All Melee Weapons Marks & Types [Last Updated Sep 2024]

The Guide shows all melee weapons of all Tertium 4 or 5 it does not matter, with basic information and little tips about them.

Introduction

Darktide contains a huge arsenal of melee weapons , each with its own use, purpose and combo in combat. This guide will list those melee weapons and basic information regarding those weapons.

Hint: Use the Contents table/Guide Index on the right to quickly find the specific weapon.


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Weapon Modifiers

A weapon basic stats is based upon 5 modifiers , those modifiers are scaled from 0%->80%, a max weapon modifier score would be 380 points, with 80% in 4 of the modifiers, and a 60% in a modifier. so a perfect loot weapon does not exist.

Modifier	Description
Damage	Controls the basic damage of the weapon, it also controls the damage done to Infested & Unarmored enemies,as poxwalkers and groaners, those are what a wave mostly consists of
Mobility	Controls Sprinting Speed , , Dodging Speed , Dodge Distance & Dodge limit , the higher the value the better your mobility will be
Finesse	Controls Attack Speed of both heavy and light attacks, while also the power of Critical hits and Weakspots hits
Cleave Damage	Controls the damage done to all targets hit in a swing except the first hit target , gaining a higher value, allow a higher damage done to targets except the first target hit in a swing
First Target	Controls the damage to the first target hit in a swing , heavy or light. weapons with this modifier usually do much higher damage than average to first target
Defences	an extra modifier than affects mobility modifier, while also other factors as how much a push use stamina, and stamina used while sprinting
Penetration	Controls damage to armored targets , as flak armor, carapace armor, both light and heavy attacks
Critical Damage	Controls the Critical hit damage , weapons with this modifier would do higher critical hits, ideal for critical hit builds.
Shredder	Only to chain weapons, it controls the damage of shredding (using the chain), as with the use of special ability.
Crowd Control	A combination of Finesse & Cleave Damage , it controls Attack Speed & Damage done to targets excluding first target, while also controls stagger done by attacks
Power Output	Controls certain Charged Weapons damage of the special attack, as it controls AoE size, AoE Suppression and damage.
Warp Resistance	Controls heat generated for weapons that use wrap energy, only for psyker weapons

First Target is the first heretic to be hit in an attack, while cleave damage is every target after.

Attack Types

Vanguard
Wide angle swipe, either horizantal or 45 degrees sweep, used to deal damage to multiple targets at once, best used against hordes or multiple enemies.

Relentless
Similar to Vanguard, Wide angle swipe, either horizontal or 45 degree sweep, but focuses on staggering targets rather than damaging targets. those attacks do higher stagger, and aims at crowd control more than crowd removing.

Strike down
Attacks that are based to engage a single target, mostly are top down attacks, that are aimed at the head of the enemy, most attacks in strike down does extra damage, due to its constraint to single target damaging.

Assassin
Attacks on single target, that gets higher damage multiplier when targeting a weakspot, or a critical hit, or even both.

Combos

Each weapon have its own combo or chain of attacks in melee, some weapons aims at being more of a single target damaging, while other at horde control and distribution.


Those attack patterns are predefined, a player can infuse the light and heavy attack pattern together, as per picture.
First heavy attack is relentless, aimed at hordes, yet following in combo is strike down, if a player want to clear hordes, use of Heavy Attack + Light Attack would allow to reset the combo back to the relentless attack, therefore the player created an infused combo.

Catachan Swords

Named after the planet itself. These swords is common baseline swords of the game, available to all human sized personal, they lack anything special about them as they are the jack of all trades and traditional, therefore they share a huge pool of blessings, their special attack is parry, which blocks the enemy melee attacks even if an attack is unblockable, as in mauler top down attack or crusher top down attack, while also sends out high stagger to the target and damage.

• Versatile
  
• Huge Pool of Blessings
  
• Jack of all Trades
  
• Parry Special Attack
  
• Very Basic

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Although Scab boss attack is unblockable , even if blocked by normal (holding defense or right click) would still bypass your toughness and damage you, while parry makes you immune.

Catachan Mk I "Devil Claw" Sword

MK I holds most of its combo in horde cleaning, with heavy attacks are both perfect horizontal sweeps, that allows the sword to cleave multiple targets of the horde on their weakspot, therefore doing very high damage to hordes, its push attack is also a sweep, the weapon lacks any anti single target heavy attack or a combo specific for single targets.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top down.

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right.

• Good Anti Waves
  
• Perfect heavy attacks for waves
  
• Lacks anti single target Attacks
  
• Push Attack Sweep

Catachan Mk IV "Devil Claw" Sword

MK IV is a versatile one of the series, having both anti horde and single target combos to engage both hordes and HvTs effectively, its heavy attack combo have a good anti HvT opener, as it starts with a top down attack.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|↗
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to center | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down|Horizontal left to right.

