02-10-2019, 08:44 AM | #21 |
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Re: Dwarves and Axes
Even the women's axes?
Especially the women's axes.
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02-13-2019, 09:55 AM | #22 | |
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Saxons surely had saxes for more or less the same reason. Lakota may not have had tomahawks as often as painted being horse nomads. But surely Iroquois did. A hatchet would be something very useful to have in a forest primeval. Of course they would have gotten trade tomahawks when they could get them, not flint ones, being reasonably sensible about what directly concerned their survival. And trade tomahawks would not have been much different from what settlers did, and would be the ancestor of what the modern US Army uses.
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02-13-2019, 02:06 PM | #23 | |
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We seem to agree that dwarves can have iconic axes without every dwarf having to wield one -- or having special racial template bonuses for axes, or needing a real-world reason why axes are superior weapons in tunnels, any more than Danes needed a real-world reason why axes were necessarily superior weapons on board their iconic longships, thus forced to universally use them by implacable military logic, else failure and death). |
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02-13-2019, 05:32 PM | #24 | |
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An ax that is just an ax of course, was probably a fairly common weapon because it was a fairly common tool. A reasonably prosperous yeoman would almost certainly have one around and if he went soldiering for some reason, or went on a pirate raid, or simply was the recipient of piracy he might have it. If he took it while going a-viking he probably did not do so with an expectation of using it in a sea battle. The most profitable prey was slave raiding on shore settlements and the most probable resistance was a local lord or sheriff with a few carls. Or conceivably angry farmers wanting to nail your hide to the Church door.
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02-15-2019, 12:06 PM | #25 |
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Out-squeezing goblins is a losing game for Dwarves, eventually Goblins will find a crevice tight enough where there's no room for a dagger and they'll attack you with a kebab stick. Drarven Pride aside, the best weapon to deal with vermin is burning oil.
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02-15-2019, 12:29 PM | #26 | |
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02-15-2019, 04:28 PM | #27 | |
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The Froe is, as well. (Note that a froe is, construction-wise, lose to a 1-handed drawknife or a straight-bladed sickle.) Sadly, the Scandinavians in the Viking era were not known for writing about their tools, just using them, and occasionally burying them. Toolmarks make it clear drawknives and froes were used in addition to the axe and wedges. It's worth noting, as well, that two axes can be used in place of a wedge and mallet, and a drawknife on a smaller bit of wood in place of the froe, albeit being really hard on the sharp edge. |
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02-16-2019, 05:17 PM | #28 |
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I just want you to know that this line had me in stitches.
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02-16-2019, 09:54 PM | #30 |
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According to the Russian history Icon and the Axe, Russian peasants planed by laying the head on a plank and scraping with it. Scandinavians likely did that too.
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