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[UristMcHuman]

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

I've fixed the dagger thing at some point. Whips are next on my list.

[Spish]

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

Dwarves have something worse than either of those: picks. The limb severingness of an axe, the armor penetratingness of a spear, and the raw, bone-crushing power of a hammer... all rolled into one.

[Loud Whispers]

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

Dwarves have something worse than either of those: picks. The limb severingness of an axe, the armor penetratingness of a spear, and the raw, bone-crushing power of a hammer... all rolled into one.

But it isn't as good at dismemberment as an axe, at piercing like a spear and doesn't have the crushing power of a hammer

[Intro1827]

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

Dwarves have something worse than either of those: picks. The limb severingness of an axe, the armor penetratingness of a spear, and the raw, bone-crushing power of a hammer... all rolled into one.

But it isn't as good at dismemberment as an axe, at piercing like a spear and doesn't have the crushing power of a hammer

You've never used picks as weapons, have you?

[Loud Whispers]

a dagger is the second most dangerous weapon in the game. The first being scourges/whips. Neither can be produced by your dwarves.

Dwarves have something worse than either of those: picks. The limb severingness of an axe, the armor penetratingness of a spear, and the raw, bone-crushing power of a hammer... all rolled into one.

But it isn't as good at dismemberment as an axe, at piercing like a spear and doesn't have the crushing power of a hammer

You've never used picks as weapons, have you?

I've trained 7 legendary miners, and even tried training a miner to legendary without ever having dug a single stone out
Legendary anything = Pure and simple ownage. But a pick is a jack of all trades, and the deadliness tends to come from the miners themselves

[Pokon]

that would explain my last 5 forts having a stable population of upper arm amputees

... I can just imagine armless Dwarves running around, leaping onto enemies and biting them, and surgically implanting picks into their heads so they can mine by banging their heads into the walls.

Death squad HFS exterminaters?

[Girlinhat]

Would it be possible to mod in spaulders or pauldrons to protect dwarves' upper arms? (Like gloves, but for shoulders?)

It's very easy to mod breastplates.  Open the raws, and find the file armor.txt or armor_shirt.txt it's something like that, you'll recognize it.  Find the entry for breastplates, and it should have a line that says [UPSTEP:1] or [UBSTEP:0] or something like that.  Add 1 to it, I can't remember if it's a 0 or 1 but change it to 1 or 2 respectively to cover the upper arms.  If you look up the mail shirt in the same file, you'll notice that it has an ubstep of 1 and a lbstep of 1 (maybe, I'm making up words at this point).  This means that a mail shirt will actually protect the upper legs as well, I believe, and the upper arms.

Comparatively, the breastplate is a solid metal bra, and chainmail shirt is more of a large nightshirt.

[Jacob/Lee]

ADAMANTINE. IT'S ADAMANTINE.  RAWWWRRR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamant

It can be either.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Adamantium

I raise your wiki.

Adamant, adamantite, adamantine, adamantium, it's all the same to me! except it's better when it's blue

Anyway, if I had the choice between upper arm protection and a shield, I'd take the shield. Shields aren't shields, they're forcefields enhanced by the skill of the user.

[Loud Whispers]

Anyway, if I had the choice between upper arm protection and a shield, I'd take the shield. Shields aren't shields, they're forcefields enhanced by the skill of the user.

Forcefields which can be used to smash in skulls.

[Oliolli]

Anyway, if I had the choice between upper arm protection and a shield, I'd take the shield. Shields aren't shields, they're forcefields enhanced by the skill of the user.

Forcefields which can be used to smash in skulls.

--> Forcefields.

[kaenneth]

I save silver whips for use in weapon traps, good plan, or some hidden flaw?

[Loud Whispers]

I save silver whips for use in weapon traps, good plan, or some hidden flaw?

Adventurers might get gibbed when visiting... Otherwise no

[Girlinhat]

Good plan - blunt strikes rarely pierce, so you won't get many jammed traps at all.  Plus they're lightsabers, and those are always nice to have in your traps.

[krenshala]

Yeah, a hauberk is going to provide coverage from shoulder to knee, and cover the arms at least to the elbow, if not the wrist.  A breastplate, on the other hand, protects just as it is named - a plate covering the breast (and possibly stomach area, depending on design).

Are there more pieces of plate armor in the game than the breast-plate?  I haven't had the luck or inclination so far to get a fort far enough to have found out through first hand experience (I really need to make chain for my current fort ... but at least half of teh militia have leather armor this time).

I save silver whips for use in weapon traps, good plan, or some hidden flaw?

I don't use weapon traps ... but if I did, silver lightsabers whips sounds like an excellent choice.

[Wannazzaki]

I tent to just spam giant serrated discs for traps. The 3 hits apiece is appealing.