Axe Armor

Axe Armor Artwork of the Axe Armor 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 Axe Armor or Armored Axe (Japanese: 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, specializing in the use of axes, and appears only in Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, Radiant Dawn, and Engage. It is statistically near-identical to its counterparts, the Sword Armor, Lance Armor and Bow Armor.

It is a playable class only in Thracia 776 and Engage, wherein 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 use of hacking devices, it can be seen that Armored Axes do indeed promote to Axe General in Radiant Dawn.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	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	E
Radiant Dawn	21	10	0	7	4	0	11	4	5	12	D
Engage	25	8	0	6	1	2	12	0	4	7	B

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	20	99	A
Engage	75	42	16	39	17	25	51	16	20	20	B

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Genealogy of the Holy War	--	--	2,000	--	--	--
Thracia 776	--	3	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	+8	15	2

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%	--	--	--	--
Engage	20%	15%	0%	10%	0%	0%	30%	0%	--	5%	--	--

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

Genealogy of the Holy War

The class a unit changes into in Genealogy of the Holy War is determined by the unit and not the class; however, no units change into or out of the Axe Armor class.

Base class
Axe Armor

Thracia 776

The class a unit changes into in Thracia 776 is determined by the unit and not the class; however, all units in the Axe Armor class have the following class change option:

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Armor	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.

Engage

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Axe Armor	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10. Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10 and having or proficiencies.	General or Great Knight
Promotion choice criteria: The player can freely choose.

Playable Axe Armors

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Dalsin	Thracia 776
Jade	Engage
Playable Axe Armor units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Axe Armors

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Abyme	Engage
Enemy Axe Armor 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.	分厚い鎧に身を固めた兵士 斧を専門に扱って戦う 他に剣重装兵・槍重装兵がいる
Radiant Dawn (help)	Heavily armored knights who dominate battlefields with their powerful axes.	分厚い鎧に身を固めた兵士 斧を専門に扱って戦う 他に剣重装兵・槍重装兵がいる
Engage	Heavily armored axe-wielders clad in tough armor. They have high defense, but magic is their bane.	堅い鎧に守られた重装の斧歩兵。 守備は高いが、魔法に弱い。

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 Axe Armor.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	• Armored Axe • Axe Armor	• Used in Radiant Dawn. In gameplay, for space restrictions the name is shortened to "Armor Axe". • Used in Engage.
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 is used in all appearances except Radiant Dawn. • Officially romanized as Axe Armor; literally "axe heavily-equipped soldier". 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 • Caballero hacha	• Armored axe. Used in Radiant Dawn. • Axe knight. Used in Engage.
French	• Chevalier hache • Cuirassier (hache)	• Axe knight. Used in Radiant Dawn; abbreviated to Chev. hache due to space restrictions. • Cuirassier (axe). Used in Engage.
German	• Axtmeister • Axtritter	• Axe master. Used in Radiant Dawn. • Axe knight. Used in Engage.
Italian	• Armigero ascia • Corazziere ascia	• Axe armiger. Used in Radiant Dawn. • Axe cuirassier. Used in Engage.
Korean	액스 아머	Axe armor
Simplified Chinese	重斧兵	Armored axe soldier
Traditional Chinese	重斧兵	Armored axe soldier

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Axe Armor 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 Axe Armor portrait in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  The generic Axe Armor portrait in Thracia 776.

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  An enemy Armored Axe in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Bow Armor
• Knight
• Lance Armor
• Sword Armor

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