Combat Axe

"Retrievable axe that causes instant death on impact."

- Create-A-Class description.

The Combat Axe is a variant of the Tomahawk used in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Campaign
The Combat Axe can be unlocked in the Campaign after the player completes five challenges on the mission, "Pyrrhic Victory". Unlike its multiplayer counter-part, the Combat Axe must be picked up manually once thrown.

Multiplayer
Unlike the Tomahawk (or even the Throwing Knife in previous Call of Duty games) the Combat Axe does not require the use of a button to recover after use. Simply walking over the Combat Axe or body the Combat Axe was thrown into will return it to the players inventory. The Combat Axe (once thrown) is also highlighted in bright gold/yellow, making the retrieval much easier than otherwise. Unlike the Throwing Knife in previous Call of Duty games, the Combat Axe will always bounce off anything that is not another player. Scavenger helps too as you don't have to pick up the axe itself but you pick up the normal scavenger bags.

A hit from the Combat Axe inflicts 125 damage, meaning it is always an instant kill in any normal game modes regardless of where the hit registered on an enemy body. There are no exceptions to this rule anymore as there are no invincibility frames from death streaks as death streaks have not returned from previous titles. There is no body multipliers for hitting the head or any other part of the body for the matter. Even if the axe hits the head for the kill, it will not show up as a 'head-shot' in the kill feed.

The Combat axe is quite useful as it will almost always ricochet meaning it can travel great distances regardless of the angle it was thrown at, unlike the Throwing Knife from previous titles.

Much like the Tomahawk and Throwing Knife from previous games, it can be replenished using the perk Scavenger.

Trivia

 * It can ricochet off the dead body, if the body is in mid air, and score a kill, similar to the Throwing Knife and Tomahawk.
 * It can be easily destroyed by explosives and will collide with other lethal equipment in mid-air like C4.
 * It can be destroyed by a Trophy System.