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<blockquote data-quote="Pauln6" data-source="post: 9455186" data-attributes="member: 6777422">I don't think this particular combination will work quite the way you hope.&nbsp; Most likely, the official interpretation from 2014 will stand, that you have to be wielding weapons in both hands when you make your FIRST attack in order to qualify for the bonus action/nick attack.&nbsp; Since you have to attack with your main weapon to trigger the bonus attack you need your off-hand light weapon in hand when you draw your main light weapon (or your battle axe if you have the dual wielding feat). You can only draw OR sheath OR drop your weapon as part of your attack.&nbsp; So if you were already holding both weapons at the start of the round, you could sheath both and draw and alternate two-handed weapon but if you start the next round without weapons in both hands, you won't get your bonus action attack the following round.So there will be occasions when this serves you and it might be more effective if your free object interaction can be used to draw/stow/drop/swap hands in combat but there will be many occasions where the juggling leaves you worse off.So in your example you could, if already holding your scimitar, sheathing after your free off-hand attack, draw and attack with your hand axe but you would have to keep hold of it at the start of your next round unless you are allowed to stow it as your free interaction, in which case you can attack with two hands next round and draw your scimitar again as your object interaction at the end of the round. A fighter with 3 main attacks can play around a bit more, I guess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pauln6, post: 9455186, member: 6777422"] I don't think this particular combination will work quite the way you hope. Most likely, the official interpretation from 2014 will stand, that you have to be wielding weapons in both hands when you make your FIRST attack in order to qualify for the bonus action/nick attack. Since you have to attack with your main weapon to trigger the bonus attack you need your off-hand light weapon in hand when you draw your main light weapon (or your battle axe if you have the dual wielding feat). You can only draw OR sheath OR drop your weapon as part of your attack. So if you were already holding both weapons at the start of the round, you could sheath both and draw and alternate two-handed weapon but if you start the next round without weapons in both hands, you won't get your bonus action attack the following round. So there will be occasions when this serves you and it might be more effective if your free object interaction can be used to draw/stow/drop/swap hands in combat but there will be many occasions where the juggling leaves you worse off. So in your example you could, if already holding your scimitar, sheathing after your free off-hand attack, draw and attack with your hand axe but you would have to keep hold of it at the start of your next round unless you are allowed to stow it as your free interaction, in which case you can attack with two hands next round and draw your scimitar again as your object interaction at the end of the round. A fighter with 3 main attacks can play around a bit more, I guess. [/QUOTE]

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