Editing Battleaxe (section)

==Double-Headed or Double-Bitted Axes: What A Real Battleaxe Never Looks Like==
[[image:Labrys.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|Examples of Double-Headed Axes, also known as Labrys]]
Listen up, fantasy artists, video game designers, and stupider roleplayers: You see those images at the right? They're called a Labrys, and they're completely unusable for combat. To the extent they were ever used against people, they were used almost exclusively for religious purposes by certain cults in ancient Greek history, or as a symbol of either Greek history (usually by fascists), or as a symbol of femininity (as the Labrys was associated with Goddess worship: just look at the shape, and look at a spread female genitalia, and realize the ancients could be quite perverted).<ref>They are also a symbol of the [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|Black Furies]] as well, who take quite a bit more inspiration from the Greeks.</ref>

The thing is, they're completely unwieldy for combat, as they weigh twice as much as a "normal" axe, and have worse aerodynamic properties. Wielding a Labrys in combat is going to be difficult to impossible for anyone not wearing [[Power Armor]] or isn't [http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Labrys a hot robot girl.] (And we're not too certain about the Mecha making it at all useful: You'd still have to deal with the fact that you'd still get a lot more bang for your buck with a single-headed axe, especially compared to if you put a pick or hammer of some kind on the other end.)

There is one important caveat to this rule: throwing axes, where the aerodynamic issue sort of balances itself out due to spin, and you now have the advantage of being able to hit while in roughly half of all angles, rather then one quarter. That being said, most throwing axes are one bladed, just because the weight trade-off and the aerodynamic issues are still present, if to a much lesser degree.

So, where did these double-headed axes (many of them too big for throwing) come from, you may ask (because we do find such double-headed axes in archeology sites almost all over the world)? The logging industry. Having an axe that you could cut twice as many trees with before having to return to base to have your blade sharpened is more valuable when you spend most of your day walking around cutting down trees. The doubled weight is also an advantage when what you're cutting doesn't move.

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