User blog comment:Jett Cyber/Tournament of Legends: Round 1/@comment-9062114-20131024004833/@comment-13446185-20131028204022

I forgot exactly what he used and confused a warhammer with a sledgehammer.

By sledgehammer I'm guessing you are reffering to a maul. Technically the warhammers in Skyrim would be mauls as a normal warhammer would be a single handed weapon. You are confusing the hell out of me as I said that he uses a "battleaxe", which wouldn't fit into the discription of a maul or warhammer.

but purely blunt weapons like a sledgehammer and mace have reduced effectiveness against plate armor, while sharp weapons can slide between the plates and hit the squishy inside.

No... All blunt weapons (except primitive clubs I guess) were made for anti-armor, maces especially which normally have spikes on them for cutting the flesh behind the armor. As I said before, they can crush armor while blades can only cut, which is never that effective. You can never hope your blade will fall through slits unless you hit those slits directly which would be very hard, as most armored infantry would wear lighter armor under their outer shell.

'If that was true then why do they have halberds? Those aren't exactly blunt, and they're meant for heavily armored knights,'

Halberds are definately not meant for knights as basically all polearms are made for vanguards/anti cavalry. Using a halberd against a knight would be a bad idea.