Risen Sapeur Enemy type 6 of 15 · first met in The Battlefield

Counterplay for Risen Sapeur, written from its move list, resistances, variants and drops.

Tips built from its data: what it resists, what it is weak to, which attacks to dodge and how to open it up.

• Watch for the red attacks: Melee Combo 1, Melee Spin cannot be blocked, so dodge them instead of holding block.
• Its head takes ×1.5 damage, so aim firearm shots at the head.
• It never blocks, so a full light-attack chain always lands.
• Sneak up on it: a backstab deals a fixed 150 damage at level 1, 50% of its health (2 backstabs to kill).
• Its toughest variant, Elite Sappeur*, starts at 1,400 HP, far more than the 300 of a level-1 placement.

The game defines 2 versions of this enemy. Each has its own health, posture and defensive behaviour; elites are tougher one-off placements, summoned ones appear mid-fight.

* Variant names are built from the game's internal tier tags (the game shows no name for them). Block and parry chances are listed in the order the game stores them. Placed = how many level spawners use that variant.

Health of every variant by level

How fast each variant closes the distance, and how quickly its posture comes back once you stop pressuring it.

Its fastest variant moves at 1.23 m/s; your walk speed is 4 m/s.

Speeds are the AI's movement settings in metres per second. Posture recovery is the posture regained per second, and the delay is the wait before recovery begins (game fields posture_recovery_per_sec and posture_reset_delay). — = not set for that variant.

Enemy levels in Valor Mortis are set per placement, not by a difficulty setting (the game has a single difficulty): the same enemy is level 1 in one spot and level 6 in another, usually higher later in the campaign. This is the main variant from level 1 to 6.

Damage dealt multiplies every attack's base damage. Critical attacks (after a posture break) and backstabs deal the fixed amounts shown, whatever your weapon; the share column is our arithmetic.

Every damaging attack across its variants, grouped into moves, with base damage per hit, wind-up and whether you can block it.

* Attack names are built from the game's internal tags. Damage is the level-1 base; multiply by the placement's damage multiplier (up to ×2 at level 6), so Melee Combo 1 goes from 40 to about 80.

It has no special resistances or weaknesses: every damage type works the same.

Weak points

Variants with different resistances

Red = takes extra damage of that type; negative = resists it. Head = damage multiplier on head hits.

Random drops on every kill, with the chance the game rolls for each.

Risen Sapeur drops

Item	Type	Chance	Amount	On average
Fire-Clad Rounds	Consumable	3%	1	1 in 33 kills
Crude Blade Material	Upgrade material	1%	1	1 in 100 kills

"On average" is 1 ÷ chance (calculated): the expected number of kills per drop, not a guarantee.

One placed spawner carries a scripted reward that always drops on the kill: Equivalent Exchange (Vale of Wrath).

Elite drops: Ambers and keys

Reward	Type	Location	Carried by	Nearest Lantern
Equivalent Exchange	Amber	Vale of Wrath	Elite Sappeur* · Elite	Wolfsbane Field · about 146 m away

These are one-time rewards from specific spawners. The Lantern distance is a straight line from the spawner (calculated).

Placed spawners per region in campaign order: 44 in total, the most in Vale of Wrath (9).

Counts are the game's placed spawners; scripted waves and summons during fights are not included.

Data: Steam build 25907482 (1.0 launch). How we source this

Vale of Wrath

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• Lanterns5
• Bosses2
• Boss arena1
• Chests19
• Key1
• Letters23
• Item pickups99
• Ability altars3
• Echoes of the Past39
• Enemies137

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Everything placed in Vale of Wrath

Ability altars: 3

Bosses: 2 (Slaughtermill)

Boss arenas: 1

Chests: 19 (Butcher's Carnage, Pure Blade Material, Lucky Shot, Exquisite Firearm Parts, Perfectionism, Distilled Transmutation Material, Superior Firearm Parts, Empty Ferrofluid Flask, Wound that Heals, Distilled Blade Material, Pure Transmutation Material, Ferrofluid Flask Power Upgrade, Dilated Moment)

Keys: 1 (Basement Key)

Lanterns: 5 (Ship Graveyard, Under the Bridge, Poisoned Camp, Old Windmill, Wolfsbane Field)

Letters: 23 (Mirek's Note, Shrike's Appeal — Join the Resistance, Deserter's Friend Diary, Wolf's Note — Poison, Cryptic Note — Wolf, Wanted Notice, Shrike's Appeal, Medic's Letter, Shrike's Order — Cargo, Painter's Final Letter, Headquarters' Orders — New Troops, Beekeeper's Note, Captain Lefèvre's Letter — New Troops, Shrike's Appeal — Informants, Thief's Note — Loot, Thief's Note — Warning, Emissary's Letter, Headquarters' Orders — Poisoned Troops, Shrike's Orders — Cargo, Rebel's Note — Mistake, Cargo Manifest, Toothless Jack's Journal, Deserter's Diary)

Basic hits needed to kill a level-1 Risen Sapeur (300 HP) with every blade and firearm at weapon levels 1, 5 and 10.

Hits to kill

Weapon	Weapon level 1	Weapon level 5	Weapon level 10
Pistol	1030 per hit7 to the head	842 per hit5 to the head	560 per hit4 to the head
Musket	2150 per hit	2210 per hit1 to the head	1300 per hit
Blunderbuss	2150 per hit	2230 per hit1 to the head	1350 per hit
Saber	1520 per hit	840 per hit	560 per hit
Rapier	1225 per hit	935 per hit	745 per hit
Claymore	650 per hit	480 per hit	3100 per hit

Calculated from weapon damage × the first light attack's multiplier × (1 − resistance); firearms also show head hits. Upgrades, Ambers, coatings and the stat board are not included, and higher-level placements need proportionally more hits.

William's journal page on Risen Sapeur, as written in the game.

Enemies found alongside Risen Sapeur

Enemy types that share the most regions with it.

• Risen SoldierThe Battlefield100 Health10 shared regions
• HowlerThe Battlefield100 Health10 shared regions
• Risen MusketeerThe Battlefield70 Health9 shared regions
• CarrionValley of Ashes120 Health9 shared regionsWeak to Fire damage

Walkthrough for the chapter where you first meet it