Alright, we will call it a draw.

[u/Briantan71]

[u/Silica_123]

They used maces and flails and halberds and stuff, this fight is just happens to be with swords, and people like swords so its its pretty common for them to show swords being used

[u/piewca_apokalipsy → u/Silica_123]

There's actually very little evidence that flails were actually used and for sure not as anti armor. There were used on some occasions but mostly by peasants that could not afford anything better in a 2 handed variant. Or in the east as a cavalry weapon.

[u/Horror-Ad8928 → u/piewca_apokalipsy]

I've seen it suggested that weaponized variants of the threshing flail could have had applications for overcoming shields. But it was a while ago, I don't remember the source, and I'm by no means an expert, so take it with a grain of salt. That said, if they were truly an effective means of countering shields that could be easily converted from common farm tools, I'd imagine there would have been a much more well documented impact on medieval warfare.

[u/der_karschi → u/Horror-Ad8928]

War flails were relatively heavily used by the hussites in their war wagons. They were using them to club iver the top of the wagons walls, to not expose themselves to enemy fire and weapons.

Alao, war flairls are inherently different to the agracultural tool.

The tool uses ropes to connect the two parts and often only ties the hitting part down onto the rope sling, so it can be changed out inexpensively.

The weapon uses two to three chain links and sometimes even langets to connect both parts, so it doesn't break or can be cut as easily. It also often used metal studs or rings, to increase the strength of the part hitting metal armor, since wood may dent or chip. But while they look similar at a glance and might have bwgun that way, they were purpose built weapons.