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Medieval Weapons and Armor

Medieval weapons and armor throughout the early and late medieval times
Quiz by Nilo0024
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Last updated: August 16, 2019
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First submittedAugust 15, 2019
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A sword that can hardly be used for blocking and is mostly used for piercing. Can be used alongside a buckler.
Rapier
A sword that has almost the same length as a polearm with a long crossguard and is used with both hands.
Zweihänder
A long shield with a rounded top and a pointy bottom. Largely used by early normans and anglo-saxons.
Kite Shield
An axe mostly used by vikings and anglo-saxons. Acustomed with an approximately 1 meter long haft and thin blade.
Dane Axe
A simple but effective weapon that resembles that of a simple walking-stick.
Quarterstaff
Club-like weapon with a spiked head that can either be rounded or flat.
Morningstar
A small curved bow heavily used by the mongols for its effectiveness on horseback
Recurve Bow
A larger bow used by the English archers during the Hundred Years' War against the French with great success.
Longbow
A pole weapon with a head that resembles that of a large axe head
Bardiche
A weapon effectively used against heavily armored opponents with a head that can resemble a hammer head on one side and a pick on the other.
War hammer
Armor used by both knights and soldiers that could afford it. Made with rings of metal chained together.
Chainmail
Italian helmet resembling that of an ancient Greek helmet.
Barbute
Armor made of sewn together linen that can be used with or without plate armor.
Gambeson
Armor made by upwards overlapping rectangles of metal or leather put tightly together by pieces of rope.
Lamellar
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Level 60
Aug 2, 2022
No, disrespect, but there are many inaccuracies here. You allow 'zweihander' from the German, but not Montante, Claymore, Double-hander, and many other names for the large greatsword. You don't allow halberd, glaive, or many other terms for the long poleaxe pike. And what does 'resembles THAT OF a simple walking stick' mean? Bad wording. It resembles the stick. Also, lamellar brigandine type armour should also allow 'squamous' or scale.
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Level 35
Apr 18, 2024
what's worse is that the Zweihander was a very very specific two-handed sword that would have a sort of cross guard in close to the actual crossguard so that the Landsknecht using it could go to a knee and plant and get low so as to deal with a horse or a knight on a horse. He/she would have been better served just putting longsword.
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Level 51
Nov 1, 2023
Great quiz. Nominated!
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Level 57
Jan 25, 2024
As Marvo stated, this quiz has a lot of inaccuracies, and that's why I don't rate it very highly.