• Versatile weapon
  
• Heavy attacks as Combo opener
  
• Jack of trades.
  
• Push Attack, Top Down

Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Light + Heavy
This combo does constant horizontal sweeps on target weakspots, expect for first light attack of the whole combo.

Anti Specials: Heavy + Light
it would allow the continue using of the strike down heavy attack quickly.

Catachan Mk VII "Devil Claw" Sword

MK VII does the highest single target damage heavy attack, which allow it to combat single heavy targets effectively, yet its first heavy attack is a sweep, which makes it hard to spam the top down attack of the heavy combo.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top down

Heavy Attack Combo: →|↓
Horizontal right to left | Top down

• Best of the Series Anti Specials
  
• Acceptable level of Anti Horde
  
• Heavy Attack Combo Opener
  
• Push Attack Stab

Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Heavy + Light
This combo constant of heavy attack horizontal sweep, and a light attack slash.

Combat-Tactical Axes

Axes are all single handed axe melee weapons, that does high single target damage and does have a great level of armor penetration, they got a level of critical bonus or first target bonus, multiple variant of axes are there, some focuses on mobility, other on attack speed while others on damage and penetration. due to weapon length, axes requires the player to be close to those nurgle lovers.Axes does not have a unified special attack, each variant have its own.

Combat axes are heavier , that do more damage and stagger, while tactical axes are fast, and does higher damage on weakspot or critical hits.

• High Stamina & Dodge Limit
  
• High Damage & Penetration
  
• Low Weapon Length

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Axe vs Crusher

Antax Mk V Combat Axe

The heavy axe variant of the combat axes, very high damage and impact and the only axe able to cleave multiple targets at once, the axe heavy attack combo are all top down which allows effective continuous attacks on weakspots, the axe is heavy therefore its attack speed is low.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↓|↓
Top down | Top down | Top down

• Highest Single Target Damage
  
• Only Axe with Cleave Damage
  
• Heavy & Slow Swings
  
• High Stagger Special Attack

Keep in mind Antax is one of the best axes in game, but it have a weird issue, its heavy attack does much lower damage to maniac than light attacks, so targets as flamers, Dreg Rager (non armored angry boi), spam them with light attacks.

Achlys Mk VIII Combat Axe

Achlys is the fast axe of the combat axes, adding high damage with high attack speed for combat axes variants, it does lower damage than other combat axes, yet faster attack speed.






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↙|↘
Top Down | 45° Right to Left | 15° Left to Center

Heavy Attack Combo: |←|↓|↓ (2nd and 3rd attacks stays on repeat)
Horizontal Right to Left | Top down | Top down

• High Single Target Damage
  
• High Critical Power Damage & WeakSpot
  
• Faster Attack speed Than other Combat Axes
  
• High Stagger Special Attack
  
• Lower Attack Damage Than other Combat Axes

Rashad Mk II Combat Axe

Rashad is a hard hitting axe with extra damage to critical and weakspot attacks while also extra damage against first target, making it ideal vs single target enemies, all of Rashad attacks are from above, "death from above". it lacks any cleaving, it always hit a single target only, making it weaker against hordes.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↓|↓
Top down | Top down | Top down

• High Single Target Damage
  
• High Crit Power Damage & WeakSpot
  
• High Stagger Special Attack
  
• Cant Cleave Through

Atrox Mk II Tactical Axe

Atrox is a light axe with a very fast attack speed and huge damage increase to critical and weakspot attacks,its special attack is a high stagger combo attacks, that is used to stun heavier targets. Atrox attacks are based on Assassin hits mostly, Atrox lack of good penetration and cleave is its downside.







Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|↓
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | Top Down

Heavy Attack Combo: |↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• Very Fast Attacks
  
• Weakspot Hits combo
  
• Requires Weakspot to do Damage.
  
• High Stagger Special Attack Combo

Atrox Mk IV Tactical Axe

Mk IV Atrox, tends to have sweeps rather than top down attacks, which allows better horde clearing or anti multi target than other Atrox axes, while also still maintaining some attacks to be used on weakspot targets.








Light Attack Combo: ↖|↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↗
Top Down | 20° Left to Center

• Fast Attacks
  
• Cleaving Combos
  
• Requires Weakspot to do Damage.
  
• High Stagger Special Attack Combo

Atrox Mk VII Tactical Axe

Heaviest of the Atrox Series, does highest damage of them all, while also have a lower attack speed than the other variant in exchange, its special attack combo is quite fast when compared to other atrox axes.






