For anyone wondering the choise, this is the german officers sword ingame:

Speculation ahead

Imagine this scenario in a few years:

Assault mission on a pacific atoll, where point B is an open space closely surrounded by thick jungle.

US forces capped, but now they have to face a Japanese counterattack. While a guy in a Ha-Go is pinning them down, another Japanese player leads his assaulters squad into a flanking maneuver.

Once in position, he orders the squad to storm the point. Due to either a special order or a specific AI logic, special perk unique of the Japanese faction, while each faction has its own ones, Japanese AI assaulters will then banzai charge firing on the move, then once at close distance automatically switch to melee and finish off defenders with blades and bayonets.

Well, using axe instead of the knife makes you a little bit slower (but still faster than with a gun), and of course, axe swings are slower as well (but you don“t really need to hit anyone twice anyway).

Its correct, axe is 1kg, knife 0,5kg.

i got it today as well.

i’m… a bit disappointed.

well, we all knew what it was all about, but the same animation, the same sound… eh… the whole event lacks of actual polishing. like the cockpit of the fw has the same issues over war thunder still after 4 years… low textures…

but i guess i’m the one who only finds issues in almost everything, so i’ll guess i’ll shut up.

otherwise, the sword looks fancy.

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Don’t think it is worthy anything, just a cheap reward that is basically useless lol

strong thread diggin but still.

1 hit kill
looks cool - good for ones that like to collect stuff even ingame
run faster with it

donno. countless reasons. is it worth something? no. is anything worth at all ingame?

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Swords are 100% ohk.
Not sure bout range

Pretty much similar to knife.
Everything melee does have range of a knife sadly.

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Yeah, and it needs adjusting. Especially the bayonets…