Round 3Currently Testing:5 Cobalt Steel (fictional alloy similar to steel with a fracture strength closer to but not too close to stainless steel) vs 50 Copper
All dwarves are grand master swordsdwarves equipped with one breastplate, one pair of greaves, one mail shirt, one helm, a pair of gauntlets, and a pair of high-boots.
Exception: Cobalt Steel side is equipped with stainless steel short swords instead, since cobalt steel has a nasty sharp edge that might make it a little too good.
Results:Victor: CobaltSurvivors: 5Notes:-No casualties on Team Cobalt halfway through copper massacre.
-At the end, none of the cobalt team was faint, although some had a few smashed or broken parts.
-I attribute this to wrestling.
-Stabs often caused mere bruising instead of penetrating.
-I did not observe stabbing vs stainless steel. I will have to redo that round.
Conclusion:-Too little data, need info on copper stabbing against stainless steel.
Round 1BCurrently Testing:5 Stainless vs 50 Copper (rematch)
All dwarves are grand master swordsdwarves equipped with one breastplate, one pair of greaves, one mail shirt, one helm, a pair of gauntlets, and a pair of high-boots.
Results:Victor: Stainless SteelSurvivors: 5Notes:-All dwarves are female... good thing dwarves have no gender differences sans beards.
-Various stabs made it through to the muscle, indicating that stabs in-fact went deeper into stainless steel, but only sometimes.
-Some survivors had bones torn open... ouch. Not sure if this is from wrestling or not.
Grand Conclusion:
A higher yield strength does in-fact provide slight increased protection against weak attacks.
A higher fracture point provides increased protection from fatal blows.
Not sure about the validity of the data or the conclusion... feel free to contradict me. Anyway, it seems that stainless steel and cobalt steel are largely similar, but cobalt steel results in fewer (but still prevalent) flesh injuries. Numerous dwarves had infections on both Stainless and Cobalt teams.
Perhaps an ideal set of materials could be made for further testing.
Material 1:Yield Strength: 500000
Fracture Strength: 500000
Material 2:Yield Strength: 100000
Fracture Strength: 900000
I will mod those in and test those, possibly tomorrow.
EDIT:
Did some tests. in a 5v25 vs copper, yield metal managed to last longer so more coppers were wounded.
Fracture metal seemed to do a good job of blocking fatal hits, but for some reason yield metal lasted the longest. These results might be wrong though. Good luck with modding!
All dwarves on test metal side had dwarven steel longswords, all dwarves on copper side had copper short swords. Both had full plate mail.