Everyone has three votes.
Limit weapons to vanilla DF.
The idea is to find the best combination of weapons under the new combat system.
The spear and the crossbow used to be the best because they did piercing damage and could skewer an opponents vital organs in just a few shots.
Explaining why you voted the way you did would be very much appreciative. Discussion about choices is also welcome, especially regarding drawbacks that different weapons have.
For example, there are three ways to kill something with a war hammer.
You crushed their upper body and severely damaged their lungs so they suffocate. You so destroy a limb sufficiently that you opened an artery and they bleed to death. You crush their skull into their brain, which is the only direct way of killing someone with a war hammer.
Note that not all enemies need to breath/have upper bodies or lungs, not all enemies have blood or a system of arteries to bleed from, not all enemies have a head or a brain to be crushed.
For example, a "creeping eye" has no feature that will allow you to kill it with a war hammer. Or for that matter have a throat to be choked in wrestling or otherwise throttled from kicking and striking or be bitten to death. I had one of these things where I had turned almost the whole thing red but couldn't finish it off. I had to sneak away because I was beyond drowsy(that is how long I was beating on this thing).
There is a general problem with the war hammer, in that it can take a tremendous number of strikes to either land that critical blow on the head or wait for something to bleed or suffocate. It does seem to vary from beast to beast though, like I find most wolves take a long time to die but some other beasts take much less time.
I am thinking a war hammer for disabling an opponent, then a two handed sword or an battle axe would be a good combination.