pickelhaube: a better weapon than a hat?

Dragunov · Post by **Dragunov** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:17 pm

my history teacher claimed that the spike on the pickelhaube was designed to be used as a CQB weapon... but that's total bull. but hey, was it ever used as such?

surprises?
dragunov

Tom Houlihan · Post by **Tom Houlihan** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:29 pm

Interesting thought for a 'weapon of opportunity,' but I don't think the spike-helm interface would hold up very long in a CQB situation.

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:03 am

....in that case the spike should have been on the FRONT!

Dragunov · Post by **Dragunov** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:04 pm

well, when he claimed it was an offensive tool, i thought of headbutting, but his gestures were more like using it to stab people.

is it just me, or does it sound alot like more 'evil German super-soldier' propaganda crap? speaking of which, a student-made propaganda poster hangs in the room which reads "His kids speak German... make sure yours don't!" and there was drawing (like those in those Osprey books) of a German soldier with the T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle. of course, they all carried around those 30+ pound almost-as-tall-as-you suckers.