I've been reading up on medieval african armies they're pretty interesting quilted armor unique swords poisoned and flaming arrows
I've been reading up on medieval african armies they're pretty interesting quilted armor unique swords poisoned and...
Robert Cruz
Adrian Sanchez
Quilted armor isn't that interesting.
It was what the majority of soldiers in every part of the world was wearing during the middle ages.
Wyatt Gomez
I assume that by "medieval" you mean any African army until the 1880s colonization by Europeans since Sub-Saharan African didn't evolve between Antiquity (or arguably Neolithic era) and European arrival
William Bailey
>didn't evolve between Antiquity (or arguably Neolithic era) and European arrival
Matthew Murphy
>civilization is part of an evolutionary system
Imagine being a brainlet
Jaxon Allen
Chase Morales
Could you post some pics then I want non European armor thread
Henry Richardson
African history is actually interesting. It's just that it's impossible to discuss this shit here due to /pol/tards and people false-flagging as /pol/tards.
Isaiah Robinson
Congolese exicution sword
Sebastian Brown
>and your OTHER head
Evan Gutierrez
Pretty much all the threads get over run with /pol/ and stormfagg shit post like such
Mason Gray
>anyone who disagree with me is /pol/
Gavin Hill
This is a psyop at this point, a sudden influx of pro-african history aka nigger loving threads to slowly make people like blacks.
Carter Richardson
I could put on a leather vest & jacket and be better protected than they would be
Julian Butler
Elite sword from west africa
Juan Hill
Or it could just be used to counter
Hurry hurry niggers is dumb
They got no civilization
Isaiah Long
Well, it sure isn't effective
African history is objectively so subpar that these threads wanking about it on Veeky Forums among threads about real history make it seems like someone put some teenager's fanfiction in a library full of great authors masterpieces
William Anderson
No not really it was arrow and musket proof the only way to cut it would be up close with a sword
Evan Price
Then why so triggered by it
Samuel Robinson
Cooper Gray
Evan Murphy
Well my friend, they have to get you first with that big sword. Unwieldy,heavy,hard on the hands without gloves.. Give me a short stabbing sword & a dirk or another similar killer like a axe. Tough being the big man. Take them out, one at a time. Pic related,hidden in the leaves,dirt, lawn.
Charles Davis
If you're wearing heavy armor you'd from a heat stroke first under the hot african sun
Jonathan Phillips
Julian Bailey
This doesn’t seem to frighten me a lot.
Gabriel Collins
Stormniggers ruin everything. And we all need to call them that more. StormNIGGERS, cuz that's all they are: niggrers. All they do is complain about 'muh jews' like the niggers bitch about whitey, and all they do is be ignorant and violent and are a burden on society. They are irl niggers and should always be reminded of that fact.
Charles Phillips
I can buy quilts stopping arrows but there's no way that shit would stop muskets
Zachary Gonzalez
No Armour for me. Short sword & maybe some throwing knives
Xavier Morris
That looks like some badass fantasy tier sword. Wonder what it'd be like watching some wield it irl..
Nicholas Ross
they aren't medieval for fuck sake it's a photograph brainlet.
if you're thinking of the ancient Malians, they didn't have quilted army and were mostly archers pic related.
Jordan Morales
This sword is anime tier
Joseph Smith
Malians wore fabric padding as a former of armor
Nathan Turner
>they aren't medieval for fuck sake it's a photograph brainlet.
Africa remained medieval long after the invention of photograhy tho
Ethan Hall
He's not wrong
Grayson Cruz
after coming in contact with the Tuareg. before that like during the time of Mansa Musa they didn't look Islamic.
Henry Parker
Know it was during the transaharan trade did the adopt Calvary etc the clothing Is just standard desert atire
Nathaniel Bennett
they adopted Islamic clothing i think mainly from Tuareg i think.
before that they mainly got around barely clothed.
Zachary Reed
cavalry was probably brought to west Africa by the Nilo Saharan people's like the Hausa and Fulani.
Jack Collins
I have one thing to say:
We once happened to be monarchs and such
Easton Morgan
>quilted armor
Nearly every medieval army had quilted armor, look at the Aztecs. Its just that most medieval armies had steel, lacquer or leather armor as well.
>flaming arrows
kek. How the fuck would that even work?
Jayden White
>how would that work
Juan Wood
send me 1, one, uno, 一つ, picture of someone shooting that. Not only would you burn your fingers trying to aim it, the fire would immediately go out the moment its being shot.
Andrew Moore
Quilted armour is way better than leather armour, which is almost useless.
Guess why no one used leather and everyone used quilted armour
Nolan Ortiz
that isn't medieval...its a photograph. They're LARPing as european knights you brainlet
Levi Diaz
This entire thread is bait and everyone in it is baiting
Benjamin Foster
Read "Warfare in Atlantic Africa" by John Thonrton
Dominic Richardson
No, even if the photo are recent, Kano cavalry existed in the past, they are not "LARPing as european knights"
>there are written sources on some of them that give us some idea of what some of their soldiers were wearing. The Kano Chronicle, for example, mentions that around 1400 AD the ruling sarki (king) of Kano started using metal helmets and mail armor for his soldiers. So presumably, they were not using mail before then. There is a surviving mail shirt from Kano, probably from a later date, in the collection of the Pitt Rivers museum in Britain, and it most likely does derive from trade with the Maghreb:
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