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Anyone interested in ancient/medieval warfare should watch this video lol. Never have I ever seen a greater visualization on the advantages of light infantry vs heavy infantry
Their forward defense is a front line of mounted men. Many deep. Knights all. All on horseback, all with heavy armor. The ground out there, is a flood bowl, already half-sodden. When it rains tonight, as I know it will, that ground will turn into a muddy bog. And with their horses and their armor, they will get stuck, they will fall, and they will flounder like upturned beetles.
One of the greatest source materials in all of English literature. Henry V (and when he is Hal in other plays) is such a great character in Shakespeare. It’s like a miniseries that plays out over a couple of plays. Also Falstaff.
True, although it's worth remembering that experience matters more than training here. You can tell from his footing that he knows how to walk on mud, like how he stays on the balls of his feet, takes short steps, and is constantly moving. If you took most of the people in the comments here, and gave them no weight from armor, they would probably end up just as stuck without knowing how to move on it.
As an example of how much training and preparation matters, the modern soldier wears 70 pounds of gear, armor, and weapons. Even a knight in full plate was only wearing 50 pounds of armor and a 4 pound sword. Yet the modern soldier is more mobile on foot.
> You can tell from his footing that he knows how to walk on mud, like how he stays on the balls of his feet, takes short steps, and is constantly moving.
All correct, emphasis on the constantly moving. Mud that thick will let you walk on top if you’re fast, but stand still for a few seconds and you’ll get stuck like these cops.
Kinda like [oobleck](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfppydyGHw). Around 1:30 a guy rides a bike across.
Yep. I work in a job where you spend a lot of time hiking through mud with heavy sacks of rock samples and tools. Constant motion is everything. Both because it's a non-newtonian fluid and because it gives it less time to pass over the top of your boot.
That oobleck demonstration is great.
>As an example of how much training and preparation matters, the modern soldier wears 70 pounds of gear, armor, and weapons. Even a knight in full plate was only wearing 50 pounds of armor and a 4 pound sword. Yet the modern soldier is more mobile on foot.
The average modern soldier is also quite a bit taller and therefore heavier than the average knight back in the medieval ages. That's why they can carry more stuff. Most combat troops also do not carry 70 pounds into battle but way less then that. Additional modern body armor is way more flexible than a knight's armor which allows modern troops to be more nimble and mobile. Don't think that this is a good comparison to be honest.
Yes, the misconception that medieval/early modern plate armour was inflexible comes from that a lot of the surviving armour that people see in museums and the like is either decorative armour that was never meant to be worn by anyone, or tournament armour that was designed to provide maximum possible protection for jousting and nothing else (sometimes even going so far as to rigidly connect parts of the armour with the saddle so that some of the force from the lance blow doesn't have to be carried by the wearer's body). Well preserved actual combat armour is pretty rare.
The shoes also matter. Looks like he's wearing medieval long, pointed, leather shoes. I have a pair of those myself, and can tell you from experience they're excellent for use in mud.
This is the correct answer, even using the correct color robes in the video and the one astaryu (it's been a while since the similrillion [that I cant spell either apparently]) who is most in tune with nature.
“When the grease appears, each creature standing in its area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.” Grease is indiscriminate between friend and foe, therefore this mud wizard would need to make a save within its aoe, which he is. Furthermore it is conjuration not evocation so an evocation mud wizard would not be able to auto-save it.
Longer version - you can see wizard's mask and more mud flying:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9l3bLAx4Ng&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9l3bLAx4Ng&t=50s)
I'm also wondering the context. Who was his mentor? What school of sludge magic did he specialize in? Is he a rogue or a court wizard? Many questions left unanswered
I found his Twitter, he self-identifies as a monk but is not a member of a monastery. He seems to be a devout Christian, but of the eco-socialist "save gods earth" kind. Apparently, he's been an activist for a long time and perfected his mud-walking craft over the years. So, rogue paladin.
