Combat knife (Van Buren)

For an overview of combat knifes in the Fallout series, see combat knife.

Van Buren weapon
Combat knife
Active item icon image.
Damage	Thrust: 4 - 8 Slash: 6 - 10
Damage type	Normal
Attack modes
Primary	Thrust
AP cost	9
Range	5
Secondary	Slash
AP cost	12
Range	5
Miscellaneous
Weight	N/A
Value	N/A
STR req.	N/A
Hands req.	1
Inventory icon image.

The following is based on Van Buren design documents and is not canon.

The combat knife is a melee weapon that was to appear in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle Studios. It also featured in the Van Buren tech demo.

Background

The combat knife is a bladed weapon meant for survival and combat purposes. Unlike the knife, this weapon is made for fighting.

Characteristics

It does a decent amount of damage early on, and is useful for slicing multiple times per attack.

Variants

• Knife

Locations

Van Buren tech demo

• Taken off a male communist insurgent on one of the sidewalks in the center street.

Van Buren

• Carried by General Coleridge, Captain Davidson, Captain Pierce, and Major "Border" Briggs aboard Ballistic Orbital Missile Base 001.
• Carried by Ty and 215 Rail Line Powder Gang snipers in New Canaan.
• Carried by Banshee in Boulder Dome.

References

Weapons in Van Buren Tech demo weapons Unarmed Power Fist Melee Arc welder · Baseball bat · Cattle prod · Combat knife · Crowbar · Hatchet · Heavy wrench · Kitchen knife · Laser saw · Lead pipe · Machete · Night stick · Shiv · Switchblade · Table leg Throwing Bio grenade · Flash grenade · Frag grenade · EMP grenade · Dynamite · Flare · Plasma grenade · Rock · Throwing knife Firearms .22 autoloader · .223 autoloader · .223 minigun · .44 revolver · .45 autoloader · .45 revolver · .50 revolver · 9mm autoloader · 9mm machine pistol · 15mm ARTEMIS rail gun · APOLLO laser pistol · Flamethrower · Gauss pistol · Hand flamer · Laser array gun · Laser pistol · Sawed-off shotgun Design document or mentioned only weapons Melee ARES · Electro-gauntlet · Fire axe · Homemade knife · Laser torch · Lawnmower blade · Pipe wrench · Pool cue · Riot stick · Sledgehammer · Super charged riot prod · Super sledge Throwing High grade Molotov cocktail · Molotov cocktail · Pipe bomb · Sharpened spear · Spear · Tear gas Firearms .223 hunting rifle · .45 submachinegun · 5mm assault rifle · 7.62mm assault rifle · 9mm submachinegun · 10mm autoloader · 14mm pistol · Bow · Combat shotgun · Crossbow · Flare gun · Freeze gun · Laser rifle · Mega-flamer · Miniplague-65 · Needler pistol · Pipe rifle · PlagueMaker 2000 · Pulse gun · Pulse rifle · Sniper rifle · Zip gun Other Laser cannon · Nuclear Nellie