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↗|↙
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: |↙|↓
45° Right to Left | Top Down

• Fast Attacks for an Axe
  
• Highest Damage of Atrox Axes
  
• Slow Attack speed
  
• High Stagger & Speed Special Attack Combo

Power Swords

Power Swords are traditional swords that are attached with it two AA batteries, using the special attack button, its powers up the sword, giving it increased cleave, damage and armor penetration and also stagger, power swords are heavy in weight and when powered on stays for 1-3 attacks (depending on blessing), which requires a user to be vulnerable for a period of time between volley of attacks.

• High Damage, Stagger & Penetration
  
• Versatile
  
• Requires lot of weapon charging
  
• Heavily reliant of Power Cycler Blessing

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✖
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

A Swords with PowerCycler Tier 4 Blessing, can do up to 3 attacks in a row

Munitorum Mk III Power Sword

The more versatile variant of the power swords, with a easy to get with heavy attack combo that targets weakspots on a cleave, allows it to engage both specials and horde alike, able to be charged which allows it to cleave up to 10 enemies at once. short height characters or against crusher, lot of jumping is required to target weakspot.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right | 45° Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to left | Horizontal Left to right

• Universal Combo.
  
• High Damage & Stagger.
  
• Requires Charging.
  
• Lack of Anti Special Attack.

Munitorum Mk VI Power Sword

The lighter variant of the power sword, with much less stamina usage while running than the other variant, this variant is more specialzed against special and HvT targets within its combos, while also its push attack does very high damage, therefore requires more stamina.





Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to left | Horizontal Left to right | 45° Right | 45° Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↗
45° Right | 45° Left

• Single target combo.
  
• Strong push attack damage.
  
• Requires Charging.
  
• Cant stagger lot of specials together at once.

Assault Chainswords

FOR CADIA, named after the empire mightiest fortress planet, with the size of the short sword, it can cleave both armored and non armored targets, making it a versatile weapon to be used against specials or hordes, chainsaw weaponry allows much higher damage output against armored target, as it cuts through their unholy armor. Assault Chainswords tend to be heavier than traditional weaponry due to the added chain, therefore Assault chain swords attack range and attack speed are their main concerns.

• High Damage
  
• Revving/Sawing stuns most targets
  
• Requires starting of the engine
  
• Sawing makes you vulnerable to attacks

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Sawing an armored target



Sawing makes you vulnerable, yet dashing breaks the sawing allowing you to dodge attacks.

Cadia Mk IV Assault Chainsword

The lighter variant and the more multi role of the Assault Chainswords, doing lower heavy attack & sawing damage, yet with an increased attack speed and combo speed.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←||↘
45° Right | 45° Left | Horizontal Right to left | 45° Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|→
45° Right | Horizontal left to right

• Versatile combos
  
• High Heavy attack damage
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving stagger single target & require aiming

Cadia Mk XIIIg Assualt Chainsword

The heavier variant of the Assault Chainswords, designed to eliminate single targets with higher efficency featuring heavier heavy attack damage, and stronger sawing damage, having less cleave attacks than the other variant.





Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↙||↘
45° Right to Center | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↓|↘
15° Right to Center | Top Down | 45° Left to Right

• Versatile combos
  
• High Heavy attack damage
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving stagger single target & require aiming
  
• Less Efficient Anti-Horde

Orestes Assault Chainaxes

Named after a planet also, when axes are not enough to cut a long heretical tree, a Chainaxe is introduced. The lightest weapons of the chain series, featuring high mobility and low stamina usage while running or blocking, Yet they do have lower dodge than chain assaultswords. Chainaxe sawing is different than other chain weaponry, as it stuns the target completely. Chainaxes suffers from low weapon reach and low attack speed.

• High Damage
  
• Revving/Sawing stuns all targets (Except bosses)
  
• Best Stamina usage of chain weaponry
  
• Requires starting of the engine
  
• Low Reach
  
• Sawing makes you vulnerable to attacks

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

A crusher top down attack is nearly unstoppable except with a CC ability, yet chainsaw revving attack stops crusher top down attack.



Sawing makes you vulnerable, yet dashing breaks the sawing allowing you to dodge attacks from other targets.

