LE Poleaxes & Halberds?

[twowolves80]

Not sure if this is possible, but I went through ten pages in this forum to make sure no one else posted it.

Simple. A poleaxe or halberd (or any variation thereof) that would be able to be used like one against any mounted player or NPC. You hit them with it, and on a critical hit, it yanks them off the horse. They fall prone to the ground. If you're quick enough, get over to them and perform a power attack (coup de grace) that deals extra damage for them being prone.

This is how pikesmen took out cavalry, so it should be very lore-friendly, and the technology is right around the same.

From the Wikipedia entry for Halberd:

"The halberd was inexpensive to produce and very versatile in battle. As the halberd was eventually refined, its point was more fully developed to allow it to better deal with spears and pikes (also able to push back approaching horsemen), as was the hook opposite the axe head, which could be used to pull horsemen to the ground. A Swiss peasant used a halberd to kill Charles the Bold,the Duke of Burgundy—decisively ending the Burgundian Wars, literally in a single stroke. Researchers suspect that a halberd or a bill sliced through the back of King Richard III's skull at the Battle of Bosworth."

 

 

I don't think it would be too hard to set up in the CK with a timer. Say, after the critical hit with the halberd, the target falls prone for five seconds. If you strike within that five seconds, damage is doubled if you use a one handed weapon like a dagger or sword (the sword is really just a nod to Skyrim's way of handling backstabbing), though in actual history, this would have been done with a misericord. Poleaxes were cheap to manufacture, too, so they wouldn't be very expensive in game terms. Everything could be tied to the weapon, I believe. I just don't know how to do it myself. Plus, the object itself would need to be created, either from scratch, or using vanilla assets.

Edited October 27, 2017 by twowolves80