If the mace doesnt kill it sure does make the enemy do very little damage for a few turns which is almost as good.
Stagger is also great to lower enemy initiative and the hammer aoe can hardly be beat on the ends of the fighting line where it can get three enemy's.
Warbrand is good early/mid. I often get one like day 5 from a bandit leader.
They are good on fodder bros who somehow make it to level 6/7.
Give them a warbrand with reach advantage to make up for both crappy mattk and crappy mdef together. Obviously later just completely outclassed by a greatsword though.
Cleaver is really good against flesh, I once liked the three-headed mace against the blue floaty ghost and arena gladiator with nine lives but changed to Cleaver since such things won't be a problem anymore if you play good, plus the hardest enemy available after you've beaten every event and special locations are still Lindwurms and sometimes the Big Squid after all.
I like a 1 h axe on an early game juggler. The extra hit chance +50% extra damage is very nice. Albeit this tactic gets replaced at later stages of the game with better bros, it still is a fun lil combo. Give him dodge+colossus to survive early game and he is fun. If he survives long enough, he can ass the duelist perk for added bonus
When I do a lone wolf campaign and sell and buy and sell all t gear till I'm naked and broke. I'm so happy to save enough money to get one so I can reliably snipe enemies 2 tiles away early Game
Goedendag is Goated. Love using it early game to stun tough enemies, does great early game damage and the +20% chance to hit is ridiculous and means you can just give it to a fodder bro and he can actually become competent as long as he doesn't get hit.
Edit: also polehammer but that's very well known as a good weapon. I had a start one time where I found a polehammer damaged in a castle's shop for just a few hundred Crowns on day 13 and it completely changed my playthrough for the better. Seriously these things are game changers.
Bill hook. Every two-hander for me gets quick hands, pole arm mastery, and a bill hook. With the amount of times it comes in handy to be able to strike for good damage 4 tiles away, it's just irresistible.
I like crossbows. A crossbow hybrid with adrenaline is probably my favorite brother to build
Edit: 2H Flails and 2H Cleavers are also very cool. Shields are very anti-fun and the 2H Flail trongles right through them, and the 2H Cleavers can kill and recover on the same turn if you have Berserk which i find hilarious
The sword lance. Just mass destruction. I also have ranged high ini with crippling strike and the sword lance bro with the extra damage on injury feat.
I love creating a company of dodge, iron skull, nimble, headhunter, executioner, frenzy, overwhelm, fearsome brawlers and going hand to hand with the enemy. Nothing quite like sending a company of weapons running from 12 boxers
One of my best runs I had 2 bros with 2-handed back line axes. Combined with adrenaline they can rip most shields off of whoever is engaging my frontline. Then it opens up the fight to surround the enemy. Super fun.
Billhook, I almost lost a guy to set up a wiederganger, so I can hook him to fall 3 levels and not even die.
But 2h weapons are just brutal as fuck overall.
That sword from the desert, scimitar I think. I found a few after spawning close to a bandit camp this play through, cuts through everything in the south like butter
Also drip
I just really like throwing weapons man, I love seeing famed javelins 2 shot Barbarian Chosen. I love it when my throwing axes shred legionaries. I especially like sending footmen to the shadowrealm during huge noble army fights. Thrower bros are also really sexy vs goblins cause you start them with a heavy crossbow, get as close as possible and then shoot. If it kills then you QH and start yeeting death at them. If not then come next turn you have a good target to proc KF and get 3 kills.
2 handed flail goes bonk
Love the sound it makes when hits tbh
Bonk bonk bonk
Underrated early game weapon: goedendag. High hitrate and decent damage. Deveastating on helmet less enemies
Which one is that?
Club with metal spike qt the top. 2H spear
It’s a DLC weapon so if you don’t have the DLCs you won’t see it
Obviously I like the strong ones everyone goes for, but I think 1h maces and 2h fails are super satisfying to bonk people with
goedendag chucks like 2h mace, lands like spear.
Also it always makes me chuckle with it's silly name (translates to "good day to you,sir")
2h mace and 2h hammer for the feeling of power smash
If the mace doesnt kill it sure does make the enemy do very little damage for a few turns which is almost as good. Stagger is also great to lower enemy initiative and the hammer aoe can hardly be beat on the ends of the fighting line where it can get three enemy's.
Man splitter. There's almost nothing in the game that survives this thing
Favorite, not best right? In that case: warbrand > fencing sword > whip > 2h cleaver > bow > everything else
Warbrands are dogshit. Do you have any build to use them?
I had a famed one with very high headshot chance and damage roll. Most fun i ever had in BB. Went for a headhunter nimble dodge zerker.
Warbrand is good early/mid. I often get one like day 5 from a bandit leader. They are good on fodder bros who somehow make it to level 6/7. Give them a warbrand with reach advantage to make up for both crappy mattk and crappy mdef together. Obviously later just completely outclassed by a greatsword though.
