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Conquest-The Axman Cometh - Part 1

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Uploaded by on Feb 9, 2010

Conquest TV series

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  • Watching shows like this is painful to me. The amount of misinformation is just staggering for a channel that claims to be about history. One of those guys even had a double bitted axe. If you are using cheap poorly made over built axes of course they're going to handle poorly.

  • @MsDjessa Bullshit, The axe was the favorite, The Sword was merly a Status symbol, It was a more decorative item and most of the Swords that was made was for cheiftains and kings, An expensive weapon, But even kings were seen preferbly using the axe.

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  • @SvitjodsWarrior Well vikings still carried swords because they were good secondary weapons. An axe usually had a wooden handle and it was possible for them to break so they keept a sword incase that ever happend, and if they made the axe handle out of metal then the cost would similar to some swords.

  • Didn't they use that adze in the weird weapons of the middle ages episode and try to pass it off as some type of war hammer?

  • uhhh the Vikings never carry shields strap on unless they were using heater shields

  • That screaming and running one was stupid... he didn't hit him because he didn't want to hurt him. If that was a battle the spear would just fucking skewer that guy straight in the abdomen. You can't run onto a spear lol...

  • lol at 7:00

  • yeah hes a great actor, I can imagine one is terrified by a choppy chop chopper who is screaming the shit out of his lungs. imagine a two handed axe wielding berserker- I think he can demoralize a shieldwall, especially if its a fyrd.

  • ok these vikings should have fought against the saxon shieldwall- wouldve worked out differently!

  • @Samael16661

    You can try "Warriors" but I don't know about the information given by that show either.

    /watch?v=paZBkbKM77g

  • @TomatoHouses

    "Conquest" and Peter Woodward are been savaged on the Internet for blatant inaccuracy and Hollywood-ishness. The tuth is, Woodward has no martial training at all, he has no knowledge of history - he's only an actor! And that's what he does, some kind of "medieval cosplay" we usually see in movies. Most bad thing is he supports many myths by his ignorance.

  • I really don't care if they only have 30 mins; get it right or don't do it at all. No point in doing something half-assed.

    And the first thing they said about the weapons was wrong: Weapon of choice for the Vikings was a spear, or if they were all fancy, swords.

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