In Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine 2 there are many powerful weapons. However, one type of weapon gives your melee weapons a crucial advantage that the community celebrates. We explain what makes it so strong.
What type of weapon is it? It is the defense style Fencing. It becomes available for your melee weapons when you level them up diligently. The other weapon types are Balanced and Blocking.
Blocking allows your weapon to deflect enemy attacks, while Fencing lets you parry attacks more easily. Balanced is right in between.
However, Fencing is superior to the other weapon types and is one of the best ways to make your weapons strong against hordes of Tyranids.
The Fencing weapon type gives you an advantage in combat
What makes Fencing so strong? Fencing extends your time window for parrying. This gives you a higher chance for a perfect parry and a subsequent execution.
This is essential against elite enemies, as you should defeat them quickly before they can cause you significant damage. In hordes of Tyranids, you can slaughter your opponents in quick succession.
If you choose Fencing as the defense style for your melee weapon, your ability to block enemy attacks will be weakened, and you will receive other combinations that you can perform.
How do I obtain Fencing? When you use your melee weapons in combat, you can eventually level them up and choose one of the three defense styles. To improve your weapons, you need armor data that you can find during your missions.
Many players love Fencing: On reddit, a user cheekily asks in his post: “Does anyone play without a Fencing melee weapon?” Many users in the comments agree that Fencing is indispensable due to the enhanced parrying.
Another comment states that the critical damage from the shots of the secondary weapon after parrying is higher than a normal attack from the melee weapon. Another player reports that he used the Balanced weapon type, only to find out how overpowered parrying in Fencing really is.
You should not underestimate parrying; it can help you against crowds of enemies. A player on reddit had to realize this as he was almost overwhelmed by hordes of Tyranids: Space Marine 2: “Lore-accurate moment” – Player stands last on the highest difficulty, taking down numerous elite enemies with just a knife
