And his name is John HEMA
Me in Mordhau (I’m the one dying on the floor):
I spent a week trying to get back into Mordhau and once again quit because I’m just so bad at it…
I know the feeling…
It’s so good, but so hard. Here’s something that has helped me recently. I start a local Team Deathmatch, join red with a training sword, get into a corner next to a supply box, and then ` to get console and “AddBotsTeam 2 1”. It’s really helping me with my double parry/chain parry and keeping my vision processing more than 1 attack at a time. I’ll then give myself a real weapon and have 4 enemies at a time from the same place and just try to survive.
Hard to believe the epic thrash metal poster is a Mord fan.
What could be more metal than decapitating a bard with a battle-axe, listening to Code of the Slashers?
/s
Yeah, in all honesty, I was never good at this game, so calling me a fan is a stretch. It is great fun though.
Tbh in modern day a chair is a better defence option than a knife. Much better at holding ground and safer to use.
Spoken like someone that’s never had its fingers pinched by a chair.
It’s all about reach
Viking in a bar fight moment
Cena moment.
I’m pretty sure that’s SCA, not HEMA
Ya, HEMA would be dudes in modern plastic protective gear, maybe wearing a gambeson. Some people who do both would sometimes use metal gloves, but never a full set of armor.
What’s HEMA if not the Dutch department store?
What’s it called when people re-enact battles? Not larping or war gaming - stuck in the back of my mind
Generally just called re-enactment if it’s supposed to be a strict representation of the battle. There are lot of Civil War re-enactments here in the US, and some of them get pretty rigorous, timing things down to the minute as they happened in the course of the battle.
Medieval wrestling?