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A bit of an indircet effect, but availble religions also affect the placement of certain "settlements" during worldgen. Say you generate a world and a necro tower is spawned in the southeast corner. Now using the same seeds, so you generate the same world, but a civ doesn't have the death sphere anymore and now the tower is spawned in northeast corner.

I would generally say no, but this is probably preference.

DF combat is so "fast" (as in number of attacks per 'second') that I'd rather have my dwarf live longer and deal more damage over time than deal damage quickly. That said, an argument could be made that ending combat quicker might result in fewer crippling injuries. I'd closely examine the information about weapons on the Wiki and see if any of the weapons seem worth it to you. Keep in mind the many bugs related to weapons and armor interactions. You might be better served by teaching dwarves how to make whips than to have them swing around giant swords.

this is a known bug, well kind of a bug. They can use the weapon one handed, but they get penalties for doing so, using it multi-grasp removes those penalties. 

And default AI uniforms will basically always use 1 weapon, and shields in extra grasps (a 4 armed creature will come with 1 weapon and 3 shields)

I think you can get around this by making it so the entity has no access to shields, but I feel they still somehow get their hands on shields.

if you want AI to use them twohanded correctly make the weapon use the PIKE skill

There are two reasons:
- DF doesn't compute whether alloys should be possible to make given the availability of the base metals, so alloys available to a civ type are always available.
- Game play. If absence of iron also mean absence of steel, it would also result in the absence of anvils, and thus all of the metal industry, weapons (except "rock swords"), and metal armor. The anvil part could be worked around if you could make crude anvils out of rock.