Gigas Knight

Gigas Knight (ギガースナイト Gigas Knight) is an Armored class that appears exclusively in Berwick Saga. Gigas Knight is a powerful enemy exclusive class that appears throughout the game. Powerful juggernauts, Gigas Knights tend to guard important figures of high authority.

Overview
Like Knights, Gigas Knights are an Armored Axe using class focusing on defense. However unlike Knights and Generals, Gigas Knights do not use Large Shields or shields of any sort. Instead all Gigas Knights are exclusively armed with the Gigas Axe. The Gigas Axe grants its wielder an additional 20 defense, furthering strengthening the Gigas Knight class's already very high defense.

The usage of a Gigas Axe in lieu of a shield means that Gigas Knights lack the weaknesses associated with shield users. Unlike with the other Armors, anti shield weaponry such as Rapiers have no effect and there are no skills/weaponry to disarm or destroy Gigas axes. Due to this, there are only two easy ways of dealing with Gigas Knights. The first is to destroy Gigas knights with magic based attacks that ignore their defense, the second is to use the Hammer, the only anti armor weapon in the game which deals effective against Gigas Knights.

Apart from their defense, Gigas Knights have a high axe-skill despite Gigas Axes being somewhat inaccurate. Gigas Knights have high power and decent speed. Gigas Knight units tend to have skills like Yell or Commander.

Etymology
Gigas was a Greek word meaning Gigantes or Giant, a race of mythological humanoids of incredible strength and size.