Orestes Mk IV Assault Chainaxe

an axe with a chainsaw, that automatically revvs/shreds when doing light attacks, which makes light attacks good against single target, due that the chainaxe gets stuck on target, and the heavy attack used to clear waves, to use the full capability of the chain,






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|↙|↘
Top Down | 30° Left to Center | 45° Right to Left | 30° Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• Versatile Combos
  
• Auto Revving on light attack
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving stagger single target & require aiming

Orestes Mk XII Assault Chainaxe

a variant of Assault Chainaxe, that does autorev at heavy attacks only, Mk XII chainaxe does more damage of normal attacks and sawing as its the heavier variant with lower attack speed, yet higher damage output.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↙
Top down | 20° Right to Center

• Short combos
  
• Auto Revving on heavy attack
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving stagger single target & requires aiming

Tigrus Heavy Eviscerator

Great swords were used to cut through the enemy lines, Tigrus Eviscerator used to cut through the heretics rotten flesh and lines! A great sword with a chain, that does have an amazing anti horde capabilities, while still having a decent anti special. Whats special about the Tigrus is its chaining special ability, it only saw armored targets or specials, therefore even if engine is up and a special within a horde, the tigrus would saw the special target. All of that comes with the Eviscerator is heavy and slow attacks.

• Cleaves up to 10 targets
  
• Multipurpose
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving Cleave to Specialist
  
• Slow Attack speed in general

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

Eviscrator have a feature that is good & bad, when revving is activated, it would cleave through horde enemies, until it reaches an elite/special and saw it, which is good that it automatically targets special targets, yet also the left side of the mauler is 100% safe from your attacks.




Just as other chain weaponry, sawing makes you vulnerable, yet can be stopped by dashing.

Tigrus Mk II Heavy Eviscerator

The all rounder variant of the Tigrus Heavy Eviscerators, doing both anti wave and anti special moves, while sacrificing some of its anti special damage to be a better horde wiper.






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|←|↓
Top down | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left | 30° Left to Center

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Top Down

• cleaves up to 10 targets
  
• Wide Cleaving Attacks
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving Cleave to Specialist
  
• Weaker to Specials

Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Heavy + Light OR Heavy + Light + Light
This combo constant of heavy attack horizontal sweep that does huge stagger to wave sized enemies

Tigrus Mk XV Heavy Eviscerator

The heavier variant of the Eviscerators, having a higher heavy attack damage, higher sawing/special attack damage, yet with lower attack speed and attack moves focused more on single target only, the weapon heavy attacks are meant for single targets, and light attacks for hordes.







Light Attack Combo: ←|→|←|↗
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right |Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↓
Top Down | Top Down

• High Damage Light Attacks
  
• High Damage vs Specials/Elties
  
• Requires Turning on Engine
  
• Revving Cleave to Specialist
  
• Slower Attack speed

Heavy Swords

Heavy Swords, are traditional long swords, they offer great cleave against hordes and decent damage to horde enemies, they also do have great mobility as in term of stamina cost and dodge count and dodge. heavy sword against heavy targets and monsters, as crusher and bosses is quite mediocre.

• Decent Cleave & Anti Horde
  
• Versatile
  
• Special Attack high stagger
  
• Low Damage against armored & Monsters

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

Heavy Swords Special Attack vs Rager

Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword

The balanced variant of the heavy swords with combos to deal with both, anti specials and anti horde at once.








Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→|↙
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left

• High Cleave Heavy Attack
  
• High Mobility
  
• good opening heavy attack
  
• Special Attack high stagger & Medium Damage
  
• Low penetration

Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Light + Heavy
This combo consists of a light attack sweep and then a heavy attack sweep.

Anti Special: Heavy+interrupt combo
The first heavy is top down on weakspot, yet its not repeatable by combo, you need to block, sprint for 0.1 second to reset back to get the top down attack.

Turtolsky Mk VII Heavy Sword

Anti wave variant of the heavy swords, with nearly all of its attacks are based on wide angle cleaves, its only anti special is second attack of its heavy combo, making it a less effective anti special Heavy Sword.







Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|←|↘
45° Right to Left | Horizontal left to right | Horizontal right to left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↖|↓
45° Right to Left | Top Down

• High Cleave Heavy Attack
  
• Decent Mobility
  
• Good Opening Heavy Attack
  
• Low Penetration

Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Heavy + Light
This combo is a Heavy attack sweep and then a light attack sweep.

Anti Special: Light+Heavy
Light attack to reach Top Down Attack faster.

Turtolsky Mk VI Heavy Sword

A Variant of the heavy swords, with a different combo or melee chain attack.





Light Attack Combo: →|←|↙|↘|
Horizontal left to right | Horizontal right to left | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↗
10° Left to Right (nearly Top Down) | 45° Left to Right

• High Cleave Heavy Attack
  
• Decent Mobility
  
• Low Penetration

Anti Special: Heavy+interrupt combo
The first heavy is top down on weakspot, you need to block, sprint for 0.1 second to reset combo back to top down attack.

Munitorum Sapper Shovels

Digging trenches first, then digging heretics, the shovel is a defense focused melee weapon, that have great stamina efficiency , and high dodge count and range, making the shovel a true mobility and agile choice. shovel uses "boink" when it hits. Shovels issue is their simplicity and weapon reach, having nothing special or magical and short in range.

