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45 Iron Bound Staff (TH) Quarterstaff (TH) Spear (TH) Rondel Dagger Jambiya Dagger ERA: Medieval to Renaissance ERA: Medieval to Early Modern Size S Size T Reach / Speed / Defense: 1/5/1 F Reach / Speed / Defense: 0/6/0 F Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-6/P/P Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-6/SP/S AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: +4/- AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: -/- Hardness / Hit points: 12/4 Hardness / Hit points: 8/3 Cost 15 Shilling Cost 18 Shilling Primary Material: Steel Primary Material: Tempered Steel A specialized thrusting dagger, very popular with the knightly “A caravan arrives at dawn in a small trading town on the class throughout the middle ages. It was characterized by a Silk Road near the ancient kingdom of Bactria on the narrow, often triangular or diamond shaped blade, sometimes Khyber Pass. A merchant alights from his camel to stretch strengthened with a reinforcing rib, and parallel disk shaped and brush the dust of the trail from his khaftan, greeting guard and pommel called a rondel or roundel. Rondel daggers the morning sun. He looks over the Souq and strolls past were very popular auxiliary sidearms for knights, soldiers, and pistachio vendors and cages of exotic songbirds toward a men at arms in the Medieval to Renaissance period. Used to stand selling fruit sherbet. While crossing the street he is pierce through mail or the weaker joints between armor, this strongly made dagger is a very effective armor piercing weapon, jostled by a raucous group of pilgrims, and suspicious, being stiff and narrow for good penetration. The roundel dagger reaches down to catch the hand of a thief in the act of could also be used in the left hand for defensive purposes (see cutting his purse… with a cry of outrage he leaps back, Main Gauche MF). Typical dimensions: Length 16", blade 12", reaching for the curved dagger on his belt…” Weight 1 lb The curved dagger of Arabia, still carried today as part of Broad Dagger traditional attire in places like Yemen, is called a jambiya. It ERA: Bronze Age to Baroque looks similar to a curved Roman pugio, in its crudest form, it is a simply made double-edged, broad-bladed curved dagger Size S with a central ridge and a sharp point. Reach / Speed / Defense: 1/5/0 F Jambiyas are primarily for slashing but can thrust effectively Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-8/SCP/P as well. They were carried as a civilian weapon for personal AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: -/- protection (and an indication of status) and as a secondary Hardness / Hit points: 10/5 battlefield sidearm in exactly the manner as a Roman pugio Cost 20 Shilling or a Medieval dagger. Similar weapons were used in various parts of the Middle East, Persia, India, north and east Africa Primary Material: Steel and Central Asia. One of the most important variations of the A large dagger with an especially broad blade designed for jambiya is the Sikh kirpan, which is worn as a religious inflicting maximum possible injury from a thrust or a cut. These obligation by all baptized Sikhs (members of the Khalsa) as weapons do not penetrate quite as easily as other daggers but part of their commitment, as “saint soldiers”, to protect the do far more damage upon a successful thrust. Examples innocent. include the cinquedea (also made in short-sword sized variants see Sword, Cinquedea) and the ubiquitous Roman pugio. Some jambiyas were beautifully made of precious inlays, lapis, silver etc. and had exquisitely crafted wootz steel Large Dagger blades with hardened points for thrusting. Such weapons ERA: All eras would also be of masterwork in quality. Size S The slashing ability of a jambiya makes it particularly Reach / Speed / Defense: 1/5/1 F effective against unarmored opponents, though some were Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-6/SCP/SP also madeSample with reinforced points for thrusting (treat as SP AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: file +2/- weapons). Hardness / Hit points: 10/4 46 Cost 25 Shilling Cost 50 Shilling Primary Material: Steel Primary Material: Steel This is a large dagger with a double-edged blade with a blade A war-pick is very similar to a war hammer and the two-types length of 10"-16", and an overall length of 14"-20". Examples overlap, both usually have hammer heads as well as back- include the Swiss baselard (which was also made as a short- spikes, a war-pick just has a longer spike which has better sword, treat as a spatha -see Spatha) the coustille dagger, the penetration, at the expense of being a somewhat less wieldy dagesse, and the Scottish dirk. Though capable of slashing and weapon. The pick is also effective as a hook against shield cutting a dagger of this size was still primarily designed for rims, knees, necks