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The Helmbarte was a more modern version of the Rossschinder (ross = horse, schinder = hurting) a weapon designed to stop cavalry. Helm is ancient german for pole, barte for axe. A halberd usually combines the horse stopping power of a lance with the cutting ability of an axe against infantry. The Hellebarde (halberd) was a lighter developement of the Helmbarte for parades, guard troops (today the swiss guards of the Vatikan still use them), ceremonies, A Feldherr (translated as commander) is the highest commanding officer(or noble) who leads the Herr (army) on the Feld (battlefield). I think Alexander and Rommel are some of the few leaders who commanded from the frontline. The rest was choosing a hill and was using messengers. These Feldherrn had light decorated Hellebarden often with colourful ribbons to show there position to their troops. With time they got more and more decorated and less useful as a weapon. The picture below shows some halberds. Armour piercing points when knight had horses with armour, spear points in areas with no armoured horses,... Hooks to tear knights from horses, sickles to cut legs of horses when pulling the halberd back... Then with muskets the halberdiers build a front line against cavalry to guard their musketeers and the halberds had to become even lighter to be more mobile. No longer massive heads, but light ones with holes. They could be light because with x-bows and then muskets opponents weren't wearing massive armour any longer. There was not just one halberd

While leading the men from the front appeals to sense of honor and may improve the morale and the authority of the commander, from a practical standpoint it was and is a gross negligence. Especially when a sniper, or a machinegun team is in the area. Once the officers are killed, the troops become a disorganized mess. Been that way since at least 16-th century.

The secret is you have to kite the octagomulous to dry land. It's almost invulnrable in the water. Try luring it north near the cave you came out of. And just FYI, a properly built temple guardian is a literal boss slaying machine. Deadly spears and dedicated blow in combination are devastating, and the bigger the monster the more spears hit it. The only class I know of that's better at boss killing is the BFG seraphim, but they're seriously OP. In regards to the octopus, use that combination of Deadly spears and dedicated blow. Run right into the middle of the monster so that all your spears will hit it. While DS is on cooldown lay in to it with dedicated blow. If your DS cooldown is high enough just spam it. Make sure your DS level is high enough for at least 3 volleys.

It is the primary reason, why so many uniques have been not only altered model-wise, but also renamed in the Addendum. I'm not a native Germanic group language(to which English belongs) bearer, so the strangeness might seem even more acute to me.

If this a Pole Arm, why is it called Halberd of the Commander? These 2 names weapon types) confuse me enough the way it is.