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Explanation: While not a universal practice of Celtic peoples, there are occasional incidents wherein Celtic tribes were noted to go into battle naked or near-naked to prove their bravery.
A naked guy running at you with a sword is pretty intimidating.
Celts:
That’s a convenient shield placement.
Disagree.
Blue paint was only used by Briton Celts.
Central European Celts who invented chainmail and had the best swords: “Am i a joke to you?”
had the best swords
The adolescent in me can’t stop giggling
tbf, the swords could be extremely variable. I remember one incident wherein a Celtic tribe’s swords bent after some hard fighting and they had to have their comrades cover them while they tried to straighten them back out to a semi-fight-worthy condition.
Also, while blue paint was Briton, according to Caesar, tattooing and war paint more generally are attested to in literary sources (though not uncontroversially) amongst other Celtic peoples.
I’ve had modern steel spearhead bend during a re-enactment fight because I hit a plate really hard. I just bent it back in shape and continued. So I guess it doesn’t necessarily mean they had bad swords.
Right. It’s better to have a sword that bends than one that shatters.
Also, some celts were working iron before the Romans.
Sure, keep telling yourself that instead of admitting you bought from Ea-Nasirs descendants.
(╯°□°)ᕗ EA-NASIR!!!
He cam’t keep getting away with this!
I remember one incident wherein a Celtic tribe’s swords bent
How old are you?
You weren’t there?
No, I wasn’t invited.
Oh, sorry. I’ll invite you to the next sword bendening
The blue paint was crafted from a plant that only grows/grew? in Britain.
The dye is made from woad. It grows all over Europe and Asia.
True and its especially common in Valais lets gooooo!!!
And helmets, so good, the Romans copied them
How to beat the celts:
Fight them in a fight of hip high stinging nettles, holly or hogweed
I thought it was sending Bird to Indianapolis
Mongols: kill everyone and keep riding
Mongols would also recruit as they rolled over every city and fort, right?
If by “recruit” you mean enslave thousands of people and force them to work on building siege machines and digging tranches than yes :)
Seriously, I’ve read that each Mongol warrior was supposed to catch like 10 people as they moved through the invaded lands and they would move all those people like cattle with the army. When they finally reached the main objective they would force all those people to cut down trees and build siege machines. People from smaller towns would flee the incoming army to bigger forts which meant that before Mongols got there the cities were already overcrowded and had troubles to withstand the siege. It was methodical and brutal and worked perfectly.
Of course when you take a town you kill the ruler and most of the nobles. But people with talent would be drafted to do whatever it was they were good at… so translators, people helping with logistics, and so on, right?
Oh yes, they would be brought back to the capital to serve the empire. I thought you meant recruited for fighting which I don’t think happened. They were great at using all the skilled tradesmen. I think they even brought some miners back from Europe to open mines in Mongolia.
Also they used the captured locals left over as “cannon fodder” in front of the army as a way to demoralize the defense that had to kill their owns.
(Of course cannon here is more arrows but you get the point)
The penis mightier than the sword.
I mean it works for my concerts
