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Originally Posted by Railstar
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I was under the impression that purpose-built military axes persisted across centuries, at least during the medieval period – not to the same popularity as spears/polearms or swords, of course, but there's a lot of ground between “less awesome than spears/polearms” and “horrible.” I also get the feeling that purpose-building war axes would have faded away if they were clearly inferior weapons.
A grey area that muddies the waters further is axe-polearms, like pollaxes or halberds.
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Yeah to be fair I think that purpose built axes for warfare we basically what would get grouped into shorter pole arms (well barring specific stuff like dane axes, and earlier dagger axes etc).
Axe blades on sticks appear a lot in different ways down the years. It's just the military versions didn't generally look much like civilian axes. So that said it's a bit unfair of me to say "axes weren't battlefield weapons, pole-arms were", because well in a lot of cases pole arms
were battle field axes.