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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7279260" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>Um, your experience isn't matched by history, where polearms were used in formations and not by skirmishers.&nbsp; If your opponent is in front of you, and lacks a shield, yes, you have great ability to keep them at bay with the pointy bits.&nbsp; If they have a shield or heavy armor, though, the telegraphing nature of the strikes a polearm makes means they can interpose the shield or a sufficiently armored body part while they close inside your reach.&nbsp; The time to recover and shorten your grip to fight somewhat effectively within your reach is the time they stick their pointy ends into you.&nbsp; If you fight more than one opponent, the time to turn your weapon leaves you vulnerable.&nbsp; This is why polearms were used in formations where the pointy bits made for a hard to breach line rather than by skirmishers where the length and clumsiness (and arguing a halberd isn't clumsier than an arming sword or axe is silly) made for dead skirmishers.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7279260, member: 16814"] Um, your experience isn't matched by history, where polearms were used in formations and not by skirmishers. If your opponent is in front of you, and lacks a shield, yes, you have great ability to keep them at bay with the pointy bits. If they have a shield or heavy armor, though, the telegraphing nature of the strikes a polearm makes means they can interpose the shield or a sufficiently armored body part while they close inside your reach. The time to recover and shorten your grip to fight somewhat effectively within your reach is the time they stick their pointy ends into you. If you fight more than one opponent, the time to turn your weapon leaves you vulnerable. This is why polearms were used in formations where the pointy bits made for a hard to breach line rather than by skirmishers where the length and clumsiness (and arguing a halberd isn't clumsier than an arming sword or axe is silly) made for dead skirmishers. [/QUOTE]

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