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The sledgehammer is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
A two-handed blunt melee weapon that consists of a long wooden shaft and a metal hammer head. Once a tool used in construction work, like most things in the post-War wasteland, it's been repurposed as a weapon. It deals decent damage per strike, but has the second-highest AP cost (same as the super sledge and below the rebar club) and the third-highest weight of all blunt melee weapons (below the X-2 antenna 
, the super sledge, and its unique variant Oh, Baby!).
Special attack[]
The sledgehammer has a special Mauler attack that does 50% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 10 more Action Points, but also has a chance to knock down enemies (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 48 | 38 | 1.26 | none |
| Mauler | 50 | 24 | 48 | 0.5 | Knockdown chance |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Mauler outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability[]
The sledgehammer can successfully strike about 745 times from full condition before breaking.
Locations[]
- Often carried by super mutants at Black Mountain.
- Occasionally carried by Freeside thugs.
- Members of the Vipers gang sometimes carry them.
- Most of the quarry workers in Sloan carry them including Chomps Lewis.
- Can be found used by some of the NCR deserters encountered in the Vikki and Vance Casino during A Team of Moronic Mercenaries.
- Commonly used by Fiends.
- Can be found on the dead Boomers in the Nellis array during Ant Misbehavin'.
- One can be found at the south end of the emergency service railyard, next to a metal box under the platform.
One can be found in full condition in the service route in Puesta del Sol.- Often used by White Legs (level-dependent).
- Often used by lobotomites (level-dependent).
- Often used by marked men (level-dependent).
Notes[]
- The weapon is affected by the Heavyweight perk.
- The sledgehammer found in the service route is the only weapon besides frag grenades that can be used by Dog and God in the Sierra Madre.
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