A handy pole weapon guide!

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A handy pole weapon guide!

#1 Post by isengoo » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:52 pm

Just found this, it's pretty darn neat.

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#2 Post by fernao » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:59 am

Cool man! Thanks a bunch!
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#3 Post by Olrane » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:23 pm

Clear winner is the voulge. So underused - I had a character who had one. Look at that! Pole-cleaver! And that blade looks really securely fastened.

Edit: Also, that bardiche is way too long. Bardiches were characteristically very short-hafted but long bladed. Usually not much longer than 5 feet.

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#4 Post by Kian » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:42 pm

Clearly the corseque is the coolest. Go order.
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#5 Post by Skragna » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:03 pm

What are you on, crack? The best is, quite clearly, the bec de corbin. Blade, point AND a hammer.

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#6 Post by Amaleth » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:09 pm

You are all wrong. The best pole weapon is binding a darkelf to a pole and whacking things with him/her. Duh.

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#7 Post by Olrane » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:38 pm

Psh. A bec de corbin is just a halberd where someone severely messed up the blade.

Admittedly, most side-bladed polearms (that's to say, the ones that aren't straight out of the end, spear-like) really should have guisarmes, the hooks on the back for pulling armoured riders off their horses.

So, voulge-guisarme.

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#8 Post by Skragna » Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:28 am

Lochaber axe.Image

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#9 Post by Olrane » Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:10 am

Lochaber axes are just bardiches (often bardiche-guisarmes) used by Scots. They certainly aren't unique enough to merit a name of their own, so I pretty much disregard lochaber axe as a different polearm class.

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#10 Post by luminier » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:08 am

You guys are all wrong. Lance for the fucken win.
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#11 Post by fernao » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:15 am

Well, those are western-style weapons, all of them. How about a nice overview on chinese/oriental style polearms?
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#12 Post by isengoo » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:48 am

fernao wrote:Well, those are western-style weapons, all of them. How about a nice overview on chinese/oriental style polearms?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_weapo ... an_Weapons

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