Favorite Polearm?

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Originally posted by Landsknecht_Doppelsoldner

Originally posted by Gazi

Originally posted by Landsknecht_Doppelsoldner

Originally posted by ak�nc�

Who used the tirpan in the ottoman army?

Janissaries equipped as armored shock troops (zirhli nefer).

But that T�rpan is not the t�rpan in the pic I posted its more of  weapon like a halberd.(actually some examples are displayed at the military museum in Istanbul)

My point all along has been that the tirpan in question is a type of bill (a cut-and-thrust polearm of agricultural origins), which is comparable to a halberd (though technically not the same thing--they differ in blade form).

Most z�rhl� nefers preferred the scimitar and the mace instead of the polearm though

Zirhli nefers undoubtedly used some form of saber (most likely a kilij) as a sidearm, but polearms were apparently quite common as a main weapon.  This makes sense, since many of their enemies also used polearms, and thus a zirhli nefer armed only with a saber and mace would have been at a disadvantage

The z�rhl� nefers also had bows and curved sabres but nearly all of them had either maces axes or polearms and it also depends on the period.The janissaries of the 14th  and 15th centuries probably did use polearms.