4 Rare Medieval POLLAXE types 

Yes, indeed, if you happen to blind someone and then kill them, you've effectively blinded them _for life._

That blinding pepper pollaxe is the sort of wacky stuff your most creative D&D players would come up with just for you telling them "come on, man".

You are a noble lord, you'd surely never use something as underhanded as blinding powder in your pollaxe. Here is the recipe. Pure gold.

"Wait, good sir. I wanna duel you with the wind in my back. Uhm... well... Family tradition. What say you, good sir?

The pepper spray pollaxe is wild, and over here my mind has still been reeling thinking about the axe heads not being sharp.

0:38 I only knew about one Matt, not four. Does this mean there's Matt Easton, Matt Weston, Matt Southton, and Matt Northton?

That poleaxe pepper spray is just begging to be used by the underhanded villain in a movie! It's the perfect thing to make the history nerds groan and yell at their screens!

Obviously the short pollaxe was for dwarves and halflings

"I have been Matt Easton, and I'll continue to be" Sounds suspiciously like something that someone who isn't a Matt Easton to say. Great vid btw. The "Tactical" Pollaxe with screw-in attachments is peak weapon design.

+2 Blinding Poleaxe.

The modular poleaxe seems like an instructor’s weapon or in pairs minimizes the number of weapons you had to keep on hand

All new to me. The more I learn, the more I favor the pole axe.

I think even temporary blindness in a pollaxe duel is blindness for life.

Do you guys know what happened to "Tod's workshop"? Tod has never been missing for so long.

Someone should test the pepper spray pollaxe but with flour or something and not actual pepper.

I knew about the short ones and the cross guard ones. The modular one sounds really cool. Id bet it was made but maybe wasn't good in durability. I think even today we might have difficulty making the connection points stand up to the stresses, but im not engineer.

I'm an enormous fan of bronze age history, and would love an exploration like this of any bronze age weapons, blades, spears, javelins, slings, or whatever! I should say, I am talking about pre-classical, from 4000-1000 BC

de'i Liberi really pulling a blinder there, eh?

I love the idea of the pepper spray axe. what a neat idea and yet one more reason to believe the concept of "enchanting" weapons with special elements. straight outta the movies with this one.

I didnt know about the staff of blindness, now thats some magic right there

I would like to suggest that the pole axe which has replaceable parts is not intended for combat or battle, but to allow people to try different parts much like a sales kit.

I knew all but the last one. Sounds like the sort of "dirty tricks" weapon a cheating dellist would use. And you could reasonably expect to get away with it, because after using the concoction, you could immediately kill your disoriented opponent, and nobody would ever know that he was blind and helpless when you did him in. Basically murder in the broad daylight of a judicial duel. The later equivalent would be the duelling pistol with the rifling that started a couple inches down the barrel, so it *looked* like a legitimate smoothbore weapon but had secret hidden rifling to make it much more accurate and give that duellist an unfair advantage over his opponent armed with the actual smoothbore pistol.

So the Zombie spiked axe I made thats pretty much cane length is considered a pole axe? cool.

I had seen the one with a crossguard and I'm pretty sure I was aware of the short ones, but the lego poleaxe and chemical weapon poleaxe were a surprise. Not sure it could ever be made robust enough, but if you successfully made a modular poleax I think it would be a great way to sell accessories!

The "short" and "modular" poleaxes could easily be the same implement, if you think about it, and that would be the most practical combo on the list. As for the "pepper-spray axe," if dei Liberi really didn't think that noblemen would use it, he wouldn't have provided the recipe for the powder: he would have supplied the recipe for the antidote, instead.

I guess a modular pike would be helpful to Landsknecht reenactors because it would be easier to get into a Morgan, Mini or 2CV and who can imagine a LK reenactor driving anything else?

the pepperbox pollaxe was truly a surprise for me, but so incredibly fun and creative (in theory). will definitely try to sneak that one into my game

I am loving all the recent Pollaxe videos. I am learning a lot, its very inspirational for creative endeavors.

"You're a noble man, surely you'd never do this, BUUT.. just in case--" - half of fiore lol

Bernard Cornwell describes the main character's band of archers in his novel Agincourt using cut-down pollaxes

A modular pollaxe with my granny's wooden hoof on, would be unbeatable!

3:35 that is the most orc thing I’ve ever seen and I want one

Base building is one of those things in the same category of crafting for me; sounds good on paper, haven't ever seen it actually be fun.

I get pysched whenever Matt pulls out the Poleaxe!!!

That fourth one really caught me by surprise.

As soon as "dismountable pollaxe" was mentioned, I immediately thought KURGAN FROM HIGHLANDER! I am pleased that I was 100% right.

Loved the Kurgan reference, better to burn out than fade away.

I use a little shorty polaxe in group melees, it's pretty useful when things get crowded

Interesting! I'd never heard about these pollaxe varieties before! Thanks for sharing, Matt! If you're looking into other Medieval weapons to do videos on, would it be possible to do a video on clubs? I know they were a fairly common sidearm for poor soldiers in earlier parts of the medieval period, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about them out there compared to other medieval bludgeons (hammers, maces, etc.) I'd love to learn more if you'd be willing to do a video on them!

I like how the battle rendition went soft at the end.

That's awesome! Definitely never heard of the pepper spray one, very clever!