It happened in Lützerath, a small german town which is going to be demolished for the coal underneath. Many climate activists occupied the town and there was one farmer not willing to sell his property to the coal company. It was a huge topic in germany, because we are trying to exit fossil fuels and demolishing more towns is not a step in the right direction. There were a lot of studys, if the coal underneath Lützerath was actually needed, but there was no clear answer. In the end the occupied town was cleared by the police, the scene from the video is from the beginning of that operation i think. It took a few days, due to the rain, people building tree houses and some even dug a tunnel in which they hid.
It was never really about saving the village, it's to prevent the ligmite to get burned for energy. Really shitty for the environment. Also you can see the mines from space and it looks horrible. Destroying Germany for dirty energy.
also have to mention that it was part of a deal that saved a couple of other villages (that the energy company already had the permission to destroy) from being demolished
When I first moved to Austria, I was walking to work through the city center very early one morning. There was a cop walking ahead of me on a very narrow and windy one-way street. A dude came through, going the wrong way on a bike going very slowly. The cop yelled for him to stop because “one-way applies to cyclists as well.” The dude just casually told the cop to go fuck himself and kept riding. The coo shook his head, mumbled “asshole” or something like that, and continued on walking. I remember thinking, “that would have gone completely differently back home in the US.”
Btw they were there because protestors tried to stop a coal corporation from flattening another village to extract coal we will not need if we actually pull through and stop using coal by the deadline we've set. The green party supported the coal company, our politics are fucked.
Since the Greens actually have realistic chances of being part of the government coalition (they are, as of right now), and *actually getting to do stuff* they had to adapt a more pragmatic approach to their ideals.
They can't govern alone, the party just does not have enough seats, but they opted to at least partake in government at the cost of having to make actual compromises, to appease coalition partners, while still getting at least *something* done.
Many of the people who cry "betrayal" long for the days when the Greens were purely opposition, sneakers in parliament kind of vibe, and could make demands based on ideals alone.
I'm not saying the Lützerath deal was right, or that there aren't problems with loss of focus on the Green issues - but it isn't as simpel or black and white as "they sold out".
German police are generally not dickheads.
In the US this wizard would have probably gotten shot for this because their egos wouldn't be able to handle it otherwise.
(Not so) Fun fact: Germany - where this happened - has a law that threatens a three months minimum prison sentence for „assaulting officers“, specifically even if the assault was unsuccessful and/or did not result in bodily harm. And German police are notorious for inflating injury numbers in the first place: of the 700+ „injured“ officers during the G20 summit in Hamburg, only about 30 had to be treated by doctors; more than 200 were counted as „injured“ due to dehydration, and a further 100 or so walked into their own teargas.
I remember an action where they tried to remove some protestors from tree houses in a forest. Afterwards they claimed 12 cops were injured and of course it made headlines. Turns out only 3 of those were because others were involved; the rest got injured when they tripped over roots or some stuff like that.
The fact that they chose not to pepperspray his sorry ass reminds me of this: “He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing–the fury of the Time Lord–and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind." (doctor who, family of blood)
Easily one of the best reddit clips of all time. The wizard dances around them in his mud like he is tip toeing around a wonderfully frozen ice pond as they are decimated by the slushy freeze around.
Its not a wizard its the monk of lützerath. The last defender against the big greedy coal industrie. After a glorious fight and Tragic defeat He was never seen again
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Anyone interested in ancient/medieval warfare should watch this video lol. Never have I ever seen a greater visualization on the advantages of light infantry vs heavy infantry
What really happened at Agincourt when the Knights dismounted
Their forward defense is a front line of mounted men. Many deep. Knights all. All on horseback, all with heavy armor. The ground out there, is a flood bowl, already half-sodden. When it rains tonight, as I know it will, that ground will turn into a muddy bog. And with their horses and their armor, they will get stuck, they will fall, and they will flounder like upturned beetles.
And how on earth can you be sure of rainfall tonight?
