Brutal Combat Weapons Throughout History (15 pics)

#15 Made highly skilled knights either obsolete or more wary of their opponent...because was is hell.

Caltrops could also be made of thorns, wood or concrete. Small to slow the folks chasing or large to stop tanks.

12 - No. Bodies didnt smoke the people out. They used smoke for that... (i think the mongols were most famous for it)

re 6 - boiling oil
In medieval Europe also boiling farina was also a popular defensive weapon used by wall defenders. Some call farina "a medieval napalm"

Aindy, wrong, search Siege of Caffa, they use bodies with Disease

#1 it's not a triple daggers, it's a left hand, used for disarming your opponent

#6 nobody used boiling oil Oil was too precious. They just boiled water.
#9 stupid and impractical. Nobody ever used this (and lived).
#11 not a gun shield
#12 more often, in long sieges bodies were used to pitch disease into cities/castles.
#13 if you tried to fire these gonnes from horseback, you'd either be dead or pitched off. Those are NOT horseback-fired guns.

styopa,
Thank's for the thruth, I will post the same thing about the 6#
Oil drop in case of siege are just a myth.

It must be terrible to live back then. :15:

Fabricated a few Trebuchets for the kids. Good family fun.

#7 It's a common mistake to call these weapons "morning stars". Here's an empiric explanation:
http://trossmilan.de/forum/vie
wtopic.php?t=78&p=512

guns, oh yea