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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eyebeams" data-source="post: 1761132" data-attributes="member: 9225">A Kwandao? It's a halberd with a big blade, named after a deified general. Sometimes it has a spike on one end. It's probably the second best battlefield weapon after a spear. Anybody who says a halberd is useless is smoking crack, and that's a damn fact. Swords are better civil weapons, though.Yeah, WMA. Mostly, great guys. You get the odd East vs West troll, but the satisfying thing to remember is that a significant amount of the information that allows interpretation of fectbuchs comes from looking as similar things in Asian arts. I'm not big on Clements ever since I saw him do some test cutting to disprove what he thought were traditional pull cuts -- and really, really weren't -- and saw him misrepresent the role of the tatami and stand in test cutting (yeah, any sword can cut through matts and dowels, but that's not the point). Ok, let's look at the damn double-sword pictured above. It pretty much sucks. There are, however, Thai and Chinese weapons that are a little more sensibly put together, where the blades compose 1/3rd of the weapon at most. These weapons are like the Monk's Spade in that the whole idea is to have a weapon that you can adapt staff skills to. Anybody who is afraid of cutting themselves with one of these would be afraid of whacking themselves with a staff, too, which pretty much makes them incompetent to use either. It's not as flexible as a staff, though, because you lose one of the two or three major grips. Breaking it in half is not a big deal, since a weapon like this would typically be reinforced with metal strips and heavy laquering.Is it a practical weapon? Not as practical as a halberd or sword, by my reckoning, but it has a bit of reach and you can use bog-standard staff techniques with it. My opinion? Not the best weapon in the world, but a skilled user could make it functional.The Batleth is terrible. It's a two handed Wind-Fire Wheel, which is like saying you like a spiked gauntlet so much that a giant one on a stick would be even cooler. The very worst weapon, though, is a tie between the double scimitar and the gnomish pick-hammer, both of which are pretty much designed for folks who want to share the pain with their enemy.</blockquote>

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