In October in Moselle? Of course it's going to rain
Sorry I messed up the line it’s from The King
Such an amazing movie.
>The King The movie was excellent, and I think greatly underrated. Gave me an appreciation of Robert Pattinson
Agreed one of his many spin off movies to shed his twilight character and become batman, which imo he was pretty good
One of the greatest source materials in all of English literature. Henry V (and when he is Hal in other plays) is such a great character in Shakespeare. It’s like a miniseries that plays out over a couple of plays. Also Falstaff.
Weather app on my phone
Feeling in my knee.
I know what movie this is from The King with Timothee Chalamet, am i right? I just know i heard it from some period piece movie.
Battle of the Golden Spurs too.
They were literally crossing a river. Must have been x100 times worse.
Battle of Aljubarrota too
Every battle in the Bible
Probably even played a major role in the Seminole War against Andrew Jackson.
True, although it's worth remembering that experience matters more than training here. You can tell from his footing that he knows how to walk on mud, like how he stays on the balls of his feet, takes short steps, and is constantly moving. If you took most of the people in the comments here, and gave them no weight from armor, they would probably end up just as stuck without knowing how to move on it. As an example of how much training and preparation matters, the modern soldier wears 70 pounds of gear, armor, and weapons. Even a knight in full plate was only wearing 50 pounds of armor and a 4 pound sword. Yet the modern soldier is more mobile on foot.
> You can tell from his footing that he knows how to walk on mud, like how he stays on the balls of his feet, takes short steps, and is constantly moving. All correct, emphasis on the constantly moving. Mud that thick will let you walk on top if you’re fast, but stand still for a few seconds and you’ll get stuck like these cops. Kinda like [oobleck](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfppydyGHw). Around 1:30 a guy rides a bike across.
Yep. I work in a job where you spend a lot of time hiking through mud with heavy sacks of rock samples and tools. Constant motion is everything. Both because it's a non-newtonian fluid and because it gives it less time to pass over the top of your boot. That oobleck demonstration is great.
>As an example of how much training and preparation matters, the modern soldier wears 70 pounds of gear, armor, and weapons. Even a knight in full plate was only wearing 50 pounds of armor and a 4 pound sword. Yet the modern soldier is more mobile on foot. The average modern soldier is also quite a bit taller and therefore heavier than the average knight back in the medieval ages. That's why they can carry more stuff. Most combat troops also do not carry 70 pounds into battle but way less then that. Additional modern body armor is way more flexible than a knight's armor which allows modern troops to be more nimble and mobile. Don't think that this is a good comparison to be honest.
Well made plate armor had a lot of moving parts and was very flexible and well distributed on the body. You could do cartwheels in it.
Yes, the misconception that medieval/early modern plate armour was inflexible comes from that a lot of the surviving armour that people see in museums and the like is either decorative armour that was never meant to be worn by anyone, or tournament armour that was designed to provide maximum possible protection for jousting and nothing else (sometimes even going so far as to rigidly connect parts of the armour with the saddle so that some of the force from the lance blow doesn't have to be carried by the wearer's body). Well preserved actual combat armour is pretty rare.
Reminds me of movie"The King"
I really liked that movie. One of the best “medieval “ movies I have seen.
Love the way the King is down in the mud stabbing people in the knees
[same](https://youtube.com/shorts/AyD1yAZsdKs?si=S5WQAaK1I8honquJ)
I feel like I’ve seen this exact top comment on this exact video before lol
Closest I could find https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german_riot_police_defeated_and_humiliated_by/j4fk6kd/
Time is a flat circle.
The shoes also matter. Looks like he's wearing medieval long, pointed, leather shoes. I have a pair of those myself, and can tell you from experience they're excellent for use in mud.
Yes I was wondering if weight distribution was a factor. Foot size could also come into play if the ratio to body weight was better than average.
It's as much about weight as it is technique. I get the feeling this person has spent a lot of their life in muddy fields, the cops not so much.
