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[Urist Imiknorris]

Scimitars are awesome and you cannot deny this.

[Nilik]

Great axe. Its like an axe, but greater.

In theory, since dwarves are no longer of uniform size, it would be possible for a particularly tall dwarf to wield a great axe (or two-handed sword, or halberd). I've never successfully tested this though, as the humans won't show up at my current fort to trade 

[Max White]

Well the largest a dwarf could get (And this dwarf would be a freak of statistical nature) is 75,000 units. A great axe requires a creature of 62500 to weild, so yes, you could have a dwarf running around swinging a great axe at people. BUT even better, to use a great axe with only one hand, you need a creature of atleast 67500 units, so Urist McHumanWannaBe could use a sheild as well.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I still prefer scimitars.

[Areyar]

I've always liked the sound of 'maul', because they maul things... best thing after giant corkscrews.

Never quite known what to make of them though, it seems to indicate a pole-arm of intermediate length, which can be wielded one-handed but only by very strong wielders and only for those with a haft shorter than an armlength. The head can be anything from an axeblade to a hammer or a mace, as long as it is heavy, crushing seems to be more important than cutting.
Possibly maul is just the name given to any shafted weapon that is very heavy, as war-hammers usually are surprisingly light.

I prefer to arm my dorfs with axes though, or picks, mauls are generally in short supply.

[Nilik]

Well the largest a dwarf could get (And this dwarf would be a freak of statistical nature) is 75,000 units. A great axe requires a creature of 62500 to weild, so yes, you could have a dwarf running around swinging a great axe at people. BUT even better, to use a great axe with only one hand, you need a creature of atleast 67500 units, so Urist McHumanWannaBe could use a sheild as well.

That's it. The dwarven eugenics program starts tomorrow.

[Max White]

Based on the fact that creatures seem to carry genetic traits over generations, it would be possible to cull out smaller, weaker dwarfs, untill only the bigger, stronger remain, leading to a master race of dwarfs the size of humans.

Sounds like the final solution if you ask me, but remembering what we did to hose merpeople, this is nothing. Lets go kill us some skinny dwarf!

[Double A]

The game considers picks foreign, even though you can make them.

Known bug.

What? You're crazy. Goblinite is a very valuable resource, best acquired by +5 legendary miners using picks.