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Two sieges in 5 months. The military quickly dispatched them. However, now I have huge amounts of goblinite to process.

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There were problems with the siege in terms of viable sladehammer combat reports. There had only been one slade hammer equiped and my secondbest hammerdwarf, to whom I had just assigned my second warhammer. had wandered outside to pick up some item or another while he had no weapon. He got jumped by 2 full squads of goblins, so I undrafted him, so he reverted to a fishery worker and ran. The rest of the miltary got sent out, the human caravan got in the way, and things rapidly became a shitshow.

Long story short, slade warhammer hammerdwarf spent his entire siege chasing one single goblin far away from the battlefield that was in turn chasing hammerdwarf squadmate turned fishery worker. He evenutally saved his friend. The combat report lasted 3 lines:
Goblin Spearman misses militia captain.
Militia captain bashes spearmen in lower left leg, chipping the bone.
Militia captain bashes spearmen in head, bruising muscle, jamming the skull through the brain, tearing the brain.

First slade warhammer is exceptional. I gave it to my best hammerdwarf. It weighs eighty Urists. In comparison, a silver warhammer weighs 4.

Was just messing around with raws and think I might have found something very game breaking. And it most likely will NOT require a world regen.

Under items_weapon there is can_stone tag which "Allows the weapon to be made at a craftsdwarf's workshop from a sharp ([MAX_EDGE:10000] or higher) stone (e.g. obsidian) plus a wood log."

Adding  can_stone to an existing worlds raws enables obsidian war hammers to be made at a craftsdorfshop.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Weapon_token

Slade is MAX_EDGE:1000, changing it to MAX_EDGE:10000 will enable slade short swords (and hammers...)

If you could try this out and then test out the weapon's effectiveness for us it would be much appreciated.

on to more important stuff, like the dwarven childcare testing.

Thats the spirit!

Check out the weapon page on the wiki to see how utterly useless crossbow bash is.

I generally make my crossbows out of copper.