Lance-type polearms can be used to strike the enemy using a 'couched' technique. Some polearms can't be used with a shield due to their large size or due to the need to balance the weapon. While the damage is often negated due to the horse being too close to the wielder by the time the attack is performed, this is an effective way of stopping the occasional lone horseman and allowing teammates in multiplayer or infantry in single player mode to mob the temporarily immobile foe.
Polearms have the unique ability to stop a charging horse in its tracks when thrust forward by foot soldiers. A horse is thus essential for maintaining distance (there are some exceptions to this, notably the shortened spear and quarterstaff, which can often be used effectively in close-combat on foot). Generally polearms have a higher weapon reach than other melee weapons, although some can be tricky to use effectively without a horse because once an enemy closes distance many polearms become nearly useless. Polearms are weapons like staves, spears, and pikes. Note that when on horseback, such weapons are always used with one hand, so there's no advantage to putting away your shield aside from changing the weapon proficiency that the weapon will benefit from. Any one/two handed weapon will deal more damage and swing faster when used with both hands. Using such a weapon will allow you to choose lesser damage and good defense or good damage and lesser defense. To switch between one and two handed, you have to equip/unequip your shield. There are only a few weapons that can be wielded as Two-handed/One-handed weapons. These weapons have a greater reach than one-handed weapons on average. They can deal more damage per-hit than their one-handed counterparts, but you cannot use a shield with them and they generally attack more slowly. Two-handed weapons are varieties of hard-hitting weapons like large axes, swords, and hammers. They do less damage compared to two-handed weapons, but they are faster and give you the advantages of having a shield, which include being better able to defend against ranged attacks (such as thrown objects and arrows) and being able to defend yourself better if your horse is killed. One-handed weapons are relatively light weapons designed for use with a shield. To be an effective hand-to-hand warrior, the player must have a high level of Strength and skills in Power Strike, Shield, Athletics and (optionally) Weapon Master with high weapon proficiencies in any of the Melee Weapons that the proficiency applies to. From horseback, the lance dominates when couched, which delivers the most damage to be found in the game. Weapons such as the shorter axes are more effective against shields and more capable in close quarters, where as a polearm is (often) near useless in close combat. Axes, swords, polearms, fists, and, in Mount&Blade: Warband, some throwing weapons, can be used in hand-to-hand combat.
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