Don't worry girls, a morning star just tenderizes meaty targets as well as severely dent or puncture metal plates.
In Dwarf Fortress, thanks to the special mechanics behind how weapon physics work (the game tries to simulate actual body and organ damage, rather than simple HP), morning stars were, for a while, one of the best weapons in the game, behind the ludicrously buggy whips. It's technically a piercing weapon thanks to the spikes, which help it tear flesh and cause bleeding, even though it's rather dull and can't penetrate far, but that's fine, it has a velocity bonus thanks to leverage, and it just causes leftover damage to change to blunt-type, which is better at breaking bones behind armored targets. This ability to be useful against both fleshy creatures and armored or inorganic monsters is really useful. (Comparatively, spears are great against unarmored organic creatures because you can pierce organs then back off and let them bleed to death, but is useless against anything armored enough you can't penetrate or inorganics with no organs to stab. Hammers, meanwhile, are great against armored targets or shatter-able inorganics, but you have to really pound an organic down then crush the skull to finally kill someone.)
What is this club-like object!? And what is with those spikes!?Huh!? Eh!? Wai— Graf-san, what is that thing, that club...!?Hey!? Why are you making such a face after Graf went to all that trouble to get you a present in commemoration of your assignment here!?But see...!!Ach, it's ein Morgenstern. I believe it's written down as "Asa no hoshi no bou" in Japanese, and you call it a "chouseibou", or morningstar."Asa"...!?glooowwIt's piercing through! Piercing through, I say!!I've heard you like the mornings after all, so I thought you would like a 'morning-ish' item.If so you should have told me that earlier!Why, if it is as you said, even I would come to cherish a spiky thing as such!!Heh... I'm glad you like it.
