The Chinese officer's sword can successfully strike about 1000 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants[]
Vampire's Edge - The weakest of the Chinese officer's sword variants, Vampire's Edge weighs only one pound, and is the only variant to use the regular sword's skin.
Clover's Chinese officer's sword - A unique, non-playable version used by Clover with identical stats to the regular version.
Jingwei's shocksword- An electrified version of the Chinese officer's sword, the shocksword is much stronger and deals electrical damage over time.
Sim version - A version of the weapon which appears only within the Anchorage simulation. Unlike other sim-specific weapons, this version has a higher base and critical damage than its normal counterpart, and also causes disintegration for non-player characters killed by a critical hit similar to Jingwei's shocksword. This weapon is only carried by non-player characters within the Anchorage simulation and cannot be obtained through normal means.
Samurai's sword - An ancient weapon from Japan that deals an extra helping of damage on critical hits, and is much more durable than the standard sword.
Clover's Cleaver - A Chinese officer's sword that was cut from the base game. It was intended to be used by Clover and was to be the Evil follower unique weapon, much like Fawkes' super sledge and Butch's Toothpick were for the other Karma levels.
Katana - A variant of the samurai's sword that deals much less critical damage, but knocks foes down with critical hits.
Clover's variant of Chinese officer's sword has a Base ID of 0006415D. It has unlimited durability, and stats identical with the standard one. (Not to be confused with Clover's Cleaver.)
When running in third person with this sword out, the game uses the same running animation from Oblivion, one of Bethesda Softworks' other titles.
In Fallout: New Vegas, an enlarged unusable version of the Chinese officer's sword can be seen behind elder McNamara's desk. It is part of a large Brotherhood of Steel symbol which consists of a sword offset from two interlocking gears.