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The winged spear was a common type of thrusting spear throught the time of the middle ages.It had a leaf shaped head and had kind of wings to add the extra kill when attacking an emeny. Some people say the wings were used to stop the blade penertrating to far into the body risking it getting stuck.
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The lance was invented the same time jousting was in the year 1000. Jousting is when a knight of man is on a horse and is holding a very very long spear called a lance. There are 2 men either side of the arena. They go fouth at eachother on horses with alot of armour and a shield. The person who dies and or gets knocked of is the loser.
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A pike is a long sharpend tick used as a defence weapon. it is heald by men who are standing at the front. Stoping enemies from getting to the good guys. They can reach up to 7 metres long giving archers a advantage.
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It was used in alot of places throught out the world. it was used in Russia and Eastern Eroupe instead of helberd. It was sort of a pole-axe but withoue out the spike on the back.
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The maul is a long hammer with a heavy ended head. It is made of either lead or iron. It has a simlar appearance to the modern day sledge hammer but somtimes had a spear-like on the fore-end half.
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The pole-axe is pretty much what it sounds like. Its a axe in a pole, which give the axe a long reach making it a deadly weapon.Attached to it, it had a armour piercing spike on the back. It also had a spear on the front to stabe enemies.
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The helberd is very similar to the pole-axe. It has a axe at the at the top with a spear end, and always has a hook or thorn on the back of the axe for grappling mounted combatants.This is what made it special.
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Quarterstaves were called Quarterstaves
They are a long stick up to 2 meters long that have a sharp metal point on each end of thr long stick. It was used in combat
