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[Poindexterity]

It'd be nice in a weapon trap in your dining room for decoration.

I just got an idea.

A weapon trap just outside my fortress but inside my main line of defense with all the useless artifact weapons stuffed inside.

I want those goat bone axes and lead spears to instill fear into my enemies!

Bonus points if you also have an artifact mechanism.

i use them one at a time as traps in "happy" areas. dining rooms, noble bedrooms, etc.

[Brewster]

Bwahahaha, that's terrible! Oh you poor person.

Lead is kinda abysmal for cutting/piercing weapons. Now, if it were a lead hammer...

[ASCIt]

Look on the bright side, in 20-30 years all of the Goblins/Elves that get stabbed with it will die of lead poisoning, and all of their children will be born severely handicapped.

I had been doing research into slade as a usable material before I took my hiatus (which is what I just now realized I've been doing since break started), and I found it works as a mason workshop material, so you can at least make miscellaneous object users happy with it.

[Loud Whispers]

Someone's happy

[Oliolli]

Someone's happy

Prideunited > Ïsirtenshed Arbost Avuz

[Brewster]

Prideunited decorations are awesome!

[Azure]

Set your bar stocks to have lead in a seperate pile.
Train up crappy migrants so weaponsmithing is their highest then draft them to a marskdwarf squad or something.
forbid the main bar stocks.

Profit

[Muttonhawk]

Bwahahaha, that's terrible! Oh you poor person.

Lead is kinda abysmal for cutting/piercing weapons. Now, if it were a lead hammer...

Could you post the English name and description please? I want to know whether the RNG has given it a name it deserves.

[Iapetus]

Heh!  Your lead spear would go nicely with the first artefact I got in my new fortress from my possessed leatherworker:

Ud Ked, The Harvester of Feeding
This is a water buffalo leather buckler.  All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.  This object is adorned with hanging rings of pond grabber leather.
On the item is an image of The Harvester of Feeding the water buffalo leather buckler in water buffalo leather.
On the item is an image of The Harvester of Feeding the water buffalo leather buckler in donkey leather.

[Cyroth]

Don't dismiss artifact weapons made from not optimal materials. I still like to use them in my regular military just for the awesome.

I had a rose gold short sword once that I gave to my milita captain and after several years and a few goblin sieges she had almost 100 named kills. Sure it would bounce off every enemy armor that was thicker then leather, but she was still slicing off a hand, arm or leg with every 2 or 3 slashes.

Rule of cool > efficiency

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, will that's because it was made out of rose gold. You just can't shout something cheesy and inspirational with a lead sword :/

[Niccolo]

Yeah, will that's because it was made out of rose gold. You just can't shout something cheesy and inspirational with a lead sword :/

Well... Yeah. Yeah, you're right. But what about something like:

"We shall fight them, wherever they are! No matter who they are! And we shall win, for the only thing softer than my sword is their will!"

A rose gold sword would look so awesome. It's a pinkish-coppery colour... A pity it's still got the whole "gold is soft and malleable" issue.

[ASCIt]

But by that same token, I imagine that a gold spear could almost double as a gold whip...

[Reudh]

I usually give the artifact weapons made from poor quality materials to dwarves who will be the backup- if the outer squads let a troll slip through, 1v1 the dwarf with the artifact weapon should absolutely win.


Lucky. I've never gotten great artifact weapons.
My armor/weaponry artifacts in all forts:

Meng Oarsounded the adamantine chain leggings (Murakgoden)
The Triangular Organisation the adamantine chain leggings (Murakgoden)
Lobsterpages the bismuth bronze high boot (Zalisiden)
Nazomanam the steel chainmail shirt (Limulunnos)
an alder blowgun, forget the name... (Limulunnos)

Three named weapons;
Gutidnakath the steel short sword (Limulunnos)
Femavanaye Thici Neba the nether-cap spear, currently owned by Canamaracama the Olm Man Spearmaster. (Limulunnos)
Libadnoleth Rulgim the adamantine battleaxe (Murakgoden)

[Brewster]

Bwahahaha, that's terrible! Oh you poor person.

Lead is kinda abysmal for cutting/piercing weapons. Now, if it were a lead hammer...

Could you post the English name and description please? I want to know whether the RNG has given it a name it deserves.

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