Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Weird Weapons with Matt Easton returns with a 1530's German chain flail that appears to have a modern bike chain connecting it together......But it isn't a modern fake, it is a real 16thC weapon.
Why use a 'bike' chain rather than a conventional chain? Let's find out whilst Tod and Matt talk about it, Matt uses it and his students spar with it.
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Weird Weapons with Matt Easton returns with a 1530's German chain flail that appears to have a modern bike chain connecting it together......But it isn't a modern fake, it is a real 16thC weapon.
Why use a 'bike' chain rather than a conventional chain? Let's find out whilst Tod and Matt talk about it, Matt uses it and his students spar with it.
If you would like to help support the channel, visiting the stores helps, and signing up for the news letters and subscribing to the channel is a great help.
Production replica weapons are available here https://todcutler.com
And T shirts and Merch todsworkshop.creator-spring.com
Custom pieces are available here todsworkshop.com
Matt Easton can be found here youtube.com/c/scholagladiatoria
Fight Camp can be found here fightcampevents.com







![Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!
Incendiary trebuchet darts were real!!!!! (or at least I believe they were).
Trebuchets were the pinnacle of siege weapons in the 13thC and 14thC but we usually think of them as shooting rocks, baskets of rocks, rotting sheep etc, but the Islamic nations also shot darts. I have tried it before but with mixed success. But I have been sent a translation of a Mameluke text where they say where the hook should be placed and that they threw inflammable mixtures attached to the darts.
Time to revisit - with very mixed and somewhat dangerous results...........
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PAUL E. CHEVEDDEN
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
Black Camels and Blazing Bolts: The Bolt-Projecting Trebuchet
in the Mamluk Army pp235-7
If you want to shoot bolts (nushsha_b)—some of which are filled with inflammable material (al-na_r) and sticky gums (or resins) (liza_qa_t) and others are not—from a trebuchet (manjan|q) [do as follows]. If you want that [i.e., to shoot bolts], put a hook (kulla_b)14 at the center of gravity (‘idl) of the bolt (al-nushsha_b). Flaming Trebuchet darts!!!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ohq3a5bShR0/mqdefault.jpg)


