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Yeah he's either a drunk badass or totally insane. Either way I wouldn't want to square up with him.
Tools were the weapon of the common people.
Don't think that's what you want against those teutons
I'm sure he's fighting on the side of the knights against the nomads not against the knights of the Teutonic Order.
Being beaten to mush by a guy using a dreshing flail can be pretty demoralising though.
True
The good thing about a flail is that, while kind of miserable as a weapon in a proper battle with mass formations and such, against a handful of professional opponents it's actually not bad. Very much the weapon of choice of peasant militias. Mail can block an edge or point, like a scythe or a pitchfork, but getting slammed with a big rotating weight will just about always bruise or break bones beneath an enemy's armor. You'd need a lot of padding to prevent that!
They can also entangle your enemy's weapon and rip it out of their hands in a one on one situation.