Weapons: Melee additions

TLDR;

More weapons!

- single handed: power axe, power mauls/crozius, spears, chain axe

- force weapons

- double handed weapons. (Two handed sword, double headed axe, lightning claws, talwar, power fists-plural and eviscerator)

- others (breacher shield)

Skin changes to give different blades (gladius etc)

With the upcoming champions and chapters, the weapons are going to need to be more diverse to fit aesthetics. What we have now is incredible as a general one-size-fits-all and I have to just thank you all so much for your incredible work!

Force weapons

All weapons utilised below but charged with warp energy instead of a power cell.

(This is a weapons pitch, not a class pitch, but librarian or even trainee-librarians (called lexicanium's) would utilise force weapons (staves/staffs or swords and axes). These would have incredible opportunities to utilise warp techniques (infusing blades with extra effects / AoE, which would drain stamina or a warp equivalent)

Power weapons

• Power axes (smaller for tactical and double headed for bulwark -see below for two-handed options). 

Widely used by all chapters! And if you want to be 'extra'...add chain axes. But hey 🤷‍♂️ who am I to suggest potentially heretical weapons... (charcharadons love a bit of chewy axe goodness. *vroom vroom* )

space wolf with power axe

charcharadon with chain axe

• Power mauls/Crozius. 

Chaos units more widely utilised these and I believe they still have a great place, now mostly utilised by chaplains, smashing hordes aside with cracking powerfields.

dark Angels crozius

awesome terminator chaplain with Crozius

deathwatch brother with power maul and storm shield

• Spears 

OK OK not widely used in lore BUT you have Minotaurs paint schemes so allow people to fully immerse. More helm VARIETIES (this is in my armour post) which will look stunning with the spear and iron snakes and minotaurs (greek/athenian) vibe. The spear would be great for attacking much like the the charged punch of the power fist which unleashes in a directional path instead of a wide arc. The spear can pierce, hitting multiple enemies IN DEPTH of one another. Possibly have a combo (not a stance change) where a wide sweep would be available to allow some form of crowd control potential.

epic iron snake mini with Ithican sea lance and shield

Moloc, chapter master of the Minotaurs... every spartan-lovers wet dream

Power weapons

two handed options 

- Sword/great-sword (we want to be sigismund and Azrael!). 

This can cause devastating damage and holding the deflect/parry button (LB for me) can deploy a small iron halo ahead of the player (like Calgar in the campaign) as they don't have the shield, so will be in place as the blocking mechanic but should only block around 75% in comparison. Large swings can send larger force waves like power sword already but scaled with massive cleaving potential.

Additionally, we could have the legendary "BLACK BLADE" as an extreme unlock (completing game on hardest difficulty with a large number of terminus/extremis enemies killed with melee as per the decree of emperors champion)

some fine-ass emperor's champions with their black swords. 🤤

- Power Axe (double headed). 

Cleave through heretics and xenos alike whilst howling to the sky for the all-father and for wolfkin, cursing the Crimson King and his sons. Additionally, any tech marine would have the option of a power Axe (single headed in the shape of the mechanics cog) and the iron hands would dabble with these too... so much implementation!

logan Grimnar with his possessed power axe

-lightning claws. 

Let the raven guard fans have something for once 😉 dance across the battlefield in a blur of blades and power fields. Swift but little AOE unless in arms reach with moderate damage, but the lunge can be incredible...(maybe even allow this in assault?) Let us RP as Shrike!!!

shrike with his dual lightning claws before entering the rubicon and becoming primaris

-Talwar. Again another balde, but curved and wielded by Jaghatai Khan and his quick-witted sons! Whirl and pirouette, leaving throats open in your wake! You don't need to look back to ensure your kill...this blade is a guarantee. (Most practically done through a skin instead of a full new model). I'm seeing more and more white scars on operations so this would accompany them nicely *chefs kiss*

some examples of talwars in Chigorian culture, wielded by White scars

-Eviscerator. 

Less utilised by the Astartes (flesh tearers love them!) but with the incredible job you've done with the chainsword... scale it by 2 or 3 times and implement a two-handed mechanic and we wont be able to see without windscreen wipers on our screens to clear the gore!

...touching on the eviscerator...the charchardons amongst us would have me as part of their red tithe if I didn't mention two-handed chain-axes. Picture Kharns 'gorechild' or even his father's (Angron) 'Gorefather'... both of which were huge.

Gabriel seth with his eviscerator

Miscellaneous weapons

- Breacher shields. 

Famously wielded by boarding parties in void warfare or imperial fists who fire through the firing slots presenting a perfect balance of offence and defence. Balanced possibly by the shield taking a certain amount of damage before "overloading" and leaving the user vulnerable for a short time. (Like bulwark with unsuccessful parries you're staggered)

imperial fist heresey-era breachers

Skins....

We have generic blades which is fantastic, but give us the Gladius, some runes for the sons of the wolf, some gothic blades for templars etc.

Uriel Ventris with Ultramarine Power sword

Dark angel heavenfall blade (power sword)

Space Wolves frost blade (frost blades can also be chainswords)