Do You Know Your Glaive-Guisarme From Your Bohemian Earspoon?

Weapons are a large part of any fantasy game. Sometimes they are detailed individually, with crunchy statistics; sometimes they are merely left as flavour. However, it can be fun to imagine the weapons your character is wielding. Halberds, maces, rapiers, guisarmes, glaives, arquebuses, firelances, crossbows, and more make up the armories of any fantasy realms. Straight from the pages of [WOIN] Archaic Equipment, the upcoming sourcebook for the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. roleplaying game system come these illustrations of a wide range of weapons from artist Egil Thompson.

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[Don Durito]

I assume the idea behind a second axe head would be the same as having the back side of your sword edge sharpened, so that you have more freedom to swing. A single head on an axe means you have to completely reverse the weapon when when swinging. At least it would seem to me, I am not a a weapons expert by any stretch.

A second head would also mean more force behind a blow, but that would have the equal drawback of making the weapon slower on recovery as it becomes even more head heavy.

Yes. When you have to deal with heavy armour, the added weight may be an advantage. The fact that we don't see much historical double headed axes probably suggests that same weight meant that a double headed axe didn't have the same advantages as a double edged sword in terms of being able to make use of the second edge.

It's the sort of thing which would be unhistorical if you said it was common. But, it wouldn't stretch belief if say a 14th century knight had one especially made for them for some reason.

So long as it was on the end of a longer pole than is usually depicted in fantasy art.