How many different polearms can you name without looking them up?

[Olli]

Post your list in spoiler tags

 

[Exposition Owl]

Spoiler

-spear
-pike
-lance
-halberd
-partisan
-glaive
-guisarme
-ranseur
-trident
-naginata

 

[Issun]

Spoiler

Spear
Halberd
Partisan
Javelin
Poleaxe
Bardiche
Scythe

You'd think playing so many Souls games I'd be able to think of more but that's all I got.

Edit: And then I look at Owl's and I can't believe I forgot some of those.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Do they have to be European polearms? And do spears count?

Spoiler: polearms

bardiche
bill hook
glaive
glaive-guisarme
godendag
guisarme
Lucerne hammer
military fork
pike
trident
voulge
war scythe

 

[JBear]

Video games have been training me for this moment my entire life:

Spoiler

glaive
guisarme
naginata
spear
halberd
pike
javelin
harpoon
trident
bident
lance
poleax
scythe
pitchfork

...not as many as I would have hoped. I'm sure I'll kick myself and think of more later.

 

[Dracula]

Spoiler: Sticky pokeys

Spear
Pike
Halberd
Glaive
Guisarme
Naginata
Lance
Fouchard
Bec de Corbin
Voulge?
Poleaxe

Most of this comes from reading the AD&D players handbook. "What's this?" The player would ask. "It's a polearm. If it's a weapon you've never heard of, it's a polearm."

 

[Zef]

I'm gonna be blunt:

Spoiler

Bo
Kanabo
Furuzuo
Quarterstaff
Monkey stick
Moon spade (OK, that one also cuts)

I thought about including the macana and hanbo but there's probably a length at which a polearm stops being a polearm and becomes just a club.

 

[Olli]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has listed

Spoiler

any named weapons

yet

 

[Mightyblue]

Double majored in history with a focus on ~1000-1400 AD military history (particularly in the middle east), so, uh, yeah. This is not anywhere close to comprehensive by the way. If I included mythical/magical stuff we'd be here all day.

Spoiler: Relics of a Misspent College Education

Spear
Lance
Pike
Bardiche
Partisan
Fork
Trident
Glaive
Bill
Guisarme
Halberd
Fauchard
Spontoon
Falx
Sarissa
Xyston
Ji
Fangtian Ji (different weapon taxonomy, amusingly enough)
Guandao
Quarterstave/staff
Naginata

 

[Becksworth]

Spoiler: Answer

Spear
Poleaxe
Glaive
Halberd
Partisan
Naginata
Mancatcher

Edit: Well at least I thought of one everyone else missed...

 

[q 3]

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Stick
Good Stick
Pointy Stick
Serrated Stick
Stick +
Double Stick
Branch

 

[muteKi]

is an axe a polearm

 

[muteKi]

how long does a pointy boy have to be before it's a polearm. is an axe on a really long stick a polearm. is that just a halbert or whatever

 

[Regulus]

Do throwing spears count?

Spoiler: polearms

Spear
Javelin?
Pilum?
Pike
Lance
Trident
Partizan
Halberd
Voulge
Bardiche
Lucerne Hammer
Bec de Corbin
Pollaxe
Glaive
Guan Dao
Naginata
Bill (Billhook?)
Warscythe
Rhomphaia

 

[muteKi]

how long does a pointy boy have to be before it's a polearm. is an axe on a really long stick a polearm. is that just a halbert or whatever

*that guy from the alab cast voice* im the hell bert

 

[Sarcasmorator]

Spoiler

Spear, trident, voulge, fork, guisarme, pike, lochaber, javelin, halberd

 

[ThornGhost]

Spoiler

Spear
Glaive
Halberd
Awl
Man catcher
Lance
Guisarme
Trident
Javelin
Pike

Less than I would have thought honestly. What was that thing Mat had in WoT?

 

[Mightyblue]

Basically a naginata with a fancy name.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Without looking above,

Spoiler

Quarter/staff, spear, boar spear, pike, trident, pollaxe, halberd, partisan, glaive, lucerne, bill/billhook, bec de corbin, naginata...
Scythe?

I think that's all I got off the top of my head, so, 14 give or take that I know the name of, depending on what you count as the same or distinct.

After checking above, there was one extremely obvious one I knew but slipped my mind, a bunch I recognized from games et al that I missed. And one or two I don't think count as "polearms" (javelin and harpoon among them)