Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "What was some medieval woodland like?" video.

  1. I'm American, so maybe it's a different frame of reference, but aside from that one downed tree, that bit of woodland looks a lot less dense and a lot more manicured than the woods I'm used to. The trees are very widely spaced apart and there seems to be very little undergrowth. I've spent time in the woods from New Hampshire to Tennessee, and it's all more dense than that. But I imagine that in an era where military tactics largely involved fighting in formation with spears, or with archers shooting volleys of arrows, those woods could create an issue - for the archers especially. Generally, you don't want stuff getting between your projectile and its target, it just slows the projectile down and/or knocks it off course.
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