This is a copy and paste from the one I put in pikes:
My character, of course, is pike primary, halberd secondary.
Recommended Combos:
For standard, puncture pikes:
Jab -> Thrust -> Lunge -> Repeat
This goes to incredible, is pure puncture, and has the two most powerful pike attacks there are consecutively. I contend that it is the best combo. If you have the stamina, and you run into a resistant critter, remember that the damage caused by slam is pure impact and based on the weight of the weapon. Consider for a moment that pikes are generally very heavy weapons. Add the slam after lunge.
For Ngalios and Pike-based Khujs, or any other slash pike:
Jab -> Sweep -> Slam -> Repeat
This combo makes use of all 3 damage classes and gets a fair number of sweeps and slams in per unit time, the powerful slice and impact maneuvers available with the weapon. The jab is more for balance, but even the worst puncturing pike I've ever seen has fair puncture (with the exception of the ones I forged with about 50 FF. Its hard to forget my p/p/l javelins).
For Slashing Halberds:
Draw -> Sweep -> Slice -> Chop -> Repeat
Think slicer edged weapons, but swap the sweep and slice. Goes to incredible, yadieyada. All decently powerful moves making use of the halberd's impact and slice.
For Stabbing Halberds:
Thrust -> Lunge -> Jab -> Slam
As always, combo goes to incredible and makes use of the halberd's stabbing potential. Also has a solid impact based maneuver, slam, which delivers a nice shot as halberds tend to be heavy.
QS and SS should use the same combos as a slicer halberd. As for halberd forgers, I believe I'm the only one who's taken it up recently. Halberds use heads, like axes and blunts. They ARE grindable, and producing heavy/heavy/poor fair/fair Average Strength halberds at 37 stones requires it. The impact damage, to the best of knowledge, can be considerably increased with weight. I haven't quite capped the weapons yet, but I'm very close. Currently, the best weapon I can achieve is heavy/heavy/fair poor/reasonable Average Strength. I have it on decent authority that a fully capped halberd in the 60's or 70's caps at great/great/(fair or mod, forget which) poor/(reasonable or well, once again, forget which). I have several h/h/f p/r available, and am sitting around the crossing for a while if anyone wants one. No charge.
