Zweihänder
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Zweihänder".
Sep 21, 2026
Larry MannHOST
Level 5 is also a feat level, and the feat is Mighty Swing.
Larry MannHOST
It's specific to the Zweihander.
Larry MannHOST
It gives him plus a d6 damage if he succeeds on his attack.
Larry MannHOST
It also gives you a little better chance to avoid an enemy's riposte if you miss.
Larry MannHOST
Hell and damnation.
Larry MannHOST
He grabs my Zweihander and wrestles it off me.
Larry MannHOST
Well, we're right up breast to breast.
Larry MannHOST
I grab my rondel.
MattHOST
What's your,
ArtHOST
so I will say, uh, So going back just a minute, I have played Zweihander.
ArtHOST
It was interesting.
ArtHOST
It had a lot of interesting mechanics.
ArtHOST
Uh, the, the final rule book itself is not out yet in hard copies, but maybe it's available on DriveThru.
ArtHOST
I'm not 100% sure, though.
ArtHOST
And Blackbirds was the one, after I played Zweihander, Blackbirds was the one that I was like, ooh.
ArtHOST
I don't know if they smoothed out the mechanics, but there's something about this setting that's speaking to me more than Zweihander.
Riley QuinnHOST
standing on the London Wall, just mooning the king, but your ass never goes over the line where the king can have it cut off.
Riley QuinnHOST
He's like, I was just waiting with a fucking Zweihander.
Riley QuinnHOST
He's kind
November KellyHOST
of a toady, actually.
Larry MannHOST
Takes me a while.
Larry MannHOST
Not enough room to swing my Zweihänder.
Larry MannHOST
But I've got my Messer and of course my two daggers.
Larry MannHOST
I made sure Hans got them back for me.
Scott JusterHOST
And so you still need to be thinking strategically about, do I initiate these attacks? Additionally, a lot of enemy abilities will just power through, like they'll just attack you through it.
Scott JusterHOST
So, you know, if you're fighting some like chubby guy with like a meat beard, it doesn't matter if you're hitting a Zweihander at him, like his weird fleshy appendage is going to whack you in the face regardless, right? And so you still have to make the strategic decision about when you initiate.
Scott JusterHOST
There are also a lot of battles where there's multiple enemies at once, and they're not going to just wait around.
Scott JusterHOST
Like, they will attack you.
Benjamin StudebakerGUEST
about it in medieval terms.
Benjamin StudebakerGUEST
I was thinking about shock troops as your extremely offensive-oriented, front-line medieval troops with your great big two-handed Zweihander, your great big... two-handed weapon that you use to smash into the front line.
Benjamin StudebakerGUEST
So it's the thing that makes first contact.
Benjamin StudebakerGUEST
That's what shock troops are.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Then, my turn.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Zweihänder's out from under the coat, and I'm on my own.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Godry and Gorim are way out of range.
speaker_1NARRATOR
I get my footing right, a little uphill.
HollyHOST
While the game features support for vegan characters on page 268, the core gameplay loop inevitably involves violence against animals.
HollyHOST
Wilders fight with oversized kitchen utensils, like cleavers the size of Zweihanders or harpoon-length skewers.
HollyHOST
The hunt mode of play centers on dramatic, deadly fights with monsters, reminiscent of the battles in the Monster Hunter video game series.
HollyHOST
These fights utilize a core mechanic of severely wounding monsters, quote-unquote breaking parts of their bodies so they can no longer fight effectively.