what the hell!

[Bailian]

just watched a swadian militia take down a nord huscarl with a cudgel, how the hell does that work

 

[unicorn]

lucky hit?

 

[longbow93]

Patience 

 

[Achilla]

just watched a swadian militia take down a nord huscarl with a cudgel, how the hell does that work

Math.

Crap cudgel with BLUNT damage will deal roughly the same damage as quality, CUTTING one-handed sword.

Also; damage formulas. The amount of theoretical protection armour provides is very far from actual damage you can deal with weapons. Hit in the right place at right moment, beef up power strike - armour is rendered useless.

Easy check: arm your Huscarls just with clubs and daggers. It won't stop them from killing each other at all!

 

[AWdeV]

What's more important is how no bot/soldier can fight for **** so it's quite possible the militia-dude got lucky with his random swinging and the huscarl was just blocking at the wrong time. Or that the huscarl was near death anyway. Or that the huscarl was distracted. Or any combination of all of the above.

just watched a swadian militia take down a nord huscarl with a cudgel, how the hell does that work

Math.

Crap cudgel with BLUNT damage will deal roughly the same damage as quality, CUTTING one-handed sword.

No it won't. Certainly not in this case. Had the Huscarl had a blunt weapon he'd have done less damage against the poorly armoured militia-bloke and if the militia-lad had a fairly standard sword he'd have done less damage against the well-armoured huscarl.

edit: Oh wait, my bad. You mean that the low-quality cudgel would do low damage against the armour due to it being a low-quality cudgel and that a high-quality sword wouldn't do much more due to the armour of the huscarl.

 

[Achilla]

What's more important is how no bot/soldier can fight for **** so it's quite possible the militia-dude got lucky with his random swinging and the huscarl was just blocking at the wrong time. Or that the huscarl was near death anyway. Or that the huscarl was distracted. Or any combination of all of the above.

just watched a swadian militia take down a nord huscarl with a cudgel, how the hell does that work

Math.

Crap cudgel with BLUNT damage will deal roughly the same damage as quality, CUTTING one-handed sword.

No it won't. Certainly not in this case. Had the Huscarl had a blunt weapon he'd have done less damage against the poorly armoured militia-bloke and if the militia-lad had a fairly standard sword he'd have done less damage against the well-armoured huscarl.

edit: Oh wait, my bad. You mean that the low-quality cudgel would do low damage against the armour due to it being a low-quality cudgel and that a high-quality sword wouldn't do much more due to the armour of the huscarl.

Cudgel isn't that far from standard maces in terms of damage. It's skipping half the enemy armour, that's more than enough to put it on even ground with best 1h swords. Add up knockdown to the equation and suddenly the only good part of sword is ability to thrust and the initiative you gain from higher speed and reach.

 

[AWdeV]

Yeah, true, but that only applies in this situation, which I thought I clarified in my edit.

 

[FrisianDude]

Math.

Crap cudgel with BLUNT damage will deal roughly the same damage as quality, CUTTING one-handed sword.

Depends on level of armour of the target. Had the Huscarl worn but a robe then the sword would have done more damage than the cudgel.

Also, what a dumb question to ask, OP. Just because someone is better in all ways does not mean they are invincible.

 

[SeRgYu]

Maybe that Huscarl fought some soldiers and he got wonded,then,a lucky militia ripped his ass 

 

[Bailian]

Maybe that Huscarl fought some soldiers and he got wonded,then,a lucky militia ripped his ass 

nahh man, he took quite a few hits

he was blocking at the wrong time;

as he went to swing his axe, the swadian had already swung his cudgel. this happened about 7 times

it was just wierd to watch

the swadian was then killed by forest bandits moments afterwards and i was captured like, but still