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Boarding pike

Properties

Weapon properties

Description

A boarding pike is an 8-foot-long pole topped with a foot-long tapered metal tip. Boarding pikes look much like longspears, but the metal pike is designed to flow into the wooden haft, leaving no grooves, collars, or spikes that could trap salt water and cause rust. Boarding pikes are mainly used defensively, to repel boarding actions. The pikes are kept in brackets around the mast, so sailors can quickly grab pikes and brace them against the gunwale to repel boarders.

See also

• Boarding Pike of Repelling

Sources

• Pirates of the Inner Sea
• Skull and Shackles Player's Guide

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