Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32.212.203.187-20170822234429/@comment-26890432-20170823002327

Warhammers are not all about weight. They are primarily about concentrating a certain amount of force onto a small area. Now, while weight is something that can certainly help with this, the chief factors of a warhammer's potency are leverage, and design. Warhammers never took the form of the weird, mallet-type things in the mod that resemble Thor's hammer. As such, the goal of a warhammer was never to beat a heavy, flat hunk of metal into someone. It was to use the principles I mentioned above to overcome armoured opponents effectively. Warhammers usually featured a long handle, a spiked or tapered end, which is small in diameter, on one side, and a spike on the other. This was in order to convey the force generated by A) the force of the swing B) the leverage provided by the long handle into a concentrated, armour-piercing strike. A light warhammer would actually facilitate this by making powerful strikes less draining on the user.

Sorry to rant, but the "War-Mallets" are a pet peeve of mine.