The King (any Medieval) battle

How is a wall of corpses apearing mid battle realistic in any way ?

So the guys who fell into the mud would just swap sides?

Fights were more of a scrum with weapons that 1:1 combat. I wouldn't be very fun to watch.

Riddle me this chuds, some knights during agincourtcand pretty much every battle after ditched wearing Any colors or cloth on their full plate armors, how could they tell then?

What the fuck do you mean by this. Foot knights fighting foot knights would absolute be cool duels and 2 vs 1 fights and one guy getting jumped and shit, and a big infantry mosh pit would still be awesome to see even though it’s not one on one field

formation still
formations were very important, if your formation broke you lost

Medeival people were mud experts. They could easily tell mud apart.

By training your troops and having them maintain battle lines and formations while staying alert to commands from leadership. Most killing in a medieval battle didn't even happen during the fight, it happened when one side broke and ran and the other more disciplined side slaughtered them.

There has never been a single film that has accurately portrayed this type of battle. They fought in close formation, MAYBE charged to close to melee distance, but walked in a group towards the other formation, poked them with the longest and sharpest sticks they had, and once roughly 10% of one side was unable to fight (hurt or killed) they would yield and retreat in an organized fashion. If due to some incompetence or outmaneuvering by the enemy a force could not retreat, once 20 to 30% of the force were down they would break and run. (ALL human beings do this when facing imminent death) It is the flight response, it is not a conscious choice and you cannot control it.

Horses then chase down the people running who put up no real resistance, often having dropped their weapons and anything heavy in order to run faster. That's where most casualties come from, during the rout.

Horses DO NOT charge a group of densely packed men from the front, especially if they are presenting a wall of spears or pikes. Horses and human beings have a sense of self-preservation and they will run before they will fight a losing battle or they are facing imminent death, every time all the time.

Mostly right. You are wrong about the horse thing though. Trained warhorses could absolutely and would charge formations of men. This was very rare but thats because knights/men-at-arms fought dismounted primarily, and then things like terrain, enemy defense, enemy cavalry and all would mean cavalry charges into infantry were extremely rare. But you could charge a warhorse off a cliff pretty much.

>Horses DO NOT charge a group of densely packed men from the front,

This is the part that always gets me. You have groups of people frantically screaming and yelling, swinging sharp objects, making fast random movements and you think a horse is just going to charge and be in the middle of it?

My grandfather owns a horse farm and they're smart animals that will listen to their rider to a certain degree but once it suspects it might get hurt that horse stops listening and it takes time and experience to get it back under control

>people fought with a sense of self-preservation

damn, sounds boring.

>But you could charge a warhorse off a cliff pretty much.

kek nope

>horses have a sense of self-preservation

damn, sounds boring

Back then people from a different nation would actually look different from your fellow countrymen like almost another breed of humans

...Man, this shit sounds boring as fuck. Why is real life so antithetical to kino? What's next, Achilles didn't have a sick 1-on-1 with Hector in the Trojan War?!

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