who(or profile of weapons)
These are the weapons they used most greatly and efficiently on great battles from medieval history and tells you the profile of the weapons and usages of them.
English Longbow
The English Longbow a tall long bow that is 3 feet long from England also used in 100 years war and crusades("The Longbow"). It was stronger than normal bow, this bow can shoot over 160 yards and pierce knight's armor efficiently ("The Longbow").The arrows were made of oak, and birch, the broad tip and metal tip is made out of iron to have much more damage ("The Longbow").
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Broad Sword
This is one of the mainly used sword from swordsman, foot soldiers and knight (Francoisminott, "Update: The Broadsword."). It was a sword with a broad blade.(Francoisminott, "Update: The Broadsword.") This sword is really light and easy to carry and used for protecting them selves (Francoisminott, "Update: The Broadsword.").
This sword is mostly used for cutting instead of stabbing enemies in close range (Francoisminott, "Update: The Broadsword.").
This sword is mostly used for cutting instead of stabbing enemies in close range (Francoisminott, "Update: The Broadsword.").
Zweihander
Zweihander is two handed weapon used by knight and it is mostly used by long range and can slash up to group of enemies (Steven (@shammond42),"Two-handed sword (“Zweihänder”).There is many different varieties of this weapon like snake pattern, smooth and long. You can stab enemies up to 1.5 meters (Steven (@shammond42),"Two-handed sword (“Zweihänder”). Zweihander is weighs little and long blade. It weighs about 2.7kg and the height is 175 Cm ("The Two-Handed Great Sword - Making lite of the issue of weight").
Flail
The Flail is mid short range and it does lots of damage to enemies, but if you don't use it correctly you can hit yourself by mistake ("Medieval Flails from Medieval Collectables"). Flail is one handed weapon with metal chain and spiked ball and mostly used by knight ("Medieval Flails from Medieval Collectables").There is 2 types of flail, heavy and light. light fail has less weight and quickly hit enemies who has shield and you can over head them. The heavy fail is used for hitting heavy enemies who has armor.
Byzantine Greek fire hand-grenade
This fire grenade was appeared in Byzantine Empire, in reign of Leo lll (717-741) ("Byzantine Greek fire hand-grenade"). The grenade is made by cermanic jar with oils in it and could detonate by the little rope with little fire on it. Even though this weapon is old, but in Medieval Europe found and used it in battle field and acted as flamethrower ("Byzantine Greek fire hand-grenade").
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Halberd
This weapon has a 3 usage of weapons. The right of the weapon is used to chop and slash with axe, the left is the hook to bring enemies and the top is a spear to stab enemies from distance ("The Halberd, Medieval Pole Weapon"). Back then this was a new great weapon for knights and castle guards.