Pike Axe

[KevinJ]

Originally Posted by RBasler

OK, here's a question that has been bugging me for years: Exactly what is a "Pike axe"? I've checked the references in my library (including G.C Stone), I've exercised my Google-Fu, but I am coming up with a blank (well, not exactly blank: Google redirects to "Halberd.) Pikes were pikes, and when you've got something that long and skinny, adding extra weight at the tip for something like an axe blade is generally a bad idea.
There was the "Pole Axe", which was generally a longer, more axe-like halberd-ish weapon, The "Pick Axe", which is a tool, and the rather handy "Poll Axe", which was a shorter (~6" overall) halberd-ish weapon with a pronounced top spike and often had a broad hammer-head opposite the axe blade, and was usually used for armored single combat. CQB the the tin-can crowd.
What did Steve Jackson have in mind when he wrote "Pike Axe"?

Yet you are fine with Mechanician and Physicer instead of Mechanic and Physician. You should have heard how Steve explained Sha-ken vs Shuriken to me back in 1982.