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7/8/2025, 4:30:29 AM
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>>63953203
Helmets are probably the most important because being chopped and bonked on the head or neck is just all bad.
Lots of blood loss, chance of blindness, going into shock and concussions are the immediate problems of being hit in the head before we even get to the potentially life changing and ending injuries themselves. If you've got a hard bonk on the noggin like this guy 100 years later at Towton, pretty much fucked.
Everything else sort of falls in the 'fuck this sucks' ticket of traumatic injury, but there is a chance that you're not falling down, bleeding, blind and looking at the stars everywhere. You might actually survive being chopped, bonked and skewered in other parts of your body to live and fight another day, especially with decent body armour like the coat of plates, mail, gambeson and so forth could reduce a lot of those severe injuries into something superficial. Bashing people to death even with all the axes, swords, spears and maces took a fair while to do, they're capable of killing people but you're going to be going at it for a while because unlike on tv shows and movies where 'zee armour does nuffink', armour in the real world is really very good at stopping quite a lot.
The nasty side of it all of this is a long lasting, traumatic beating that is a mix of pain compliance, exhaustion, dehydration and shock before someone goes down, then you bash them on their head and take their stuff. Not that being shot and blown up in the modern era is a great result to your military adventures, but its really only medical technology and expedited stabilisation that makes it mean you might have a chance, otherwise being shot and blown up means you're probably dying fairly quickly compared to being repeatedly stabbed, bashed and cut by other people and then trampled on.
>>63953203
Helmets are probably the most important because being chopped and bonked on the head or neck is just all bad.
Lots of blood loss, chance of blindness, going into shock and concussions are the immediate problems of being hit in the head before we even get to the potentially life changing and ending injuries themselves. If you've got a hard bonk on the noggin like this guy 100 years later at Towton, pretty much fucked.
Everything else sort of falls in the 'fuck this sucks' ticket of traumatic injury, but there is a chance that you're not falling down, bleeding, blind and looking at the stars everywhere. You might actually survive being chopped, bonked and skewered in other parts of your body to live and fight another day, especially with decent body armour like the coat of plates, mail, gambeson and so forth could reduce a lot of those severe injuries into something superficial. Bashing people to death even with all the axes, swords, spears and maces took a fair while to do, they're capable of killing people but you're going to be going at it for a while because unlike on tv shows and movies where 'zee armour does nuffink', armour in the real world is really very good at stopping quite a lot.
The nasty side of it all of this is a long lasting, traumatic beating that is a mix of pain compliance, exhaustion, dehydration and shock before someone goes down, then you bash them on their head and take their stuff. Not that being shot and blown up in the modern era is a great result to your military adventures, but its really only medical technology and expedited stabilisation that makes it mean you might have a chance, otherwise being shot and blown up means you're probably dying fairly quickly compared to being repeatedly stabbed, bashed and cut by other people and then trampled on.
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