• High Stamina & High Dodge Limit
  
• High Stagger & Penetration
  
• Low Weapon Length
  
• Mediocre Attack Speed

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✖
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

Standard issue Munitorum Sapper Shovel

The shovel is a decent crowd controller more than a killer, its special attack have good penetration and stagger. shovel main weakness is its weapon reach or length and low damage against single targets.





Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←
45° Right to Left |45° Left to Right | Horizontal right to left


Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal right to left | Horizontal left to right

• High cleave heavy attack
  
• Strong Defensive weapon
  
• Decent mobility
  
• Special Attack Stagger
  
• Low penetration

Stun Only Special Attack

Munitorum Mk III Sapper Shovel

A heavier variant shovel that sacrifcies anti horde/crowd control combos for anti special and single targeting. Having a different special attack, which closes the blade/metal part for digging at the end and use it as a pickaxe on the heretics, the special attack do stagger all targets but bosses.





Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|←|↘
45° Right to Left | Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↓
45° Right to Left | Top Down

• Decent Damage with Special Ability
  
• Strong Defensive weapon
  
• decent mobility
  
• Special Attack Stagger & Damage
  
• Low anti horde Capabilities

Special Attack Stun & High damage to Single Target. Show him who is the crusher here

Munitorum Mk VII Sapper Shovel

The middle variant of the shovels, having horizontal sweep combos for hordes, and a special attack for single targets, having lower attack speed than standard shovel while trading in for having a better special attack.





Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 20° Left to Center

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

• high Cleave Heavy Attack
  
• Strong Defensive weapon
  
• Decent Mobility
  
• Special Attack Stagger & Damage
  
• Low Penetration of non-special attack.

Special Attack Stun & High damage to Single Target. Show him who is the crusher here

Catachan Combat Blade

A standard knife named after the planet, used to back stab the heretics in the shadows, the knife gives the user an excellent level of mobility and dodging allowing it to relocate easily and reach the target back, allowing backstabs , which does higher damage output than normal attacks. thus the combat blade is a anti special single target, rather than horde or multi target weaponry. The knife special attack is a staggering attack.

• High Mobility
  
• Strong vs Single Target
  
• Good Armor penetration
  
• Special Attack Stagger
  
• Weak against multiple targets

Class	Availability
Veteran	✔
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Flanking Bulwark in a Single Dash



Charging into the enemy, The combat blade allows much higher speed output while sprinting and using heavy attacks, which allows the user to close in quickly into a target after a dash.

Catachan MK III Combat Blade

The focused anti-single target variant, with nearly all of its attacks are stabs and are meant to engage a single target, it does have higher damage than other knives/combat blades, yet lacks good anti horde






Light Attack Combo: →|←|↑|↗
Horizontal Right to Center | Horizontal Left to Center | Stab | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• High Mobility
  
• Strong vs Single Target
  
• Good Armor penetration
  
• Special Attack Stagger
  
• Weak against multiple targets

Catachan MK VI Combat Blade

A different variant of the combat blade, which do sacrifice some of its stab attacks for sweep cleaves attacks, giving it a better anti horde capabilities.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

• High Mobility
  
• Strong vs Single Target
  
• Good Armor penetration
  
• Special Attack Stagger
  
• Acceptable level of Anti Horde

Thunder Hammers

Using a hammer on a warhammer universe? whats better to do! The hammer are decent anti special and anti boss weapon, which can be charged through its special attack, when charged it does a huge amount of damage & stagger to target on impact, the charged attack does not cleave through as in "Tigrus" chainsword, making it requires careful aiming. the thunder hammer is heavy , which limits mobility while also is slow while attacking making it not a reliable weapon in anti horde.

• High Single Target Damage
  
• High Stagger & CC
  
• Special Attack Charge Good vs Single Target
  
• Low Mobility
  
• Stagger Hordes more than kills them
  
• Special Attack have Recoil

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

Thunder Hammer Special Attack

Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer

A variant of the thunder hammers, it have a better anti horde capabilities due to the horizontal wide sweeps.






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|←
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left

• High Stagger
  
• Strong vs Single Target
  
• Charged Attack does huge Single target damage
  
• Charged Attacks mini stuns the player for 0.8 seconds
  
• Weak against multiple targets

Mk II Hammer, cant cleave through with special attack, as it strike the poxwalker only, yet it does a missive single target damage, which rewards good aiming.

Crucis Mk IV Thunder Hammer

same mechanics of the thunder hammer, as in able to charge attacks with special action key, this variant does have a light attack combo for waves, yet it does lower damage and not a good combo starter.







Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Center

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | Top Down

• High Stagger
  
• Good Anti Wave Combo
  
• Charged attack does huge Single target damage
  
• Charged mini stuns the player for 0.8 seconds
  
• Weaker damage than other Variant

Mk IV Hammer can cleave through poxwalker and other non-specials , allows targeting of specials between horde, as it cleaved through the poxwalkers and targeted the rager.

Blaze Force Swords

Blaze Force uses the warp energy in combination with the sword, allowing it to channel warp energy into the sword to peform special attacks, the sword is able to be charged with warp energy that does huge bonus to damage against a single target in cost of peril (psyker heat). blaze swords are specialized to either fight single or horde not both, blaze sword push attack, do long range push against single target rather than attack

• Decent anti special
  
• Uses WrapEnergy
  
• High Reach weapon
  
• Generate Heat/Peril with special attacks
  
• Non Versatile

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✖
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Blaze Force (Special Attack)

Deimos Mk IV Blaze Force Sword

Variant of the blaze force swords, with combos mostly against single target, its special attack works like a chain weapon, sticks to target and deal damage over time.






Light Attack Combo: ↑|↘|↙|↘
Stab | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↑
45° Right to Left | Stab

• Fast Attacks
  
• Long Reach
  
• Charged attack good vs single target
  
• Special Attack generate peril
  
• Weak anti-horde

Obscurus Mk II Blaze Force Sword

Variant of the blaze force swords, that is best used against single targets , with combos that support hitting weakspots and a special attack that does high damage against single target, it lacks anti horde/wave.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right

• Fast Attacks
  
• Long Reach
  
• Charged Attack good vs single target
  
• Special Attack generate peril
  
• Weak anti-horde

Illisi Mk V Blaze Force Sword

The only crowd control anti horde variant, with a combo of wide horizontal sweeps , in trade of doing lower damage againt single target, and combos that do not target weakspots, its special attack is also designed to engage multiple targets at once unlike the other variants.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|↖|↗
45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↘
Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Left to Right

• Fast Attacks
  
• Long Reach
  
• Charged attack good vs multiple targets
  
• Special Attack generate peril
  
• Weak anti-special

Illisi Special Attack

Maccabian Dueling Swords

Ever wanted to look fancy while killing heretics? that is the dueling sword! Combing decent mobility and fast attacks speed, allowing great mobility for the psyker, the dueling sword is a true versatile weapon, able to engage both single targets and hordes, while not excellent at both. dueling sword special attack is high stagger quick stab.

• Decent Mobility/Dodge
  
• Fast Attacks
  
• Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
  
• Situational

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✖
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✔

Dealing with heretics in a fancy way

Maccabian MK V Duelling Sword

The variant of "strikedown" attacks, with most of it attacks angled from above, allowing to engage specials/elites easier , yet only two attacks that cleave against hordes, making it a harder to deal with hordes.







Light Attack Combo: ↖|↗|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top Down

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↓
Top Down | Top Down

• Best of Series Targets Weakspots
  
• Fast Attacks
  
• Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
  
• Weakest in Series Anti Horde

Maccabian Mk II Duelling Sword

The variant that is best anti horde , with nearly all of its attacks are angled which allows cleaving into multiple targets at once, it does have a good anti special/elite heavy combo opener. Mk II variant is less effective against single targets in general.







Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↑|↘
Stab | 45° Left to Right

• Best of Series Anti-Horde
  
• Good Heavy Attack Opener
  
• Fast Attacks
  
• Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
  
• Weakest in Series Anti Horde

Maccabian MK IV Duelling Sword

The Versatile variant, having light attack combos for hordes and heavy attack combos for single targets, with light attacks doing cleaves and heavy attacks does stabs, that allow reaching longer.







Light Attack Combo: ↖|↘|↙ (First Attack Non Repeatable)
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ↑|↑
Stab | Stab

• Versatile Variant
  
• Fast Attacks
  
• Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger

Cleavers

Smol Knife for a big boi ogyrn, not be mistaken by its size, as they do deal a huge amount of damage with attacks, while also allows a good mobility for the player. Cleaver also sports a large amount of blessings which allows it to excel in multiple situations, its special attack is a punch that does huge stagger. Cleavers tend to be short, which its only drawback.

• Swift Attacks
  
• High Stagger & Cleave
  
• Special Attack Punch That Staggers
  
• Low Weapon Length

Class	Availability
Sah	✖
Shouty	✖
Big Boi	✔
Spark Head	✖

Cleaver Special Attack vs Mauler

Krourk Mk VI Cleaver

Balanced Cleaver between Anti Special and Anti Horde, with light attack combo focused on single targets, with 3rd attack in light combo ignores a decent amount of armor, its heavy attacks are centered around clearing hordes and waves.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• Versatile Combos
  
• 3rd Attack on Light Combo ignores % of armor
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Low weapon reach

Krourk Mk IV Cleaver

The focused more of anti special/elite with all of its opening combos are against single target , while ignore a decent % of armor, making the Mk IV a decent ant single target, but a less effective weapons vs hordes/waves.







