A knight without his mount and arms would never go into combat as matter of course, but I thought it slightly unfair to ask you to pit yourself against one of these lads.
Short sword. If he’s unarmed, I don’t have to worry about reach. Just give me something relatively fast, that’s usable for slashing as well as thrusting.
And honestly, I’d probably just hold it in my off hand and try to deck him with a punch with my right.
My best chance would probably be a throwing axe like a Francisca. Ideally I’d want 3 or 4 of them.
Count me in for Team Shortsword too, I think it’d be my best chance as it’s versatile enough and manoeuvrable enough for the situation.
Thought of going with the crossbow because I used to rock that shit on Mount & Blade: Warband, but if you miss you’re totally fucked and even if you hit, you’re not guaranteed a kill and he might still keep coming at you.
A what shot? :dubious:
Centre of mass.
I’ll take one shot with a crossbow, then die if I miss.
I want to know which one of you maniacs would take him on with good old fisticuffs!
Trebuchet. As long as I only get one shot, I might as well make it count if it hits 
Fetchez la vache!
Teutons in the snow? That’ll end well…
I think that I could rig up a flamethrower using medieval technology. Should get pretty hot in that armor pretty fast.
I’m bigger and taller than the knight, but he’s certainly a lot stronger and faster than I am. The fact that he’s unarmored is not that huge an advantage for me. It makes him even faster than he normally is. He certainly knows how to get inside the reach of any weapon I’d be using, so my best bet is something small enough that I can use it effectively but large enough that he can’t just grab my wrist and disarm me before I can get a telling blow in.
An arming sword (short sword) is probably my best bet. I’m probably still dead, though. Hopefully he’s too angry to stay at distance and let me tire myself out with ineffectual swings.
I chose crossbow. Wait until he gets close, let him hesitate as I try to talk him out of it, then betray my word. Aim for the chest, and when I invariably miss, hope to hit an arm or leg and do enough to even up the odds.
Yeah, but he was driven into a blood-rage by my accidentally making moves on his lady. He’s no more emotionally equipped to handle things, than I am.
Its not quite a cudgel, so I’d have to say “other”.
I’m thinking of a club that could be used with either one or two hands… about 32 inches in length… made of white ash.
Its something that you could bring up defensively or let fly just as effectively. Something that could impart a magical ward of protection across his forehead:
Definitely a crossbow, shot from hiding or ambush so that no pesky shield will get in the way. Preferably while the knight is sleeping or scrumping some bar maid or in the jakes. 
(I have martial arts training, and have even done some re-enactment stuff with armor, and I know enough to know someone who is young and fit and trained in medieval weapons and armor, which presumably a knight would be, would mop the floor with the lot of us in a straight up fight. Best way to fight someone like this is to forget about the whole fair fight thingy and just kill them from hiding…and if my one bolt misses, I’ll run squealing like a little girl and hide somewhere, then see if a rock would do later on down the pike)
Didn’t read the OP closely enough - I assumed he’d be coming with armor, sword, etc.
Given that he’s without armor, I’m gonna take the longbow and not the crossbow. I’ve never fired a crossbow, but I was pretty good in archery in summer camp way back when. I’d have at least a decent chance of getting an arrow into him before he closed with me.
I chose crossbow, assuming it’s either already loaded or a child’s crossbow that I can still load with my puny muscles, but I’d consider changing to a dagger given that my primary weapon is going to be endurance. I’ve no doubt that knights of the day were pretty fit dudes, but I can’t see them training for distance running like a lot of a runners do now. I figure I can run a good 5-7 miles at a reasonable clip, longer if he’s slower than me. Assuming he truly keeps coming out me no matter how long I’m running, I figure I can out-last him from an endurance perspective and wait for him to collapse. At that point, I’d prefer a crossbow, but it’d be a hell of a lot easier to run for 10 miles with a dagger.
A crossbow is MUCH easier to fire. I don’t know what kind of bow you fired in archery at summer camp, but I doubt it was an English long bow (which I assume is what the OP is talking about…if we can have modern bows/crossbows then this guy is dead meat no matter what, even with one shot). To fire an English Long Bow requires literally decades of practice and a huge amount of strength. I fired one once at a renfair when I was a lot younger and stronger and it was a pretty humiliating experience, despite the fact that I was pretty good with a compound bow. Just stringing it was a (risky) chore, even having been shown the trick of using your leg to brace it, and shooting the thing was unreal. This was only an 80 lb draw, and I was fit and in my 20’s and I almost couldn’t draw the thing, and certainly not hold and roll the string (I missed the entire target at 30 yards). The hand shock was really nasty.
A crossbow on the other hand was a peasants weapon that literally anyone could use. The only difficult part of using one would be using the windlass or cocking mechanism to span it, and given that basically anyone was expected to be able to pick it up and use it with little training I think anyone here could handle it…and it can go right through armor, especially at short or medium range (rate of fire sucks compared to a long bow, but we only get one shot anyway so makes no difference).
I’d agree with this. The best answer is probably the simplest weapon to use - a spear. You definitely want to keep a knight as far away from you as possible and a spear will do that and jabbing is vastly easier ( both physically and figuring it out ) and quicker than swinging a polearm. One can nitpick all the reasons it isn’t optimal, but really it is probably the least bad choice for an untrained individual.
Pointy sticks have been the mainstay of barely trained militia for millenia and for good reason. They’re cheap, easy to use and adequate.