Chinese officer's sword (Fallout 3)

The Chinese officer's sword is a melee weapon found in Fallout 3.
==Characteristics==
With its high durability and fast attack speed, the Chinese officer's sword is an excellent weapon outside of V.A.T.S., whereas swings in V.A.T.S. use 28 AP.
===Durability===
The Chinese officer's sword can successfully strike about 1000 times from full condition before breaking.
==Variants==
* Vampire's Edge - The weakest of the Chinese officer's sword's unique variants, Vampire's Edge weighs only one pound, and is the only variant to use the regular sword's skin.
* Clover's Chinese officer's sword - A unique, non-playable version used by Clover with identical stats to the regular version.
* Jingwei's shocksword - An electrified version of the Chinese officer's sword, the shocksword is much stronger and deals electrical damage over time.
* Sim version - A version of the weapon which appears only within the Anchorage simulation. Unlike other sim-specific weapons, this version has a higher base and critical damage than its normal counterpart and also causes disintegration for non-player characters killed by a critical hit similar to Jingwei's shocksword. This weapon is only carried by non-player characters within the Anchorage simulation and cannot be obtained through normal means.
* Samurai's sword - An ancient weapon from Japan that deals an extra helping of damage on critical hits.
* Clover's Cleaver - A Chinese officer's sword that was cut from the base game. It was intended to be used by Clover and was to be the Evil follower's unique weapon, much like Fawkes' super sledge and Butch's Toothpick were for the other Karma levels.
* Katana - A variant of the samurai's sword that deals much less critical damage, but knocks foes down with critical hits.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Megaton, in Jericho's house, stabbed into a teddy bear.
* Republic of Dave, in the Museum of Dave, most likely a relic from Dave's traveling days.
* On a dead Chinese commando, located at the origin point of the Chinese radio beacon, as a result of a random encounter.
* The Chinese captain at Mama Dolce's is another holder of this sword.
* Can be found on several insane inhabitants of Vault 106 who all use melee weapons.
* Raiders all throughout the game may carry them, and they will appear more often when the player character is at a higher level.
* There's one in Abraham Washington's museum in Rivet City, behind a rubble pile near some lockers.
* Crimson at Paradise Falls carries one.
* There's one in the weapons lab in the Mothership Zeta add-on.
==Notes==
* Clover's variant of a Chinese officer's sword has a Form ID of . It has unlimited durability and stats identical to the standard one. 
* When using a Stealth Boy or Chinese stealth armor, the sword's bloodstains will still be visible.
* In Fallout: New Vegas, a large version is located behind Nolan McNamara in the Hidden Valley bunker, GiantSword [STAT:000DA34B].
==Behind the scenes==
* When running in the third person with this sword out, the game uses the same running animation from Oblivion.
* This weapon is in the files of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Category:Fallout 3 Melee Weapons skill weapons
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