An Axe?

[bushwhacker2k]

I found an axe in the brickmaker's village, it has no information and I can't wield it, but I can equip it. What the Snarf!?

On another note: is it a viable strategy to put no points in steel sword and just use other steel weapons?

[Lemmus]

Basically, you can wield and fight with weapons other than the main steel & silver swords, but you can you any of the Witcher styles (strong, fast, group) or special attacks (which you get later through skill upgrades, eg. incineration) with them.

As a result, no, it is not a viable strategy. It is allowable, if you really want to play the game in a self-enforced "hard mode", but the game (and the game world) is designed around you being different from everyone else, not the same.

[mberry]

So are axes, daggers and flailes of any practical use? I have an axe and dagger, but I never use them.

[swcarter]

Originally Posted by mberry

So are axes, daggers and flails of any practical use?

Nope, not really. Torches are sometimes useful, but I only picked up extra weapons to sell them.

SWC

[X_on_my_back]

Other weapons are handy insofar as you have two slots where you can keep weapons you find, which allows you to sell them later for money