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Shortsword

18 (22.5%)

Battleaxe

47 (58.8%)

Spear

15 (18.8%)

Total Members Voted: 80

[Fredd]

Swords, cause they have both pierce, and slice properties. Spears are bad, they often get stuck in the opponent

[Necro910]

Swords, cause they have both pierce, and slice properties. Spears are bad, they often get stuck in the opponent

That's my main issue with spears. They get stuck too much.

[EveryZig]

It depends on who you will be fighting. If you are using unmodded DF, addy axes are great for killing low-armored goblins and such. Hammers are the best weapon against enemies wearing good (such as full steel) armor (usually only appear in mods), and spears are good for killing megabeasts (because they can pierce something vital).

[Ubiq]

Based on Adventure Mode, I'd say axes are marginally better than swords simply because the latter have a greater tendency to get stuck. Axes can and will get stuck during an attack as well, but those wounds tend to be fatal anyway. Either are vastly superior to spears especially when martial trances are taken into account.

[Shinziril]

Adamantine axes work great against any armor short of adamantine (including steel armor), and the severs are lovely for killing enemies quickly.  Given that enemies currently don't have access to adamantine armor, adamantine axes are probably the way to go. 

Spears are nice for an adventurer facing large targets that are hard to sever body parts from, since you can aim for the heart/brain for a quick kill, but they aren't very good for the AI, which tends to just stab random body parts until the enemy stops moving.  Spears also definitely get stuck more often.  Swords are intermediate between the two, since they can either slash or stab, but for AI combatants I really prefer axes. 

[manboricua]

Spears! That's the spartan dwarftan way!

[The Scout]

Picks. YOU SHALL MINE THEIR BLOOD AND SMELT THEIR BRAINS!?

[Megaman]

Axes.
Style>All.

[Rushmik]

Axes. There's nothing quite as satisfying as seeing all those chunks fly across the battlefield. 

[SirAaronIII]

Actually, adamantine hammers are fun when you're vastly more skilled than your enemy. You get to play with them longer.

[IT 000]

Be dwarvenly, picks or hammers.

[Necro910]

Be dwarvenly, picks or hammers.

Adamantine Warhammer=lol.

[Alastar]

I brought up the excellence of picks for some time, but with adamantine a larger contact area is desirable. You're going to defeat any armour you're likely to face in the unmodded game, may as well go for the things that make the biggest wounds. Picks may be better against some naturally tough beasties so by all means mix a few in but I'd stick to mostly axes.

[CinnibarMan]

Axes for delicious chunky salsa.

[synkell]

Axes if you dont mind having multiple pieces of stuff all over... *Shudders* FB limbs are not good to have in multiples if it has poisonous blood.