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[AustralianWinter]

Actually this isn't that different from the real world. If they are at the same "level" of forging then bronze weapons actually are better then basic iron weapons for most purposes. The real reason that the world shifted from iron to bronze long ago was not because iron weapons were better to bronze ones, but rather that a infrastructure collapse caused a shortage of tin, stopping bronze from being made in significant amounts and forcing metal smiths to find alternatives to bronze. Iron in its natural state is actually barely harder then bronze, and other attributes make it so that unless you forge it into steel it is really worthless for most tool purposes. By the time that tin supplies had broadened out a bit and made mass production of bronze possible the world had discovered better methods of forging iron into various alloys, which are better for their specific purposes then bronze would be.

So to put it short, in their "basic" states bronze is better then iron. It's just that iron can be forged easier then bronze, and it forms a variety of alloys (such as various steels) that are better then bronze.

That's actually really, really interesting. I had no idea.