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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7909943" data-attributes="member: 27847">Which is of course the reason in the early modern period governments started to produce requirements and contract out to makers that could meet the requirements, instead just buying what was available.At any rate AD&amp;D's weapon list is a massive list of silliness because its a bunch of things that are the same weapon functionally, if not in specific design.For example a halberd is a spear point, a pick, and an axe on a a pole. No matter the size or shape of each item it's still a halberd. A poleaxe is basically a footman's warhammer on a pole, they don't necessarily have an axehead (weird right?), this is functionally the same weapon as a lucerne hammer, a bec-de-corbin, or a bunch of other hammers on a long stick. There are regional and cultural differences in the design, but in the end it was used by soldiers on foot as a hammer on a long stick.Another good example is the naginata and the sovnya (a Russian pole weapon). Both are poles with what amounts to a single edge sword on the dangerous end. The two look different, but would be used the same way as a weapon. Both are variants of the more broad European weapon the glaive.I suppose my general point is that if you're writing fiction pick a type of weapon you want to focus on, and find an appropriate name that you like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7909943, member: 27847"] Which is of course the reason in the early modern period governments started to produce requirements and contract out to makers that could meet the requirements, instead just buying what was available. At any rate AD&D's weapon list is a massive list of silliness because its a bunch of things that are the same weapon functionally, if not in specific design. For example a halberd is a spear point, a pick, and an axe on a a pole. No matter the size or shape of each item it's still a halberd. A poleaxe is basically a footman's warhammer on a pole, they don't necessarily have an axehead (weird right?), this is functionally the same weapon as a lucerne hammer, a bec-de-corbin, or a bunch of other hammers on a long stick. There are regional and cultural differences in the design, but in the end it was used by soldiers on foot as a hammer on a long stick. Another good example is the naginata and the sovnya (a Russian pole weapon). Both are poles with what amounts to a single edge sword on the dangerous end. The two look different, but would be used the same way as a weapon. Both are variants of the more broad European weapon the glaive. I suppose my general point is that if you're writing fiction pick a type of weapon you want to focus on, and find an appropriate name that you like. [/QUOTE]

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