Badaxxery

"Halberd - The long reach and high efficiency of this two-handed long-shafted axe-like weapon makes it well-suited for combat with encumbered, heavily armored opponents [...] the weapon is, with significant exceptions, neither common nor popular for use by mercenaries or adventurers." - Garothmuk gro-Muzgub

The goal of this mod is to expand the options of an axe playthrough.

1) Halberds are re-classified as 2H axes and renamed: iron bardiche, steel halberd, Dwarven glaive, and glass greataxe. Their speed is heavily slowed down and damages readjusted to emulate the description by gro-Muzgub, creating a cumbersome, heavy-hitting weapon. Ranges have been upgraded for a realistic feel.  All of these polearm weapons have a high chance of NPC knockdown, which is their greatest strength. Damage was recalculated so that the Halberd and Glaive have a quick thrust attack as an option (reflecting their design). NPCs with a shield or high agility will quickly overpower the player if they do not switch combat tactics.

2) Chitin war axe swings more quickly, and their low-end damage is raised, allowing this weapon to be used with less skill than a regular war axe.

3) Miner's pick would be a devastating weapon if a blow landed, the damage has been upgraded while the speed has been slowed.

4) Mabrigash Axe: taking advantage of a "duplicate" steel war axe in the game, and changing this to an enchantable axe for magic playthroughs. This axe has a 25 enchantment capacity, and artwork from the unused Axe of the Queen of Bats.

Things I want(ed) to do but will need to wait:

1) bound war axe spell (future project once hardcoding is implemented)

2) new ebony battle-axe weapon (separate project now)

3) dual-classification of the halberds as both 2H spear and 2H axe

This .omwaddon mod is compatible with OpenMW, for vanilla and non-OpenMW just change the filetype to . ESP

**My mod Serendipitous Spears updates Halberds for a spear playthrough, with both of these mods you will have halberds that train spear, and halberds that train axe.