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Zeus posted...

Video extolling the virtue of battle axes.

I've generally seen them as more of a themed weapon for dwarves, vikings, and the such.

These are pretty much the only character types I ever use those weapons with.

Though they still outrank hammers/clubs for me. I shun blunt weapons like the plague.



Metalsonic66 posted...

I always favored them in video games.

Naruto_fan_42 posted...

heavy melee weapons speak to me on a spiritual level

My instinctive go-to is dual-wielding. Preferably with curved single-edge slashing weapons (scimitar, saber, cutlass, falchion, dao, katana, tachi, etc).

It also tends to favor my normal playstyle - in a lot of games where combat style choices actually matter, dual-handing tends to be all about weaker quick strikes instead of stronger power strikes (especially in games where the dual-hander is basically forced to use daggers instead of swords), and I tend to prefer speed spamming and stun-locks over precision impact hits. It's part of why most of my go-to fighters in Fighting games were usually the female characters (like Chun Li or Talim).

That also goes sort of hand-in-hand with the battle axe thing - the last time I made a Viking-flavored Barbarian character in D&D, I gave them twin handaxes (one of which did extra fire damage, and the other of which did extra cold damage).
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