Renaissance-era polearms

A halberd (also called halbard or halbert) is a two-handed polearm that was in prominent use from the 13th to 16th centuries. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It may have a hook or thorn on the back of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants and protecting allied soldiers, typically musketeers. The halberd was usually long.

right|thumb|upright|Two examples of a bardiche together with a flail (weapon)|flail, on display in [[Suzdal]]

type of polearm

thumb|Corseque, ca. late 16th - early 17th century. On display at Morges military museum. The corseque is a type of European polearm, characterised by a three-lobe blade on a shaft. The head features a long spike and two shorter and stronger lateral blades.

300px|thumb|right|The head of an obuch (with a rolled up beak) The obuch, obuszek or obuszysko is a type of melee weapon, very similar to a horseman's pick () but differing from it with a curved beak opposite the hammer. In Poland, it was customary to distinguish this type of weapon by the type of tip: if it has a sharp, perpendicular beak, it is a horseman's pick; if the beak is curled downward, it is an obuch; if it has an axe head, it is a . Most often there was a hammer on the opposite side of the blade.