Hatchet (Fallout: New Vegas)

The hatchet is a weapon .
==Characteristics==
A one-handed axe-head bladed weapon with a rubber-gripped wooden handle for chopping wood and limbs alike. Unlike the throwing hatchet, it is not balanced for use as a projectile weapon.
Compared to the cleaver, the hatchet deals around twice as much damage per strike at a similar attack speed, thus having a higher damage-per-second (DPS) value. It deals around twice as much critical hit damage, costs the same amount of AP, has slightly more durability, weighs the same, and has a higher caps value. Conversely, the cleaver requires no Melee Weapons skill level to the hatchet's 25, and the same 2 Strength attribute level.
The primary element of the weapon is that it deals bonus damage to a target's limbs, increasing the chance of crippling them. It is considered an improved holdout weapon.
===Special attack===
The hatchet has a special Back Slash attack, which does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 5 less action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
It is possible to execute Back Slash outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
===Durability===
The hatchet can successfully strike about 1,495 times from full condition before breaking.
==Variants==
* Throwing hatchet - a projectile variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
* Tomahawk - a functionally similar weapon used by the tribals of Zion.
* Poisoned hatchet - a non-playable weapon sometimes used by White Legs pain-makers.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Deathclaw promontory - Sometimes found on one of the dead prospectors, alongside a set of T-51b power armor and Remnants power armor.
* Freeside - Freeside thugs occasionally use them.
* Mojave Outpost barracks - Occasionally sold by Lacey.
* Nipton - Randomly carried on a dead prospector inside the Town Hall, on the assembly floor.
* The Thorn - Carried by Red Lucy.
* The Prospector's Den - Sometimes found on the corpses.
* Vault 3 - Equipped by some Fiends.
* Vault 19 - The escaped convicts occasionally carry them.
* Often carried by White Legs pain-makers.
* Sometimes used by lobotomites from levels 20-40.
==Notes==
* Drop sounds for the hatchet are the same sounds used for the hollow barrel physics objects.
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