Basically I am wanting to know if the different weapon types do anything different other than speed and have different perks.

I was wondering for example if maces/hammers stagger or stun at all. Or anything else.

Daggers don't stagger at all.

Maces stagger the most out of One-Handed weapons (1.0).

Two-Handed weapons all stagger more than maces, but warhammers stagger the most (1.25).

More information can be found http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Weapons.

Cool, thanks. I wonder what those numbers mean other than assuming the higher the better to stagger?