The problem with throwing the axe is now the other person has an axe? Also doesn’t seem great for hunting. I’d prefer a spear. Easy to construct. Services as a walking stick. If something quadrapedal charges at you all the work you need to do is get the tip to hit it before the animal hits you.
Certainly, my disinclination is guided by presuming I have zero axe throwing proficiency. To me a gun seems pretty simple in comparison to axe-throwing, but somehow people miss their target anyway. Throwing an axe seems much more involved, and if I miss — unlike a bullet — there is the potential for re-use. Assuming the other individual learns from my mistake and decides to use the throwing-axe as a hold-in-hand axe I’d be fucked.
I never heard of Ahlspiess before, that seems like a really solid bet. All the zombie movies have taught me that blades are bad because blades get stuck so not super-fond of the glaive. It might make someone reconsider though.
See someone with a spear, an assailant might go “that person might not know what they’re doing” but if they spot someone with a glaive it’d be justified to think “Damn, that person is beyond equipped and probably knows how to use that thing”. Although, another interpretation might be “look at this renaissance fair buff”.
Just an illness rather than The Illness I think. No core symptoms, but the ‘potential’ symptoms list is so long I could well have had a very unlikely expression
