A pole weapon or polearm's a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon's placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range. Spears, glaives, poleaxes, halberds, and bardiches are all varieties of polearm. The idea of attaching a weapon onto a long shaft's an old one, as the first spears date back to the Stone Age. The purpose of using pole weapons's either to extend reach or to increase angular momentum—and thus stri… (More on Polearm)