[Low-Tech/Basic] Pick: War Club or Pickaxe

[Blind Mapmaker]

I've been going through the Low-Tech weapon table again and run into the problem of finding stats for using an actual Pickaxe in combat. The Pick in the weapon table in Basic set and the one in Low-Tech share stats and those have been unchanged at least since Low-Tech for 3rd edition. But while I took the pick in Basic to be a pickaxe, the description in Low-Tech (p. 60) makes it clear this is supposed to be the weapon of war. From the weight and one-handedness I assume it's closest to the Horseman's Pick (Wikipedia-Link).

The weight and cost for the pick as a tool are (LT p. 30) are, however, the same while the TL is 1 instead of 3. I'm thinking this is probably an oversight. I'm not necessarily against pickaxes doing impaling damage, even if it's a little cinematic, but using it one-handed seems more than a little off. The tool stats in Low-Tech for 3rd edition (p. 78) were 7 lbs, $18 and TL 2.

Maybe keeping sw+1 imp, but reducing it to Parry -1U, ST 12‡, removing the bonus to target chinks in armour and treating it as poor quality for fighting might be better? It would still be quite a good weapon for that price and it might be better to stick it with a skill penalty of -2 in addition. Still that feels a bit much. It's not as unwieldy as a Garden Weasel or a Chainsaw (Horror pp. 50).

Any thoughts on that? It might be that it being made unready after attacking is already balanced enough. Or maybe impaling is a little overpowered, though it does feel right for a pickaxe to get stuck even if it isn't that sharp. Or just doubling the 3rd ed. tool cost already is enough.

PS: I checked my playtest messages from LT, but nothing jumped out.
PPS: I did find the thread Pickaxe tool damage value, but it seems to have come to no conclusion and predates LT for 4th edition.