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[SeelenJägerTee]

Inspired by DaVincis post about his binary patch for the combat mechanics.
The question arouse in me: "What's the current state of knowledge about combat mechanics?"

Back in the days when I last played DF it was told, that the heavier a blunt weapon was the better.
But now the arrow/bold research showed that this isn't necessarily true penetration isn't only defined by momentum but also by the YIELD values of armour and bolt.
However bolts are piercing weapons not blunt weapons, so ...

Right now I'm totally confused.
Should we be using those Platinum Artifact warhammers our moody dwarfs put out our should we say fuck it and let the soldiers stick with their Steel warhammers? Is a bronze axe really better than an iron one and what's about armour should we prefer iron over copper?

What is the current state of science?

[smjjames]

There is lots of information on the wiki that's for sure.

As for the current state of science, it seems to be pretty thorough. It will start anew* with the new version because of the new combat mechanics.

*For varying degrees of starting anew depending on how much Toady One modifies weapons, though I haven't seen anything about changes to weapons in the devlogs or elsewhere. I doubt there are any huge changes to weapons, but there could be tweaks here and there.

[SeelenJägerTee]

Yeah but is the wiki information still true?
Or better said have we made new discoveries since the entry was written?
And now with Urist Da Vincis binpatch the whole thing may change again.

[smjjames]

Not everybody would have the binary patch, though DFhack and LNP extended are likely to pick it up anyway.

As for new discoveries, I don't know.