Axe melee

Axes are incredible until exhaustion turns your character into a walking corpse.

The premier high-damage melee weapon. An axe drops zombies in very few hits — but every swing costs real endurance.

Good, though not Crowbar-tier. It will need repair or replacement over a long run.

Excellent — among the best melee damage available. It frequently one-shots or two-shots ordinary zombies.

Low as a melee weapon; the fights it ends quickly are quieter than drawn-out brawls with a weaker weapon.

Heavy. Axe swings drain stamina fast, and a tired survivor with an axe is in real danger.

Strong burst on single targets; with multi-hit it clears clusters fast, but the endurance cost compounds.

Repairable, and the related occupations (Fire Officer, Lumberjack) make it even more effective.

Strength Fitness

Clearing fights quickly, dangerous single targets, players with high Fitness to pay the endurance bill.

Long grinding fights on low endurance — that is where the axe gets you killed.

Axe