In my opinion. Say I wanted to play as a Caesar's Legion character who uses traditional Throwing Spears. The only reliable way to get them is off the dead bodies of Legionaries, and once in a blue moon a single shop will have about 5 for sale at one time. It's the same deal with throwing knives and throwing hatchets - you can go for multiple playthroughs without encountering either weapon. To this day, after spending about 180 hours on this game, I've never even seen a throwing hatchet. Why do you think that is? These weapons aren't particularly effective, at any point in the game. I just want to use them because they're fun. Why must throwing knives be more elusive than Gauss and Anti-material rifles? Is that really "balance"?

This problem would be somewhat remedied if we could retrive our thrown weapons after use. As they are, they're only good for decorating your safehouse.

I agree on the lack of them. However, I have to disagree they are extremely effective if you apply poison.

I've seen one throwing hatchet, as it flew thorugh the air lodging itself in my head.

I've started a new character whos also working for the legion and the only spears i've come across is on a randomly dead raider.

As are most things.

At least there's one shop in the Wasteland that sells them sometimes (Mick & Ralph's), but, really? One shop in the entire Wasteland? (Chet doesn't count, because he only sells them 1 or 2 at a time).

This is getting spoilerish, and we have a thread on where to get these weapons already.

So I will close this one so you can use the thread that already exists in the correct section.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1141433-throwing-knives/