Heavy flail

Heavy flails, otherwise known as a footman's flail, was a larger version of the standard flail.
==Description==
Heavy flails typically had longer shafts, about long, with a hinged or chained heavier spiked ball or rod on the end. Some had an elongated top spike to give them even greater reach..
==Weaponology==
Heavy flails were typically used as two-handed weapons. They could be used to trip an opponent and their flexible chains increased the chance of entangling an enemy weapons, thereby disarming them.
==History==
Heavy flails derived from an agricultural tool known as a threshing flail.
==Notable heavy flails==
==Notable Users==
* Fugitive slaves that had escaped from farms were liable to wield a footman's flail as a weapon, due to having experience with threshing flails.
==Appendix==
===References===
Category:Two-handed weapons
Category:Melee weapons
Category:Martial weapons
Category:Bludgeoning weapons
Category:Flails
Category:0-24 gold pieces
Category:weapons