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* ArmorPiercingAttack: Warhammers are available as both primary weapons and sidearms. They're the realistic variety, having a small head that can easily pierce through armor.



* DropTheHammer: Warhammers are available as both primary weapons and sidearms. They're the realistic variety, having a small head that can easily pierce through armor.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses''.
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* BladeOnAStick: A variety are available to choose from. They tend to have a wide and powerful swing, but due to the weapons' small heads, you have to be at just the right range - too close, and you'll find yourself ineffectively bumping them with your weapon's shaft while they kill you at their lesiure.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Many different weapons of many different flavors, all with different strengths and weaknesses. Most have higher damage than other comparable weapons, and they have the most effective armor penetration of any slashing-type weapon. Examples range from the simple, effective, one-bit with backspike sidearm Battleaxe; to the extremely short (not always a drawback), extremely fast, extremely high damage Executioner's Axe; all the way up to the 9-foot long Knights Hospitaller halberd.

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''War of the Roses'' is a medieval combat action game for PC developed by Fatshark and released by Paradox Interactive in October of 2012. As a SpiritualSuccessor to Paradox's sleeper hit ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' franchise, War of the Roses is a third-person not-quite-Hack'n'Slash game with a deep and unique combat system that rewards carefully-aimed strikes and nimble-minded defense over swinging wildly at your opponents. The game has been praised for its very detailed customization and its [[ShownTheirWork tireless attention]] to period-appropriate detail while keeping the combat approachable enough not to bury players in realism.

The game is set during the titular UsefulNotes/{{Wars of the Roses}} in 15th century England, wherein the royal houses of York and Lancaster fought off-and-on for the throne over a span of 30 years. In the game, you play a knight, foot soldier, archer, or even a lowly peasant (all decided by you and the game's extensive customization) fighting for your house in up to 64-player multiplayer matches in various battles of the Wars throughout the English countryside, from sleepy farming villages and wide open hill country to the haphazard, claustrophobic streets of large towns.

The combat system is a more refined, deeper version of Mount and Blade's system with many of the same controls; you ready an attack from one of four different directions with the mouse. Fully-charged attacks cause more damage, swing faster, and pierce armor more effectively. Your opponents can block your attacks with a parry from the same direction or a shield. Being blocked causes your weapon to freeze up for a moment, leaving you vulnerable to a counterattack, discouraging players from swinging randomly and rewarding those that make attacks that are hard to predict. Skilled players will "fake out" their enemies by starting an attack from one direction, cancelling it, and attacking from another. Compared to Mount and Blade, several other details have been added, such as aiming for an opponent's [[AttackItsWeakPoint cloth-bound arms and legs]] rather than his plate-armored chest to cause more damage. Also of note is the aforementioned Call of Duty-style class customization system with weapons, armor, perks and some cosmetic details to make classes that are absolutely your own; with tweaks as deep as blade material, edge grind, pommel type, fighting style, what type of leather to cover your shield, what type of wood to fashion your spear haft from, what type of coif and visor on your helmet and even paint and polish for your armor. Once you have a class fully kitted-out, it's almost a statistic impossibility to run into another player with a class the same as your own.

As of January 2017, the servers have been shut down and the game removed from the steam store.

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''War of the Roses'' is was a medieval combat action game for PC developed by Fatshark and Fatshark, released by Paradox Interactive in October of 2012. 2012 and [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames shut down]] in February 2017. As a SpiritualSuccessor to Paradox's sleeper hit ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' franchise, War ''War of the Roses is Roses'' was a third-person not-quite-Hack'n'Slash game with a deep and unique combat system that rewards rewarded carefully-aimed strikes and nimble-minded defense over swinging wildly at your opponents. The game has been praised for its very detailed customization and its [[ShownTheirWork tireless attention]] to period-appropriate detail while keeping the combat approachable enough not to bury players in realism.

The game is was set during the titular UsefulNotes/{{Wars of the Roses}} in 15th century England, wherein the royal houses of York and Lancaster fought off-and-on for the throne over a span of 30 years. In the game, you could play a knight, foot soldier, archer, or even a lowly peasant (all decided by you and the game's extensive customization) fighting for your house in up to 64-player multiplayer matches in various battles of the Wars throughout the English countryside, from sleepy farming villages and wide open hill country to the haphazard, claustrophobic streets of large towns.

The combat system is was a more refined, deeper version of Mount ''Mount and Blade's Blade''[='=]s system with many of the same controls; you ready readied an attack from one of four different directions with the mouse. Fully-charged attacks cause caused more damage, swing faster, and pierce armor more effectively. Your opponents can could block your attacks with a parry from the same direction or a shield. Being blocked causes caused your weapon to freeze up for a moment, leaving you vulnerable to a counterattack, discouraging players from swinging randomly and rewarding those that make attacks that are hard to predict. Skilled players will could "fake out" their enemies by starting an attack from one direction, cancelling it, and attacking from another. Compared to Mount ''Mount and Blade, Blade'', several other details have been were added, such as aiming for an opponent's [[AttackItsWeakPoint cloth-bound arms and legs]] rather than his plate-armored chest to cause more damage. Also of note is was the aforementioned Call of Duty-style ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''-style class customization system with weapons, armor, perks and some cosmetic details to make classes that are absolutely your own; with tweaks as deep as blade material, edge grind, pommel type, fighting style, what type of leather to cover your shield, what type of wood to fashion your spear haft from, what type of coif and visor on your helmet and even paint and polish for your armor. Once you have had a class fully kitted-out, it's it was almost a statistic impossibility to run into another player with a class the same as your own.

As of January 2017, the servers have been shut down and the game removed from the steam store.
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