10-31-2010, 11:15 PM | #21 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
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11-01-2010, 08:29 AM | #22 | |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
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If you look at the Customization rules in MA a backspike, thrusting point, hook or sickle blade only add 0.5 lbs. I doubt even a full axe blade would go over 1 lbs and well short of +2 lbs.
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11-01-2010, 10:00 AM | #23 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
Double bitted axes might be a D&D-ísm, but an ax with a pick or hook on the back is realistic, right?
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11-01-2010, 10:03 AM | #24 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
Not as much a D&D-ism as a DF-ism. They sure were present in early Swedish RPGs - mostly as weapons for (appropriately enough) minotaurs. They were kind of the ultimate badass weapon.
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11-01-2010, 10:23 AM | #25 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
David Nicolle includes depictions of Byzantine double-bitted axes in Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era. He outright claims their use by Byzantine forces in the Medieval Warfare Source Book. They may be rare but there seems to be some evidence for their use in a military setting.
I don't have AaAotCE but it could be enlightening if some one wants to bring Nicolle's findings to the forum for discussion.
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11-01-2010, 10:55 AM | #26 | |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
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I can't see any reason a double headed axe couldn't work. The gigantic ones seen in art are clearly useless, but then they'd be just as useless if you cut one of the blades off. I don't see any *advantage* to it either, but putting another edge on the back side of an already functional combat axe seems pretty harmless as fantasy weapons go.
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11-01-2010, 10:57 AM | #27 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Labrys
Yup. When you go up against mail and plate armored opponents, throwing a crushing head or spike head onto the back of your saddle axe. Adding a thrusting spike to the head isn't a bad idea either: it gives you more versatility.
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