Poll: Get medieval on this poll.

[xitel]

Well, my answer would have to depend on the situation really. If it's small scale combat I'd have to go with either daggers or a mace all the way. But if it's fighting in a medieval war, it's definitely going to be seige engines.

 

[DrunkWithPower]

I chose the axe/hatchet because I want a Francisca.

 

[crudus]

Longbow if I am defending an object or place. Sword/daggers if I am in the middle of combat.

Sword, grace and speed are better than brute force.

any sword that is for "grace and speed" is anything you can use "weapon finesse" with in D&D. Everything else is hack it hard until it stops moving.

 

[Lord George]

A big fucking Catapult, just aim and fire it's like a big game of rock paper scissors, except the enemy can only use scissors and you only rock.

 

[Supraliminal]

I was going to go with the Crossbow, cause it can penetrate even the thickest armor of the nobles and spill their blue blood to the ground. (it went somehow like that)

But as Mount and blade has tought me: its reload time is a pain and it's rather clumsy to operate in combat. In sieges a good crossbow is vital, though.

So with bow and arrow I go.

 

[Souplex]

Everyone talks about how swords are the only weapons that require skill and that polearms and axes did not, this is a hateful lie. There is a reason armies had axe and spear units but not sword units, the sword was more of a symbol of office than anything else. Its main advantage lay in the fact that it could be sheathed and was tiny allowing you to go wherever you needed and have it with you.

Now that I am through ranting against sword suprmemacists I have to go with the Halberd. It was pretty much deemed the most effective weapon ever, useful against armored, mounted and unarmored foes and other than siege engines and buildings what else is there? If I couldn't get a halberd I would go for a Battle Axe or Glaive.

Also, your using not building siege engine option is missing balistae, everyone knows there is nothing better than smashing through a formation with an arrow the size of a tree.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Swords and daggers! And i brought some hard pipe wielding homies to go to work on homes! I had to pull out the tarantino quote with on a thread with that title!

 

[Kiefer13]

Definitely a sword of some kind, most likely an arming sword or a broadsword.

 

[luckshot]

axes and hatchets for me

always liked them, and if i had to make a spear using an axe to chop down a tree and put a point on it are easy to do

 

[LeonLethality]

well every summer for the past 5 years I have taken archery classes so.... the one I am most skilled with, the bow

 

[Toasty]

are we attacking people in the open or walled up in forts we have to smash into?

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I went for the Crossbow, because I like being a sniper. Plus it helps your survivability to have the longest range attack. Nothing nicer than adding a few airholes to an advancing enemy long before his weapon can even scratch you?

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Sword and shield.

 

[Dancingman]

Maces OR Polearms, sometimes I'm in a destruction mood and want my spiky flails, other times, I want to stay the hell away from the guy with the longsword and halberd (or naganita in Japan) him good.

 

[Evilbunny]

I choose the longbow because then I won't have to be anywhere near the enemy so I probably won't die. That is, unless everyone in front of me dies too in which case I'm screwed.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Gotta go with daggars. Three cheers for thievery! Well ... three quiet, inconspicuous cheers that sound more like an owl so as to remain hidden -stealth, stealth, stealth-

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Torn between swords and axes, but depends on which sword/axe.
Falchion (which is NOT double handed d+d morons*) has some of the bits I like of both.

*moron if you think the rulebook's right for saying it's two handed, not for d+d

 

[Micklet]

Axes and hatchets...great for parrying and absolutly devistating, leaving large wounds for bleeding out.

 

[General Torg]

I would pick a mace because it can smash through heavy armor.

 

[Adam]

Id go with a sword, simple, effective and it dosent take a genius to use. Although it does take alot of training to master. In a real life war however i doubt id last long enough to become really good with a blade.