What's the saddest militia that actually saw battle?
>Units were mostly composed of members of the Hitler Youth, invalids, the elderly, or men who had previously been considered unfit for military service. Further desperation showed when on 12 February 1945, the Nazis conscripted German women and girls into the auxiliaries of the Volkssturm. Correspondingly, girls as young as 14 years began receiving instructions on the use of small-arms, bazookas, machine guns, and hand grenades from December 1944 through May 1945.
>In the last few months of the war, the shortages of modern firearms led to the use of weapons such as shotguns, and even muskets and crossbows taken from museums.
Well Chinese WWII guerillas went at Japanese with Spears and swords.
Though to be fair: they had fanatical motivation for it. And it had tactics. >Say you have 20 men. And 9 or so guns. Like any gun. >The rest will be armed with spears, swords, and grenades. >Hunt isolated Jap patrol. >9 men with guns will try and suppress or gain the fire attention of Jap patrol. >The rest flank/sneak and try to rush nips with grenades, swords, and spear. >If successful and Jap patrol is dead, the Chink guerillas would then collect the weapons and ammo of the slain Japanese for their own usage.
Henry Wilson
Here's another one, with a better view of the weapons composition in an underarmed Chink guerilla squad. Nationalist ones this time.
Asher Price
what is it with gorillas and black pyjamas?
Jacob Collins
Good for them, trying to the last man to stop the Red army.
Adrian Russell
-Comfy -Good for sneaking up on motherfuckers. -Doesn't show piss stains from running away from artillery strikes.
Jonathan Campbell
was the point to ambush japanese and get actual weapons?
Parker Price
Chinese Dadao Forged from shitty Chinese track steel Folded one mirrion times Breaks japanese officer katana forged from same shitty steel, also folded one mirrion times
Not even kidding, the dadao in WW2 actually cut through katanas.
Jason Roberts
How many people in that picture do you think survived the war?
If they were involved in the battle of Berlin probably none of them.
John Torres
A lot of Volksturm simply put down their weapons and fled.
Nobody was there to stop them.
However, a lot of them fought to the death to buy time for refugees to make it to the west and away from the Red Army.
Colton Collins
I read somewhere that the Sassanian levies were so neglected/unimportant that they were usually lower peasants tied together by chains so that they did not run away.
Guess you need arrow sponges for your cavalry focused army.
Noah Young
Didn't the SS execute a bunch of those who tried to do that?
Joseph Jackson
Only one fifth of insurgents during the Warsaw Uprising had any weapons.
Joshua Butler
Literally where?
Juan White
Yeah, but even the SS was mostly teenagers by the time you saw massive Volksturm mobilizations.
Robert Edwards
Wait, seriously?
Ryder Jones
It could have, the Katanas made by the Japanese during WW2 were incredibly poor, factory-manufactured copies of an older design.
Ethan Adams
The Japanese Volunteer Fighting Corps were even more pathetic than the Volkssturm and would have completely wiped out in the event of an actual invasion of the Japanese home islands.
The 6 to 9 year old African boys hopped up on drugs who can barely keep both ends of an AK 47 off the ground.
Nicholas Taylor
Leave Detroit out of this.
Chase Cooper
It's a heavier wider blade breaking a slimmer one, both of subpar construction.
James Allen
>muskets >crossbows >pikes
Noah Morgan
the armies that fought against Alexander before Issos and Gaugamela. Pure peasantry except for greek mercenaries
The peasants that fought against landsknechts during the thirty years war
Jason Long
The Wisby defense squad wasn't too good...
Jason Fisher
>Like any other tool, the Dadao was expected to be used in the field, day after day, and not break. If that is your measure of “quality,” then the Dadao does quite well. Especially when we remember that the Katana is a delicate weapon that requires a finely trained hand. During WWII they did fail under battle field conditions, rather frequently. While not elegant, the Dadao is clearly the more robust weapon. When supplying a peasant army that toughness counts for a lot.
Annoyingly, it's a blog post from a guy who knows his stuff and he doesn't give sources. Best I can get.
Brody King
Were panzerfausts really cheap to make or something?
Michael Reyes
100 Reichsmarks per Panzerfaust.
Dirt fucking cheap
Evan Bailey
Literally just a tube.
Jaxon Edwards
>and would have completely wiped out in the event of an actual invasion of the Japanese home islands. Why didn't the Americans invade? They've had one job...
Henry James
>Volunteer >Fighting >Corps
Gabriel Hughes
They tried the soft option first and it worked
Benjamin Allen
The first (peoples') crusade.
Isaiah Evans
Because the US would've wiped everything that makes Japan, Japan from existence and replace it with America turning it into Hawaii 2.0 except more Asian.
US should've done it. Have the Japs do a painting of Uncle Same bending Amaterasu over.
