Axe

Axe

"An advanced form of one of mankind's oldest weapons, the war axe is a short blade attached to a shaft. The simple, ancient design concentrates cutting power generated from strong overhand swings."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Tech Level

Medieval

Weapon Class

Medieval

Mass

1.5 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Handle
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Edge
15 dmg (Cut)
22% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

6.71

Melee Average AP

20%

Creation

Crafted At

 / 

Required Research

Smithing

Skill Required

Crafting 3

Work To Make

7,000 ticks (1.94 mins)

Stuff Tags

Metallic, Woody

Resources to make

50

Technical

weaponTags

MedievalMeleeDecent

The Axe is a melee weapon added by the Royalty DLC that primarily deals sharp damage.

Note: Although classified by the Ideoligion Weapon Preferences as a 'Melee Blunt' weapon along with weapons that predominately deal blunt damage, its primary attack deal sharp damage. It is unknown if this categorization is a bug or intended behavior.

Acquisition

Axes can be crafted at either a fueled or electric smithy once the Smithing research project has been completed. They require  50 Stuff (Metallic/Woody, 500 for SMVs), 7,000 ticks (1.94 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 3.

Alternatively, axes can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant and found on raiders and some Empire pawns.

Analysis

The axe is comparable to the gladius, with some key differences. Both weapons require the same amount of materials, have the same crafting skill and research requirements, and have the same cooldown. In combat, the axe has an advantage in that it uses the Cut to a greater extent (75%) than the gladius (37.5%). This causes the axe to have a higher chance to destroy the body part of the opponent, rather than reducing it to 1HP. To have a 100% chance of destroying the targeted body part, Stab damage types must deal 70% more damage than HP is remaining on the bodypart, where as Cut damage types needs only 10% more. This is offset by the Gladius having a slightly higher average DPS (6.71 vs 7.52) and AP (20% vs 22%), and weight 0.65 kg less. Most likely, the gladius will outperform the axe versus opponents with high body part health such as elephants, and the axe will outperform versus opponents with low body part health. Note that this is theoretical and no explicit testing has been conducted. Generally, a axe or gladius with better material and/ or quality will outperform the other.

Crafting wise, Axes take less work to make - with axes requiring 7,000 ticks (1.94 mins) of work, vs 12,000 ticks (3.33 mins) for the Gladius. In turn, this slightly reduces the Axe's market value.

Compared to more complex melee weapons, an axe is superior in DPS to a longsword of 2 quality levels below itself or worse, for example a Legendary Steel Axe has higher DPS than an Excellent Steel Longsword, but lower DPS than a Masterwork Steel Longsword. The axe has AP superior to longswords of 3 quality levels below itself. Thus, besides in attack cooldown (a property shared by the gladius), all but the very best quality and material axes are inferior to almost all longswords, and all axes are inferior to longswords of good material and quality.

Another potential use is for ideoligion with the Melee Blunt set as Noble weapons, providing a sharp weapon option that grants mood buffs instead of penalties.

Material table

Material	DPS	AP	Handle (Poke)					Edge (Cut)					HP	Value [ExpandCollapse]
			Dam.	Cool.	AP	DPS	Chance	Dam.	Cool.	AP	DPS	Chance
Wooden Axe	3.79	10.98%	8.1	2s	11.7%	4.05	75%	6	2s	8.8%	3	25%	65	78
Bioferrite Axe	8.33	24.38%	8.1	2s	11.7%	4.05	25%	19.5	2s	28.6%	9.75	75%	200	101
Golden Axe	5.34	15.63%	9	2s	13%	4.5	25%	11.25	2s	16.5%	5.63	75%	60	5025
Plasteel Axe	9	21.08%	8.1	1.28s	11.7%	6.33	25%	16.5	1.28s	24.2%	12.89	75%	280	505
Silver Axe	5.91	17.28%	9	2s	13%	4.5	25%	12.75	2s	18.7%	6.38	75%	70	525
Steel Axe	6.75	19.75%	9	2s	13%	4.5	25%	15	2s	22%	7.5	75%	100	120
Uranium Axe	7.16	23.03%	13.5	2.42s	19.5%	5.58	25%	16.5	2.42s	24.2%	6.82	75%	250	350

^{Assuming Normal quality, for the effect of other qualities, see Quality.}

Version history

• Royalty DLC Release - Added.

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