Ivan the Awesome said:I wonder how effective a big halberd like that would have been in combat. Would the guys just say "screw this" and take out their swords, or pick up a dead mans musket if the going got close and personal, or would they be able to hold their own with something so slow and clumsy looking.
Why not use the halberd, why would it be clumsy? Halberds were very popular and efficient weapons in medieval warfare, especially late medieval when firearms were making their appearance. It doesn't suddenly become useless because of the invention of flintlock muskets.
I've experienced this attitude before, my friend didn't believe my crossbow was a deadly weapon, his reasoning? Because we have guns now.