Gadhabara

Background
A club is also a simple blunt weapon, usually made of wood. It is the simplest of all weapons, and has other names such as baton, cudgel, night-stick, and bludgeon. Unlike many fighting weapons, clubs don't pierce or slash, but they crush, often inflicting bruises. It is a good idea to make a club out of the sturdiest wood possible, so it wouldn't break in the middle of combat. The length also matters; if a club is too short, it will be hard to reach your foe, but if it is too long, the weapon could be hard to use. Clubs, both straight and shaped, were found near the now-famous Tollense archaeological site in northern Germany during a dig in 1996 CE.

A variant of the club was the mace, which would have had a shaped head, meant to induce greater damage per blow. While it would seem unwieldly, the one advantage a mace had over a sword was that it could cause trauma damage even if it came into contact with armour. While maces were primarily used by cavalrymen of ages up to the Mediaeval era, the use of the mace as an infantry weapon was not unheard of.