Fawkes' Super Sledge

Fawkes' super sledge is a unique super sledge in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
It weighs two pounds less, does 7 more damage, and is 33% more durable than an ordinary super sledge, having 250 more item HP, for a total of 1000 item HP.

Durability
Fawkes' super sledge can successfully strike about 625 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Super sledge
 * Discharge hammer

Location
In order to acquire the super sledge, speak to Fawkes when he is taking one to the G.E.C.K. and ask him to trade. It will usually be in his inventory as an equipped item unless he has grabbed a better weapon on the way or was relieved of it by enemy attacks. He may occasionally have more than one. If taken from him, he will equip a sledgehammer which cannot be traded.

If this opportunity is missed, Fawkes may still have the weapon when he is seen outside Raven Rock, and it can be acquired through the same means. If not, one can go back to Vault 87 when with Fawkes as a follower and he will equip the weapon. The player character must be in the experimental section of Vault 87 where Fawkes was originally found for him to equip it. If the player character has low Karma, he will not be available as a follower, so one will either have to kill him, pickpocket the weapon or shoot it out of his hands to take it.

It is possible to acquire his super sledge if he has returned to the Museum of History. With a high Sneak skill, one can pickpocket it off him. With Broken Steel installed, Fawkes may have the super sledge following the events of Take it Back!, if he is not one's follower at the time.

Related quests

 * Finding the Garden of Eden

Bugs

 * Using the Medical Wing Maintenance terminal and releasing Iso Room 5 after Fawkes has been freed will add a copy of the unique weapon to his inventory (regardless of the method used to free him). Each time you release the room, another copy will be added, allowing for infinite copies (extremely quickly too, since you do not need to leave the terminal interface for them to be added).
 * You can add a number of super sledges that exceeds Fawkes' carry weight via the aforementioned bug. Doing so will not slow him down in any way. However, removing them from his inventory and trying to give them back to him will yield the message "Fawkes can't carry any more."