You make a good point, can't see why they should be different.
Could someone also tell me why the 2h axes are unbalanced, but the longer axes in polearms are not? (though they are unusable on horseback)
They way they are held. Go grab a shovel or a broom and hold with both your hands at the end like a 2hander. Rather clumsy and unbalanced. Hard to recover after a swing. However, you use the full length of the weapon.
Then go hold them half way-up the way a pole arm is held. Very easy to swing at the cost of quite a bit of weapon length. Easy to recover from, not unbalanced.
Of course, it all makes sense. :D
In that case, is the weapon reach lower on a polearm compared to a 2hander with equal length, due to holding further up the weapon?
Of course, it all makes sense. :D
In that case, is the weapon reach lower on a polearm compared to a 2hander with equal length, due to holding further up the weapon?
Yeah, the swing animations give you a shorter effective range for polearms as compared to 2 handed weapons in general.
Thought so, that's fair in order to keep them more balanced. :)
Can I use a flamberge from horseback too? It has one less length than a long hafted blade, and I can swing that from a horse
Can I use a flamberge from horseback too? It has one less length than a long hafted blade, and I can swing that from a horse
Give back horseback great maul, kthxbye.Yeah, but they still use their corresponding wpf. It's just the animation that is 1h.(click to show/hide)
in truth real spears are slow weapons
So very epicly wrong. Very very very wrong.
yea it is, even read about the real awlpike
Awlpike(IRL description)-
Also known just as a "pike" and a Morris pike (corruption of Moorish), this is an infantry spear raning from 16 to 22 feet in length. Awl Heads are usually leaf- or lozenge shaped. The pole is made of a strong wood, such as ash. Many pike heads are made with two tongues of steel, nailed down the sides of the shaft in order to prevent the head from getting hacked off. The grip is often bound with cloth and the butt capped in steel to prevent the shaft from splitting. The awl pike has the DUBIOUS distinction of being the SLOWEST polearm available. add this to its MEDIOCRE damage against man-sized opponents, and one is left with a weapon of QUESTIONABLE VALUE, except when used EN MASSE on the battlefied.
INGAME= ridonkulous awesome dueling 1v1 weapon of death, plus hell you have 2 pike users, oh shit no one can stop u now lol (like IRL, o wait you'd get raped IRL with only 2 slow ass unwieldy pikes that do poor damage)
IRL= slow ass poor damage weapon, only useful in large formations(we're talking 4 rows deep, the real advantage of "long spear" type weapons, total suck in 1v1 due to slowness, bad damage)
yea it is, even read about the real awlpike
Awlpike(IRL description)-
Also known just as a "pike" and a Morris pike (corruption of Moorish), this is an infantry spear raning from 16 to 22 feet in length. Awl Heads are usually leaf- or lozenge shaped. The pole is made of a strong wood, such as ash. Many pike heads are made with two tongues of steel, nailed down the sides of the shaft in order to prevent the head from getting hacked off. The grip is often bound with cloth and the butt capped in steel to prevent the shaft from splitting. The awl pike has the DUBIOUS distinction of being the SLOWEST polearm available. add this to its MEDIOCRE damage against man-sized opponents, and one is left with a weapon of QUESTIONABLE VALUE, except when used EN MASSE on the battlefied.
INGAME= ridonkulous awesome dueling 1v1 weapon of death, plus hell you have 2 pike users, oh shit no one can stop u now lol (like IRL, o wait you'd get raped IRL with only 2 slow ass unwieldy pikes that do poor damage)
IRL= slow ass poor damage weapon, only useful in large formations(we're talking 4 rows deep, the real advantage of "long spear" type weapons, total suck in 1v1 due to slowness, bad damage)
I agree love is needed for axes on horseback