Axe General

Axe General No image available. Seasoned Armored Axes, now promoted to General.

Unit type(s) Armored Weapon(s) Axes, Swords Axes, Swords, Lances (Part IV enemies only) Skill(s) Shove

The Axe General (Japanese: 斧武将グレートドゥクス Great Dux) is a class only found in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, which uses axes as well as swords. They can promote to the Marshall class, and theoretically a member of the Armor Axe class would become an axe general; however, there are no playable armor axes. Comparable classes are the Sword General and Lance General classes.

Axe generals have quite high stats, since they act as promoted classes. They have high strength and defense with good resistance, but as most axe-using classes do, they lack in skill. Also, they have below-average speed. These weaknesses do not prevent them from succeeding as sturdy front-line units in an army, and they appear often as enemies. The only playable axe general is Brom.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	34	19	5	18	15	0	20	10	6	13	D, C
Radiant Dawn (Part 4 enemies)	39	21	7	20	17	0	22	12	6	13	C, D, A

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	45	28	15	25	22	30	30	20	20	99	A, S
Radiant Dawn (Part 4 enemies)	55	35	18	33	28	30	34	28	20	99	S, A, SS

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision	Size
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	+10	30	2	--
Radiant Dawn (Part IV enemies)	--	--	--	+10	60	2	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	60%	40%	45%	25%	25%	40%	50%	50%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Part 4 enemies)	85%	75%	60%	70%	60%	65%	65%	85%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Armored Axe	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Axe General	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Marshall

• Note: Armored Axes only appear as enemy units, and while they do have the ability to promote programmed in, it does not happen in an unmodified game.

Playable axe generals

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Brom	Radiant Dawn
Playable Axe General units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy axe generals

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Ludveck	Radiant Dawn
Enemy Axe General units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Seasoned Armored Axes, now promoted to General. There are also Sword and Lance Generals.	経験を積んだ斧重装兵が昇格する 兵を束ねる将として活躍 他に剣武将・槍武将がいる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Battle-hardened generals whose axes and leadership skills are as tested as their heavy armor.	経験を積んだ斧重装兵が昇格する 兵を束ねる将として活躍 他に槍武将・剣武将がいる

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Axe General	Axe General. A general is a high-ranking military unit.
Japanese	斧武将グレートドゥクス	Officially romanized as Great Dux; literally "Axe General". In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 斧武将), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. グレートドゥクス) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll. Dux is Latin for "commander" (later coming to mean "duke").
French	Général hache	Axe General. Abbreviated to Gén. hache in gameplay due to space restrictions.

See also

• Lance General
• Sword General

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.