Ways to deal with a fully armored knight

1. Bonking him in the head with a mace/hammer/other blunt force weapon
2. Drenching him in oil/alcohol and then igniting him
3. Pouring scalding oil on him
4. Piercing his armor with a spear/lance (this is only reliable if it's a calvary charge)

Anything else?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    grapple with him, take him down, stick a dagger through his eye socket or beneath the armpits

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Bonking him in the head with a mace/hammer/other blunt force weapon
    Does a sword pommel really work for this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It wouldn't kill him but it'd ring his bell something fierce.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Flinging diseased cows into his castle

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >not stabbing him with his own dagger
    ngmi

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Using the half sword method, holding a blade in such a way to get a forceful stabbing action that would be aimed as venerable targets such as the armpit, leg joints etc. The same could be done with a dagger, slashing away with a sword just wont do it.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Numerical superiority and long, heavy weapons (poleaxes or halberds) work pretty well.
    Can also shoot with very heavy crossbows or reasonably heavy guns.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I am no historian, but they are usually not alone, they wouldn't allow you to bonk. 2. one is childish. 3. works, but only from the high ground 4. not that easy to do.

      this seems good

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2. Drenching him in oil/alcohol and then igniting him
    Real life is not a video game.
    >3. Pouring scalding oil on him
    Hot water or quicklime would suffice.
    >Anything else?
    Wrestle him to the ground and thrust a dagger between the eye slits of his helmet.
    Shoot him.
    Stab between the groin if unprotected as in your pic.
    Trample him with a horse.
    Push him from a storm ladder.
    Drop a rock on his head.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    luring them into swamps and beating the shit out of them with a goedendag'

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goedendag

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      plate armour didn't exist yet during that battle

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs#/media/File:GCF_-_Battle_of_the_Golden_Spurs.png

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          you really are moronic

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    GIANT MAGNET

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i like the way you think

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Showering him with massed arrow fire until something gets through the gaps

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      doesn't really work, the only thing you achieve is that his visor is closed. believe it or not but knights would have been aware of the weak spots in their armour
      >"but what about agincourt"
      anywone who spent more than 5 minutes reading about the subject knows that the arrows didn't do the killing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Armor isn't as impervious as people think. Enough arrows and they will find gaps. That being said, medieval archery was always more about suppression than actually killing.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          except that's not what happened
          there's a reason why archers got roflstomped when they weren't in a fortified position
          but do tell me, at patay why didn't they aim for all the gaps? or just shoot the horses?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Because archers don't fire aiming. They're told to fire in a general direction en masse.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            that's a common misconception, most arrows were shot from fairly close range directly firing at specific targets
            they also lose energy quickly so just shooting in a general direction from a distance is a good way of running out of arrows without achieving anything

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They were fired at close ranges without aiming.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Jesus fricking Christ, 80 knights defeated 2,500 long bowmen... that's pretty sad.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            i honestly don't get the anglo obsession with the longbow, the super weapon in a war that they lost
            if you look into it you can only conclude it wasn't really effective, or with the resulting technological stagnation even counter productive.
            imagine still using bows and arrows while the continent switched to firearms ages ago

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      doesn't really work, the only thing you achieve is that his visor is closed. believe it or not but knights would have been aware of the weak spots in their armour
      >"but what about agincourt"
      anywone who spent more than 5 minutes reading about the subject knows that the arrows didn't do the killing.

      Armor isn't as impervious as people think. Enough arrows and they will find gaps. That being said, medieval archery was always more about suppression than actually killing.

      You don't even need to hit the gaps, most soldiers had lower tier armor pieces aside from the breastplate.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sweep the leg

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just Hammer him till he die
    Strike him in his weak point with a sword/spear
    Take him to the ground and stab him
    Pierce his armor from distance with a broadside arrow

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Anything else?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      thumbnail had me thinking that was Fred West for a second

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >knock him off his horse so he breaks ribs
    >shoot him in the neck with my wheelock

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shoot him with a gun. Most plate armor couldn't actually stop musket fire, and that which could was impractically heavy for anything but cavalry.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    lasso that swine

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shoot him with a gun.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    could someone who was really good at martial arts kill a knight with their bare hands? in like a predator 1v1 random environment setting.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They could probably dislocate or break limbs but they needed to be extremely lucky.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        so even sneaking up on them wouldnt be a huge advantage? i was sort leading this into a full frontal charge, barrel roll under sword swing, to some kind of tackle and finish. obviously he would need to extremely lucky like you say. im just wondering if its even remotely possible.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >so even sneaking up on them wouldnt be a huge advantage?
          Well you couldn't choke them out if the knight would wear a gorget since it is solid metal. Maybe if he would wear only mail...
          >im just wondering if its even remotely possible.
          You can give your martial artist a big ol club to bonk the knight on the head when performing a "sneak attack".

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Plate armor is more maneuverable than you think, but the knight would eventually run out of stamina before the trained MMA fighter. Then he's fricked.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A bit unrelated, but all of Alexander's army was trained in Pankration, a kind of submission wrestling with strikes like the front kick. If they were completely disarmed they would still have a fighting chance.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Get a bigger better knight

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Trick the knight's ruler into declaring war on the Swiss, watch the ensuing fireworks

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      side-note, since the anglos were mentioned in this thread:
      The archers getting halberded in the face in that picture are likely meant to be English mercenaries, who had a terrible track record against the Swiss, albeit so did the rest of the soldiers in Burgundian service

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    katana

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    check out battle of vitkov hill

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