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Just found this, it's pretty darn neat.

Cool man! Thanks a bunch!

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.

Clearly the corseque is the coolest. Go order.

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

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

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.

Lochaber axe.

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.

You guys are all wrong. Lance for the fucken win.

Well, those are western-style weapons, all of them. How about a nice overview on chinese/oriental style polearms?

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