Best Melee Weapon in the game?

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**BrotherOfBone**

Following on from another thread, what do you think is the best melee weapon in the game?

My personal favorite has to be the power fist, mainly because even with the power field off you can just punch people with it. IIRC this happened in Storm of Iron, one of the characters just turned off the power field, punched a sorcerer and said 'next time the power field will be on'. I've loved them ever since :3

**dementedwombat**

I'll repost my melee based reply from the other thread.

I don't know about favorite melee weapon, but my least favorite is certainly the the Honor Blade...because it's equipped on Aun`Shi who is always sitting there in my special character section with a giant troll face whispering "come on, spend the points on me. You know you want to kill stuff in close combat with Tau. You can do it... just give me a devilfish and a squad of fire warriors...I can make them Stubborn..."

**BrotherOfBone**

dementedwombat wrote:
I'll repost my melee based reply from the other thread.

I don't know about favorite melee weapon, but my least favorite is certainly the the Honor Blade...because it's equipped on Aun`Shi who is always sitting there in my special character section with a giant troll face whispering "come on, spend the points on me. You know you want to kill stuff in close combat with Tau. You can do it... just give me a devilfish and a squad of fire warriors...I can make them Stubborn..."

Never saw the point in Aun'Shi, he's just a more costly Ethereal

**Lobokai**

Burning Blade, Black Mace, Axe Blind Fury.

**ductvader**

Without going into Lords of War?

Karandras' Scorpion Claw.

**Jeeves**

The common power weapon. More specifically, every one, magnetized. Swap around to as you will.

Now I think of it, what's to stop a player in a tournament from doing this and swapping out depending on the enemy he faces next? The rulebook just says 'look at the weapon' and the codex says 'weapon' not axe, sword or maul.

Also the thunder hammer cos it's stylish as hell

**Tod**

MURDER SWORD!!!!!

**WrentheFaceless**

Nemesis Greatsword, cause rerollables and stuff

**Jeeves**

Rusty nail through plank of wood

**Tiger9gamer**

The Mace of Redemption. It can thrash around guys well enough while being affordable and being able to get another attack because of it's lack of specialist. Plus, It's a huge mace that doesn't suck and gets better against one army type while providing a chance to debuff the enemy through blind.

the runners up being the Mace's of absolution and the Corvus hammer. The other maces 1 shot super move makes it exciting and the corvus hammer's rend can make it a pretty good weapon.

if only independent characters could use these >>

**Greenwingf_ftw**

Power fist because punching someone results in crippling them to a piece of gore splattered scrap metal.

**Greenizbest**

The Power Klaw of course. Orks are behind the curve in the current meta but everyone still gets a little nervous if those Power Klaws manage to get into close combat.

**Ashiraya**

I sorta like Gorechild.

**BrotherOfBone**

BrotherHaraldus wrote:
I sorta like Gorechild.

I never got this:
Gorefather
Gorechild
Goremother?

**Sir Samuel Buca**

I'm quite partial to LC, they just scream awesome. My all out favourite is the Burning Blade though, its just so OP.

**Wilytank**

Nurgle Chaos Daemon's Balesword. I know a lot of people don't run Nurgle Princes or GUOs, but I usually run both and end up slapping this thing on one of them, usually the DP due to lack of natural poison, but poison + Instant Death...on a high initiative FMC with Biomancy...there's so much I like about this.

**Trondheim**

For me its a tie between Nemesis haleberds for sheer looks, and force weapons in general

**Co'tor Shas**

I quite like the dawn blade. To bat there's only one of them.

**Likan Wolfsheim**

Close Combat Weapon.

**BrotherOfBone**

Trondheim wrote:
For me its a tie between Nemesis haleberds for sheer looks, and force weapons in general

Have to agree on the Nemesis Force Halberds, awesome weapons!

**Icculus**

DCCW!
Because they are awesome on SM dreads and deff dreads, and killa kans.

**Solis Luna Astrum**

Gotta be the War Scythe. +2S, strikes at initiative, AP2 and costs like 10 points.

**OuroborosTriumphant**

For game rules? I'm partial to Chainfists. Gives you everything you want in a weapon apart from speed.

On pure style? The classic chainsword. It's a chainsaw! That's a sword! Totally awesome, totally stupid and totally 40k.

**PrinceRaven**

A set of Bonesabres. Seriously, AP 2 at initiative, always causes Instant Death and confers a 4+ invulnerable.

**dementedwombat**

BrotherOfBone wrote:
dementedwombat wrote:
I'll repost my melee based reply from the other thread.

I don't know about favorite melee weapon, but my least favorite is certainly the the Honor Blade...because it's equipped on Aun`Shi who is always sitting there in my special character section with a giant troll face whispering "come on, spend the points on me. You know you want to kill stuff in close combat with Tau. You can do it... just give me a devilfish and a squad of fire warriors...I can make them Stubborn..."

Never saw the point in Aun'Shi, he's just a more costly Ethereal

Pretty much because he's the best close combat thing in Tau (well..there's farsight...but he's in a battlesuit while Aun`Shi doesn't even have a shirt on so that gets style points) and I always feel that creeping temptation to take him just so I can say I won in close combat with Tau.

**Agent_Tremolo**

The Black Mace on a Daemon Prince is rather impressive. Of the "goodbye, nob bikers" kind of impressive. :(

**AnabisXero**

Solis Luna Astrum wrote:
Gotta be the War Scythe. +2S, strikes at initiative, AP2 and costs like 10 points.

This. Warscythes are beastmode.

**A GumyBear**

TCCW

Will kill any melee powerhouse that is on the bad end of it. Hell it will kill just about anything that gets on the recieving side.

**Jimsolo**

I like the venom blade, myself. Wounds on a 2+ and only costs 5 points. Can't beat that.

**ace101**

Burning Blade: S+3 AP2 and Blind, and it strikes at Initiative! Sure, you have a minute chance to burn yourself, but that's for misusing the Emprah's Sword.