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Pole Arm Quiz
« on: April 12, 2011, 04:57:58 PM »
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4dnd/polearmquiz

I am getting rusty.

My score:
14/22

Mistook voulge for guisarme & vice versa.

Poleaxed by the bardiche.

I'm an awl-piker.

Skewered by a ranseur.

Gaive-forked up.

Have a go, medieval militarists.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 05:08:15 PM »
2/22.

I'm 20 years removed from my D&D days.  Sadly, the intimacies of the female form have erased all memory of bastard swords, claymores, glaives and voulges from my mind.

Or perhaps not so sadly. :lol:
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2011, 05:58:16 PM »
You selected 14 of 22 polearms correctly.

Can't believe I missed billhook. Derp.   Didn't know guisarm at all. Same DERP mistake with volgue guisarm and regular volgue.  Had never heard of fauchard fork.   Mixed up  Spetum and Partisan.

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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 08:32:02 PM »
7/22 never played D&D, simply relied on what I thought I had remembered from my time in Europe looking in castles and museum's. 
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 08:49:27 PM »
Some folks call it a Kaiser blade I call it a sling blade.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 09:11:39 PM »
Not worth waiting for it to load...

What the hell is the deal with DoD anyway?

Is a card game or role playing or what?

I have never played or really understood how its played.

All I know is it is apperently the game of choice for nerdy fanboys that have never had sex and inhabit the netherworld of their parents basements.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 09:29:20 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 12, 2011, 09:11:39 PM
Not worth waiting for it to load...

What the hell is the deal with DoD anyway?

Is a card game or role playing or what?

I have never played or really understood how its played.

All I know is it is apperently the game of choice for nerdy fanboys that have never had sex and inhabit the netherworld of their parents basements.

There may be normal people that play Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know. All I know is that the only time I've seen D&D played was at college when a group of D&D players would meet in the atrium/snack bar area to play it...and not one of them looked the least bit like normal people...



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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 09:37:52 PM »
RAAAH!

You selected 16 of 22 polearms correctly.

Goofed some of the voulge-glaive-guisarme variations.

I have to say though, I've been studying this stuff for a long while (independent of D&D, which I played many moons ago) and should have done better.

Thanks for the diversion, roo_ster.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2011, 09:48:49 PM »
I got ten, mostly by guessing.  :angel:

Well, thats what happens when you read a lot of fantasy novels.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2011, 12:11:14 AM »
I have glaive misgivings about even taking it.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2011, 01:06:14 AM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 12, 2011, 09:11:39 PM
Not worth waiting for it to load...

What the hell is the deal with DoD anyway?

Is a card game or role playing or what?

I have never played or really understood how its played.

All I know is it is apperently the game of choice for nerdy fanboys that have never had sex and inhabit the netherworld of their parents basements.

I've never played dungeons or dragons, but I do enjoy pole arms.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2011, 02:37:55 AM »
7/22

In my gaming days we never, with one exception, took pole arms. Not much use individually and who deploys a schiltron formation in a dungeon? The exception was that we ignorantly thought the Lucern hammer was a weapon, just a whacking great mace, that a cleric might use.

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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2011, 02:45:53 AM »
12/22

some of my choices were inverted but consistent.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2011, 09:14:40 AM »
I got 7 right by more or less random guessing...
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2011, 09:33:08 AM »
Warren:

I've done some practical single combat sparring, and I can tell you that in trained hands a simple spear can be very effective. getting inside its effective range can be a distinct challenge.

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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2011, 11:12:38 AM »
I managed to guess 7 right, actually 6, I knew what a billhook is.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2011, 12:35:16 PM »
SADS,

As true in real life as that is there simply was no way to make that concept work in D&D. How combat worked was both sides got a chance to hit the other party regardless of of the type of weapons being used.  So how long someone's pole was didn't matter.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2011, 01:20:49 PM »
Quote from: Warren on April 13, 2011, 12:35:16 PM
SADS,

As true in real life as that is there simply was no way to make that concept work in D&D. How combat worked was both sides got a chance to hit the other party regardless of of the type of weapons being used.So how long someone's pole was didn't matter.

Well, that explains the nerdy virgin d&d connection....
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2011, 02:42:36 PM »
Quote from: Warren on April 13, 2011, 12:35:16 PM
SADS,

As true in real life as that is there simply was no way to make that concept work in D&D. How combat worked was both sides got a chance to hit the other party regardless of of the type of weapons being used.  So how long someone's pole was didn't matter.

Hasn't 3rd Ed fixed that with attacks of opportunity?
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2011, 02:43:29 PM »
Gotcha. As a D&D rules failure, you're absolutely right. This also undersores the mass of misconceptions surrounding employment of medieval and renaissance weapons, one of my huge peeves.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2011, 04:44:26 PM »
MB,

I never played a lot of 3rd and I don't remember anything about it. In 1st a longer weapon would give you the first attack in some circumstances and if you could kill the the other guy then, obviously, the size of your stick did matter. But if you didn't then it was normal combat rules.

For us, dweebs who didn't know jack about how to use weapons or what circumstances they were designed for just took the glory-boy weapons. The battle-axe, the two-handed sword and so on. Had we seen more Chinese martial arts movies we may have had a different opinion about pole weapons. Plus we had this idea that they were too big to use in a dungeon crawl. Yet we swung our two-handers about with no thought as to how much room that would take.


Can you imagine that if somehow these medieval weapons were still the dominate tech today what message boards would look like? The whole voulge vs. glaive debates would make the 9mm vs .45 debates look calm and rational. And the magazines...Pole World, Poles and Blades, Pole Digest...maybe if we ask nice Harold could 'shop up a magazine cover.
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Re: Pole Arm Quiz
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2011, 04:46:58 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2011, 05:26:35 PM »
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