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Gamerlord

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Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« on: January 31, 2013, 04:53:49 am »

The title says it all. This is the masterwork mod battleaxe however, so I don't know how that will affect it.

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Re: Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 05:04:57 am »

Useful in a trap that adds falue to a room.

Useless in combat.
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Re: Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 05:11:58 am »

Damn.

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Re: Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 01:19:32 pm »

In general: (A is attacker, D is defender)
if A weapon material >= D armor material
   then quality > material
if A weapon material < D armor material
   then material > quality

As such an artifact bone weapon will annihilate anything that isn't armored or not made of something harder then bone, but will be fairly useless against anything armored. If you really want it to be put to use you could give it to a hunter and they would make pretty good use of it.
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Re: Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 11:01:44 pm »

My current fortress has goblins who wear minimal armor (helmet, (leather) armor, and shoes); said battleaxe would be very effective at purging the nudists.
Stripper goblins are hardly the norm, so you should probably prepare for some armored goblins, since metal is still metal.
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Re: Artifact bone battleaxe - useful or not useful?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2013, 12:14:51 am »

It's pretty cool though, compared to the more common bracelets, rings and other useless stuff. Bonus points if it's goblin or elf bones
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