Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32.212.203.187-20170822234429/@comment-27587913-20170825015223

Lord Eldacar wrote: 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. I agree. But I have one much bigger Pet-peeve about Weapons. Warscythes, They litterally couldnt work at all, but whatever, back to the Warhammer.

the "sledge hammer" style of Warhammer was used on RARE occassions, mostly by peasants using actual construction tools to do battle.