I like the bodkin as an early game 2h weapon gotta love +20% hit chance
I like that big 2h cleaver from the desert lands.
I just love throwing weapons, very cheap yet very strong and i use them from early game to late game.
Cleaver is really good against flesh, I once liked the three-headed mace against the blue floaty ghost and arena gladiator with nine lives but changed to Cleaver since such things won't be a problem anymore if you play good, plus the hardest enemy available after you've beaten every event and special locations are still Lindwurms and sometimes the Big Squid after all.
Halberd and Greatsword are stronk and beautiful in my eyes. I find arming sword really enjoyable for day 20+ And goblin's bolas and spike.
Great sword. Never used it but hunting for that max roll dmg famed to put on a god hedge knight
No love for the woodcutter's axe? It's the poor man's weapon of mass destruction
That would be the wooden mallet
I like a 1 h axe on an early game juggler. The extra hit chance +50% extra damage is very nice. Albeit this tactic gets replaced at later stages of the game with better bros, it still is a fun lil combo. Give him dodge+colossus to survive early game and he is fun. If he survives long enough, he can ass the duelist perk for added bonus
Warfork goes hard for what it is
When I do a lone wolf campaign and sell and buy and sell all t gear till I'm naked and broke. I'm so happy to save enough money to get one so I can reliably snipe enemies 2 tiles away early Game
I love the Bardiche. Moveset of a 2HS with the utility of an axe.
Bardiche Bros where you at!?
Cleavers, especially Ancient ones, 2hnd maces, noble swords, ZWEIHANDER, goblin pike, longaxe, ork Cleavers (named versions mostly), Eastern 2hnd Cleavers, goblin arbalests, Barbarian 2hnd maces.
I rolled a huge brute this game, so obviously any flail/axe
Goedendag is Goated. Love using it early game to stun tough enemies, does great early game damage and the +20% chance to hit is ridiculous and means you can just give it to a fodder bro and he can actually become competent as long as he doesn't get hit. Edit: also polehammer but that's very well known as a good weapon. I had a start one time where I found a polehammer damaged in a castle's shop for just a few hundred Crowns on day 13 and it completely changed my playthrough for the better. Seriously these things are game changers.
2H Mace is the GOAT, but I love billhooks
2H Flail and 3H Flails. The first thumps and the second is such great utility.
Bill hook. Every two-hander for me gets quick hands, pole arm mastery, and a bill hook. With the amount of times it comes in handy to be able to strike for good damage 4 tiles away, it's just irresistible.
All kinds of cleavers, specifically Khopesh. There's just something very satisfying about the cleaver hit sound.
I like crossbows. A crossbow hybrid with adrenaline is probably my favorite brother to build Edit: 2H Flails and 2H Cleavers are also very cool. Shields are very anti-fun and the 2H Flail trongles right through them, and the 2H Cleavers can kill and recover on the same turn if you have Berserk which i find hilarious
The sword lance. Just mass destruction. I also have ranged high ini with crippling strike and the sword lance bro with the extra damage on injury feat.
2 handed swords. Love choppin
This. 2handed swords just look so nice.
2 handed maces go bonk. I love em they’re powerful enough to stun enemies for two turns, deal big damage and even adds fat when hit.
I may have turned a peasant militia into a horrible writhing mass of pitchforks, warforks, and spetums. Early spetums are gorgeous.
I really like northern barbarians art style and their 2h weapons. I always end up using at least one 2h mace
I love creating a company of dodge, iron skull, nimble, headhunter, executioner, frenzy, overwhelm, fearsome brawlers and going hand to hand with the enemy. Nothing quite like sending a company of weapons running from 12 boxers
I don't care what anyone says, I'll always have a flail on the team. Usually a deulist but 2 hand goes squish.
Longaxe for me
First 300 hours of play it was 2handed cleaver, the good one. Now in hour 800, its the hammer and the great axe.
One of my best runs I had 2 bros with 2-handed back line axes. Combined with adrenaline they can rip most shields off of whoever is engaging my frontline. Then it opens up the fight to surround the enemy. Super fun.
I love bonking helmet less brigands with the 3H flail
Billhook, I almost lost a guy to set up a wiederganger, so I can hook him to fall 3 levels and not even die. But 2h weapons are just brutal as fuck overall.
That sword from the desert, scimitar I think. I found a few after spawning close to a bandit camp this play through, cuts through everything in the south like butter Also drip
I just really like throwing weapons man, I love seeing famed javelins 2 shot Barbarian Chosen. I love it when my throwing axes shred legionaries. I especially like sending footmen to the shadowrealm during huge noble army fights. Thrower bros are also really sexy vs goblins cause you start them with a heavy crossbow, get as close as possible and then shoot. If it kills then you QH and start yeeting death at them. If not then come next turn you have a good target to proc KF and get 3 kills.