[Melee] Pick V Axe

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Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Personally, I think an axe should do more damage to an unarmored human than a pick. I had a fellow Marine who put the point of a pickaxe through his foot. He was limping for a while, but eventually he was back to full duty. If he had done the same thing with an axe, there was a much greater chance of severing something permanently.

Well, via the GURPS rules, a Pick isn't going to do any real damage to a limb due to impaling having no wounding modifier vs. extremities.

Also, let's keep in mind that while a pick may punch a deep, broad wound channel(in the case of some) or a narrow deep channel, an axe is capable of inficting large wound channels and cleaving bones and flesh.