Fuck Katanas and Longswords, watch this Badass with a Warhammer.

[P1X3L N1NJA]

[QUOTE=RichyZ;38058406]ya and if they have a gun?[/QUOTE]

Smack the bullets with the warhammer, theres no resisting the spike.

[editline]18th October 2012[/editline]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;38061516]son, that's nothing

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o[/media][/QUOTE]

Im tempted to buy myself one of these.

[Terminutter]

[QUOTE=Bonde;38086726]There is a reason why the warhammer was a very popular weapon when dealing with armoured opponents back in medival times. Imagine a lightly armoued fighter with one of these versus a knight in platemail. The fight would be pretty much even just because of the warhammer.[/QUOTE]

Your average farmer couldn't afford a warhammer, he'd have to make do with a modified farming tool, dedicated weapons were very expensive as proper weaponsmiths and armourers were scarce, your local blacksmith would have more experience with sharpening scythes and shoeing horses, not in creating weapons from good steel.
The armour would also be much more effective than it appears in these tests, remember that this is against a fixed mannequin which cannot move, whilst a real knight would have been staggered by the blow, which helps to increase the amount of time the force is distributed over, making it more managable. A knight also has layers of padding under the armour as well, to help spread out the force of blows.
If you were to get the knight into a position where he can't interpose a shield / be pushed back by the weapon (i.e. floor him) then it would devastate, and a blow by it would nearly always hurt, just not be as lethal as it appears in the video.
It's like the arrow shot videos against pinned down chainmail, it's not in a realistic environment, as you'll never really hit dead on against a target that refuses to move with the blow / shot.

The fight would still be pretty much predetermined, as you'd have an unarmed, untrained, unmounted person with a warhamer he somehow acquired against a trained soldier in fine armour with a shield and horse. A man-at-arms might be able to acquire a warhammer, but standing armies were pretty rare, it was often just a knight and his small household guard, then the mass of pesant levies.

[JohnnyMo]

[QUOTE=Laferio;38084772]Warhammers? FUCK warhammers, its all about war axes.[/QUOTE]

Dane axes are where it's at

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIw20z5p0c#t=10m23s[/url]

[Missing User]

Just imagine what a splitting maul could do

[img]http://www.abbeygardensales.co.uk/webupload/ABBEYGAR/CUSTOM/2009/LARGE/image_600_600__13511.jpg[/img]

your head would not survive the experience.