Mace

Mace

"A refined club, engineered for efficient swinging and deadly impacts."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Medieval

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Handle
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Head
15.7 dmg (Blunt)
24% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

7.02

Melee Average AP

21%

The mace is a melee weapon that does a moderate amount of blunt damage, and has a moderate cooldown. As a blunt weapon, mace attacks don't cause bleeding (unless a body part gets destroyed), and generally fares better against armor when compared to sharp weapons.

Acquisition

Maces can be crafted at the fueled smithy or electric smithy once the smithing research has been completed; with 50 of any metallic or wooden material, and 10,000 ticks (2.78 mins) of work. As well as purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or from outlander and pirate raiders drops.

Analysis

Compared to its neolithic 'ancestor', the club, the mace is somewhat more expensive to produce and has a slightly shorter cooldown period. The mace is best when made with uranium rather than plasteel; though slightly slower, the high damage multiplier will result in a higher damage output, and also better armor penetration.

Mace vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the mace fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.

Methodology

• All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
• All pawns have a skill level of 8 in melee
• No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
• All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy

Results in the table below are the percentages of battles that maces either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said table, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.

The following armor categories are:

• Unarmored - Plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants
• Flak - Steel simple helmet, flak jacket, flak vest, plainleather button-down shirt and flak pants
• Marine - Marine helmet, marine armor, plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants

Steel mace vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Steel club	61.05%	60.10%	60.15%
Steel gladius	47.75%	65.85%	85.40%
Steel spear	49.25%	55.85%	68.15%
Steel longsword	32.90%	48.25%	68.90%
Uranium mace	29.05%	26.10%	24.55%

Uranium mace vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Uranium club	56.10%	60.60%	59.32%
Plasteel gladius	54.90%	71.55%	89.95%
Plasteel spear	51.25%	59.25%	74.30%
Plasteel longsword	37.65%	49.40%	69.80%
Steel mace	70.95%	73.90%	75.45%

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Weapons

Melee | Neolithic

Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval

Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra

Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic

Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Industrial

Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle

Spacer

Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables

Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables

EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid

Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures

Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun