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War club
Blunt, Neolithic, Native American, Pacific, Africa
A War Club is a much more formidable type of club usually either made of hardwood or incorporating stone or other materials. War Clubs were used as battlefield weapons all over the world including in Europe through much of the Iron Age, particularly by Germanic tribes.
A club is not necessarily as simple as a baseball bat let alone a random piece of firewood (see Heavy Stick), most are carefully shaped and balanced for use as a weapon. Shapes can range from paddle or even sword-like, to mace like, hammer-like or axe-like, to various odd shapes difficult to correlate to other more modern weapons (in the simplest form, think of something like an axe handle, only more specifically designed to cause injuries). A longer club tends to be more lightly made than a shorter one. Clubs are often thrown as missile weapons in addition to being used for melee.
Eastern woodlands style War-Club, early 20th Century. BP Attack types, AP +1 (probably a replica) Engraved Ojibwe War-Club, 18th Century Ironwood War-Club, Tonga, 19th Century. This would be a 4/3/3 weapon.
Name | Size | Reach | Speed | Defense | Base Damage | Attack Types | Primary Attack Types | Armor Pierce | Grapple | Hardness | HP |
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War club | M | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1-6 | B | B | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |