What is your medieval weapon of choice?

[Thorsteinn]

Poleaxe to the Jimmy!!!

[Lord Dane]

As pictorially demonstrated by Thorsteinn, there you have it.

[Sir Nate]

Ouch

[Justin]

Good gracious! That poor guy saw God at that moment.

[Sir Brian]

At the very least his whole sex life passed before his eyes!

[Lord Dane]

At the very least his whole sex life passed before his eyes!

Now how do you know he has a sex life, Sir Brian?? lol Be more accurate to say his nads passed into the next world in an honorable fashion. 

[Sir James A]

Poleaxe to the Jimmy!!!

Laurin Tournament, utterly fantastic event

[Sir Rodney]

Laurin Tournament, utterly fantastic event

For everyone except the dude to the right!   

[Justin]

Quite. That man regrets every decision he ever made leading up to this.

[scott2978]

I'd prefer a ballista, for backstabbing people.



But for real, the pole axe is my favorite weapon also. I saw a Mike Loades video of it once that illustrated it's use pretty well.

This whole video is good but the poleaxe part begins about 39:00


Scott

[Magnus the Smasher]

A real vesion of this... The Smasher.

[Justin]

Haha. Seems appropriate.

[Henrik Granlid]

Lately, I've actually been falling more and more in love with the pollhammer, not the axe, not the lucerne or bec De corbin, but the pollhammer. Meat tenderiser on a stick, backed by an axe-head and with a long pointy bit at the very end.

Seriously.

Smack.

Do you need anything else?

[scott2978]

What you describe fits the description of many polaxes.

[Henrik Granlid]

They are all pretty much the same in the end. But what I identify as a hammer rather than an axe is that the meaty bit is the primary weapon and the axe head is shrunk down, whereas the axes have very telling axe heads, often with curved beards, whilst the hammer is kinda small and sure, it works.... But the axe is the real business end on those, much like the hammer is the business end on my weapon of choice.