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[Sallen]

I got a gold battle axe artifact worth 160,800 dwarfbucks. Is gold a good material for weapons? I am tempted to sell it, but I don't want to if it's at least a decent weapon.






I have no idea who Litast Rainedcanyon is. He/she's not in my fortress and it's not a noble from any known civ. Is there a way of checking the legends while still having an active fortress?

EDIT: She was the previous general of my mother civ.

Thanks!

[Psieye]

Create a backup of the save folder and then abandon fortress. Read legends, then rewind.

Gold makes excellent blunt weapons, but an axe is mostly an edged weapon.

[jaxy15]

You can't sell artifacts.

[Sallen]

You can't sell artifacts.

Oh well. I'm off to see who this engraved hero is then!

EDIT: A forgotten beast just killed itself. Slammed into an obstacle. Upper and lower body, all four limbs and head sailing off in an arc. Apparently caused by its own cloud of boiling extract...

EDIT 2: Litast Rainedcanyon was a former general of my civ's capital. Nothing specially epic, but interesting nevertheless.

[Akura]

EDIT: A forgotten beast just killed itself. Slammed into an obstacle. Upper and lower body, all four limbs and head sailing off in an arc. Apparently caused by its own cloud of boiling extract...

There's a certain type of breath/dust attack that causes a creature to smash itself into a wall, [UNDIRECTED_DUST].

[dwarfhoplite]

on the item is an image of Litas Rainedcanyon the dwarf in horse bone.

Seriously.. what the hell??

[Indricotherium]

The artifact gold shortsword on of my militia captains is using seems to work quite well, quite well indeed.

I say hand it out and let it go to work!

[Sallen]

I will wait to have a decent squad and assign it to my most fearsome axedorf then!

on the item is an image of Litas Rainedcanyon the dwarf in horse bone.

Seriously.. what the hell??

Badass general Litast + violent horse hordes. Forging that was an equine violence deterrent measure I guess.

There's also a female dwarf engraving images of her lover all over the fortress xD I love this game.

[kotekzot]

Gold is probably the worst material for an edged weapon, being heavy and malleable. You can probably cave some heads in with its pommel, though, but a masterful silver war hammer should perform better for that. Or at least that's the way I understand how weapons work.

On second thought, it might do okay against unarmored enemies.

[Girlinhat]

I would declare it a ceremonial weapon.  Once a year, put your duke or other highest ranking dwarf in some leather armor and gold axe, and have him slay a goblin prisoner in the arena.

Or, build it into a weapon trap.  That way it counts towards room value and you can get any room to legendary status instantly.

[Akura]

According to the wiki, a slashing attack that doesn't penetrate armor becomes a blunt attack, so gold might actually be useful in that regard. And I think axes have a contact area that lends itself well to a bludgeon attack, but I'm not sure.

[kotekzot]

According to the wiki, a slashing attack that doesn't penetrate armor becomes a blunt attack, so gold might actually be useful in that regard. And I think axes have a contact area that lends itself well to a bludgeon attack, but I'm not sure.

Ah, I forgot about attack blunting. Large contact area actually makes blunt weapons worse, though. Bruising the muscle is okay, but breaking the bone is better.

[nanomage]

i think golden axe is quite okay. it's heavy, it's sharp, it definitely can cut leather, cloth, muscle and bone. maybe it'll glance of iron breastplate here or there, but hey, it's an artifact, it's awesome

[Lagslayer]

It may be useful against plant cloth, leather, wood, and bone/shell armor, but even silver is a stronger material than gold. The chopping attack of an axe has too large a contact area to be useful as a can opener, and a pommel strike and flat slap are both very poor blunt attacks. Against anything with metal armor, it would be lucky to do anything, but you might occasionally hit an unprotected limb.

[zephyr_hound]

A golden axe?? Name your best axedwarf Gilius Thunderhead and give it to him. Only awesome can result.