Bellwright Guide | How to Unlock Heavy Two Handed Battleaxes for Frontline Soldiers

Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to unlock heavy two-handed battleaxes for frontline soldiers in Bellwright.

Game Guide by Imdeadfrfr on Jun 23, 2026

As your revolutionary army moves out of the quiet woods and into the heavily fortified areas of the region, the character of fighting changes dramatically. The light clubs and primitive short spears that won the fight against the first bandit scouts are useless against elite royal armies. The crown forces are oppressive in nature and often use vast blocks of defensive infantry, with towering oak shields and thick steel breastplates.

You will need to use high-end weapons to break through these powerful defensive formations; you will just be breaking blades and suffering devastating casualties in your rebel forces.

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Your front line vanguard needs overwhelming, high-impact mechanical force to shatter the enemy line and throw their ranks into absolute chaos. And the heavy two-handed battleaxe is the ultimate armor-shattering tool, it can crush shields and cut through thick layers of reinforced iron plating.

Equipping your vanguard soldiers with these destructive weapons completely changes the tactical equation in the most important field engagements. Just one coordinated swing from a trained heavy infantry group can instantly ruin an entire enemy shield wall, leaving the royal archers wide open. This is late-game weapon tech that requires a huge, highly organized investment in industrial refinement and elite companion recruitment across your liberated zones.

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It’s a complete departure from primitive campsite survival techniques to the point of manufacturing heavy, two-handed shock weaponry. You can’t craft destructive military battleaxes with a simple campfire station or a standard stone anvil. The intricate geometry of wide, dual-purpose weapon heads forces your settlement to officially advance to the highest levels of structural development.

Your main goal must be to completely change your standard settlement hub into a highly sophisticated industrial town layout. This milestone is formally achieved by expending substantial research points and building materials to construct a massive Keep facility. The Keep replaces your early-game Town Hall, and is the single most important aspect of advanced military planning and high-end logistical coordination.

When the Keep is active in your borders, the advanced engineering branches of your research book will finally be available to your scholars. This high-tier research track consumes an enormous amount of intellectual resources over long periods of real-world time. You must keep your research desks well supplied with historical engineering books and good ink, so that the project does not come to a halt.

Building the Heavy Blacksmith Workshop

Having successfully researched and documented the blueprints for the advanced weapon, you are now required to construct a physical facility capable of heavy metal fabrication. Heavy Blacksmith Workshop: This is where the really big two-handed battleaxes are made. This huge structure is the core of your late-game military armory and industrial smelting operations.

Building this advanced structural workshop requires a tremendous amount of processed materials such as refined hardwood planks, copper fasteners, and strong stone blocks. Your gathering squads have to go into overdrive to clear out surrounding forests and clear rock terrain to make room for the building’s massive physical size. Once you’ve assembled the frame firmly, you need to furnish the interior with top-tier metalworking bellows and giant iron anvils.

This is the only manufacturing facility for high-impact shock weapons, reinforced steel plate armor, and heavy siege components. It is recommended to position the workshop close to the main raw material stockpiles to reduce transit delays for your workers. Run this advanced hub at full capacity. This is the absolute secret to quickly equipping a formidable, heavily armed infantry division.

The recruitment of the Great Blacksmith

Having a heavy workshop and advanced weapon schematics means squat if your labor force doesn't know how to work high-grade metals. An ordinary, untrained peasant would be utterly incapable of carrying out the complex tempering processes needed to forge a well-balanced, two-handed battleaxe head. To fill this very important skill gap, your faction must find a highly specialized companion known as the Master Blacksmith.

This legendary artisan is not found in simple early-game hamlets, nor does he lie around on insignificant backwoods trails. You have to commit yourself to liberating advanced regional capitals where high-end metalworking is traditionally done to access their amazing services. These heavily fortified hubs are the bastions of royal oppression, and the only way to persuade these masters to join your cause is to throw off their shackles.

As soon as the Master Blacksmith makes his official move to your main industrial settlement, the restrictions on heavy weapons will be lifted forever. Each battle-axe they forge is a true work of destruction, built with their unique knowledge of carbon steel manipulation, structural weight distribution, and edge alignment. Make this companion a major strategic milestone for your movement, so it is perfectly protected and well fed within your borders.