etc. thrusting. These weapons could usually be worn in areas where swords were restricted, being still small enough to still Sword, Akinakes be technically legal, but large and heavy enough to have some ERA: Classical Bronze Age authority and defensive value in a fight. Some large daggers featured large quillions. Sometimes called “blocking daggers” Size S these were more effective for defense (treat as 1/5/2 or even Reach / Speed / Defense: 2/4/1 F 1/5/3 weapons for those with complex hilt features). Often Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-6/SCP/SP used in the off-hand with a sword, these were the precursor of AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: -/- the Main Gauche (see Main Gauche). Hardness / Hit points: 6/2 War Hammer Cost 1 0 Shilling ERA: Bronze Age to Early Modern Primary Material: Bronze An ancient type of short sword, used by the Persians during Size S classical period, originally adopted from the Scythians, Reach / Speed / Defense: 2/3/2 Sarmatians, and other steppe peoples of central Asia who used Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-8/BP/BP them well back into the bronze age. An akinakes has a fairly wide, AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: +4/+2 double-edged, parallel blade with a rounded or spatulate tip, Hardness / Hit points: 7/4 usually 14"-18" in length (the entire weapon would be from 20"- Cost 25 Shilling 24" long), it was also characterized by a unique two-lobed pommel. The akinakes is primarily a thrusting weapon, but also Primary Material: Wood and Iron useful for slashing (draw cutting) and to a lesser degree, hacking Contrary to depictions in RPGs, computer games and fantasy and chopping. films, real war hammers didn’t look anything like sledge hammers, they actually had smaller (and harder) striking Subjective: heads than hammers used as tools. Like most hand This specific weapon was found in kurgans, tombs and other weapons intended for war, they weighed in the archeological sites dating from thousands of years BC through neighbourhood of 2-4 lbs. They almost always included both the classical period, its presence in a grave is used by a striking (hammer) head and a reinforced back-spike at archeologists to identify settlements or grave sites of these least a few inches long. These could be used against people. different types of targets but were designed to be armor- piercing weapons, especially useful for cavalry, with a Sword, Short hammer one could ride by and crush a helmeted head with ERA: Bronze Age to Early Modern a single blow. Size S War Pick Reach / Speed / Defense: 2/4/2 F ERA: Medieval to Renaissance Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-6/SCP/SP AP Bonus / Grapple Bonus: +2/- Size S Hardness / Hit points: 9/3 Reach / Speed / Defense: 2/2/2 Cost 25 Shilling Damage / Attack Types / Primary 1-8/BP/P AP BonusSample / Grapple Bonus: +6/+4 Primary Material: Steel file Hardness / Hit points: 14/12 47 Short swords were common in the early Classical period thrust swords featuring a diamond or lenticular blade cross- because early iron weapons were not strong enough to be section, ending in a sharp point. With its vicious point and overall made longer than two feet or so, being too likely to bend upon short size the gladius is perhaps most dangerous in the thrust, contact with shield rims, helmets, or enemy weapons. As iron though it also cut well. In fact, according to classical eyewitnesses gave way to steel in the late Iron Age (circa 4th-3rd Century BC) of the first reported use of the weapon in a battle against the short swords were gradually eclipsed by longer weapons three Macedonians, the victorious Romans left the field littered with feet or more in length (see Spatha). But short swords remained the severed limbs and heads of their enemies. popular, and in the later middle-ages, even as longer and longer weapons were adopted by knights and professional infantrymen, short swords made a comeback as a popular sidearm, particularly for archers and marksmen. For game purposes a short sword means any non-specific (i.e. not covered under another sword sub-type) double edged sword between 21"-29" in overall length, with little if any hand protection, a small grip and a sharp point suitable for thrusting. Subjective: By the Renaissance period simpler short swords were replaced in Western Europe by slightly longer and more sophisticated weapons such as the cutlass or the katzbalger, although the basic short sword was retained as Russia and central Asia (as the kindjal), the Middle East (as the quoit) and in Africa and various other parts of the world (see Gladius). The short sword was even revived as a sidearm for artillery troops by Napoleon. In the Codex, a short sword may not have the reach of a larger weapon, but it handier in a close fight as it can be used at grapple range.
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