I mean, it's obviously the flanged mace. It's the only one that purely serves its purpose as a weapon and not simply a meat tenderizer or hammer.
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Maces were great for abusing the peasants and hammering on knights.
War hammers were god damned crimes. Because the focused blunt end of the hammer can REALLY cause some serious damage. But also? The back is a pick. So you don't even need to dent the armor and cause bruising. You just pierce a brain on the backhand.
Which is why the lucerne hammer (bec de corbin above) was the best anti-armor weapon out there. A polearm that can fuck you up three different ways.
I'm not someone who's actually studied medieval combat, but as I understand it while a war hammer was a better weapon than a mace it was also more complicated to use. You've actually got to aim and align your strikes, while a mace is just "swing the pointy bits at the guy you want dead."
If you want any degree of force in your swing you are already "aiming and aligning" anything. Its the difference between wailing and actually throwing a punch. A schoolkid throwing a swing might bloody a nose but is probably going to hurt them as much as their target. Someone who knows how to properly make a fist and put their body into it? You don't need much strength to fuck someone up.
So, theoretically, you could still do a decent amount of damage on an unarmored civilian using something like a morningstar. But that is almost entirely the spikes.
If you wanted any hope of causing meaningful damage to an armored opponent or even an unarmored combatant with their adrenaline pumping? You needed to know how to swing your weapon whether it was a mace, a hammer, or a sword. And as long as you hold the weapon correctly, you get hitting them with the fun bit "for free".
I never tried tenderizing meat with a flail before, but it really works! 10/10. I recommend it
Idk, I kinda like the candle stick/coat rack
Roundhouse kick for the win
Quarterstaff. Long things hit hard.
flanged mace 100% but I am also not disinterested in bec de corbin
Re: Bac de Corbin, what's the minimum percentage of bluntness to count as a blunt weapon?
at least the hammer side qualifies
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The Bec de Corbin is nice for when you aren't sure if you're feeling buldgeony or stabby. It's like the chicken and waffles of the blunt weapon world.
It hardly matters, just as long as it's rusty and pointy...
How you gonna do the Shillelagh this dirty?
Quarterstaff, personally. It can double as a walking stick.
I love flails.
But I would also take a Bec De Corbin Dallas, Multipass.
morningstar, with flail as a close second :3
I'm very confident that I would injure myself with a flail.
Ravens Beak ofc (bec de corbin)
Mine's whatever Hawkgirl uses.
Double-sided tape?
Morningstar with magic disruption
I think war hammer gives you the most versatility as a weapon, and flanged mace is my favorite for style, but my heart belongs to the quarterstaff, as it long has. Defense and offense and its a big stick!
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They may stop asking you, but nobody here got old enough to stop raving about their favorite when prompted.
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Morningstar. Based entirely off of the (incorrectly) named macemen in Lords Of The Realm 2.
Mace and/or quarterstaff are my preference. Simple, not a lot to go wrong or get caught on things. Light enough to get multiple hits in quick succession.
Simple mace is the easy answer. It's lighter than the quarterstaff, and the skill transfer from baseball and pillow fights is fairly direct.
Definitely the simple mace over the flanged. Its more or less just a baton with a weight at the end.
Halberds combine the benefits of an axe and a spear. Best of both world
Not blunt though.
It is the best otherwise!
Any weapon can be a blunt weapon if you're holding it wrong
If you want blunt-ish, try the Lucerne hammer. The pronged hammer could penetrate plate armour without getting stuck, and its length made it better for spearing than the bec de corbin.
I've always been a flail kinda person
Dude, you need a better mic. Thought you said to bring the flared base and I was expecting a completely different kind of party.
mace, straight up, no worrying about getting it stuck in someone's face like a morningstar
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I like the quarterstaff, but you know what would make it even better? If you took a sharp piece of metal and put it on one end so you can stab a dude after bonking him. I don't know what you'd call it though. A staffstab?
That stabstaff should be really handy for spearing people.
Ok, but I did have this exact conversation with my kids last week. Mace and morningstar were the winners; I'm partial to a war hammer, myself.
Flanged mace any day of the week
Well the flanged mace is objectively the best one if we're going to ignore the Lucerne.
At least half of those are not blunt
Maul, or flanged mace
Flail, Rooneyscoop has wholly influenced this.
All I see are props for black metal album covers.
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