Weaponry

[Anathema]

Used to play a game on the old Ameiga (Ameiga? Amiega? Amega? Amiga? I forget...) called 'Desert Strike.' You played a helicopter and those one thing my sister and I loathed about that game were the rapiers. Damn things destroyed us nearly every time...

I used to play that game on the PC. The Rapiers were not guided and easily dodged.

About polearms, a formation of halberd weilding men is almost unstoppable. But if you carry light armour and a short melee weapon like a gladius you can easily take on one in a duel.

[Apollyon]

Amiga.

[Vanguard3000]

LJ:  I believe you're talking about a naginata.  I understand they were often used by cavalrymen to cut the legs off their opponents' horses.

[Khan]

I really like the Japanese Pike, though I can't remember the name

Do you mean the Yari?

http://www.mantisswords.com/japanese_yari.htm

EDIT: oops, didn't see vanguard's post, but it turns out that the naginata is more fitting than the Yaari to your description.

http://www.mantisswords.com/naginata1.htm

[bryorama]

Larger Weapon:

A Grim Scythe

Smaller Weapon:

A Stilletto Dagger

:)

[Lord J]

Yeah, I believe naginata is right.  That sounds about right.

  Dustie:  I believe that's some form of polearm.

[thomas]

all I need is my Gerber AR 3.0  ;D

[Mihail]

I would have one of those samurai swords,and I don't think its a katana,as (as far as I know)katanas can't cut throught iron(I saw an old movie where somebody was demonstrating the samurai sword;it cut through a machine guns's barrel with ease :O )

Strengths:

Light,easy to handle.

Cuts pretty much anything apart

Weaknesses:

If you're not trained,when you're cutting through someone and swing too hard,I think you can end up with a severed head(But I'm not too sure)

[Dante]

Not sure I agree with the scythes. I've tried fighting with a scythe, it's really tough. They're unwieldy and only really useful if your opponant can't move faster than a rock.

[Usul]

I'd have a Nagamaki (4-6 foot long staff with a blade on one end, a cut down version of the Naginata) and a wakizashi as a sidearm. With the Nagamaki I have resonable range and can keep my oponent away from me.

[bryorama]

Not sure I agree with the scythes. I've tried fighting with a scythe, it's really tough. They're unwieldy and only really useful if your opponant can't move faster than a rock.

I never said to fight with it.  :P I just like it. I would have said Trident, but you took that already. :)

[Cyborg]

It's nice to fight high grass with, though.

[bryorama]

It's nice to fight high grass with, though.

Indeed.

I also like the spike, but I can't seem to get a picture of it.

[Dante]

You didn't say anything, you just posted a picture.  :P And after all this is a thread about weaponry, not agricultural implements...

[Caid Ivik]

or the weapon of our czech heretic brothers  ;D

[Dante]

Ooh, morning star. I always found them to be too unpredictable.

[Cyborg]

Yes, amusingly, they sometimes end up in the wrong person's head...

The wielder's head...

[Anathema]

It's a flail. Morning stars are basicly spiked balls on a stick.

Blunt weapons are dreadful weapons, but effective for smashing helms...

[Dante]

Spiked ball on stick: mace.

Spiked ball on chain on stick: morning/evening star.

[Caid Ivik]

Actually, most flails were used by infantry to crush shields of spearmen or powerfully armored knights. In 15th century, it was even more useful than first handguns, which were good maybe only to scare enemy horses...

[ExSPlug]

Spiked ball on stick: mace.

Spiked ball on chain on stick: morning/evening star.

I thought it's like this?

Stick with cylindercial shape of metal(spiked or no spike):mace

Spiked ball on stick: morning star

Spiked ball on stick /w chain: flail

[thomas]

wrong.

a mace is a basically a stick with a a hard object on the end spiked or not a flail/bola/morning star are all the same, DnD manuels aren't completely accurate ;).

[Caid Ivik]

Mace is any blunt crushing weapon. Let it is primitive heavy wooden stick, hammer, metal scepter or spiked thing as morning star or flail. Flail is a morning star with head on chain. I think it was logical to concentrate weight of maces around the head from beginning of human mind, so there aren't needed such strict definitions. But difference between morning star and flail is significant. While morning star was used as a weapon always, flail is originally a peasant tool to beat crop, however, during various medieval rebellions they found a bloodier use for it...

[thomas]

correction a mace and a warhammer are differant, you're being too general. a mace is for pure bludgeoning while a warhammer could be used to do blunt damage or the hook on the end could be used to pierce or pry off armor.

[nemafakei]

"Strengths:

Light,easy to handle.

Cuts pretty much anything apart"

Samurai swords? Since when? Anything that cuts "pretty much anything apart" has to have enough weight behind it to do so.