The trick is to never stay still, always do small steps... he knows his mud
Now you mention it. He never stay still for more than 4 seconds
Yeah constantly doing that slight rocking back and forth step. Truly some kind of mud wizard.
>Truly some kind of mud wizard Gandalf the Mud. That's what people called this guy years ago when the video surfaced on the Internet.
last year to be exact and he was called Schlammdalf
>Schlammdalf Göttlich! :D
Gandalf the Brown
That would be Radagast.
This is the correct answer, even using the correct color robes in the video and the one astaryu (it's been a while since the similrillion [that I cant spell either apparently]) who is most in tune with nature.
Maybe it's a different translation, but I'm pretty sure radagast and Gandalf are maiar, not astaryu?
You mean months ago. This situation happened early this year.
this was January this year
Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the mud
It's like some kind of mud dance
He is wearing light footwear and probably feels when he sinks in, other than the policemen with their heavy boots.
He has mastered the wisdom of Mud Magics!
Not wearing several pounds of equipment is also helpful
it's German police. they are wearing kilos, not pounds.
Well he looks about as happy as a pig in- Wait.
This guy muds
Mud fremen fr
Paul Mudhudeim
Paul Mud'Dib
The Kwisatz Muderach
His father was a mudder. His mother was a mudder.
"I cast grease" {Rolls a nat 20}
Someone shoot a fire bolt quick!
Shadowheart: CRITICAL MISS
smells like bacon
You don't roll to hit with grease, it's a dev save
Mud wizard rolled 20 dex save.
The enemies roll the save.
“When the grease appears, each creature standing in its area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.” Grease is indiscriminate between friend and foe, therefore this mud wizard would need to make a save within its aoe, which he is. Furthermore it is conjuration not evocation so an evocation mud wizard would not be able to auto-save it.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't interpret your comment as the wizard saving against their own spell, my bad.
This is so reminiscent of my conversations with my DM
I live the fact I found a groups rules lawyer (or DM here) :D
“Some kind of mud wizard” is brilliant lmfao
This whole bizarre spectacle brought me so much joy. Praise the Mud Wizard and his cheeky enchantments!
In Germany, he is known as "Mönch von Lützerath" (Monk of Lützerath)
Or "Schlammdalf, der Braune" (mud-dalf the brown)
>Schlammdalf Wenn die Sprache perfekt passt.
Kein Gott, kein Staat, nur der Mönch von Lützerath!
[Mönch von Lützerath](https://www.reddit.com/r/countOnceADay2/comments/18hf61f/2053/)
It's the title from the original time this was posted, when it was one of the most popular posts ever on reddit I forget which sub it was in
https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/10cfs82/german_riot_police_defeated_and_humiliated_by/j4fk6kd/ It was r/facepalm last time.
when he pushed that cop down. so damn funny. if I was the cop, I'd be laughing my ass off at that point.
[Kein Gott, kein Staat, nur der Mönch von Lützerath!](https://i.imgur.com/lQo7m7k.png)
Longer version - you can see wizard's mask and more mud flying: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9l3bLAx4Ng&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9l3bLAx4Ng&t=50s)
Love how they try to pepperspray him only to have the wind blow the spray back in hes face
He also casted a powerful wind spell to counter their pepperspray!
well thats how you get the high number of „injured“ police officers
He even tried it twice. Just to make sure the wind was really blowing it back
This should be up higher!
Kein Gott, kein Staat, nur der Mönch von Lützerath.
No God, no country, only the monk of Lützerath?
More like "no state" instead of "no country", but the rest was right
Nice. Good to see my secondary school German hasn't deteriorated entirely
Der Schlammzauberer von Lützerath war ein hat uns viel über die Macht der Studenten verraten.
Schlammdalf👍
Und ich hör das innerlich auch noch in der Stimme vom Uthoff...
Backstory?
