Belegarth

Most of the glaives I have seen in Dun Abhon look like big boat oars: a fat double edged sword blade with a round tip covering about a third of the overall length, a third covered in incidental padding and handle on the bottom third.

Recently, I saw an Amygard glaive that was tubular instead of oar-shaped on the striking surface. Like a really long speed-stick-mace.

Are there any advantages or disadvantages of this design?

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... and I know what I am looking at would need more incidental padding to be Belegarth legal.

I fought with one before, I didn't notice a big difference. more tip heavy, don't have to worry about flat.

Big Jimmy wrote:more tip heavy, don't have to worry about flat.

Very tip heavy. the mind set you must have with one of these is that it is a club on a long pole. It is too slow to be a good spear and slightly to tip heavy to start a good "shield" swing quickly.

Or you carry one for the fear factor. many will look at such a beast and not want to rush it solo, giving you the upper hand of attacking first instead of defending/counter rushing. Then there is the difficult glaive wraps that such design is perfect for.

My round tip glaive: