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I think the [DEEP] tag was in .28 and it should be still working now.  I just cant find any info on it.

Oh yeah, Toady will eventually fix alot of the bugs in the combat system, and a big one is exhaustion from swinging the weapon.

IRL a 7lb one handed weapon is on the very heavy side of usable for humans.  Case in point is a baseball bat at 2 lbs and 36 in length (a kilo and a meter).  We dont even attempt to use that one handed (balance is off for combat).  At my prime (10 years ago), I preferred a 4lb sword to use and I could fight hard for about 2 min at a time. 

Yes, one could make a really big/heavy weapon and swing it effectively once in the combat.  If ya hit in that one swing, great (one shots are VERY rare IRL).  If ya didnt, your opponent has plenty of time to kill you while you try to recover.  And swinging such a weapon would distort the bodies movement insuch a way as to telegraph every shot allowing the opponent to PLAN for the incoming swing.  Effective combat weaponry is more than just making a heaver weapon.

Now if we can get to compisite materials for weapons, this might be a different story.  Then this could be used to weight weapons to change balance with out changing size (and iridium tipped sword (top 1/3d of the blade) would be a VERY different weapon from an all steel one of the same volume.  Or electroplating. 

I seem to remember Eskimos being darker skinned than Europeans.

I am not sure iridium is a good metal for DF, just because it took Humans well out of the time period to disover its use.

My only recommendation to this would be to limit the civs able to use it be dwarfs.  If not, it will be tradable via caravans and common goblinite ore.  I have been playing Civ Forge's alchemy beta and I dont bother to dig anymore because of those 2 factors.

And no grates are fine where they are. 

Stuff constructed b-C-* is not affected by building destroyers.  Mixing items in that menu would make it confusing and adding unnecessarily to more Fun.

Umm.. ya used arrows for practice?  Why not set up a catapult and use the most abundant resource around.

The only RL use for Iridium is its inherent corrosion resistance, high melting point, and as an alloy material.  All modern uses focus on that.  Non are mentioned for any other purpose.  With that in mind, all other applications are better served by a different material.

Alloys - We currently do not have a real alloy system.  No bronze is not 1 part copper for each part tin.

Its brittle. Any edge will not stand repeated combat use.  Then again, obsidian shortswords exist. 

There is a simpler solution to this:  Add a perishable tag to most foods and have them rot.  Food with a perishable tag should not add to the fortress's value and caravans will not trade.

Rail Guns.