Macemen use flails

[tadster]

Did anybody else notice that the Macemen in the game actually use flails?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_(weapon)

 

[Barak]

Yes, I have noticed this since the game came out.

 

[Truronian]

Flailmen doesn't really sound right though does it... I think I can forgive Firaxis on this one.

 

[Palantir30]

Flailmen doesn't really sound right though does it... I think I can forgive Firaxis on this one.

Yup. "Users of a really cool looking but historically insignificant military weapon" doesnt work too well either.

Heavy medieval infantry should be using something more like this:

Your average Warhammer. Maybe make the pointy bits a little larger to see them better...

Edit: by the way, that thing's two feet long. It's not a poleax.

 

[Older than Dirt]

Oh, and I thought they were playing that game were you try and flip the ball up and into a little cup on the end of a stick.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Yup. "Users of a really cool looking but historically insignificant military weapon" doesnt work too well either.

Heavy medieval infantry should be using something more like this:

Your average Warhammer. Maybe make the pointy bits a little larger to see them better...

Edit: by the way, that thing's two feet long. It's not a poleax.

\But that wouldn't make the jingly sound

 

[Truronian]

\But that wouldn't make the jingly sound

Attach some novelty bells?

 

[Sisiutil]

Is it just me, or does medieval European weaponry just look more crude and vicious, and less elegant, than that from any other era save perhaps cavemen?

 

[.Shane.]

Flailmen doesn't really sound right though does it... I think I can forgive Firaxis on this one.

ROFL, I like that!

Flailry? Flaileteers?

 

[Kissamies]

Maybe they should be using these instead

Then they wouldn't be flailing around so much.

 

[drkodos]

Is it just me, or does medieval European weaponry just look more crude and vicious, and less elegant, than that from any other era save perhaps cavemen?

Things were dark, people were embittered.

Plus, I believe the idea of aweing one's opponent into surrender simply through the use of elegant & ergonomic design concepts had not yet been discovered.

 

[Zanmato]

Or perhaps they just didn't have the time to make their weapons elegant. Europe has had a hundred years war, a eighty years war and a thirty year war in it's history. Must have had plenty of copper and iron going round though, they're built to be easily mass produced and efficent not look nice.

 

[Codeman]

if it kills quick and you can make alot. that was important.

 

[princecharles]

I'd rather they use morning stars instead of flails, but it doesn't completly matter...

 

[Danicela]

Yes, actually the name "Macename" does not correspond with the unit, because they use flails.

Edit :

I'd rather they use morning stars instead of flails, but it doesn't completly matter...

Morning stars are staves, flails have chains.

 

[GIO888]

FYI

The Flail and Mace aren't exactly Medieval weapons - my Great Grandfather served in the Durham Light Infantry in Flanders 1914-1917 (til he was gassed) and both were used in trench warfare - they have them on display in the Regimental Museum!

 

[azzaman333]

you've got to admit that the Flail looks so much cooler than the Mace though.

 

[Palantir30]

FYI

The Flail and Mace aren't exactly Medieval weapons - my Great Grandfather served in the Durham Light Infantry in Flanders 1914-1917 (til he was gassed) and both were used in trench warfare - they have them on display in the Regimental Museum!

Number one weapon for hand to hand fighting in the trenches

The trench shovel you were issued with, with the sides sharpened if possible.

Short weapons were the win for close quarters fighting. Specialized weapons for in-fighting were brought in much later in the war, because nobody up the chain of command wanted trench weapons, on both sides they all wanted to NOT be fighting in trenches.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

you've got to admit that the Flail looks so much cooler than the Mace though.

This is definitely the reason.
And flailman sounds silly...

 

[El Koeno]

FYI

The Flail and Mace aren't exactly Medieval weapons - my Great Grandfather served in the Durham Light Infantry in Flanders 1914-1917 (til he was gassed) and both were used in trench warfare - they have them on display in the Regimental Museum!

That is soooo totally inrealistic: Macemen beating infantry? The combat odds in RL just suck.