History Videogame / ChivalryMedievalWarfare

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: A few shields can be used in place of throwing weapons, ranging from humble Bucklers for the Men-At-Arms to gigantic Tower Shields for the Knights.

** If you're hit by a Ballista's bolt, you are dead. End of story.
** Catapults also accomplish this with AOE blasts.

* BulletproofHumanShield: Played straight for thrown/fired weapons that aren't the [[OneHitKill Ballista or Catapult]]; they will stop dead immediately upon hitting something. Anything ''handheld'', on the [[IncrediblyLamePun other hand]], is limited only by the player's movement and allows for piercing through multiple enemies at once.

** If you are in a Ballista's line of fire when its arrow is launched, you are dead. End of story.

* {{Gorn}}: Oh so much. As a list, you can have your limbs chopped off, your head exploded by maces and hammers, your body reduced to cinders by flaming oil, or just reduced to a pile of limbs by an ax.

** If you get hit by a Ballista, you are dead. End of story.
** Catapults also accomplish this, but with an AOE twist.

* OneHitPolykill: Weapons are capable of hitting multiple people, [[UnfriendlyFire including your allies]]. There is an achievement for cutting off two heads with one swing.

* WorldOfHam: If your VideoGame/ChivalryMedievalWarfare matches do not have copious amounts of raucous yelling and valiant war cries, your sound has been muted, or for some reason everyone's BattleCry button isn't working, or they have all forgotten about the button's existence.

* YourHeadAsplode: Maces, hammers, any source of blunt trauma instead of slash/stabbing will usually cause someone's head to explode into chunks if you can actually land a headshot with the slow weapons.

* CallThatAFormation: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Due to the UnfriendlyFire, standing anywhere within 180 degrees of an ally's vision will usually get you hit with the backswing of a claymore.

* ChargedAttack: Sort of. Overhead swings take quite a bit longer to pull off, and use a much more unforgiving hitbox than the standard slash attack, but do ''much'' more damage.
** Unless your weapon is better suited to stabbing, in which this trope really fits stabbing with pointed weapons since stabbing is the slowest of all of the attacks but also has the best reach.

* DropTheHammer: The warhammer, which is handy for [[YourHeadAsplode knocking enemy skulls in.]]

* BattleCry: There's even ''two'' buttons for it - one can be done while moving, the other plays a special animation that stops you from doing anything else as it goes.

* EscortMission: A map on Team Objective has the Agatha Knights protecting a king. Considering a random player is the king, this can either be very easy or mind-numbingly difficult.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: A few shields can be used in place of throwing weapons, ranging from humble bucklers for the men-at-arms to a gigantic tower shield for the knights.

* MookChivalry: Thoroughly averted, considering that the players themselves are mooks, and ganging up on a heavily armoured and slow knight is the best way to take them down.
* MightyGlacier: Knights have some of the strongest weapons in the game, but are very slow and the weapons tend to be short or have no reach.

** If you get hit by a ballista, you are dead. End of story.

* '''UnfriendlyFire:''' Although hitting teammates does halved damage, that's the only restriction; interrupting their attacks and/or killing them is well within the realm of possibility, to the point that it's a miracle if there isn't at least one teamkill per match.

* OneHitKill: Vanguard's charge, Knights with warhammers, Archers against people without helmets. Probably the only class without much potential for [=OHKOs=] is the Man-At-Arms.

** Actually has it's own hotkey. Anyone who's giggling in the middle of a corpse-strewn field is probably pretty evil.

The players have a choice of one of four classes, [[TheArcher an Archer]], a [[FragileSpeedster Man-at-Arms]], [[LightningBruiser a Vanguard]] or a [[MightyGlacier Knight,]] with each having a differing amount of equipment available. Archers use either javelins, crossbows or longbows; Men at Arms use swords, maces, axes and shields; Vanguards use polearms and greatswords, and Knights use battle axes, warhammers, and other heavy weapons potentially along with heavier shields.

* TheArcher: Obviously enough, The Archer is a playable class. Although they can equip Javelins instead of a bow and arrow, as well as Crossbows.

* WorldOfHam: If your VideoGame/ChivalryMedievalWarfare matches do not have copious amounts of raucous yelling and valiant war cries, your sound has either been muted or for some reason everyone's BattleCry button isn't working.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The accents are well portrayed, although some of them veer into this trope on occasion.

Weapons and blocking have hitboxes in accordance to their models and placement, leaving players able to strike past blocking enemies with some accuracy and their opponents failing to place their weapon or shield correctly in response to incoming attacks. Players can even manipulate their positioning by putting their striking-side closer to their opponent to hit them faster on their swings.

