Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker

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See? I told ye they were a buncha' wee lasses! Click to listen — The Demoman on cowardly, undead horsemenn

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The Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker is a melee weapon for the Demoman class. It appears as a rustic single bladed axe once wielded by the Horseless Headless Horsemann. It is covered in notches and sports a malevolently grinning face, similar to the face commonly carved on pumpkins for Halloween.

This weapon is a remodel of the Eyelander; it deals the same damage, has the same function times, and has the ability to increase the player's speed and maximum health upon decapitating another player. It even whispers the word 'heads'. Additionally, if the player manages to decapitate another Demoman wielding the Eyelander or this weapon, both the enemy's accumulated head count and the head of the decapitated Demoman will be added to the killing player's head count. However, the weapon lacks the taunt kill of the Eyelander. In fact, it has no taunt at all.

This weapon does not drop randomly and cannot be purchased from the Mann Co. Store; it can only be acquired by crafting, using the Haunted Metal Scrap acquired from the Gored! achievement.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base: 65 (59 to 73 damage)
• Mini-Crit: 88
• Critical hit: 195 (cannot Crit randomly)

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.8
• Damage Per Second: 81

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Blueprint

Refined Metal		Haunted Metal Scrap		Scotsman's Skullcutter		[[Unusual Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker|Template:Dictionary/items/unusual horseless headless horsemann's headtaker]]
x2	+		+		=

Related Achievements

Beat Me Up, Scotty Use a critical swing with the Eyelander to kill 5 enemy players. Brainspotting Decapitate 50 enemy players. Left 4 Heads Decapitate 4 players with only 10 seconds between each kill.

Shorn Connery Decapitate a cloaked Spy. Slammy Slayvis Woundya Decapitate an enemy Soldier who is brandishing the Equalizer.

Trivia

• The version of the axe carried by the Horseless Headless Horsemann is much larger than the Demoman's version, and also has a distinct purple glow which the Demoman's lacks.
• The same kill icon is used for both the Horseless Headless Horsemann and the Demoman when getting a kill with the axe. The same kill icon is used when destroying a building.
• Despite the notice caused by the untradable Haunted Metal Scrap, this item will become tradable around a few hours after crafting.
• Despite much speculation, the Headtaker can still be crafting into with 2 Refined metal, 1 Scotsman's Skullcutter, and Unusual Haunted Scrap Metal.

Gallery

• Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

• Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker with Chargin' Targe 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view with Chargin' Targe.

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  The Headtaker wielded by the Horsemann

See also

• Eyelander strategy
• Eyelander