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Surestrike Pattern Power Axe[2a]
The Power Axe is a type of Power Weapon most commonly used by Space Marines. Like the Power Sword when activated the blade becomes surrounded in an azure disruptive energy field, allowing the axe to shear through metal and ceramite easily.[1]
Known Patterns
- Cthonian Pattern: Used by the Sons of Horus[3]
- Giantkiller Pattern: Used by the Space Wolves[Needs Citation]
- Heraspex Pattern[2]
- Legatine Axes: Used by Ultramarines Suzerain Invictarus squads during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era
- Surestrike Pattern[Needs Citation]
- Vanir Pattern: Used by the Executioners[2b]
- Mars-Proteus Pattern Glaive-Axe: Common among the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era[4]
- Castellan Axe: Used by the Adeptus Custodes
- Omnisian Axe: A Sawtoothed Variant of the Power Axe granted to adepts of the Machine God who have shown their faith to the Omnissiah.[5]
Notable Weapons
- Axe of Ultramar - wielded by Ultramarines Honour Guards
- Axe Mortalis - wielded by Commander Dante, Chapter Master of the Blood Angels
- The Executioner's Axe - wielded by Astorath, High Chaplain of the Blood Angels
- Morkai - wielded by Logan Grimnar, Great Wolf of the Space Wolves
Images
See Also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition) pp. 59-60
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War - Part Two[Needs Citation]
- 3: Forge World (last accessed 1 November 2015)
- 4: The Horus Heresy Book Three pg.69
- 5: Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook, pg. 136