* UnfriendlyFire: It's not uncommon to accidentally whack your friend in the back of the head with a broadsword. How they respond is usually killing you outright. Overhead and stabbing strikes are advised in a large confusing melee to avoid this.
** Thus, it is a common pattern for teams to start killing each other after a match is won to amusingly pass the time until the next match begins loading.

* XMeetsY: VideoGame/MountAndBlade meets VideoGame/HalfLife2.

The players have a choice of one of four classes, [[TheArcher an Archer]], a [[FragileSpeedster Man-at-Arms]], [[LightningBruiser a Vanguard]] or a [[MightyGlacier Knight,]] with each having a differing amount of equipment available. Archers use either javelins, crossbows or longbows; Men at Arms use swords, maces, axes and shields; Vanguards use polearms and greatswords, and Knights use battle axes, warhammers, and other heavy weapons.

* ArrowCam: Can be activated while firing projectiles.

** You can also place your striking end closing to the enemy so your swing connects onto them faster. Doing this also stops you from easily seeing them, so you better hope they don't avoid it or they'll be able to hit you while you're probably blind.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Men-At-Arms tend to have the weakest weapons, but move the fastest of all the classes. This also happens a lot against Knights, considering [[MightyGlacier they have a lot of armour.]]

* OneHitPolykill: Weapons are capable of hitting multiple people, [[UnfriendlyFire including your allies]]. There is a taunt for cutting off two heads with one swing.

* FacelessGoons: The Vanguard and Knight classes both wear face-obscuring mass, and are typically the bulk of either team.

* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: The Free For All game mode. Around 16 players or so armed to the teeth with big swords and polearms and crossbows and axes, and only one player can win. HilarityEnsues.

* SceneryGorn: The lush foliage and scenic villages rather quickly become spotted in pools of blood and dismembered corpses about halfway through any standard game.

* AllStarCast: Not the game itself, but The Battle Royale event had players such as Husky, Jefmajor, Criken, the {{Yogscast}}, and TotalBiscuit among others.

* UnlockableContent: Each class has three primary weapons available. The rest are unlocked after kills are obtained using each. Though the unlocking seems to be rather buggy and contrived.

Weapons and blocking have hitboxes in accordance to their models and placement, leaving players able to strike past blocking enemies with some accuracy and their opponents failing to place their weapon or shield correctly in response to incoming attacks. Players can even manipulate their positioning by putting their right-side closer to their opponent to hit them faster on their swings which come from the right-side.

* AnAxeToGrind: There are a number of axes as available weapons, ranging from great-axes to throwing axes to the humble hatchet

* GlassCannon: Archers can [[OneHitKill instantly kill others]] by obtaining a headshot. However, they only carry daggers and shortswords in close range, making them very easy to kill assuming you can get close enough. Don't underestimate them though, as five stabs with a dagger to the body will kill even a Knight, and daggers strike quickly.

* OneHitPolykill: Weapons are capable of hitting multiple people, [[UnfriendlyFire including your allies]].

Melee combat consists of a fastest side-to-side slash, and slower overhead strike doing more damage than slashing, and the slowest but farthest-reach stab. Weapons can be raised for short amount of time to parry after which they will be lowered - only when you have a shield does

* SceneryPorn: The game really does look great, with lush foliage, well defined character models and nice looking textures.

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a medieval warfare game developed by Torn Banner Studios, and is a spiritual successor to the Age of Chivalry game mod for Half Life 2. The game is set in the fictional kingdom of Agatha, where a civil war has begun between the Mason Order and the Agatha Knights.

The players have a choice of one of four classes, [[TheArcher an Archer]], a [[GlassCannon Man-at-Arms]], [[LightningBruiser a Vanguard]] or a [[MightyGlacier Knight,]] with each having a differing amount of equipment available. Archers use either javelins, crossbows or longbows; Men at Arms use swords, maces, axes and shields; Vanguards use polearms and greatswords, and Knights use battle axes, warhammers, and other heavy weapons.

* GlassCannon: Men-at-Arms are very fast, can dodge, and have access to quick weapons, and a shield by default. Borders on GameBreaker if played very well. However, they have next to no armor, just a little more than the Archer, and are usually killed in one strike from the heavier weapons.
** Archers can [[OneHitKill instantly kill others]] by obtaining a headshot. However, they only carry daggers and shortswords in close range, making them very easy to kill assuming you can get close enough.

* UnfriendlyFire: It's not uncommon to accidentally whack your friend in the back of the head with a broadsword. How they respond is usually killing you outright.