Timeline for How can pole vaulting in medieval battle be useful?
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 0:10 | vote | accept | user6760 | ||
| Feb 6, 2020 at 23:10 | comment | added | user72081 | See the sport of Fierljeppen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierljeppen | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 21:31 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 19:02 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 16:49 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 15:36 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | And what did you think knight lances were made for? | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 6:11 | comment | added | Li Jun | i kinda doubt for jungle tree since it has a lot of branch and weird or mismatch shape and you need to be lucky to not fall on small/weak branch when jumping with some force and precise accuracy to land, human has some weight to deal with compare to their other tree ape swinger cousin, outside of getting scratch or slap by multiple leaf branch or so, although i can see the possibility in first jump, how they carry the pole for the second jump and running to get the momentum to the next tree anyway ? i think jumping directly or using rope to swing over is more possible for jungle forest. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 5:42 | comment | added | Li Jun | if it surprise sabotage or infiltration long pole will just tell the guard your location and awkward to carry around, also will give attention/suspicion to people, its ok if its a walking stick length but i dont think it can be use to help in jumping over a tower, and some location will make pole a hindrance you better use climbing tool or straight up barehand climbing if you want stealth while climbing the wall, unless the pole is retractable, but i dont know how retractable pole mechanism can be use as jumping pole. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 5:38 | comment | added | user6760 | @LiJun: they are like today's commando, move in unnoticed and cripples enemy defence. I'm also thinking they can pole vaulting trees to trees in the jungle canopy. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 5:33 | comment | added | Li Jun | is this during siege warfare or a surprise sabotage or infiltration attempt ? if its during siege some unit carry ladder its still risky from getting shoot since you need to come near also getting breaking/pull or knock down by enemy defense its probably same problem with pole jumping but more more risky and unreliable for multiple man to use at once and its not like theres a soft matres to soften the fall or make it not lethal anyway they probably got a broken bone and why not just straight up using catapult anyway, siege warfare probably carry catapult or trebuchet or minimal ladder at best. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 2:46 | answer | added | lidar | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 2:43 | comment | added | Alexander | For a pole to act as catapult, you need a special material and huge draw force. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 2:31 | history | asked | user6760 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |