A Landsknecht outfit, puffed trousers and all, for robinswords
The new mercenary costume came with a sock and a hat thrown in, but no armor that quite matches it, and viewers have ideas about that.
robinswordsStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
I got the Landsknecht Outfit
On a usual day robinswords draws something like 240,000 views. This week ran at roughly half that pace, and the channel still had a costume worth talking about.
"I got the Landsknecht Outfit" is exactly that: the HEMA practitioner and Triangle Sword Guild member trying on the slashed, puffed, wildly colored clothing of the German mercenaries who marched across sixteenth-century Europe, set to "Landsknechts Tanz" by Musik der Spielleute. It passed 370,000 views, and nearly 200,000 of them came on its first day. Robin admits he has no armor that really matches it, and that line has set off the busiest thread underneath. Plenty of viewers argue that slightly older armor is perfectly believable, since a mercenary would wear whatever pieces he had, perhaps his father's. Others mostly want to talk about the look, the pluderhosen bunching below the tassets, and the joke that this is the last thing a lord sees after telling his mercenaries he cannot pay.
The rest of the week went to polearms, with an offside strike and a video-game habit taken apart, plus a sparring example of Joachim Meyer's Hip Cut from his 1570 treatise. Yet the video moving fastest right now is eleven days old: "Swetnam's 3 Rapier Grips," built on Joseph Swetnam's 1617 fencing manual, is still out ahead of the new outfit.
Among the military and weapons channels near his size, robinswords sits fourth by subscribers but seventh by views gained this week, while Max Afterburner had the group's big week.
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What viewers say
Last thing a lord sees after telling the mercenaries that he's broke
@SigismundSonOfDornSee it on YouTubeA bit earlier is always better, then you just look like a soldier who had older armor lying around as backup, or perhaps it was your fathers armor🤔
@SamuelBranmuffinsSee it on YouTubeThe pluderhosen puffing low on the knee below the tassets actually looks great ❤
@opeltheartistSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on robinswords right now
- Channel
- robinswords
- Subscribers
- 794,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,904,080
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 374,599
- Views on its first day
- 198,265
The numbers
Here is how robinswords' week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Joachim Meyer, whose Hip Cut appears in the sparring example, published his fencing treatise in which year?
The video's description cites The Art of Fencing by Joachim Meyer, 1570.
