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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6394691" data-attributes="member: 4937">Those butt spikes served a variety of purposes, not limited to providing counter-balance to the weapon, allowing you to brace the weapon against the ground as for resisting a charge, reducing splintering from the shaft on the haft end, or serving as a back up weapon in the event the main fighting end of the weapon was sundered.   I know they were used on the dory (Greek spear), sarissa (Greek pike), and medieval poleax.  Nonetheless, as you say, not what I'm talking about.   A relatively dull bronze spike is not a sharpened blade.</blockquote>