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| [[File:ACU Bec de corbin.png|thumb|250px|Bec de corbin]]
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| A '''bec de corbin''' is a [[Europe]]an [[long weapons|polearm]] consisting of a combination of a hammerhead, spike, and hook mounted atop a long shaft. Unlike other long weapons of similar design, such as [[blunt weapons|war hammers]], a bec de corbin is intended to be used with the "beak", treated as the front side of the weapon, rather than the hammer.
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| ==Description==
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| Although a bec de corbin is the product of a modified hammerhead attached to a staff, it is not a dedicated war hammer. A spike protruding from the top of the head dominates its profile while on the other side of the hammer face is a hook commonly referred to as a beak. This beak is designed to tear through enemy armor and into their flesh underneath, and the weapon is essentially a war pick.<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>
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| The leaf-shaped spikes of bec de corbin employed by the [[Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins|Parisian Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]], however, were so broad and prominent that they effectively functioned as spearheads. The Assassin design also differed significantly in the apparent absence of a hammerhead, with protrusions on either side, one that forked into two hooks, the other a stout blade. A [[Golden bec de corbin|gilded variant]] of this type of bec de corbin also saw service with the French Assassins though it was inferior as a combat weapon.<ref name="ACU" /> | |
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| ==History==
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| During the [[French Revolution]], the bec de corbin was among the many weapons within the arsenal of the Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins.<ref name="ACU" />
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| ==Weapon statistics==
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| {|border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width:600px; text-align:center"
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| |Level
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| |Damage
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| |Parry
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| |Speed
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| |Range
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| |Cost
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| |Modifiers
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| |-
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| |* * *
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| |3
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| |3
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| |3
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| |4
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| |1,000₣
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| |Additional damage: +25%
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| |}
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The bec de corbin appears only in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' where despite its name, it differs substantially from typical becs de corbin, being closer in appearance and usage to a spear than a war pick. Though it is described as consisting of a modified hammerhead, the bec de corbin in the game does not appear to have a hammerhead. Instead, it bears a forked blade on one side, and the rear protrusion of that blade on the other, both components supplementing the spearhead rather than a beak taking primacy.
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| ==Appearance==
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| *''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| [[Category:Long weapons]]
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| [[Category:18th century weapons]]
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| [[fr:Bec de corbin]]
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