Melee weapons

[General Profit]

What is the best weapon to give to your brawlers? Is it from the smithy?
Also can you have a personal sheild and melee weapon? and is there a way to craft the sheilds or is it only from traders?

[ShunTheWitch]

By memory sheilds are only from trading and drops from enemies, Personally thats debatable, you can get similar damage from a plasteel longsword at a smithy, the problem being it costs plasteel, but it doesnt cripple their work speed, however if the brawler is nothing but a maid and a fighter i would suggest taking scyther blades from scythers (you have to use their health tab and operate on the scyther) You can put two on your brawler and it is just a monster, however that has 2 costs, their workspeed and general usefulness for everything but cleaning and fighting, and you will need to both be lucky and have 2 glitter world medicine to attatched those blades to these berserkers, Happy hunting.

[CapnSquiggles]

You can get a mod to craft personal shields. Eventually dead folk and traders will have plenty though.

[Dankan37]

You can give your colonist scyter's blade if they are good at shooting and melee, otherwhise it depends on the material, knifes (bladed weapons) deal less damage but bleed ot enemy quickly, maces are faster.

[Battleseed]

Mace for captures or longsword for kills. Keep in mind about melee weapons though, they will use them on each other too. Be carefull and don't give one to someone that gets in fights with others. Have yet to have anyone die from a fist fight, but have had some maimed and killed by melee weapons.

Had someone insult the doctor, fight inceudes. Doc lost arm. #feelsbadman.