A Story About Treating a Female Knight, Who Has Never Been Treated as a Woman, as a Woman - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - The Female Knight and a Weapon's Shop

[hancea1996]

Scythes is not that really that optimal for actual combat unless its an RPG where u can do loads of stuff w/ it.

 

[intmanga]

Scythes and mornigstars are such low tier, impractical weapons, just pick a polearm or a mace, those are far superior to the previous options.

 

[mattservesthesovietyunyun]

its a flail tho

 

[SpecialProjectY]

Like mentioned, that's a flail, morningstar doesn't have a chain.
Also, that's chuuni scythe

Still, protect that smile at all cost, even of useless weapons lol

 

[jc9]

both scythes (and to some extent flails) weren't used for their practicality, they were improvised weapons - they were simply what peasants (usually during uprisings) already had on hand and what could be easily modified by your local blacksmith - scythe was reforged to be straight, making it into some sort of a spear.
concidentally spear would be one of the best, if not THE best, weapon you could give untrained/barely trained peasants.
flails are kinda meh as a weapon, especially in a unit, well lets say spiked flail is a medieval equivalent of spiked baseball bat (it's role, especially in fiction, not as a weapon type)