tkdguy Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 See if you can identify the various pole arms without looking in the Unearthed Arcana (or any arms and armor books). Pole Arm Quiz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
culhwch Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz Man...must have been a while since I've studied pole arms.....I only got 6 of the 22 right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Kor Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 10 of 22. I love some of the obvious non-answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 11 out of 22 - not being a military historian, I can live with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savinien Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 12 of 22. I remember a lot of those pics from my D&D days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Smithen Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 7 out of 22. Gotta love some of the names that they give those things... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 16 of 22 without cheating. Mixed up Partisan and Spetum, so I could have done better. Of course, I just recently completed a Fantasy Hero polearm rewrite... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starcloud Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz From memory, without looking at Unearthed Arcana (where most of the illos came from).. 14/22. Eesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 14 out of 22. And they're right - I not only read that book, I coveted it when I was a kid cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawain Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 13 out of 22. I'm embarrassed at how many useless things I can remember after all these years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 9 out of 22. Given I've never made any significant study of pole-arms, I'm happy with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorKnight Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz I got "You selected 6 of 22 polearms correctly".I never was much of a pole arm person.Prefer swords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Divago Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 12 of 22 but this quiz is a fake: last summer i was at lochaber, in scotland, and i saw in a poster a lochaber axe who looked exactly like the one they depicted as "halberd"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 12 of 22 but this quiz is a fake: last summer i was at lochaber, in scotland, and i saw in a poster a lochaber axe who looked exactly like the one they depicted as "halberd"... Medieval weapons classification is somewhat fuzzy, probably because medieval people didn't classify very well or do things very systematically. Basically, every weapon was made to whatever design the weaponsmith thought would work best and, when made, with a single person in mind. Any weapon you had not specifically made for you, was probably one you either inherited or looted. You didn't go to a store and buy a sword that was made out of a mold and practically identical to ten thousand other swords, with the model number of the sword giving its design parameters. Or in other words, take that to two different medieval weapons experts (that is, through time travel) and one of them could very well call it a Lochaber Axe and the other a Halberd. Also, the poster may as easily be mislabeled as the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Divago Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz Medieval weapons classification is somewhat fuzzy' date=' probably because medieval people didn't classify very well or do things very systematically. Basically, every weapon was made to whatever design the weaponsmith thought would work best and, when made, with a single person in mind. Any weapon you had not specifically made for you, was probably one you either inherited or looted. You didn't go to a store and buy a sword that was made out of a mold and practically identical to ten thousand other swords, with the model number of the sword giving its design parameters.[/quote']o yeah i totally agree was just a funny argument honestly, most of "modern" classification does'nt exists or was not strict in the middle age ie there was no "long sword" nor "bastard sword"; there was a claymore that someone classify like a "one and half hand" sword and someone like a "two handed" sword. there was almost hundred differnt type of swords that could be classified like a "bastard sword" (and honestly, i don't know them) as for katana, who generally speaking means "single edged sword", there are half a dozen different sword type (uchigatana, daikatana and tachi being the most famous); and for every type there are several differences amongs hilt and blade lenght: during war periods hilts was longer and blade more efficient, while during peace periods hilt was shorter and blade more elegant for polearms this was even worse 'cause mainly there where no specific name: in fact they where named by the place where this specific polearm was used (like lochaber axe or lucern hammer) or modern days naming so, those terms are just a gaming classification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz Where's the glaive-glaive-glaive-guisarme-glaive? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests the Pole Arm Emporium http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html Or maybe spamalot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz o yeah i totally agree was just a funny argument honestly, most of "modern" classification does'nt exists or was not strict in the middle age ie there was no "long sword" nor "bastard sword"; there was a claymore that someone classify like a "one and half hand" sword and someone like a "two handed" sword. there was almost hundred differnt type of swords that could be classified like a "bastard sword" (and honestly, i don't know them) as for katana, who generally speaking means "single edged sword", there are half a dozen different sword type (uchigatana, daikatana and tachi being the most famous); and for every type there are several differences amongs hilt and blade lenght: during war periods hilts was longer and blade more efficient, while during peace periods hilt was shorter and blade more elegant for polearms this was even worse 'cause mainly there where no specific name: in fact they where named by the place where this specific polearm was used (like lochaber axe or lucern hammer) or modern days naming so, those terms are just a gaming classification. Or historian classifications, although theirs tend to use fancy names and numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz Technically, historians don't give a crap about the difference between one polearm and another. (The random article in Antiquity aside). You're thinking about "antiquarians" there. Now, there's admittedly some crossover when the historical narrative is just screaming for a technical investigation, but hopefully you can still tell the difference between the two.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 20, 2011 Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz Technically' date=' historians don't give a crap about the difference between one polearm and another. (The random article in Antiquity aside). You're thinking about "antiquarians" there. Now, there's admittedly some crossover when the historical narrative is just screaming for a technical investigation, but hopefully you can still tell the difference between the two.) ...So antique radios concern themselves with styles of pole-arms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 11/22, guessing more-or-less randomly. Not bad for a n00b who isn't into pole-arms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theron Posted May 6, 2011 Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz 18 of 22. But I've always been at variance with Mr. Gygax's definition of an "Awl-Pike." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theron Posted May 6, 2011 Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 Re: Pole Arm Quiz for polearms this was even worse 'cause mainly there where no specific name: in fact they where named by the place where this specific polearm was used (like lochaber axe or lucern hammer) or modern days naming. Sometimes, not even for polearms. I had a copy of a 14c. manual of chivalry that was in parallel text (Modern English on one page and Medieval French on the facing). The word "Glaive" was so consistently translated as sword, I actually contacted the author to check it. He replied that he was well aware of the polearm, but in context, it was clear the author (Geoffroi de Charny) was referring to swords. His view was that it was originally an idiomatic term for any sort of bladed weapon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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