polishsmolish19: It really depended on the time period and the theater of battle. When we think of "knight" in the European context, we most often think of the Late-Middle Ages and early Renaissance, where "knights" were a class of sub-aristocratic men-at-arms, who often fought on horseback. Yes, they often used polearms as these weapons would have been most effective at dealing with thick plate armor of the time period and for transferring the momentum of a horseback charge into a small point (think of a lance or poleaxe). However, there were plenty of other time periods and theaters were 'men of knightly status' would have carried swords into battle, such as in early Middle Ages Germanic combat where Thegns and Yarls were expected to have swords out as status symbols or in the Renaissance to early-modern period where men carried around greatswords (think of your classic Zweihander and Spadone). One of the main issues is that the word "Knight" is a temporal exonym, applied to a large group of men across cultures and time periods which changed greatly over more than a millennium. Sure, pretty much every culture has some version of a wealthy, well-armed and armored man of high social status who is used as an elite trooper in war; but to say that a Germanic warrior from the 6th century, a Teutonic Knight from the 12th century, and a Landsknechte from the 16th are all "knights" is a bit of a misnomer.

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Knowbody-h2w: Historically accurate Viking next using the Kaiden armor.

hollow_hunter1: I will NOT tolerate lance slander. The lance is op with a quality scaling and is amazing.

Snikkers929: you know since you did a historically accurate knight you should do the same as a samurai

RalphS-v5b: They absolutely did use swords as sidearms for the entire medieval period! Often primary weapons too for example longswords. Later examples could kill a man in plate armour by targeting the gaps with halfswording. By the 1400s, the primary weapons of knights were often pollaxes, maces, axes and shields and so on, but swords had their place.

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Knowbody-h2w: Now do a historically accurate samurai. (And no, they did not use katanas)

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keztannis6848: 2:20 "Naaah a sharpening stone is too magical for this playthrough. Anyways I'll be using a self replenishing potion that uses magical rocks as it's ingredients" I guess bro...

jones6471: This has officially inspired my next character in Elden Ring.

I'm going to use a straight sword, a polearm, and a longbow

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darthplagueis13: Knights did also use swords. Admittedly more as a backup weapon, but it still wasn't super uncommon.

If you look at how swords evolved over the centuries, a lot of it tracks pretty neatly with how armour developed, which is why you start seeing very pointy swords with acute tips emerge around the end of the 14th and start of the 15th century when plate armour starts getting used - you can't cut through, so you now need swords that are good at sliding into gaps.

If swords were more of a status symbol, they would probably not have been as responsive to practical considerations.

That aside, you'd see polearms and spears, maces (especially when mounted) and warhammers and genuinely also quite a bit of daggers because armoured combat often involved wrestling your opponent in close quarters so you can stab them through a gap in the armour.

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BrodenNelson: Can you beat the elden ring as the lorax. So you can speak for the Erdtree's

Prince_Sidon: Have you done "Can You Beat Elden Ring As an Actual Troglodyte" ?

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BrodenNelson: You should try what I branded the "mega wretch" build. Where you get the giant wooden club, and the hide waist cloth thing and maybe morgott's cloak. And just heavy attack the shit out of everything.

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frigglebiggle: What if you beat the game as a historically accurate roman knight called an eques? You can also do a centurion since they have cooler looking armor but then you would be playing as an experienced army officer from the old roman empire. There are some roman type armors in the game and also a few weapons. Shields mainly but weapons such as the lazuli glintstone sword, sword of darkness/light and regalia of eochaid that all look like they're inspired by roman shorts swords. You can also use spears and bows ofcourse since they were heavily used back then. (Ps i really love watching your videos, they've really made me laugh and you make me keep coming back to elden ring cause it just seems so fun)

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