Talk:Halberdier (Age of Empires II)/@comment-26177661-20180520080040/@comment-27726014-20180520185828

Um, that is incorrect. The Ge is a billhook type weapon and has no point so it's not really that comparable with the halbard. Secondly it was used by soldiers, massively even. Generals usually used swords as they weren't supposed to be fighting. Generals were to lead and direct men, they carried weapons for self defence.

Also why would you make a simplistic pole arm exclusive to high ranking people? The advantage of the Ge was that it was simple and cheap to make so you can make thousands of them in just months. After all only the metal piece which is pretty simple and small has to be made. The rest is just a bamboo pole that you harvest.