05-28-2005, 08:05 AM
Quote:How is that different from a halberd
for starters, a halberd is a swiss weapon mad to support the swiss pikemen. The halberders would travel behind the pikemen. when the calvery charch was stoped by the wall of spear points the halberders would walk threw the pike ranks and chop of the horse's legs and spear the riders. The halberd was never a farm tool and has no hooks mad to carry meat.
Froymen with billhooks travels in a mass to take on both enemy infentry and calvery. ultimitly they were used in diffrent ways yet the same way (if that makes any sence). you will find many polearms are a close family thing. kingdoms like england and the dutchery of swiss was the best with polearms do to there lack of horses to counter the french and german knights. Also in England the yeomen that carried the longbow