Sam Alexander

Until post-World War II, now everyone's got bayonets that are actually knife-sized instead of fucking short sword-sized.

Yeah.

I mean, especially...

Oh, we still got a little bit of time.

Um, the loss of cavalry on horses being a viable option.

tool in warfare also has a lot to do again.

Yeah.

With just the bayonet becoming not a fricking sword length thing to where now can become a multipurpose tool.

Cause you go back to the earliest days of, well, not the earliest.

Cause if you're going to like the fucking hand gone enjoyment and Deutsch, um, the fricking let's stick an iron pipe on the end of a stick and point it in front of us.

But if you're going to say the matchlock days, um,

that's where shot at Pike formations are still, those continue up until essentially the Flint lock.

Even then you still have some Pikes depending on the military back there because fricking cavalry is still a huge threat.

There you go.

Hand it back like a Walmart bag.

Pretty much.

which is more of a renaissance thing the halberd is more of a renaissance deal it's an axe with a pike on it more or less um or a really spiky axe depending on which direction you look at it valid but spike and shot formations are going uh the freaking swedish used them in the great northern war that was 17 oh 50 thank you dr scary guy swiss guard

Yeah, the Swiss card.

No, sorry, I was looking up a date, yeah.

So, 1720s, I mean, the Carolingians, so Charles XII's soldiers in the Great Northern War from Sweden, they're still running around using shite and pike formations very effectively, because again, horses at this point are still a very viable threat that goes downhill with the invention of the matchlock, not the matchlock, the flintlock, because it's far more reliable.