# Giantkiller

)   Giantkiller   

Base item

axe

Damage vs. small

1d6 x2

Damage vs. large

1d4 x2

To-hit bonus

+5

Bonus versus

giants

Weapon skill

axe

Size

one-handed

Affiliation

neutral

When carried

(none)

When wielded

(none)

When invoked

(none)

Base price

800 zm

Weight

60

Material

iron

Giantkiller, a neutral axe, replaces the long sword Giantslayer in SLASH'EM.  It does double damage against giants of all types (monsters represented by H, except for titans and ettins), and has a 15% chance per hit to cancel said monsters.

Strategy
This weapon is even more useless than its vanilla counterpart, since it has a much weaker base item.  Giants are rarely dangerous enough to be a threat even in vanilla, and SLASH'EM does not introduce any new ones (save for the Largest Giant).  Even if giants were a significant threat, this weapon is hardly more effective than a normal long sword against them - it's actually less effective at lower enchantments.