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Been playing for long time, I was used to build silver warhammers as a good weapon, and its still displayed that way in the wiki, but my hammerlords seems to be useless killing enemies, a single hammerlord seems to be unable to kill a giant cave swallow with his silver warhammer despite the fact that the animal has serious injuries and the dwarf is hitting again and again, so my question is should I build warhammers from another material ? or just not use warhammers at all

[Snaake]

Warhammers, and blunt weapons in general, are good at killing creatures smaller or about the same size as dwarves, and very nice in reanimating biomes (especially when pulping comes in next version), since you get less severed body parts that can reanimate.

With large things like minotaurs, big animals, or giant versions of animals, they have trouble penetrating the skin/fat/muscle tissue layers to do any real damage to bones or organs. Use axes or swords to chop off limbs/cause bleeding wounds, or spears or swords to do penetrating hits that can one-shot large creatures if you get lucky and hit the heart or head. Axes/spears are the specialist weapons, swords are ok at both roles but not the best in either. I'm gonna end by repeating that warhammers and their "lesser" cousins, maces, are great against goblins and the like, as they tend to disable from pain relatively quickly, and once something is unconscious, it's head gets bashed in quickly.

[SeelenJägerTee]

Edit: damn it too slow

This is somewhat related to my thread about the current state of weapon research.
Without the momentum bugfix the experimental acquired data should still be valid if the experimental setup was properly done (no significant deviance in size and attributes of the test subjects, large enough n).
There it was noted, that warhammers from steel or silver perform more or less equally well.

What I could imagine is the following.
A giant cave swallow has a size of 200,000 cm³ while your average dwarf has 60,000 cm³ I would guess that blunt force simply isn't that effective against a creature of that size.
Just imagine a dog would try to beat you to death with a dog sized hammer that could take a while as well.

Your best guess would probably be to use a speardwarf against huge, fleshy, living creatures.

[flecha]

Thats ok, it solves everything

Thanks