No Place for a Mace?

Battle axes and hammers are in there under the terms Halberd, Bill and Pole weapons (ie Militia Sergeant)

I mean the main difference between a poleaxe and a polehammer of similar lateish period is that one has a blunt round bit where the other has a funny shaped blade. Compared to all the other pointy bits, hooks and spikes on them both, this is not a major difference.

so i think the conclusion is that the weapons in the game are generalisations to weapon types. MAA and foot knight can be assumed to carry their favourite melee weapon relevant to their tech period. Those with specialist weapons like polearms carry some kind of variation of this. Militia carry melee wepon but no shield, peasants have spears, sythes hammers and farming tools. Eash unit can also be assumed to carry a secondard hand weapon of either a sword, axe or dagger or something that could be carried in conjunction with their main armourment. Conclusion being - only so many unit sprites avaliable and too many people to please so generalisation rules the day.

Just you wait till they incorporate the Massive engine into it... They are going to aren't they? I hope so http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

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Basically a mace is a handle with a hard striking object (non-specific) stuck to the top.

A flail is the same as a mace but has a chain seperating the handle and the striking object.

A morning star is a type of ball and chain mace (and therefore a type of flail) but the striking object is always a spiked ball.

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Thanx for the info

Whats the 'massive' engine ?

Or am I missing something simple http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif