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« on: July 27, 2011, 03:38:49 pm »
Weapon Tests:
A dwarf in full Slade is carrying ~14x his body weight.
VERY extensive, full arena testing on Slade/Adamantine/Steel/Platinum.
Slade: Predictably good in blunt, predictably poor in cutting, predictably decent in armour
Adamantine: Poor in blunt, good in cutting, good in armour
Steel: Decent in blunt, decent in cutting, good in armour
Platinum: Good in blunt, poor in cutting, poor in armour
Standard dwarf:
Male, Adept Fighter, Adept Weapon skill, Proficient Armour User, Talented Shield User, Competent Dodger.
Shield, Weapon, Mail Shirt, Breastplate, Mail Leggings, Gauntlets, Boots, Helm.
Slade VS Adamantine, Cutting
In a 5 vs 5 between Adamantine and Slade, nothing happened. Pages and pages of deflections. The worst injury, after 5 minutes, was an Adamantine Dwarf who got his hand broken by the pommel of a Slade Shortsword. Had I let it go on long enough, perhaps the Slade Dwarves would've colapsed from exhaustion and been strangled. I don't know.
Adamantine and Slade are not heavy/sharp enough to penetrate each other.
It's worth noting that rather than meeting in the middle of the room, they met ~4/5 to the bottom. Slade makes Dwarves move REALLY slowly. DO NOT give to marksdwarves.
I re-did the test with 20 vs 20, and took away all but the Helm, Shield (changed to Buckler), and Sword. It was over in about 6 seconds. Somehow, the Adamantine Dwarves lost. The Slade Dwarves had 12 left, 3 with injuries that would eventually bleed out, probably, and several more with injuries that may become infected, but ~1/4 of the Slade Dwarves were completely unharmed except for light brusing.
That led me to investigate the combat reports, and here's the conclusions I've drawn as to why Slade won:
-Slade Shortswords are terribly heavy compared to Adamantine Shortswords. Perhaps the increased weight allowed easier severing of body parts, as many Adamantine Dwarves bled out rather than got struck down. In fact, no dwarves were struck down. Striking down generally requires a head shot, and all dwarves had inpenetrable helms.
-Many Adamantine Dwarf bodies weren't holding either a sword or shield, but had both arms. Upon reading the combat reports, it would appear that spinal/nervous injuries in the Adamantine Dwarves were approximately FIVE times more prevalent than in the Slade Dwarves. This may be due to the heavier weapon materials: A Slade Buckler strike would break an arm, and in once remarkable incidence, shattered the lower arm, jammed it through the upper arm, and jammed the upper arm through the shoulder (I shit you not), whereas an Adamantine Buckler strike would bruise the skin and muscle. Same for pommel/flat-of-the-blade strikes.
Slade VS Platinum, Blunt.
I gave both sides a Helm, Breastplate, Mace, Bucker, and Gauntlets to preven weapon-dropping, but the Platinum armour wasn't tough enough to stop Slade, but Slade could stop Platium most of the time. The fight ended predictably. I re-did it with no armour or shields. The Platinium did better this time.
In a 10 VS 10, only 2 Slade Dwarves survived, and one was near dead. I did the test multiple times, and it generally comes out to a narrow Slade Victory.
Slade VS Steel, Piercing
Having trouble here. How to I get dwarves to use Bolts? There are no quivers.
