Butcher's Bill

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Description

These pole-arms are comparatively cheap to craft, and this helps to make them popular among both the Marcher households and the League Free companies. They can be bought in moderate numbers, and used to add additional strength to a unit of skilled soldiers, or allow a recruit to fight nearly as well as their more experienced colleagues.

Their extensive use on the battle-field as part of tight formations has given them a brutal reputation that is not entirely deserved. They take their name from the butcher's bill, the list of casulaties after the battle. Several generals have referred to the use of these weapons as balancing the butcher's bill by ensuring there are more casualties on the enemy side than on the Imperial side.

Rules

• Form: Pole-arm. Despite the name any pole-arm may be a sanguine spear.
• Effect: Once per day you may call either STRIKEDOWN or CLEAVE with this weapon.
• Materials: Crafting a yeoman's harvest requires eight ingots of orichalcum and two ingots of iridescent gloaming. It takes one month to make one of these items.