Melee Weapons IH

Primitive Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Armoured Gauntlet	Melee	—	1d5 I	0	Primitive	0.5kg	35	Common
Bastard Sword	Melee	—	1d10+1 R	1	Primitive	5kg	13	Average
Boarding Pike†	Melee	—	1d10+3 X	2	Primitive	5kg	13	Average
Bolo Knife	Melee	—	2d5 R	2	—	2kg	50	Rare
Buckler	Melee	—	1d5–2 I	0	Balanced, Primitive	1kg	30	Common
Chimera Pistol Sword	Melee	—	1d10+1 R	2	—	3.5kg	130	Scarce
Combat Knife	Melee	—	1d5+3 R	0	Primitive	3kg	40	Average
Cutlass	Melee	—	1d10 R	0	Primitive, Unbalanced	3kg	10	Common
Devil’s Kiss	Melee	—	1d5 R	3	Fast, Primitive	0.3kg	55	Rare
Emperor’s Whisper	Melee, Thrown	5m	1d5+1 R	2	Balanced	0.5kg	150	Very Rare
Guard Shield	Melee	—	1d5 I	0	Defensive, Primitive	1.5kg	100	Scarce
Kraken Tooth Dagger	Melee, Thrown	5m	1d5+1 R	1	–	0.4kg	200	Rare
Long-Sabre†	Melee	—	1d10+2 R	2	Balanced, Primitive	3kg	70	Very Rare
Man-Catcher†	Melee	—	1d10 I	0	Primitive, Snare, Unwieldy	8kg	60	Scarce
Mirror Shield	Melee	—	1d5–1 I	0	Defensive, Primitive	3kg	60	Rare
Moon Blade	Melee, Thrown	5m	1d10 R	0	Fast, Primitive, Unwieldy	3kg	25	Rare
Naval Shield	Melee	—	1d5+2 I	0	Defensive, Primitive	9kg	75	Average
Punch Dagger	Melee	—	1d5+1 R	2	Primitive	0.5kg	4	Plentiful
Punisher Baton	Melee	—	1d10 I	0	—	3kg	50	Average
Render	Melee	—	1d5+1 R	0	Primitive, Tearing	1.2kg	50	Rare
Sabre	Melee	—	1d10 R	0	Balanced, Primitive	2kg	15	Common
Scythe†	Melee	—	1d10+2 R	0	Primitive, Unwieldy	5kg	12	Uncommon
Short Sword	Melee	—	1d10–1 R	0	Primitive	1.5kg	12	Common
Sigilite	Melee	—	1d5 R	3	Defensive	0.7kg	85	Rare
Spetum†	Melee	—	1d10 R	2	Primitive, Unbalanced	6kg	45	Rare
Steam Drill†	Melee	—	2d10 I	3	Primitive, Unbalanced, Unwieldy	18kg	100	Very Rare
Stiletto	Melee	—	1d5–1 R	2	Fast, Primitive	0.2kg	25	Uncommon
Tower Shield (metal)	Melee	—	1d5+2 I	0	Defensive, Primitive	7kg	60	Rare
Tower Shield (wood)	Melee	—	1d5+1 I	0	Defensive, Primitive	5kg	40	Uncommon
Trophy Knife	Melee	—	1d5+1 R	1	Balanced, Primitive	0.5kg	775	Very Rare

^†This weapon requires two hands to use.

Boarding Pike

Boarding pikes use a shell charge mounted at the end of a reinforced short metal staff. A trigger in the grip activates the charge to explode on contact. The explosion blasts into flesh with gruesome effect, but with little or no collateral damage to hull plating. It takes some time to reload, so it is used as a one-shot weapon and then acts as a club for the remainder of a combat.

Bolo Knife

The weapon has Common Availability on Planet Malfi and is Rare elsewhere.

Buckler

On Acreage, buckler-style weapons have developed with small metal spikes protruding from the shield’s edge, transforming a generally protective item into a deadly weapon. Acreage bucklers have identical stats to normal bucklers but may also be thrown with a range of 8-metres.

