Medieval?! Ha!
Imagine having to face a Macedonian phalanx.
Literally a wall of 30ft spears (sarissa) thrusting and stabbing at you, a forest of razor sharp foot-long blades being flung at every inch of your body, a body flailing pathetically to block a portion with your shield (leather and sticks if you’re lucky, but you’re facing a phalanx, so you’re not), failing to parry away the countless spear blades stabbing every weak spot in your armour (did you really think that would have saved you?), every exposed inch of flesh. Did you, by some miracle, happen to fight your way past the first row of piercing blades? No matter, because there are four more rows to greet you, in enthusiastic furious quantity.
The head of one spear impales you, then three, then ten as they turn your torso into mince, your body spasming and jerking uselessly as the first notes of your death are sounded, your intestines being shredded, the lengths still intact being wrapped around the shaft and pulled out, your stomach acid spilling over them, dissolving, foot long spikes being shafted into your throat, blood bubbling over the blockage as your strangled screams heighten when your testicles and penis are pierced into gore, the relentless stabbing shredding past them into your acid and blood deluged colon, bursting through your anus on the other side, screaming only ceasing when you get a sea of knives rammed into your eyeballs, nose cavity, the bloody toothless maw that you once called a mouth.
So yeah, you just think about that.
Medieval fanboys wank over the times when heavily armoured ‘men’ battle and bring back soiled cloths for their m’lady THOT’s affection.
You know what the Macedonian phalanx did? Just conquer the world of antiquity in the exact way I described above under some dude called Iskander, some called him Al-Iskander.
You might know him as Alexander the Great.

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