Select the Smelt option. You will see it now lists all of the items you are carrying that can be Smelted. There is a single ingredient required for Smelting any weapon, Charcoal. To make Charcoal in Bannerlords you have a few options. You can purchase Hardwood from towns and then use the Refine option in the Smithy, this turns 2 Hardwood into 1 Each weapon usually has a specific to fill in each category. 1 handed swords are usually best for close CQB type attacks, or to take out targets who are focused against Cav, as the spears may have a long reach, spearmen can be easily overwhelmed by melee only units like man-at-arms, Swordmen, so forth. They aren't great for Cav either. Best 1/2 handed weapon - Heavy Morningstar: 2 handed - 93 speed, 39 piercing, 85 reach. 1 handed - ~80 speed, ~33 Piercing, 85 reach (15% reduction when used 1 handed) Piercing is best all rounder for damage type. Blunt is my preferred type as I try take down the best armoured enemies each fight. To preserve my troops but also to capture the For polearms the glavine, voulge or warrazor weapons are the heaviest hitters. Axes will hit multiple opponents and maxes will ignore most armour. If you want a swing sword then pick a curved one. Generally their swing damage is higher than their straight sword counterparts. The tradeoff is a worse stab. So, here are the best weapons to use in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, along with their stats and respective value. Best crossbow in Bannerlord. Best bow in Bannerlord. Best one-handed sword in Bannerlord. Best two-handed sword in Bannerlord. Best axe in Bannerlord. Best polearm in Bannerlord. Best From my experience weapons with a high handling stat recover faster from a blocked or interrupted attack but that could also come from the weight stat (handling seems to be calculated from the combination of the weapons length and weight -> short length + low weight = high handling stat). In order to craft your own Thamaskene Steel, you will have to unlock the perk Steel Maker 3. You can unlock the Steel Maker 3 perk at level 100 Smithing. That this perk does is allow you to refine 2 units of Fine Steel into 1 unit of Thamaskene Steel. That way as long as you have a large supply of charcoal and fine steel you are able to make as After 300 skill (I think) in smithing you get an increased chance to make "legendary" weapons. This adds a few extra points to random stats in the weapon. If you grind long enough (doesn't take too long really) you can usually get the bonuses where you want them. So i think a really long Romphalia, Schyte/Naginata/Glaive, Voulge, Bill type weapons are better because they will let you swing. Menvalion could be used also but you said you have 2h axe and normal Menvalion (not fine steel, which has very inferior swing damage) has similar reach with 2handed axes. The axe has the problem of not working when the enemy gets close. You really needs to stay at a certain distance, same as with a polearm. The sword doesn't have this problem, good at short to medium range, with less dmg per hit ofcs. But a good chopping sword is amazing in terms of DPS still. The Polearm has a reach advantage, a big one. MpwWU9.