Machete (Fallout: New Vegas)

The machete is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The machete appears to be a makeshift weapon, and consists of a lawn mower blade strapped to a wooden handle. It is the primary melee weapon of Caesar's Legion. Aside from having a low Strength requirement, it also does bonus damage to limbs.

Special attack
It has a special Back Slash attack that does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 4 fewer action points. Unusually for melee weapons, there is no Melee Skill requirement to use this attack.

It is possible to execute Back Slash outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.

Durability
The machete can successfully strike about 245 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Machete gladius - A rarer, more powerful version.
 * Liberator - A unique version carried by Dead Sea.
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Locations

 * A machete can be found in the abandoned shack N-NW of the Yangtze Memorial.
 * If you choose to kill Benny by dueling him in the Legion arena, you can obtain a machete from his body.
 * Used by Sergeant Andrews in the arena.
 * One can be found outside the REPCONN test site, it is found on a table next to a few ammunition boxes.
 * One is automatically given to you when dueling in the arena, and it can be kept if you don't have one already.
 * You can find one in a pile of ashes near a dead body inside of Nipton, by a trailer on the right side of the street, along with a set of Legion armor.
 * Various Freeside thugs can be found carrying them.
 * There is one in the yard of the NCR Correctional Facility, stuck and left in an overturned bench.
 * Carried by nearly all Caesar's Legion personnel, especially recruit legionaries.