Axes

The axes skill is a combat skill that governs your ability to use axes of all kinds. It becomes relevant only when you are fighting with one of these weapons in hand, at which point your ability to strike your opponent becomes the aggregate of both your axes skill and offense.

Axes in general have balanced armor penetrance, extremely high base damage, but slow swing speed. This makes them a potent alpha-strike weapon that does high upfront damage per strike. As you improve with axes, you will begin unlocking special weapon attacks that have increasing chance to activate when you attack with axes. Axes are brutal weapons, and their weapon attacks are singularly focused on efficiently killing, opening lethal wounds and landing critical strikes. Axes therefore are favored by warriors who are only interested in killing quickly, and are found commonly among reavers, raiders, and professional shock troops.

Axes train similarly to base offense, whenever swung at an opponent that has sufficient lethality to be a challenge.

Skill with axes is governed by strength (primary) and endurance (secondary).