So, why do we have halberds?

[Zonorhc]

It's been bugging me for a while, but why ARE there halberds in Runescape?

 

 

 

Historically, halberds were developed as a weapon for use against cavalry, because they could be set against a charge like a spear, hack through plate mail with their heavy blade, and pull riders off horses with the fluke behind the blade.

 

 

 

So why are they in the game? As JAGeX has said in the letters, there aren't any horses in Runescape.

[olle_bingbon]

Jagex maybe will introduce horses lol

[Narakia_1]

for variety, I'd asume. But it didn't work :P You still see everyone walking around with the same weapon (generally scimmy in F2P)

[boarder14]

There are alot of 'hi-tech' or way past the date items/other things that are way passed the supposed to be date/time/era of runescape

[Blakey89]

It's been bugging me for a while, but why ARE there halberds in Runescape?

 

 

 

Historically, halberds were developed as a weapon for use against cavalry, because they could be set against a charge like a spear, hack through plate mail with their heavy blade, and pull riders off horses with the fluke behind the blade.

 

 

 

So why are they in the game? As JAGeX has said in the letters, there aren't any horses in Runescape.

 

 

 

To make melee, mage and range even. It wouldn't be very fair for warriors if there was no way they could train their stats without being hit.

[Zonorhc]

I doubt that. A halberdier in Runescape doesn't get hit, but neither does he spend money on runes or ammunition.

 

 

 

What I'm getting at here is that this weapon has no actual reason to exist. The "high-tech" stuff like multicannons are understandable, because the dwarves invented them to kill masses of goblins, if I remember correctly. They have a reasonably plausible excuse for existing in the game, however, halberds do not because they are anti-cavalry weapons.

[Babyshambles]

halbreads are in runescape to make life easier. if u were gonna melle a black dragon u wud use lots of sharks, but with the hally it makes it easier

[tefda]

Well we got them from the Elves. I assume they use them to attack others from their gates without being harmed.

 

 

 

Not everything in Runescape needs to have a plausable reason. Why is it that an animate rock spell will only work twice in a quest but never outside of it? The spell is still there, the magic is still there so it should work, but it doesn't and there's no reason for it.

 

 

 

The game has no time period and it is a result of several people's imaginations combined. If you've ever played D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) you would know that the DM (Dungeon Master) can create anything into his world even without a reason (although it is better if he has a reason) and this is what the team at Jagex has done.

[Satenza]

Yes Jagex has said this isn't medevil times. Just a new world.

[king_kenny69]

why do we have halberds? what a silly question! to attack fire giants who can't seem to find the're way around a table, duh!

 

:D

[1packer]

I always thought it was to kill things..........

[jafnn]

I would have to say for the larger monsters, halberds and pikes where also the only useable mellee weapon against large enemy, In real life there aren't much large beast but in runescape there are plenty.

 

 

 

Also aren't there mounted birds somewhere in runescape?

[Silverchipmunk]

Well, that is the basic idea...

[Bubsa]

Because Zon, JAGeX aren't as historically sound as you are :P

[XParoxysmX]

As many others said, just for longer-ranged mellee attacks. =p

[RockyMaivia]

Historically, spears were actually used for long range melee, if anything should be able to used like the halberd it, it should be the spear too.

[Zonorhc]

The game has no time period and it is a result of several people's imaginations combined. If you've ever played D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) you would know that the DM (Dungeon Master) can create anything into his world even without a reason (although it is better if he has a reason) and this is what the team at Jagex has done.

 

 

 

Precisely. There isn't a reason that this weapon would have been developed as a halberd - that is, a weapon designed and created SPECIFICALLY to counter cavalry.

 

 

 

If the elves needed a long-range weapon to attack besiegers, then they have their bows, and for close combat, they have swords. I wouldn't put boiling oil and pitch out of the question either, but definitely not halberds, because they're a formation weapon and that's not the idea when you're besieged.

 

 

 

Also aren't there mounted birds somewhere in runescape?

 

 

 

I didn't think of the Terrorbirds. I'm not actually a member, so I'm going by the map and whatever information comes out. I suppose they're slightly plausible, but their size doesn't really warrant a long-hafted weapon.

 

 

 

I'll just reiterate and say that JAGeX hasn't provided a reason for the weapon to have been developed and created in context, as in, not just for the reason of game mechanics. They're taking suspension of disbelief and beating it with an iron pipe.

 

 

 

Coincidentally, halberds aren't supposed to have hafts that are that long. Spears would, but not halberds.

 

 

 

Anyway, this is just me pointing out an inconsistency. Feel free to add your own, with the proviso that we are thinking in-character for the game, so you don't just say "WE DUN HAV MAGE IN RL NUB!!!1!!ROFLOLOMGHAXBBQ!!111^_^"

[leet_man69]

theyre for vsing unicorns

[nvw08]

WE DUN HAV MAGE IN RL NUB!!!1!!ROFLOLOMGHAXBBQ!!111^_^

 

 

 

some people make it too easy... [on topic] thery are used mostly af places like fire giants because they are a good way to train str with out getting hit and get good drops (this is why they are used at almost every dragon spot also.

[Trigonous]

Because the look cool, duh! :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously, do we need a reason to bash people over the heads with sharpened blades made out of fictional materials?

[puddin_tane]

Halberds I get. It's those Mjolnir that puzzle me. It's not a stick with a fancy pokey thing attached. It's Thor's hammer! :roll:

[leet_man69]

halberds are for poking giants in the eye

[enjoi8882]

well, meleers were complaning that tthey coudnt hide and att

 

so jagex gave them halberds so they could attack behind stuff

 

 

 

jagex hearts meleers

[Zonorhc]

That's a mechanical reason, though, rather than an in-character reason.

 

 

 

Why would Runescapian people develop the weapon when the conditions that make its creation necessary do not exist?

[spooferfish]

It's been bugging me for a while, but why ARE there halberds in Runescape?

 

 

 

Historically, halberds were developed as a weapon for use against cavalry, because they could be set against a charge like a spear, hack through plate mail with their heavy blade, and pull riders off horses with the fluke behind the blade.

 

 

 

So why are they in the game? As JAGeX has said in the letters, there aren't any horses in Runescape.

 

 

STOP LOOKING SO MUCH INTO WHAT JAGEX DOES

 

 

 

It is part fantasy, unless I'm missing the part in history where we had fairys, elves, talking cows, camels, sheep, and neckalces that let us talk to cats.

 

 

 

It's a game. Shut up and enjoy it.