I can’t resist my urge to URA any longer… 
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Truthfully, and I could put this in any of these new weapons threads so I’m not picking on your sabre idea at all, but I would much prefer to see a 5th class thought out and brought to life than yet another sword/axe/autogun.
Demolitions expert or something with mines, contact-grenade launcher. IDK. I’m not really in to WH40K at all but I’m sure I’ve seen one of my kids blue space marines carrying a mine.
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Rodin Karnak proves that the Moebians have access to Blight Grenades (which function more as a mine) now, and our Rejects getting Detonation Packs for the Carnival missions also seems to indicate a step in that directing. How interesting 
My personal pick for the 5th Class is a Tech-Adept. There’s much that can be done in the way of demolitions AND support through them!
But perhaps we should return to the topic at hand - how to make the saber a distinct weapon? So far it seems that the idea is to make a heavier, slower dueling saber. Some special ideas were discussed, but you could also go with a simple parry…
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I think a special parry would make it too similar to the Catachan Swords, as an earlier reply indicates. I’m not exactly sure what our best option is for a special just yet!
The Mk IV has a single target thrust with very high stagger.
Could do an AoE horizontal swipe with medium low stagger.
Make it high enough that it can maybe stagger ragers if you’ve already hit them with a heavy, but not on its own like the MK IV can.
EDIT: Its light moveset could be a series of stabs making it the single target, and heavies would be high angle diagonals to make it weaker at horde clear.
Push attack being the only sweep that can do damage.
EDIT 2: Scrap my dumb special idea give me a special with M O V E T E C H. I love the idea of a distance breaker special.
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watchmaster gave me an idea
what if when you press and hold special button, your character charges it with blade going to side, and instead of giving you a damage boost+slower movement, you getting speed boost to close the gap between you and enemy, doing less damage but stunning them AND weaken their armor
but stun would work only on full charge
i’ll try to visualise what i mean by “side charge”
like this:
i just think that we already have a melee tree for veteran, and he has an ability to weaken armor, why not add a melee weapon that does good at close combat and works as support tool aswell?
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That’s a Power Sword. We need that. We need a Power Sword sabre in the game.
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yeah but i dont like the FS’s idea to copy same abilities on different things (VET AND ZEAL COPING)
God Emperor help me. Please. No more activation weapons.
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Then what if the new saber’s special was a quick slash that dealt very low damage, but applied a bleed stack? Call it gouge or somesuch.
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Don’t like it, don’t use it. 
MAAAN it would be a banger to have with my recent smoke grenade fix suggestion
it would be a “zealot charge” but with extra steps at least
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Very good idea! Thank the Watchmaster for inspiring this wonderful special.
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SMOKE GRENADE COULD BE USEFUL-
It’s all coming together
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Pabre 
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Padre, we need a Pabre!
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Preach 
if they actually give all sabre a powersword ability i would simply call it same way as vietnam fal, but “Auric”
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I’m Aussie, when my grandfather was in the Army he had one of these (he calls it an “SLR”)
For context, he was in service from the early-1980s until he was discharged in the mid-1990s for medical reasons following his lupus diagnosis, as well as his seniority. He absolutely loves this rifle through and through.