Bow
Bec de corbin (no: "kråkenebb"): The bec de corbin has a solid beak on one side, a flanged hammer head on the other, and a thick spear point on top. This is a polearm created to combat men in plate armour. The bec de corbin is used by dismounted knights, and the sole polearm considered a weapon of the nobility.
The billhook is has a hooked blade, a spear point and a beak on the reverse. Enemies may be caught and pulled with the hooked blade.
The bill evolved from a pruning tool. and is one of the most widely used polearms, perfect for use by infantry against cavalry.
The glaive is one of the simplest polearms, a heavy, single-edged blade like that of a sword, set on a long shaft.
The glaive is reckoned to be the first polearm, and it still sees much use among warriors that do not expect to engage very heavily armoured opponents. Its shorter cousin, the atgeir, is very popular in the northlands.
The halberd is the heaviest of the commonly used polearms, with a heavy axe head surmounted by a spear point, and with a armour-penetrating beak on the reverse. It can cleave or puncture armour, flesh and bone alike. The halberd requires significant strength to be used efficiently, whether with a long or a short shaft.
The halberd is used primarily be heavy infantry, it also sees use by dismounted knights, primarily against similar troops. It is a shock weapon, devastating when it hits but leaving the user vulnerable to counterattack.
The partisan's head is a long spearhead flanked by twin small axes, which may be swung to cut. It functions as a glaive (above).
A poleaxe is a great axe head at the end of a pole. It sometimes has a beak or hammer head on the reverse side.
The poleaxe has mostly been superceded by the halberd. Voulges, bardiches and similar "cleaver" polearms are treated as poleaxes for convenience.
This polearm has a spear point with twin, backwards-curving points or blades at the base of the point. The hooks may be swung to impale or used to entangle opponents.
The spetum is similar to the ranseur, but its flanking blades point forward. This renders it poor unsuitable for swinging attacks, but makes secondary thrusting attacks possible, and assists in parrying.