Chimera Pistol Sword

Chimera pistol swords have a single-shot firearm as part of the hilt. While the firearm can vary from person to person, most have the same range and effect as a standard Irontalon. This augmentation is often disguised as an ornate part of the sword or axe hilt, allowing the user to catch the enemy by surprise.

Combat Knife

Combat knifes can be affixed to most basic weapons as a bayonet.

Guard Shield

Guard shields can provide cover for the user concealing all of their body should they choose. As cover, a guard shield provides 6 Armour Points.

Mirror Shield

If used as cover against ranged attacks, the shield is large enough to protect the arm it is carried in and one other location (usually the body) providing AP 8 (Primitive). Thanks to its special construction mirror shield retains its full AP value against las weapons.

Naval Shield

A Naval shield can be used as cover, concealing the user completely if desired. As cover a Naval shield provides 8 Armour Points.

Steam Drill

Powered by a weighty, scolding hot, backpack steam-compressor that serves to turn a huge boring drill-bit, they are not intended as weapons, however, are capable of inflicting very serious damage should an unfortunate get in the way of the drill head.
Steam drills require a Strength Bonus of 4 or more to be used effectively as a weapon. Weaker characters suffer a –10 WS penalty for each point of Strength Bonus below 4. Such is the bulk of a Steam Drill that they impose a –10 to Agility while carried.

Tower Shield

Tower shields can be used as cover rather than as body armour; a re-enforced wooden version provides 6 AP (Primitive) while a sturdier, solid metal one provides 8 AP (Primitive). They are bulky and very unwieldy items and impose a penalty of –2 to the Agility Bonus of their users.

Chain Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Chain Knife	Melee	—	1d5+3 R	2	Tearing	2.5kg	80	Scarce
Eviscerator†	Melee	—	1d10+10 R	5	Special, Tearing, Unwieldy	12kg	750	Scarce

^†This weapon requires two hands to use.

Eviscerator

Any character that rolls 96–00 on their attack roll while wielding an eviscerator risks losing control of the roaring chain blade and must succeed on an Agility Test or take Damage as if struck by the weapon (including the wielder’s SB).

Power Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Energy Blade	Melee	—	1d10+6 E	7	Balanced, Power Field	1kg	5,000	Very Rare
Omnisian Axe	Melee	—	2d10+5 E	6	Power Field, Unwieldy	7kg	—	—
Power Fist†	Melee	—	2d10 E	8	Power Field, Unwieldy	12kg	3,100	Very Rare
Power Longsword††	Melee	—	1d10+6 E	6	Power Field	4.5kg	3,500	Very Rare
Serpentine	Melee	—	1d10+2 E	6	Fast, Power Field	1.5kg	2,500	Very Rare
Witch Lance	"Melee, Thrown"	10m	1d10+4 E	6	Power Field, Special	5kg	2,800	Very Rare

^†Power Fists add user’s SB×2 to Damage ^†† This weapon requires two hands to use.

Energy Blade

Whenever a wielder successfully Parries another weapon while using an energy blade and succeeds with two or more degrees of success, the wielder automatically destroys the other weapon. While the energy blade does have a degree of density and mass, physical force applied to the swing contributes nothing to the weapon effect and the wielder’s Strength Bonus does not increase its Damage. Should an Attack or Parry attempt with one of these weapons suffer a failure by five or more degrees, resolve the energy blade’s Damage against the wielder.
Owing to the harsh actinic light and furnace-blast roar that the blade produces, the wielder cannot attempt to be stealthy while it is switched on. Additionally, the blade consumes canister fuel, just as a plasma pistol does, with each canister worn on the belt and fed via a cable to the hilt (good for 10 rounds of continuous operation).

Omnisian Axe

The bearer of an Omnisian axe receives a +10 bonus to Interaction Tests involving followers of the Machine God. The Omnisian glaive also functions as a multi-tool. An Omnisian axe may never be bought or deliberately obtained—it is gifted only to tech-priests by their superiors.

Power Fist

Power fists are more common as part of power armour suits where the massive power requirements can be met by integral energy packs, but some elite Imperial forces and high-ranking officers also use them with the aid of backpack power sources.

