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[Dr.Propz]

Just curious. I've been playing with giant axes so I could disarm enemies, but once I get to the point where they wear metal armor I'm screwed

[Alexwarhammer]

Well that depends what you want to use it for. A whip can easily incapacitate an unarmoured or medium armoured opponent in two turns , but an axe can chop of a limb 50% of the time , while a crossbow can one shot people tiles away.

[Meistermoxx]

Two-handed swords are my favorite, and knives for trowing, i often one-hit people with those.

[Intro1827]

I prefer BLUNT weapons, due to how zombies work. If you're going to reanimate a corpse, you want it to stay in one piece.

[stven275]

I usually go with spears and pikes, Because i find them good against armored and unarmored opponents,
and they're great at poking vital organs on pretty much anything.

[dood_]

Halberd. All the hacking power of an axe, with the stabbiness of a sword.

[NinjaBoot]

Any weapon that can be multigrasped. 

Not sure, but anything multigrasped should give you more "oomph" in your swing, which'll lead to more severed lower bodyparts

[Montague]

Mining picks are awesome and nigh unstoppable if made out of steel or better and of high quality.

I've tried menacing spikes and giant axe blades, but picks always seem to work out better.

I'll second that daggers are bad ass throwing weapons and I make it a point to collect any I find on my adventurers.

[Gizogin]

Modded weapons all the way!

Spoiler: Song Hammer (click to show/hide)

[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_HAMMER_SONG]
[NAME:song hammer:song hammers]
[SIZE:420]
[SKILL:HAMMER]
[TWO_HANDED:37500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:32500]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:3]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:10:200:bash:bashes:head:2200]
[ATTACK:EDGE:100:4000:stab:stabs:spike:2200]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:100:1000:strike:strikes:pommel:2200]

The best part is that my enemies have them too, so it's not even unbalanced!  I actually ran into a trap with one of these, but I luckily spotted it before I would have tripped it.

For vanilla weapons, I'm a big fan of the longsword.  You get slashing, stabbing, and blunt attacks rolled into one.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Whips are stupid op against anything with pain receptors.
Picks are the de-facto ohk/dismember/penetration weapons.
Throwing/ranged I'll ignore.

On all opponents, picks and whips beat out all other weapons by a mile.
On unarmored opponents, picks edge out whips.
As opponents become more and more armored, the whips begin gaining traction and by the time adamantine rolls around picks are outclassed by landslide.
However, whips are useless against undead/collossi.
Picks can ohk collossi.

Gimme a sec and I'll link to !SCIENCE! from last version.

-edit
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=71219.0

[Intro1827]

However, whips are useless against undead/collossi.

Colossi, yeah, there's no way to kill one with blunt attacks. I've been using hammers instead of whips, but I've been consistently OHKing zombies with a hit to any body part (the reraised corpse variety). Mummies should be able to be decapitated with blunt weapons, since I could tear off all of their limbs, but I didn't try.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

ah, well I based what I said on fighting a mummy, and the whip just didn't cut it. /pun

[Yoink]

Swords all the way, man.

Also: You can multigrasp weapons in the new version?! Ohmigosh, how?

[Logeres]

Unfortunately, as far as I tried, you can't multigrasp one-handed weapons. It apparently only works with two-handed weapons

[Kamamura]

Swords all the way, man.

Also: You can multigrasp weapons in the new version?! Ohmigosh, how?

It was possible in 31.25 too. If you carried a weapon that was too big/heavy for your size, and had both hands free, your character automatically multigrasped. I think there were heavy penalties otherwise (when trying to use shield/weapon in the other hand).