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Contents 1 Advantages of a War Hammer over a Mace 2 War Hammers and Thor 3 War Hammers and the Clergy 4 Warhammer - War hammer 5 nonsensical sentence?

[edit] Advantages of a War Hammer over a Mace

Can someone explain why a soldier would use a warhammer and not a mace?

It's more accurate, methinks.

What about Charles Martel? Defeated the Muslim invasion of France and got his very name from the warhammer he used. I figure that would be the most famous use of a hammer as a weapon of war in real life.68.100.106.83 18:04, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think warhammers are better at punching through armor. Maces wouldn't have that ability. Plus all that stuff about the hook and all.-LtNOWIS 21:54, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A warhammer would have much more striking power behind it. The force of the mace is dirtributed over the area of the flanges, but the warhammer is so heavy it could break bones through the armorGaffers

Was Charles Martel famous for using a Hammer? I don't think so. As far as I know that was just an epitaph, like Edward I as 'Hammer of the Scots'. Different strokes for different folks. War hammers were contemprorary with a great number of weapons. Evidently, some soldiers felt it was a more useful weapon than the Mace, Axe or Sword for certain tasks. It's design is very durable and functional.--M.J.Stanham 01:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] War Hammers and Thor

I'm pretty sure Thor's hammer was a throwing hammer, which would be a short hafted thing with a blockier head rather than something like this. Tim Gray 80.229.55.67

Maybe, maybe not. have we any contemporary illustartions? --M.J.Stanham 01:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

That Thor reference looks a little out of place. That's nothing framing it as mythological, and the entire rest of the article refers to non-fictional events and info. Perhaps we need a mythology and fiction section in this article? Trails 13:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] War Hammers and the Clergy

Is there any credence to the myth that monks & friars would use hammers in battle because they did not spill blood -- they were more "holy" to use than swords? --JD79 16:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

In short, no. See the discussion in the Mace section to hear the whys and wherefores, but basically it was a late nineteenth century theory that has long since been discredited, but was popularised by Dungeons & Dragons. --M.J.Stanham 01:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warhammer - War hammer

Why is it that the tabletop game name Warhammer is redirectet to War hammer, which it doesn't belong to.

I think a more adequate way, would be to link the search name of "Warhammer" to the tabletop game and make a hint to the side of "War hammer"

There are surely more people who seek the tabletop game with the search name "Warhammer" than there are people who search the weaopon. And there are also more people who overall search for the tabletop game than searching for the weapon!

An idea is to change the name from "War Hammer" to "Warhammer (weapon)" since the tabletop games has separate names (Warhammer fantasy battles and Warhammer 40,000) 81.229.68.97 09:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

--Projekt2501 (en) 21:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] nonsensical sentence?

The passage "A famous instance of a hammer as a weapon is Mjolnir, the weapon of the Norse god, Thor." seems unnecessary. There is no reason why a discussion of a weapon should refer to a specific deity.