Light Attack Combo: ↑|↑|←
Stab | Stab | Horizontal Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right

• Best of Series Anti Single Targets
  
• Speedy attacks
  
• Fast Opening Sttacks
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Low weapon reach
  
• Weaker than other variants in wave clearing

Bull Butcher Mk III Cleaver

Variant of the Cleaver with most of its attack pattern is anti horde, except for its opening of heavy attack combo, Bull Butcher most of its attacks are wide cleaves.






Light Attack Combo: ←|↘|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top Down
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right

• Wide Angle Attacks.
  
• Anti Special Heavy Attack Combo Opener
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Low weapon reach

Brute-Brainer Latrine Shovels

Krieg uses smol shovel, Kreig ogryn uses big shovel! A Shovel for ogyrns only, a multipurpose weaponry for the ogyrn able to engage both single targets and hordes at once. A basic large shovel that is a versatile weapon in ogryn hand, with both combos to engage hordes or single targets, its weapon reach and average attack speed is its main issues.

• Multi-Role
  
• High Stagger & Cleave
  
• Special Attack Differs per shovel
  
• Low Weapon Reach

Class	Availability
Sah	✖
Shouty	✖
Big Boi	✔
Spark Head	✖

Brute-Brainer Mk III Latrine Shovel

With a special attack that gives high stagger to target, the shovel is a jack of all trades , that does everything, yet not having anything special.






Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right

• Versatile
  
• Multiple combos
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Low weapon reach

Special Attack Vs Mauler (Bullying Mauler)

Brute-Brainer Mk XIX Latrine Shovel

A variant of Latrine Shovel that have combos for both hordes and single targets, light attack combo for waves and heavy attack combo for single target, with a special attack against single targets also, which switches the shovel to a pickaxe and does a top down attack, the shovel resets to normal after the attack, also the attack does not always stagger the target.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
20° Right to Center | 20° Left to Center

• Versatile
  
• Multiple combos
  
• Special Attack High Stagger & Damage
  
• Low Weapon Reach

Special Attack Vs Crusher, keep in mind , it does not always stagger crusher while attacking.

Example of Special Attack not staggering crusher

Brute-Brainer Mk V Latrine Shovel

A variant of Latrine Shovel that have most of its combos for multi targets,, its light attack combo contains attacks for both waves and single targets targets, while its heavy combo pure for multiple targets, It have a special attack against single targets also, which switches the shovel to a pickaxe and does a top down attack, the shovel resets to normal after the attack, also the attack does not always stagger the target.






Light Attack Combo: ←|↗|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

• Versatile
  
• Multiple combos
  
• Special Attack High Stagger & Damage
  
• Low Weapon Reach

Special Attack Vs Crusher, keep in mind , it does not always stagger crusher while attacking.

Example of Special Attack not staggering crusher

Bully Clubs

A maul or a club used to bully those heretics. A decent CC weapon that staggers and throws all human sized heretics, the clubs also give a decent amount of mobility as they do provide higher stamina, the clubs special attack although is named "punch" but its a wide attack slaps that do have a combo. clubs do have slower than usual combo openers, and do lack top down "Strike down" attacks in general.

• Great CC weaponry & High stamina
  
• High Stagger & Cleave
  
• Special Attack Wide Attack Slaps
  
• Mediocre Against Single Targets

Class	Availability
Sah	✖
Shouty	✖
Big Boi	✔
Spark Head	✖

Slapping the Heresy out of a Rager

"Brunt's Pride" Mk II Bully Club

The versatile variant of the series , featuring combos and attacks for both single targets and crowd control at once, as its 2nd heavy attack is a "strikedown" it can easily accessed by combing light + heavy attacks, its combos are not linear, mixing of heavy and light is recommended.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• Versatile
  
• Multiple combos
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Combos aren't Linear

"Brunt's Basher" Mk IIIb Bully Club

A variant with nearly all of its combos is based for crowd control, with wide horizontal sweeps and angled sweeps, making it a potent anti crowd weaponry and type of the bully clubs, Brunt's Basher only anti single target is its 3rd attack in the combo, which even does better damage than heavy attacks, which makes it lacky against single targets.







Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↖|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right

• Best of the Series CC
  
• High Stagger & Damage
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Weakest of the Series Anti Special

"Brunt Special" Mk I Bully Club

The focused more on anti single target variant, with a good opening heavy combo "strikedown" allowing to engage priority targets better, making Brunt Special a truly anti special, yet lacking good combos for hordes.






Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right

• Anti Special
  
• Good Heavy Attack Opening Combo
  
• Special Attack High Stagger
  
• Weakest of the Series Anti Horde

Single Variant Weapons

All Weapons that are of single type in game.

Indignatus MK IVe Crusher

A Maul, used to crowd control, dealing heavy amount of stagger to targets, its special attack button allows it to be charged, when charged it does an AoE on impact, that staggers specials easily, allowing it to also crowd control specials and elites. its drawback is its single target damage and limited mobility.






Light Attack Combo: ←|↓|↙|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Top Down | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right

Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right

• High Stagger
  
• Good Anti Wave Combo
  
• Charged attack does Stagger and AoE
  
• Weak anti special weapon

Class	Availability
Veteran	✖
Zealot	✔
Ogyrn	✖
Psyker	✖

Special Attack

Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield

Want to be a bulwark? Here you are! Shield + Maul loadout, giving the ogryn a very defensive orianted weaponry that focuses on protecting himself and little humies around him from incoming ranged fire and melee fire, the weapon doctrine is based on blocking attacks rather than dodging attacks. Its special attack is planting the shield into the ground, making the player unable to move yet block damage without costing stamina, this weaponry lacks in terms of damage and damage against single targets, while also attack speed.







Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘ Using Club
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right |
Heavy Attack Combo: →|← Using Shield
Shield Bash | Horizontal Right to Left

• Blocks All Attacks (Except Disablers)
  
• Good CC Weaponry
  
• Low Stamina Usage per Block
  
• Special Attack Hunkers Down (Disable use of Stamina when blocking)
  
• Slow Attack Speed Weaponry
  
• Only First Attack of Heavy Combo is Anti Single Target

Class	Availability
Sah	✖
Shouty	✖
Big Boi	✔
Spark Head	✖

Orox Special Attack hunkers down, all of that blocking and not a single stamina drained.

Achlys Mk I Power Maul

a Club or Maul used to bash those heretics around, a decent crowd control weaponry, doing wide sweeps attacks that sends the heretics flying around, with nearly all of its combo is based on anti horde/wave rather than single target making the weapon excel in a single situation only. Its special attack increases cleave and increases stagger done per attack, while also damage, allowing to damage single targets with greater efficency.






Light Attack Combo: ↓|↑|↙|↘ Then repeats ↙|↘ only.
Top Down | Down to Top | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘....
Horizantal Right to Left | Horizantal Left to Right

• Decent Anti Horde
  
• Speedy attacks
  
• Light Attack Anti-Horde on Repeat
  
• Special Attack Adds Cleave & Damage
  
• Weak Against single targets

Class	Availability
Sah	✖
Shouty	✖
Big Boi	✔
Spark Head	✖

Slay The Heretics!

Wish you a cleansing journey!

[Questionable]

Any chance for this guide being updated for the new weapon changes?

[Frosti]

great guide. i think the shock maul is missing

[SlavnyiUA]

Great list!
Will you update it?

[Harbi]

Immensely helpful, thanks

[omar_uav]

@RequiemTenebris
Thank you! am honored! But am your brother in SIGMAR

@TKLiquidBacon
I did test vs crusher & bulwark it seems it do stun them, but it must be a heavy special attack like MK III
https://youtu.be/h6BVbcQ816E (Vs Crusher )
https://youtu.be/HQw-E1HfW1E (vs Bulwark)
https://imgur.com/a/TaT2iaj (the shovel i was using for the test)

@Happymartin
Sadly I discussed the same thing way before nearly a year ago, and didnt receive happy feedback, as you are trying to make the game easy, and you are removing weapon distinction and making every weapon the same, although it would be just as "Red weapons" in VT2, but yeah.



It seem steam didnt alert me about messages, and just random check on the guide i noticed the comment.

[Happymartin]

Just a gentle criticism: "A weapon basic stats is based upon 5 modifiers , those modifiers are scaled from 0%->80%, a max weapon modifier score would be 380 points, with 80% in 4 of the modifiers, and a 60% in a modifier. so a perfect loot weapon does not exist."

I mean in that context a perfect loot weapon DOES technically exist. Just your favorite weapon with 380 points and 80% in 4 modifiers and 60% in one. Do what you want with it, I'm just pointing it out and being needlessly "UMMM WELL, ACHTUALLY..."

[TKLiquidBacon]

when i was using it, it didn't stagger ogryns

[TKLiquidBacon]

do you know if the special attack for the Munitorum Mk VII Sapper Shovel staggers all enemies like the mk 3

[RequiemTenebris]

My brother in the Master of Mankind. THIS, should be built in the game, well done!

[omar_uav]

@Wislin

You Welcome , show those heretics Imperium righteous steel !