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[KaguroDraven]

I am rather partial to Halberds myself, but I prefer the spear or the rather similer naginata from japan.

[Il Palazzo]

The mighty katana is made of steel folded 10000 times, and beats the halberd anytime.

[Vector]

Yeah, I personally prefer glaives.  They do roughly the same job, but they're a hell of a lot lighter, which makes them easier to use against infantry.  I think.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Burnt Pies]

I've always liked Spears and Pikes, rather than Halberds. Probably as a result of watching some tv program on english tv, in which the pike formations usually toasted anything they were deployed against unless they were hit with a lot of missile fire or got attacked while moving/in the side or back.

Also, I love the mighty katana. I know it's stereotyped, and I can't help it.

[IronyOwl]

I like spears in some games, but I tend to prefer Diablo II bardiches.

[Vector]

Japanese thief-catching weapons are kind of amazing, too...

There's just so much weird innovation over there.  The katana is neat, but I think the real marvel of that country would be the sheer variety, effective or not.

[DJ]

Now you got me curious, what are those thief-catching weapons? Any pics or links?

[Burnt Pies]

I don't think I ever used spears or bardiches in diablo 2. Always axes, swords, staves or wands. Occasionally clubs.

[Vector]

Now you got me curious, what are those thief-catching weapons? Any pics or links?

Here ya go... one, two, three.

[Earthquake Damage]

The mighty katana is made of steel folded 10000 times, and beats the halberd anytime.

The katana does not "beat" the halberd.  They're very different weapons suited to very different situations.

[Aqizzar]

Someone is taking this way too seriously.

I have always had an inordinate love of halberds, and have always wondered why they don't show up more in fiction and games.  They're the final evolution of massed-block-infantry weapons, but they seem to me like they'd make great solo-duelist-adventurer weapons.  If it was balanced like a quarterstaff, you could use a halberd like a staff, an axe, and a spear.  I know they're not balanced, they're supposed to be end-heavy.  But it would work.

[Vector]

Exactly!  Hence the glaive.

Goddamn, I wish there were more glaive-users in fiction.

[Aqizzar]

Okay, confession time.  When I was a teenager, I made an RPG setting that was going to be a D&D setting but wound up used for other purposes.  Whatever.  The relationship is, the main "bad guys" of the setting were badass Mongol type dudes, whose signature weapon was a modified-halberd-glaive thing.  Balanced like a quarterstaff and slightly shorter, it could alternately attack like a staff, spear, or axe, and worked like a spear or axe on horseback.

The balancing part was a brainstorm - I was screwing around with a broomstick one day, and got the idea of adding a length of chain to the opposite end of the pole.  Say, about foot and a half long.  The chain would balance the weight of the axe-head, and would be useful in one-on-one type fights, where you could disarm and whack people with it like a flail.  And it makes a handy whip, for that dual-horseback use.  Sure, it's the idle daydreaming of a teenage nerd, but I still think it would work perfectly well.

[Fayrik]

Oh great, Aqizzar has now made me want to design and test this. I really want to see that in action.

Though, I'm not 100% on the definition, but I thought the picture in the first post was called a Pike?
Okay, so I'm by no means clued in on this, but I thought that a Pike was the Spear/Axe combo, and a Halberd is a Quater-staff/Sword combo?

[fqllve]

Nah, Pike is a long-ass spear. Halberd is a spear + war hammer + axe thing.