Mace

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Various Indo-Persian maces, from left: Bozdogan/buzdygan (Ottoman), tabar-shishpar (Indian), shishpar (Indian), shishpar (unknown), gurz (Indian), shishpar (Indian).

A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful strikes. A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, bone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.

The head of a military mace can be shaped with flanges or knobs to allow greater penetration of plate armour. The length of maces can vary considerably. The maces of foot soldiers are usually quite short (two or three feet, or sixty to ninety centimetres). The maces of cavalrymen are longer and thus better suited for blows delivered from horseback. Two-handed maces can be even larger.

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Mace (bludgeon) at Wikipedia, the free Terran encyclopedia that anyone can edit.