Anu melee weapons are still worse than bashing with a Hel cannon

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@trihero1

If you strike twice on a 40 armor target for 50 bash damage apiece, you only do 20 damage

Bash scales with strength. At 30 strength and when used with the heavy +50% buff it does 225 damage per AP.

@pantolomin

• Bash damage = weapon weight x soldier strength
• Brawler perk (first heavy perk): +50%
• Reckless perk: +30%
• Close combat specialist: +20%

So a heavy weapon’s weight is 5 (sniper is 4). I brought my heavies (my only recruits) at 30 strength. That means 225 damage per bash. With luck and the two custom perks, you climb at 300 damage.