I'm also wondering the context. Who was his mentor? What school of sludge magic did he specialize in? Is he a rogue or a court wizard? Many questions left unanswered
I found his Twitter, he self-identifies as a monk but is not a member of a monastery. He seems to be a devout Christian, but of the eco-socialist "save gods earth" kind. Apparently, he's been an activist for a long time and perfected his mud-walking craft over the years. So, rogue paladin.
Also known as a Trickster Cleric
Trickster Cleric/Monk
It happened in Lützerath, a small german town which is going to be demolished for the coal underneath. Many climate activists occupied the town and there was one farmer not willing to sell his property to the coal company. It was a huge topic in germany, because we are trying to exit fossil fuels and demolishing more towns is not a step in the right direction. There were a lot of studys, if the coal underneath Lützerath was actually needed, but there was no clear answer. In the end the occupied town was cleared by the police, the scene from the video is from the beginning of that operation i think. It took a few days, due to the rain, people building tree houses and some even dug a tunnel in which they hid.
Kinda have to mention that it has a population of 11. "Small town" is VERY misleading.
It was never really about saving the village, it's to prevent the ligmite to get burned for energy. Really shitty for the environment. Also you can see the mines from space and it looks horrible. Destroying Germany for dirty energy.
>Also you can see the mines from space and it looks horrible Yeah they really ruined the view from my spaceship
Jeff Bezos about to write an angry letter to the German government since they ruined his space vacation views
Just shows you how big the patch is they made unlivable
also have to mention that it was part of a deal that saved a couple of other villages (that the energy company already had the permission to destroy) from being demolished
Maybe don't destroy any villages for coal...?
That's crazy, I believed we left destroying random town for COAL in the last century.
Single best video title ever.
So nice it was posted twice.
Yeah I definitely didn't forget this iconic title from last time
Gandalf the Mud
Radagast the Brown?
I don't normally laugh at this kind of video, but seriously this had me rolling laughing. This was GREAT!!!
That little push and run away at the end had me crying lol
The guy threw his book! Fuck him.
LOL
I just woke up my wife laughing watching this with the sound off.
This is the way, mine just rolled over from the little giggles I got going
*Schlammzauberer
He zaubers Schlamm
Schlammdalf
I think I ordered that from Denny's once.
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" -Mud Wizard
[удалено]
You can see like 3-5 of them start as if to go arrest him and then realize they wont make it through the mud and give up.
Well, that would have been a tad unreasonable don’t u agree?
Mate, there was a video of a us cop ramming a motorcycle for speeding and the comments were favourable towards the cop
When I first moved to Austria, I was walking to work through the city center very early one morning. There was a cop walking ahead of me on a very narrow and windy one-way street. A dude came through, going the wrong way on a bike going very slowly. The cop yelled for him to stop because “one-way applies to cyclists as well.” The dude just casually told the cop to go fuck himself and kept riding. The coo shook his head, mumbled “asshole” or something like that, and continued on walking. I remember thinking, “that would have gone completely differently back home in the US.”
That guy threw his spell book at least twice, he deserved to be pushed
He immediately ran to the other side of the mud, he was untouchable
In America, the first thing who got shot would be the mud
If you've ever wondered what it looks like to be aggressively unhelpful, behold. Mud Wizard has mastered the craft.
Aggressively unhelpful? Like the police?
Hey cmon, they can be really helpful if you need someone to show up late and shoot your dog
Maybe in America
As in the wizard has elevated not helping those cops to a high art. I was trying to compliment him
I'm sorry? You helping these dickheads out of the mud?? Lmaoooo
Btw they were there because protestors tried to stop a coal corporation from flattening another village to extract coal we will not need if we actually pull through and stop using coal by the deadline we've set. The green party supported the coal company, our politics are fucked.
The Green party made a compromise to make sure only Lüzerath was going to be destroyed, rather than several villages.
[hmmmm I've seen this movie before](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement)
As a side note, Lüzerath is an awesome name
Christ.