Sophisticated and intricately prepared pollaxe and concoction just to arrange for some good ol' shankening to happen :D

This is great thank you

I know it’s part of your Dian martial tradition but the nine bladed whip sword is always cool to research

I would love another video exclusive to the modular Polaxe so fascinating

"Do pay attention, 007, that is not a toy."

Super interesting video, thanks!

Fiore the type of guy that would sneak ninja techniques in a fencing manuscript lmao

3:46 Swordstaff. It has a wiki page if interested.

Poison sprayer pollaxe, huh, sweet. Sounds like something that would be useful in d&d.

You don't always have to make it short and concise, Matt. We're here because we like to hear you!

New video yay!

Tod really needs to make a hollow pool axe for you test out, Matt. I'd be curious to see how well it works and whether or not you'd up dusting yourself half the time. Obvisouly don't fill it with FIroe's concoction, or anything like it, but maybe talcum powder, salt, or whatever, while wearing safety glasses.

Love the last one.

Oh that last one is ingenious. I think some orcs or goblins might like that one.

I've been fascinated with possibly getting the glaive at 3:30 custom made for me, but I'll probably never get around to it. The other stuff was new though.

But Matt I do not want you to keep it short!

The modular pollaxe is really fascinating. I wonder how commom were screws on this period and what were their intended purposes.

Just the scew in poleaxe was new to me, very cool

Christian Cameron has the pepper pollaxe used in one of the William Gold novels - Hawkswood's Sword iirc

Hells to the YES! That sounds awesome!

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I don't study Fiore and didn't know about the hollow one, but did know about the others. Loved the vid you did with Tod about the crossguard pollaxe. I personally would call it the sword-hilted pollaxe. I'm planning on making one at some point; just have to finish all the other projects on my list. I've seen the modular pollaxe before and found it quite interesting. I imagine that if Tallhoffer himself never had one made, someone studying his work afterward would have. I'm sure Tod would do a wonderful job making one if he has the time. Can't think of any other makers off the top of my head who work on stuff like that, but I'm sure they're out there.

The other one on that page of the Getty manuscript is pretty interesting as well.

I am a simple man. I see a pollaxe, I click.

I nominate the stuff of nightmares: the spadroon poleaxe. (I think Matt just sneezed)😅

Thank you for the info. I did not know about that one I would rather have the older medieval kind

Some modular pollaxes even come with a throwable pommel.

I only knew the first two. The chemical weapon sword is the most surprising one.

I'm not sure if you know that, Matt, but if you blind someone temporarily so you can stab them to death, you literally blinded them for life.

Didn't Fiore draw several crazy conceptual weapons? Could you make a dedicated video about his or other medieval people's weird conceptual weapons?

re: Fiore - "blinded for life"... well, yes, definitely the last two minutes of one's life...

Number 4 was a pleasant surprise

I've always felt these were amazing weapons which gave a non-mounted foot soldier a very effective weapon.

I'd have made that blinding mixture and put it into clay balls that break upon impact, or something similar, and have had them slung into enemy formations. Maybe they did that or something similar at one point in medieval Europe? 🤔

Random question that stumbled into my head seeing this video in my feed: Have you considered making a video in which you state areas you don’t have expertise/knowledge in, especially areas you’d like to know more about? This could be subjects in HEMA and other martial arts, or basically anything I suppose. Could be helpful in setting up future collaboration or other interesting projects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A video about the pretzel guard would be interesting, why and where was it used?

Time to find a short, modular, pepper containing, crossguard pollax

Great!

Saw a guy using a blinding powder during ninjitsu training and it was very effective (just flour, actual one would have pepper and iron dust also)love these oddball weapons 😊

Very cool

It would be interesting to make pepper spray polaxe with non-harmful substance that mimics consistency of pepper-spray and see how well it would actually work...

The hollow poleaxe is new to me the others I've seen before.

Hey Matt; Do you have videos where you demonstrate Poleaxe techniques?

So, this is a Matt Easton-version of a ‘YT-short’…? 😁

That one weird weapon that armourers hate.

Perhaps it's blunt because it's not actually an ax blade and more of a thin hammer. Kinda like one big flange. Makes it easier to bash joint armor.

Possibly for life. All 30 seconds of it.

That pepper spray pollaxe is fantastic. I'll chuckle for a week.

I wonder if the modular poleax was the inspiration behind the modular musket.

Can you do a video on the weapons of the Maori? They never seemed to develop ranged weapons, instead they focused on edged wood/stone/bone fighting clubs and little or no armour.

Still hoping you'll give us your thoughts on the short polearm known as the Vulcan Lirpa. Please accompany that video with old school Trek fight music.

Blinding pepper pollaxe AKA the Ninja pollaxe 🤣

I did know about the short pollaxe, but not the long one...

Would there be possible a "back scabbard" for short polaxe? Something to hang it on the back while on the move

"Honestly this time!"

I’ll have to use the pepper spray one in my DND campaign😂

Why im now imagine Skalgrim try the pepper spray poleaxe? 😂

The reason he would have put that in. There is most likely because it is possible that it could be used on you and what a better way to avoid it than to know how it is done and thereby how to avoid it. When can put flower in there? In order to figure out how to avoid being attacked by it.

The blinding pollaxe sounds like a warcrime, though probably not one modern Canada would go for.