Weapons

All weapons available for purchase. See the Equipment page for encumbrance rules.

WS and BS

Weapon Skill (WS) applies to melee attacks; Ballistic Skill (BS) applies to ranged and firearm attacks. Some weapons have special rules noted in their entries.

Categories

Melee Weapons — swords, axes, spears, and other hand-to-hand arms
Ranged Weapons — bows, crossbows, and thrown weapons
Firearms — black-powder pistols and long arms

Weapons that require training

Any character may pick up and use any weapon. The exceptions are marked with an asterisk (*) in the melee table, and every ranged weapon and firearm: these take real instruction to use at all. A character with no plausible background with one must spend time learning it first — the Referee decides what a given character's background already covers.