Spear

Spear

"A polearm tipped with a sharp point for stabbing opponents in melee combat."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Mass

2 kg

Melee Combat

Melee Attack 1

Shaft
13 dmg (Blunt)
20% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Shaft
13 dmg (Poke)
20% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 3 

Point
23 dmg (Stab)
50% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

7.35

Melee Average AP

38%

The spear is a melee weapon that does a large amount of damage, has a fairly long cooldown, and deals sharp damage.

As is typical with any sharp weapon, spear attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons. Just like the club, the spear is a melee weapon that tribals use - but unlike the club, spears must be produced at a smithy.

Spears have the second highest base damage output out of all melee weapons, with the highest being the longsword. On that note, the spear seems to serve as a middle-ground between the gladius and the longsword, seeing as its damage output and cost also stands right between the two weapons.

It has a great advantage against armored targets, with the stab attack having much greater armor penetration, at 50% base.

Obtaining

Spears can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from any melee raiders - with the exception of drifters and thrashers. Spears can also be crafted at any smithy once the long blades research has been completed, from 75 of any metallic or wooden material, and 17,000 ticks (4.72 mins) of work.

Spear vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the spear 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 spears 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 spear vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Steel ikwa	50.95%	62.60%	72.85%
Steel gladius	46.40%	60.45%	69.60%
Steel mace	50.75%	44.15%	31.85%
Steel longsword	36.05%	42.30%	52.30%
Plasteel spear	31.63%	33.30%	35.50%

Plasteel spear vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Plasteel ikwa	49.35%	60.00%	66.90%
Plasteel gladius	49.00%	59.15%	67.35%
Uranium mace	48.75%	40.75%	25.70%
Plasteel longsword	36.75%	39.20%	46.10%
Steel spear	68.37%	66.70%	64.50%

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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