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Hi, I'm a new player to Fantasy Battle and I was wondering if it's better to give my orge bulls either extra hand weapons or the iron fists?

I like Ironfists. I mean 3 wide with additional hand weapons you are looking at an extra 3 attacks at WS3 so like 1 maybe 2 hits if lucky. Also ogres really lose effectiveness as they die. A unit of 6 bulls takes 6 wounds it looses 6 supporting attacks, however if that ironfist through armor or parry save makes that 6 wounds 5 wounds then you have only lost 3 attacks, not 6.

ironfists, ALWAYS ironfists.

There is no situation where XHW are superior.

They only kinda make sense on units of 3-6, and at that size the game is either really low points or the unit is going to be largely useless.