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A morning star is basically a club with spikes. As a club, it could break bones or kill by blunt force, but the spikes added the possibility that it would wound by penetration, and with enough weight behind it, it could penetrate armor. Morning stars were used more by infantry than by knights, as the knights preferred maces, which could not accidentally injure themselves or their horses with spikes.

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