Talk:School of the Bear/@comment-46.255.172.166-20160126145820/@comment-120.144.150.31-20170818142418

A Battle axe is built and designed alot differently to a woodsman's axe. Battle axes are purpose built for hacking and cleaving over a woodsmans axe. A battle axe was not designed for chopping wood, the blade was weaker and thinner then wood chopping ones. A woodsmans axe would work fine out in the woods but in a battle the wooden shaft could easily break if something of equal force hit it. Battle axes generally had metal shafts. And if you were a Witcher you would want to use a weapon against monsters, that you could use the entirety of, an axe would offer less in the way of successfully blocking a blow from, say a drowner.