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[Lagslayer]

Let's assume I have a hypothetical fort without any metal. I have a severe shortage of armor, and more importantly, weapons. Would elven wooden weapons be better than fighting unarmed?

[Hyndis]

Wood crossbows and piles and piles of wood/bone bolts.

Then you can "acquire" iron from the goblins.

[Urist McGyver]

Place wooden cages outfront, capture goblins, smelt goblinite, make bronze/iron swords.

Engage war with humans. Rebuild traps. Capture humans. Smelt humanite.

Engage war with elves. Carve elf bones.

[IT 000]

Yes, but don't expect it to block an iron arrow. It will keep the dings and scratches off your dwarves though.

[Urist Imiknorris]

As previously said, marksdwarves.

[psychologicalshock]

Yeah if you don't have metal your best bet really is some marksdwarves in leather firing bones nonstop as well as some traps - don't expect the bone bolts to do much though 95% will do absolutely nothing against armored foe.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Your arrows should block out the sun, otherwise you're not shooting enough.

[Kamamura]

The goblins, however, enjoy fighting in shadow.

[FuzzyZergling]

Yes, the elven weapons will be much better.

[Lagslayer]

Yes, the elven weapons will be much better.

Thank you .

[monk12]

Yes, the elven weapons will be much better.

Even better, using wooden weapons will increase skill in that weapon category so that once you have metal to use you already have somewhat skilled dwarves to use them.

Semirelated, is there an appreciable difference between a wooden elf weapon and a dwarven wood training weapon? I'm going to assign the less lethal weapons to the FG for use during times of peace.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Training weapons are blunt. Elven wooden weapons have edges (albeit crappy ones).