure about that? My understanding was that arrows and bolts use a cutting, not punching action and have much more mass behind them and can therefore can penetrate body armour much more effectively than bullets can. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | o.m. | @pluckedkiwi, I'm not saying knights were good. I'm saying that they did watch out for their public image in ways many modern men do not. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:44 | comment | added | o.m. | @Salda007, the US didn't manage that in Vietnam. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | "Goes against the ethics of a knight"?! If your only concept of a knight is that from a Disney movie. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 11:02 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | Bows and crossbows aren't going to be great against modern infantry armour, and will be almost entirely useless against military vehicles. Hiding in dense woods using inadequate close range weapons sounds like a great way to learn about things like mortars or machine guns. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 8:39 | comment | added | Salda007 | Or they'd just call in a napalm or artillery strike on the entire area. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 7:35 | comment | added | Robin | Modern troops would also have infrared and thermal scopes and see all your merry man and snipe them out of the trees. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 6:14 | history | answered | o.m. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |