Dwarf Fortress

Trying to overcome the only enemy in the game with an area of effect with numbers isn't that productive. You're better to try and kill it with projectiles from hiding or to impale it with a pike (those are pretty good against organic giant things because its penetration is good enough to damage their organs).

Really, the only megabeast that swarming works well on are hydras. Any non-human facing a Bronze colossus isn't going to damage the right parts to destroy it before getting tired (and pre-aimed attacks they were near invincible).

I am a human. We were damaging it and given enough time (I) we could have chopped it up but I was running out of distractions(followers) To allow me to continue to hack at it. Problem is all I have is iron and bronze weapons :/ I found some steel arrows and was happily stabbing the bastard but it didn't seem to be getting anywhere.

Yeah this was my first dragon ever. I found it by following the swaths of ash on the ground. That fire blast has surprising range. Siege weapon quality for sure. :P I want a pet dragon now lol.

edited 7th Dec '10 1:23:05 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Just be careful, the area covered by a blast of dragonfire is enormous, and your dwarves are definitely not Friendly Fireproof.

Also, if your adventure starts having body-parts melt after fighting a dragon, you should try removing your armor and/or jumping into a body of water. There's some kind of thing where dragonfire leaves a residue that keeps heating stuff.

Meanwhile, in arena mode, I discover that if you put two independent bronze colossuses on the highest z-level of the southeast corner of the map, they'll play a continuous game of king of the hill until one of them dies.

edited 7th Dec '10 10:40:37 PM by thatother1dude

Lol Nice. Thanks for the information on that. I need to explore more nations. Man titan's are easy to splat but they love to collect junk all over their shrines.

Titans and forgotten beasts basically have Contractual Boss Immunity during world-gen: no matter how fragile their bodies are, they won't be killed by anything but a megabeast.

I find it still funny I am fighting the giant flying snow ball or salt shaker from hell.

Cyborg salt monsters, what will they think of next?

Hey, do you think that with some modification, a functional airship can be constructed?

maybe. It would take some serious modding though.

• YES! Finally! You have no idea how happy I was when that happened. This is being played with teh civ forge mod.

• Holy Shit Even Happier!◊ I finally killed a bronze colossus

I found this nice little weapon in the titan's shrine

edited 8th Dec '10 1:10:53 AM by TuefelHundenIV

I left a passage open to the first cavern layer once and three mega-beasts strolled in. My (5)legendary miner walked up to them and offed each one in turn with one swing each.

Nice Man.

I am disappointed in Titan's for the most part. Two salt and one snow ball titan. All of them were fat, element, and wings. Well I take that back. There was the giant nematoad titan he had fire but never used it and was dead very quickly.

@Colonial: Could? There's been one already.

Does it fly though?

Killed my first few bogey men and made enough racket to wake everyone else up to come mop up the others until they ran off. Nailed one right of the bat a lucky thrown crossbow bolt to the head.

I...

FUCK YOU, 31.18.

It just corrupted another of my files, never saved backups despite me setting it to 'seasonally', and I even set compressed saves to off!

ARMOK DAMN IT.

Yes, using windmills. As the Cracked article says, Morbo would have a field-day./

Wait how do windmills make it fly? Abuse of the game engine?:p

He turned off caveins, and the windmills are for decoration, I think.

I am still tryingn to figure out how to possibly spray pressurized magma over the entry area of my fort.

According to the forum, magma doesn't pressurize. :(

I'm just going to carve out a channel from the volcano, since one of my entrances is right next to it. Yeah, I've got two entrances (the other is the trade depot), but they both funnel to a single area, through a maze (that will eventually be full of traps, and is in line of site of three catapults and is over a pit that can be filled with magma), and right past the barracks before reaching the main staircase.

My external defenses need some work.

Also, I've decided to make everyone axedwarves instead of hammerdwarves like in the previous playthrough. We're going to see how this works.

ps. iron is okay to find, and there is too much copper everywhere, but I have like no flux on the map and I haven't found tin for bronze. hoooo boy. Anyone know how well shitty copper armor defends against shitty copper/silver bolts and whips? I'm thinking about giving my archers copper breastplates and helmets so they don't get sniped. Leather does like nothing except against fists.

Well, silver is very powerful right now, especially for dwarven laser beams (AKA Whips). So not very well, I'd imagine.

It's powerful for blunt weapons, which are based on mass, but for armor and weapons it's essentially tiered adamatine > steel > bronze or iron  ^*

Don't whips rely on general mass of the item. Ie a heavy whip does more damage.

The Bronze colossus i am hacking up right now has no arms, and no feet and has managed to kill two of my followers by pushing them to death. I am not sure who hacked off its limbs and what weapon they were using but my steel pike continually fractures the beast. I am going to keep hacking at it until it dies or I die whichever comes first.

So which more damaging, Fracturing or denting on a Bronze Colossus? I can fracture with stabbing weapons and dent it with swords but axes and blunt weapons just glance away. I can throw arrows and bolts well enough that they stick in it. Found out I can pull arrows that are lodged into my body. I pulled one out and then stabbed the colossus with it the next turn lodging it in his body :D

Funny the wiki says when you pump Magma it can become pressurized but without pumping it has no real pressure and sort of just oozes around. Pity it is not like real magma. I shall scheme to make a series of magma pumps that will pump it to a magma safe hall that will drop hot magma on my enemies.

Or conspire a way to breathe dragon fire.

Is it possible to build cannons?

maybe. What would you shoot and what would you use to shoot it with? You could make a flame weapon rather easily. I have been tinkering with the idea of a re loadable flame trap or a one shot flame trap. A dwarfish Flame Fougasse

edited 9th Dec '10 4:50:38 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Interesting.

In the event of the airship designs becoming more frequent, is it possible to travel to other fortresses?

Not from the fortress mode location. Your stuck in the area. If you could snag an air ship in adventure mode yeah I could see that.

edited 9th Dec '10 6:20:33 PM by TuefelHundenIV