Glaive Encarmine

[Quixus]

Didn't the the writers and the modelers talk to each other when designing the models and their names? Is there any reason why a weapon called glaive encarmine is modeled as a metal-colored two-handed sword with a weird handguard instead of a red pole arm? It's not that pole arms are unknown for marines see the grey knights and their nemesis weapons.

[Lucumon]

Linguistic accuracy isn't all that necessary in an imaginary futuristic world of super humans and elves.

 

Or, to look at it another way, how long does it take for a word to morph definitions? For example, 100 years ago, a car was called a motorized coach. 'Gay' was a happy person, not a homosexual. Vernacular changes

 

Or, its best to just turn off your brain with these sorts of things. I believe the US Secretary of State calls it a 'willing suspension of disbelief'.

[Drudge Dreadnought]

Technically, glaive does actually mean 'sword'. Glaive Encarmine translates as 'Red Sword'. So, what's weird is that they aren't red, and several aren't swords.

[Erasmus of Baal]

Technically, glaive does actually mean 'sword'. Glaive Encarmine translates as 'Red Sword'. So, what's weird is that they aren't red, and several aren't swords.

 

Well, MINE are red...or will be once they're painted... :rolleyes:

 

Could it be argued, perhaps, that between these two definitions of "glaive" the issue is solved? Some follow the sword definition, and the rest are polearms that are similar to what we are used to being axes (which, with handles this long, are not so very different from polearms).