Fatshark, please buff the thunder hammer. It’s such a fun and iconic 40k weapon. Why does it always need to lag behind most other weapons? It doesn’t have to be the best, but why can’t it ever be good? I know it’s usable, I know you can make it work with skill and experience. I make it work all…

The biggest problems with thunder hammer are its unpowered state and the self-stun after special attack. Self-stun in particular makes no sense. To my knowledge, this mechanic only exists on thunder hammer and just makes the weapon feel terrible. Thunder hammer is already a clunky weapon to use with…

I’m ok with thunder hammer being an “all-or-nothing” weapon, that seems kind of like its vibe to me. Right now it’s just a lot less “all” and a lot more “nothing”. I think buffing its unpowered damage and impact as well as reducing its self-stun is the path of least resistance.

I think the Thunder Hammer needs to absolutely one shot a Crusher at base with an empowered heavy to the skull and a half decent build. Instead you have to stack like four different buffs to barely achieve the same effect and still suffer worse than some Dueling Sword nitwit who can achieve far bet…

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

it has its use-case. I like to delete big things every so often, and I use the thunder hammer for that. It’s not as performative in other areas, but that’s the tradeoff. It can oneshot trash mobs with lights now, which was the really annoying thing that it couldn’t do before. I’d say it’s in a decen…

I disagree. Yes, all high mobility weapons are better and will always be unless they heavily nerf carapace/unyielding damage on dagger/duelling. It’s still a great weapon if you know how to use it. Self stun has been greatly reduced (2023 flashbacks here), You can literally 1 shot all h40 bosses…

[image] Jaqbasd: You can literally 1 shot all h40 bosses except twins, With what build?

Shroudfield + martyrdom here. Not sure of the level of detail you need. I wish I recorded this run.

I’m not going to defend the stun but I will point out that you can input special a good half a second faster than anything else after taking a stun. And then interrupt that activation with block. You shouldn’t have to though. It is part of what contributes to my mental fatigue of using it for 1 game…

It should be the only melee weapon, able too, or one of a very select few at least. But it needs to be slow, but very hard hitting, so big groups of crushes still require team work and skill to take down. The Thunder hammer, is just not what it’s supposed to be. It’s sad

Thunder Hammer Deserves Buffs

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CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N November 3, 2025, 9:39pm 33

Astute observation, kindred

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Thunder Hammer Deserves Buffs

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