#polearm

[toranstarfall]

One thing I find interesting in the Nine Houses is the weaponry. All of it real, Renaissance-era stuff. But you only see one polearm, G1deon's spear, which he uses as an offhand(at least when in the Mithraeum, he probably only uses his rapier as a sidearm when doing solo missions). Harrow knows what it is, so it isn't a foreign concept, but the weapon of a soldier in the Cohort appears to be a zweihander, a large, two-handed sword, referred to as a longsword in the Houses, which was a weapon meant for frontline soldiers to deal with enemy pikemen, not for formation fighting. Cavaliers use rapiers with an offhand of choice, yet rapiers never saw battlefield use IRL, and if defending the necro is the purpose, wouldn't you want a shield, especially with many enemies the Houses face using firearms? Also, the Houses don't have any firearms, even the ones that were used at a similar time to other weapons they used, but are fully aware of their existence. They also have small shields like bucklers and targes, so it probably isn't a case of not knowing what shields are.

[tobuzzu]

New years dragon ahhhh

[wearemercs]

Ms. Secretary (1,2) by m_riidi

[armouredelf]

[we-are-knight]

" Paladin " by Carlo Arellano.

[catshavenolord]

Won’t Someone Think of the d100 Polearms?

Won’t Someone Think of the d100 Polearms? is a free toolkit for crafting unique polearms for use in tabletop roleplaying games. It is system neutral, and it will be up to you to assign stats that make sense for the polearms in your system of choice.

In this toolkit you will find three tables to roll on to create a polearm:

1. A table of 100 blade designs based on historical polearms!

2. A table of 100 special qualities (Angry, Wise, Invisible, Cabbage)!

3. A table of 100 (mostly) decorative shafts!

Now, go forth and fill your games with a bounty of the most useful yet most underappreciated type of weapon ever to grace the pages of our hobby!

[taffywabbit]

Commission for EmeraldAlkaline, featuring hers and Nocal_Lobody's fursonas as SLARPG-inspired adventurers!

Preparing for quests can get pretty expensive, so it's fairly common for newbies to rely on makeshift weapons and secondhand armor when they're still getting started. There are a variety of traits required to call yourself a hero, but "owning fancy enchanted gear" thankfully isn't one of them!

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the glaive.

This polearm consisted of a single-edged slashing blade on the end of a staff, like a European equivalent of the Japanese naginata. Unlike the naginata, the glaive blade was generally affixed to the shaft by means of a socket, similar to a spear, rather than the naginata’s sword-like tang. It is likely, though, that it saw less use than more thrust-focused polearms, which are far easier to use with many other soldiers in formation; it is difficult to get a good swing in when the person you’re standing right next to is trying to do the same thing.

*(The 1983 science fantasy movie Krull had a five-bladed throwing weapon they decided to call a “glaive” for some reason. I don’t know why they did this. Glaives are not throwing weapons.)

[dunyun-rings]

from the creators of Sword Lesbians comes Polearm Bisexuals

[cultofthewyrm]

Halberd Warrior by madspartan013

[armthearmour]

A Spadone with a battle-worn blade, Venice, Italy, ca. 1550, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

[arlecchinooneandonlywife]

Arlecchino's polearm leaks fr... I'm screaming 😭👍

[wearemercs]

by Josh Corpuz

[saltssaumure]

Friday knight at the museum

[we-are-knight]

Raubritter, by Tomasz Ryger

[cannibalcaprine]

what is a staff if not a pole without an arm