Armored Axe

Armored Axe Artwork of the Armored Axe from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game. Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful axes.

Unit type(s) Armored Weapon(s) Axe Skill(s) Shove (Radiant Dawn)

The Armored Axe (Japanese: 斧重装兵アクスアーマー Axe Armor) is a basic armored class debuting in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It is one of four weapon-specific variations of the Knight, specialising in the use of axes, and appears only in Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776 and Radiant Dawn. It is statistically near-identical to its counterparts, the Armored Sword, Armored Lance and Bow Armor.

It is a playable class only in Thracia 776, where it promotes to General; while not playable in Radiant Dawn without hacking, the axe-specific Axe General would be its hypothetical class-changed form and does have a playable member. Through hacking devices in Radiant Dawn, Armored Axes do indeed promote to Axe General.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weight	Experience	CRP	Weapon Level
Genealogy of the Holy War	40	9	0	5	3	0	10	0	5	--	--	--	--	B
Thracia 776	20	4	0	0	0	0	8	--	5	9	--	--	3	E
Radiant Dawn	21	10	0	7	4	0	11	4	5	12	20	--	--	D

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon Level
Genealogy of the Holy War	80	24	15	20	18	30	25	15	5	--	B
Thracia 776	80	20	20	20	20	20	20	--	20	20	A
Radiant Dawn	40	20	10	20	20	30	20	10	5	?	A

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon Level*
Genealogy of the Holy War	100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	10%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	90%	45%	20%	45%	65%	25%	40%	20%	--	--	--	--

Click here for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.

Class change

Genealogy of the Holy War

Base class
Armored Axe

Thracia 776

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Armored Axe	Using a Knight Proof after reaching Level 10.	General

Radiant Dawn

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

• Note: Armored Lances and 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 Armored Axes

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Dalsin	Thracia 776
Playable Armored Axe units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Heavily armored knights who wield axes. Some may wield swords or lances instead.	??
Radiant Dawn (help)	Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful axes.	??

Trivia

• In Fire Emblem Heroes, generic axe-wielding armored units are known as Axe Armors in the Japanese version, but the English version translated it as Axe Knight rather than Armored Axe.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Armored Axe	In gameplay, for space restrictions the name is shortened to "Armor Axe".
English (unofficial)	Axe Armor	Used in the relevant fan translations, excluding the "Project Naga" patch of Genealogy of the Holy War.
Japanese	• アクスアーマー • 斧重装兵アクスアーマー	• Axe Armor; this name was used until Thracia 776. • Officially romanized as Axe Armor; literally "axe heavy knight". In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 槍重装兵), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. アクスアーマー) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Hacha acorazado	Armored axe
French	Chevalier hache	Axe knight. Abbreviated to Chev. hache in Radiant Dawn due to space restrictions.
German	Axtmeister	Axe master
Italian	Armigero ascia	Axe armiger

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Armored Axe from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Concept artwork of the four Armor variants from Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Armored Axe portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Armored Axe portrait in Thracia 776.

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  An enemy Armored Axe in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Armored Lance/Knight
• Armored Sword
• Bow Armor

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