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Originally Posted by Insane
Dude, somehow i feel that your reference for armaments in war is very sadistic and barbaric. Also, isn't wielding hammers in battlefield rather inconvenient? Usually soldiers wield weapon equipped with sharp edge to allow for more damage.
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Not necessarily. A lot of heavy weapons used in medieval times used sheer weight to crush the enemy. Examples would be Great-Swords (the blade alone was five feet long), Maces (basically a chunk of metal on a stick), Battle-axes (the big two handed ones, anyway), and War-Hammers (not sure how common they are, but they existed). They were designed to deal with armored foes, so rather that pierce the armor they just smashed him to a pulp. Sometimes literally.