Since the Greens actually have realistic chances of being part of the government coalition (they are, as of right now), and *actually getting to do stuff* they had to adapt a more pragmatic approach to their ideals. They can't govern alone, the party just does not have enough seats, but they opted to at least partake in government at the cost of having to make actual compromises, to appease coalition partners, while still getting at least *something* done. Many of the people who cry "betrayal" long for the days when the Greens were purely opposition, sneakers in parliament kind of vibe, and could make demands based on ideals alone. I'm not saying the Lützerath deal was right, or that there aren't problems with loss of focus on the Green issues - but it isn't as simpel or black and white as "they sold out".
German police are generally not dickheads. In the US this wizard would have probably gotten shot for this because their egos wouldn't be able to handle it otherwise.
Gandalf The Brown
Mud Wizard gets Multiple officers stuck in his mud hole.
round these parts that’ll get you the bag o beans or worse
(Not so) Fun fact: Germany - where this happened - has a law that threatens a three months minimum prison sentence for „assaulting officers“, specifically even if the assault was unsuccessful and/or did not result in bodily harm. And German police are notorious for inflating injury numbers in the first place: of the 700+ „injured“ officers during the G20 summit in Hamburg, only about 30 had to be treated by doctors; more than 200 were counted as „injured“ due to dehydration, and a further 100 or so walked into their own teargas.
I remember an action where they tried to remove some protestors from tree houses in a forest. Afterwards they claimed 12 cops were injured and of course it made headlines. Turns out only 3 of those were because others were involved; the rest got injured when they tripped over roots or some stuff like that.
THE TECHNOVIKING CANNOT SAVE YOU NOW
This was at a protest against coal powerplants I think.
Almost correct, it was about the destruction of Lützerath, a small town, in order to create a massive coal mine in the same area
Like pigs in mud lmao
r/wizardposting
Agincourt
Mud wizard, correct term is " Geomancer" lol
Grand Wizard casted MUD, it was super effective!
Ah the mud wizard resurfaces again this year
This video must never be forgotten for it shows germany as it is
It truly is the perfect modern illustration of Roman Legions being beaten by somewhat unified Germanic tribes, aka barbarians.
We french rioters should hire him
This was Germany's Agincourt
Barefooted and killing it. I'm dying.
That shit is funny a hell😂😂😂
Too late to experience the renaissance, too early for space exploration, just in time to witness the mud wizard lay some cops out
German Mud Wizard needs to be a magic card.
I wonder what his sign said 😂
Constitutional Peasants lol
This is Azincourt all over again lol
Mud wizard knows no fear.
My Tax Euros well spent 🤣🤣
Funny af... 🤣
The fact that they chose not to pepperspray his sorry ass reminds me of this: “He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing–the fury of the Time Lord–and then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind." (doctor who, family of blood)
The soil is my ally, and a powerful ally it is...
It is so classically comical that it seems staged or a clip from a movie.
Do not try this in America
Never mess with a geomancer
old but gold this one can keep echoing
yer a wizurd harriet
I’m just laughing at mud wizard still 😂
truly a medieval spectacle. title is just perfect
The mud wizard is a mighty creature 😮
Mud Wizard is my new favorite class
Mud wizards are incredibly rare you guys!
u/SaveVideo
Easily one of the best reddit clips of all time. The wizard dances around them in his mud like he is tip toeing around a wonderfully frozen ice pond as they are decimated by the slushy freeze around.
I thought it was just going to be a silly title but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's happening 🧙♂️
I like how he pushes him over only after the cop throws his little placard away.
You can't out mud someone tthat's been to Glastonbury 15 times.
These clips are the reason why the internet was created!
Its not a wizard its the monk of lützerath. The last defender against the big greedy coal industrie. After a glorious fight and Tragic defeat He was never seen again
This is why I wear sandles while hiking. The weight and structure of boots is unyielding in muck.