High Grade Iron Supply Chain Security

Making a great two-handed battle-axe requires a huge amount of high-grade raw materials, which are not available on the surface of the Lowlands. You can no longer depend on simple copper deposits or primitive tin veins to supply your military crafting stations. High-quality iron ingots and flexible, fine leather strips for the hilt wraps are needed for the advanced weapon blades.

Bellwright The Art of Making the Battleaxe

To power this high-end manufacturing process, you will need to establish dedicated mining outposts deep inside the craggy mountain ranges of Karvenia at once. You will have to build heavy-duty iron mines right next to rich black mineral veins that are in high-altitude caverns. Tell your remote extraction teams to work around the clock, filling large storage containers with raw iron ore blocks.

Raw iron is very heavy and requires a robust logistics network to transport back to your main smelting workshop. You'll need to use fully automated caravan routes and sturdy transport donkeys to get through the grueling overnight hauling process. Getting this complex mineral supply chain right will ensure that your heavy weapon production queues never get hung up on sudden material shortages.

The Art of Making the Battleaxe

The raw iron ore has been safely transported to your main industrial zone, and it must go through several processes to be refined before smithing can begin. Your metalworkers have to keep feeding raw ore into sophisticated furnaces to remove impurities and produce perfect iron ingots. This first step in refining requires a large amount of charcoal, so your woodcutters need to keep your kilns running constantly.

The actual forging of the heavy battleaxe is done right on the main anvil under the watchful eye of your Master Blacksmith. The process involves the fusing of several iron ingots into a single wide, perfectly balanced dual-blade. Your crafters also have to process raw animal hides through your tanning racks to make the high-friction leather wraps needed to fasten the massive wooden shafts.

The wooden handle must be carved from the densest available hardwood; otherwise, it will snap under intense operational stress. Each piece of weaponry is the result of a complicated, layered manufacturing process that requires a lot of real-world time. To avoid serious bottlenecks in production, build several anvils and assign the most skilled apprentices to help the master smith during the day.

Management of Elite Soldier Stats

Getting the hang of using a huge two-handed battleaxe properly on the battlefield is a whole different ball of strict personnel issues on the battlefield. These giant weapons are extremely heavy and have some of the highest physical attribute requirements in the game. They need a mad combination of high base physical strength, large stamina pools, and two-handed combat skill.

How to Unlock Heavy Two Handed Battleaxes for Frontline Soldiers

Look at your typical band of village conscripts, and you will very soon find that your typical laborers are utterly unfit to carry these weapons. Make a weak, untrained peasant swing a heavy battleaxe, and he will tire quickly and be immediately vulnerable tactically. The process of physical training and developing the attributes of a functional shock-trooper squad is very deliberate.

Gradually, you can improve your soldiers' attributes by creating specialized training grounds and having them participate in regular combat drills. This slow character development phase can also be sped up drastically by using advanced tactical manuals bought from rare wandering merchants. Such devastating weapons should only eventually be entrusted to your most veteran, heavily muscled companion units to be carried into major territorial wars.

Dominating the Field with Shock Troops

In real field fighting, adding a squad of heavy two-handed battle-axe soldiers completely changes your overall tactics. These elite shock troops are human battering rams, intended to smash through the crown's most impenetrable defensive positions. In combination with regular shield-bearing infantry, they bring the raw, unvarnished damage output needed to quickly finish off drawn-out engagements.

The wide, sweeping attack animations of the battleaxe can hit multiple enemy targets at once, one soldier taking out a dozen or more close-packed targets. More importantly, the weapon has huge passive shield-breaking stats, which can quickly break down a royal knight's defensive stance. They are completely neutralized, left wide open for instant follow-up kills from your main infantry line, after breaking the enemy shield.

However, these massive weapons come at the cost of a much slower attack speed and the loss of all passive shield protection. A battleaxe soldier is not as good at blocking incoming arrow volleys or rapid thrusts of light spears as a shielded vanguard. The best way is to keep your shock troops in reserve until your line is fully engaged and then unleash them against the exposed enemy flanks for total victory.

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