Why are Shovels so much better than Swords?

[Sardorim]

Hit once with shovel? Death.

Gotta hit 3-4 times with a sword for the same effect.

[snowdrop]

Its the wielder ;)

[Sardorim]

Originally posted by snowdrop:

Its the wielder ;)

No, they're just bad.

I can easily clear hordes with a shovel while Sword does no damage and has a harder time beheading.

[Arcuārius]

maybe its shovelware?

[DrSNAFU]

Spades over Blades brotha~

But in all honesty I'm finding an odd trend of cleave-oriented weapons being overall weaker than single-target oriented weapons, even against hordes. Hand axe reliably kills trash in one hit, but is supposed to be shone up by sweeping sword strikes against large hordes in your face. I feel like even then, the sword doesn't do enough damage to appreciably deal with said horde. At least my axe can chop down one of those mooks at a time instead of slashing endlessly into the ever growing horde and killing maybe one every 2 hits.

[Ginrikuzuma]

krieg approves

[Fulgen]

sword are genuine trash tier, Heavy sword has decent stagger on light attack but piss poor damage

[Commander Hitman2b]

i feel like the axe is better but once you have the power sword it gonna be fun

[Azzakye]

Swords are great for poxwalkers
Shovels are great for poxwalkers and flak armour

Swords are much better for poxwalkers than Shovels but you dont run into as many poxwalkers.

[Ironslayer541]

Blunt weapons have always been better in 40k looking at you thunderhammer.

[Jacques De Gautier]

Originally posted by Sardorim:

Originally posted by snowdrop:

Its the wielder ;)

No, they're just bad.

I can easily clear hordes with a shovel while Sword does no damage and has a harder time beheading.

Or maybe it's the stats?

[Moonfear]

death corps of krieg want to have a "word" with ya (shovel included for free)

[Calculus]

Maybe... from slashing weapons i used only dagger so far and it was really good at clearing hordes...

[Ironslayer541]

Originally posted by Calculus:

Maybe... from slashing weapons i used only dagger so far and it was really good at clearing hordes...

The dagger is really fun due to its mobility with its basically unlimited doges. Most swords don't have this.

[Muted Kobold]

Use the heavies on swords. They will carve through ♥♥♥♥ just fine.

[🙐 Ascawien 🙖]

Why are shovels better than swords? Have you tried digging a hole with a sword? :P