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| Dr. Åssom | Mar 9 2011, 03:46:34 PM Post #31 |
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The bardiche is a polearm and not a true axe, and the poleaxe, despite the name, is actually a war hammer. |
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| VickyD | Mar 9 2011, 07:17:41 PM Post #32 |
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Ninja, @ the longbow comment: Did you know that Benjamin Franklin actually suggested that each colony have a regiment of longbowmen during The Revolution for that reason? |
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| Dr. Åssom | Mar 9 2011, 08:01:04 PM Post #33 |
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Yeah, the Americans would have never been able to pull that off. The longbow may have been the greatest weapon at the time, but it takes skill to use, skill which was one of the largest things the Revolutionaries lacked. |
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| [NUMINIT] | Mar 10 2011, 01:05:51 PM Post #34 |
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Um... the poleaxe is a weapon consisting of an axe blade attached to a pole. I've read that some say it's a polearm, some call it an axe, but I don't think it could be called a hammer. It doesn't have a blunt edge or spike. Also, the bardiche is one of the shortest polearms. Its pole is just too short for it to be used in the same manner as, say, a halberd. It's more like a long axe than a short polearm. |
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| Dr. Åssom | Mar 10 2011, 03:30:12 PM Post #35 |
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Yes. That's because a halberd is a two-handed polearm, while the bardiche is a one-handed polearm. You can't have something intended for use with one hand be around ten feet long. It's just not going to work, well, unless it's a spear used for thrusting, but that's neither here nor there. |
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| [NUMINIT] | Mar 10 2011, 07:09:32 PM Post #36 |
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Thank you for the link. What a great site. To quote the very site:
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I hate to use Wiki as a source, but...
Apparently the poleaxe can have an axe or hammer head, or both. If you look at the examples at about halfway down the page, you can clearly see that most of them have an axe head, while some lack the hammer. To label it strictly as a warhammer is as wrong as claiming "all poleaxes are axes". As for the bardiche... Linkity link
Try wielding that one-handed.
They would hardly be competing if the one was two, the other one-handed, would they? |
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| Dr. Åssom | Mar 10 2011, 08:53:01 PM Post #37 |
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"Derived from an axe" is not the same as "is an axe." I'd have thought that would be obvious. If the poleaxe is an axe due to being evolved from one, then every single melee weapon in existence is a club. It would also hardly be "competing" if it was an entirely different weapon. Fuck, they're both even specifically mentioned here:
A polearm is a weapon with a head at the end of a long shaft. They both clearly have long shafts. |
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| VickyD | Mar 10 2011, 09:22:17 PM Post #38 |
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That's what she said... Can we agree that they are axe-like polearms? |
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| Dr. Åssom | Mar 10 2011, 09:26:41 PM Post #39 |
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That's why I worded it like that. Yeah. That's what I'm getting at. |
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| [NUMINIT] | Mar 11 2011, 07:42:52 AM Post #40 |
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Deal. Damn beautiful ones at that. I'd love to lay my hands on a poleaxe. Or rather, own one. |
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| Turtle | Mar 11 2011, 06:22:25 PM Post #41 |
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Exciting much?!?!?! I think I need to do some major upgrading so that I can run this on ultra without a hitch, and really get into it (says I as my PC chugs and smolders below) I love the dynamic story system, and of course the magic overhaul sounds insanely good I look forward to this a lot.
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| redsrock | Mar 11 2011, 11:08:00 PM Post #42 |
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| Turtle | Mar 12 2011, 02:01:42 PM Post #43 |
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REDS!!! Hi all, glad to see you're still going Looks like you'll have some major work/activity around November time I'm very excited
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| Vanir | Mar 12 2011, 02:43:44 PM Post #44 |
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How wonderful to see you, Turtle. I'm a little apprehensive about the Radiant Story system. It seems like it'll probably end up like Radiant AI before it: overhyped and not implemented as well as it could have been. |
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| Vanir | Mar 12 2011, 09:10:53 PM Post #45 |
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Also, seeing as we now have a thread specifically for Skyrim discussion, please relegate all discussion to the appropriate (pinned) thread. |
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I look forward to this a lot.

Looks like you'll have some major work/activity around November time
I'm very excited 

9:35 AM Jul 11