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 Users

 * Fugitive slaves that had escaped from farms were liable to be wield a footman's flail due to experience with threshing flails.