Great-Axe
Melee (Simple)- Damage
- 1d10Slashing
- Range
- 5 ft
- Weight
- 5 kg
- Size
- Large
- Attack ability
- STR
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 3+
About the Great-Axe
The great-axe is a weapon of raw commitment, a broad heavy blade on a long haft that a warrior swings with the whole body and no thought of taking it back. There is no subtlety in it: the wielder chooses a target, winds up, and delivers a stroke that cleaves shields, splits helms, and ends smaller opponents outright. It takes two hands and real strength to control, and a missed swing leaves the axeman badly out of position, so it belongs to the brave or the reckless. Frontier warriors, arena fighters, and raiders across the galaxy's rougher worlds favored it for the terror it inspires as much as the damage it deals. Against an unarmored line it is devastating; against a nimble duelist it is a gamble that lives or dies on the first blow landing true.