Pole weapons

Tools entity

Includes melee weapons with a long pole as a central feature.

303
games
59
platforms

Alternate names: Polearms
Name variations: Halberds, Spears

Examples:
* Quarterstaff
* Spear
* Halberd
* Naginata
* Poleaxe

There's essentially only ~3 variations of generalized fighting styles for pole arms: spear-like stabbing, quarterstaffing and general staff fighting (e.g. bo). Most pole arms use either of the two first, with majority employing quarterstaffing. In fiction quarterstaffing tends to be the least common with the third being the most numerous, naginata being most commonly used in the quarterstaffing fashion though it often mixes all three.

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Parent groups

Archaic weapons, Mêlée weapons, UVL: Tags that may need renaming

Child groups

Fighting Staves, Spears, Swordstaffs

Related group

Tools
Two-handed mêlée weapons

Games by year

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The first Pole weapons video game was released in 1983.

Blizzard, Paradox Interactive and Beamdog published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 94
Linux 58
Mac OS X 14
MS-DOS 13
PS3 8
PS4 8
Mac OS Classic 7
X360 7
C64 5
PS2 5
PSP 4
Internet Only 4
PS 4
Amiga 4
Xbox 3
Pandora 3
Xbox One 3
NES 3
NEC PC9801 3
BeOS 3
Apple II E 3
Atari ST 2
SNES 2
Amstrad CPC 2
BSD 2
Apple IIGS 2
NeXT 2
Unix 2
OS/2 2
Switch 2

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