Making two-handed weapons more interesting.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Mathis

I just feel that in situations where 1. you can retreat 2. you can swing your giant axe/sword/halberd and 3. you have managed to bring your polearm along, the warrior with the two handed weapon should be at a greater advantage. There must after all have been a reason why people abandoned shields in the late medieval period (my only source for this is GURPS martial arts fluff).

That said I have actually been convinced that my houserule would require a revision of most of the two handed weapon/polearm stats.

Heavy armor that made the wearer mostly impervious to one-handed weapons, I gather.

GURPS may have a problem modeling that, because ST-based weapons seem to be quite capable of penetrating armor.