Giantkiller

)   Giantkiller
Base item	axe
Damage vs. small	1d6 x2
Damage vs. large	1d4 x2
To-hit bonus	+5
Bonus versus	giants
Weapon skill	axe
Size	one-handed
Affiliation	neutral
When carried	(none)
When wielded	(none)
When invoked	(none)
Base price	800 zm
Weight	60
Material	iron

Giantkiller, a neutral axe, replaces the long sword Giantslayer in SLASH'EM. It does double damage against giants of all types (monsters represented by H, except for titans and ettins), and has a 15% chance per hit to cancel said monsters.

Strategy

This weapon is even more useless than its vanilla counterpart, since it has a much weaker base item. Giants are rarely dangerous enough to be a threat even in vanilla, and SLASH'EM does not introduce any new ones (save for the Largest Giant). Even if giants were a significant threat, this weapon is hardly more effective than a normal long sword against them - it's actually less effective at lower enchantments.