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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9766626" data-attributes="member: 7044462">Man at arms to be more precise (all knights were man at arms, not all man at arms were knights). In essence, highly trained and well equipped professional soldiers, used in specialized role of shock troops, mostly as heavy cavalry, but sometimes on foot (like Agincourt). Lance as primary, sword/mace as secondary weapon on horseback, poleaxe or halberd as primary with sword/mace as secondary while on foot.  They would train from young age and specialize in few weapons, mostly lance, sword and polearm/mace for armored combat on foot. It's not like they didn't know how to use other sharp/blunt instruments of warfare. It's just that they didn't spend that much time training with them. To put it into modern context. Number of years ago, our police force transitioned from old school handguns with manual safety to modern guns without it. Pistol is pistol right? No so much. There was number of incidents of policeman shooting themselves with their own guns. Same problem was in military. We switched from yugo style Ak to modern bulpup VHS. Old timers needed to retrain muscle memory, different recoil and ballistics, even iron sights are different. It's not like they forgot how to shoot, they just weren't that good with them until they spent time training.</blockquote>