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[Hyndis]

I prefer swords. They do a mix of slashing and piecing damage, and are useful in nearly any situation.

Masterwork steel mining picks are also amazingly lethal in the hands of a legendary miner.

Blunt weapons seem nearly entirely useless. With mixed soldiers in a squad, the guys with mining picks have the most kills by far with 300+. Then the sword dorfs with 75+. Then the hammer guys, who have maybe 1-2 kills.

[WealthyRadish]

It seems that hammerdwarves waste time on most kills that can otherwise be finished quickly by axe/spear/marksdwarves. When an axedwarf strikes a goblin in the head, and the severed part sails off in an arc, that's a hell of a lot more efficient than a hammerdwarf bashing an unconscious kea over and over again. And if they don't get a decapitation, they just hack off all the limbs instead, until they bleed out rapidly. Aside from that, they're fine... frankly it seems to be an AI issue, with hammerdwarves trying to finish kills when they are incurably bad at it.

[Stormcloudy]

If I remember right, a ☼steel pick☼ or an artifact steel pick is the best weapon in the game. Huge penetration, incredibly sharp, strong enough to cut through anything but a dwarven ☼steel helmet☼.

They sever limbs and bisect bodies when you ask it to. They bore through the brain or decapitate the enemy in two or three hits at legendary miner.

However, speardwarves, I think, if skilled enough, are the best defense against zombies. They do plenty of harm - usually enough to KO them in one hit. I haven't tried an evil biome since reanimated reanimation, though, so I'm no authority on the repulsion of undead. I know my adventurer, only attacking "Upper Body" could deal with skins and zombies effectively in my all-evil world with barely any civs.