Serpentine

Serpentines are custom made by commission and most take the form of elaborately carved walking sticks that disguise the weapon’s nature until activated.

Witch Lance

Whenever Righteous Fury results while fighting with a witch lance, the weapon deals an additional 2d10 E Holy Damage and sets the victim on fire in lieu of the normal results of Righteous Fury.

Shock Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Neural Whip	Melee	3m	1d10+1 E	0	Flexible, Shocking	4kg	500	Rare
Officer’s Cutlass	Melee	—	1d10 R	0	Shocking	3kg	200	Scarce
Shock-Staff†	Melee	—	1d5+1 I	2	Shocking	2kg	100	Average

^†This weapon requires two hands to use.

Neural Whip

Though it is not a thrown weapon, a neural whip has a longer range than most melee weapons and is able to strike foes up to three metres away.

Officer’s Cutlass

Many ship’s officers and ratings incorporate a shock generator in the cutlass' guard, so that, when hit, an opponent is felled by both the electrical shock as well as the solid impact. Chartist captains and other higher rankings use even more lethal versions, strengthening their blades with power fields.

Force Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Force Axe	Melee	—	1d10+3 R	2	Special, Unbalanced	4.5kg	4,000	Very Rare
Force Staff†	Melee	—	1d10 I	0	Balanced, Special	3kg	3,500	Very Rare
Force Sword	Melee	—	1d10+1 R	2	Balanced, Special	3.5kg	3,500	Very Rare

^†This weapon requires two hands to use.
The three commonest types of force weapons are given here, theforce sword, force axe and force staff. It is theoretically possible to create force weapons in almost any form.
Unless wielded by a psyker, force weapons simply count as a Good Craftsmanship Mono variant of their standard Primitive weapon type. However, in the hands of a wielder with a Psy Rating, they are much more. For every point of Psy Rating the wielder has, the weapon’s Damage and Penetration increases by +1. For example, a force sword wielded by a character with Psy Rating 3 would inflict 1d10+3 R (plus SB) and have a Penetration of 5.

Exotic Weapons

Name	Class	Range	Dam	Pen	Special	Wt	Cost	Availability
Breacher	Melee	—	1d10+5 R	4	Special, Tearing, Unwieldy	18kg	750	Scarce
Bulkhead Cutters†	Melee	—	1d10+3 R	6	Tearing, Unwieldy	6kg	75	Average
Chain-Stick	Melee	—	1d10+1 I	0	Fast, Primitive, Toxic	1kg	30	Scarce
Double Flail†	Melee	—	1d10 I	0	Flexible, Primitive	4kg	28	Scarce
Lightning Chain†	Melee	—	1d10+1 I	0	Flexible, Primitive, Shocking	4kg	100	Very Rare
Lightning Gauntlet	Melee	—	1d10 I	0	Primitive, Shocking	2kg	80	Scarce
Vivisector	Melee	—	1d5+5 R	0	Tearing, Unwieldy	1.5kg	650	Rare

^†This weapon requires two hands to use.

Breacher

Because of its bulk and vibration when activated, unless mounted as a purpose-built implant, a Strength Bonus of at least 5 is required to wield a breacher as a combat weapon. Weaker characters suffer a –10 WS penalty for each point of Strength Bonus below 5. If a breacher successfully causes Righteous Fury the additional Damage caused is 2d10 rather than 1d10.

Chain-Stick

Chain-sticks are made from two batons, linked together by a length of tough sinew. Variations on this design, especially on other more advanced worlds, feature a tough chain and steel construction. On Fervious, the ends of the batons are coated with venom harvested from the deadly Fervious serpent.

Double Flail

In rare cases, the weapon’s shaft can split to produce two smaller flails.

Vivisector

The Vivisector is a long ornate gauntlet that locks over the user’s forearm. A Vivisector grants the wielder a +10 bonus on Interrogation and Intimidation Tests, as well as a +10 bonus to Medicae Tests for the purposes of repairing servitors or conducting autopsies. For an additional 500 Thrones, the Vivisector may also be fitted with injector rigs, giving it the additional quality of Toxic.