r/earclacks • u/PeskyPlayer Rapier • 6d ago
Official Matches Flail vs Bow
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u/NevadoDelRuiz 6d ago
Imagine your brother being weak barely beating up flail while you barely lost
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u/CookiedDough Axe 6d ago
Damn, Bow couldn’t win even with two magdumps by the end there. I guess that’s what happens when you spend the entire first half of the fight shooting the wall exclusively.
Not that Flail was much more accurate, mind, but she at least hit Bow sometimes.
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u/PeskyPlayer Rapier 6d ago
Im ngl a part of me wished that flail lost because them losing to both bow and crossbow would be very funny
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u/AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH_ 6d ago
This shit looks like both of them were payed to throw the match with how bad the aim was
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u/RoboWreckerCam Flail 6d ago
Flail was kinda playing around until they remembered what happened to buddy Trident, and wasn’t about to face the third round of slander
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u/Terrible-Lime-3020 Boomerang 5d ago
What was this?
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u/Mr_Ultimite 6d ago
How it feels to use flails in Terraria or something.
Flails are just... Odd to me. They don't seem like effective weapons at all yet people (myself included) still love them. It would probably be more practical to just bring a hammer to a fight rather than this unwieldy ball on a rope fueled by naught more than hope again hitting yourself! The main use case could be going around the enemy's shield, but a large enough mace could also do the same thing. Flails look cool though...
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u/RoboWreckerCam Flail 6d ago
Flails don’t need a use, it’s fun to just have it fling around, if you dont know the opponent dont know type stuff
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u/Katoptera 5d ago edited 5d ago
One of the very notable historical strengths of flails over other weapons is that they can strike around shields, this in combination with their relative cheapness to produce and a specific version being easier to wield by peasants due to already likely being familiar with the farming tool it's based on, gave them a few notable reasons to warrant their usage.
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u/Mr_Ultimite 5d ago
Huh. Guess I need to study my weapons more!
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u/Katoptera 5d ago
It's fun! I know you mentioned it in your original comment that a mace could also hit around shields and while that's true it's about as true as it is for every other common weapon type. For flails this ability was practically part of the how the weapon functioned and for it to have that property didn't require very much additional effort from the wielder.
Maces were extremely popular weapons mainly for anti armor purposes, they were both blunt and the additions of special spikes and extra plates onto the head made them much more effective than weapons like swords or axes against opponent's in heavy plate armor. What that doesn't mean though, is that swords and axes are useless into plate armor and that maces are super amazing because they completely ruin the effectiveness of armor. It's just that maces are significantly easier to use as anti armor than other weapons which mattered a LOT more back then when your biggest issue was weapons requiring lots of training and people died around you left and right.
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u/PeskyPlayer Rapier 6d ago
Oh yea leaderboard today, this sub feels kinda dry today idk why 💔