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[Trickman]

Hey guys! I was finishing linking my bridge to the lever on the outer walls when I got attacked by goblins. A regular siege, only they brought they beastmaster/general with them.

Since I was still linking the bridge, I didn't sound the alarm so I could finish the job. I figured that my marksdwarves could fend them off from a guard tower while the job was done.

Suddenly, Urist McHunter, who was just passing by, randomly makes eye contact with the omnious goblin horde. He shoots a bolt and this happens:

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And their entire squad flees. No deaths. Just a badly injured goblin general.

How can I make this guy a legend? This was probably the most crazy moment I've seen in DF yet!

[Sprin]

Name?

[Loud Whispers]

And so Urist McHunter walked up to his fine kill, disappointed he couldn't eat it.

[Oaktree]

Goblin squads and ambush parties often break and flee if their leader is wounded.  About the ideal way to keep one around is have a mounted leader and cripple their mount.  They hang around on a beast that is sitting around and retching and their squad tends to stay until the siege takes enough casualties to generate a general retreat.

[krenshala]

That or cage the leader. The rest apparently stand their and argue with him about what to do until your troops arrive to sort things out for them.

[Trickman]

Name?

Adil Ralód. It's actually a she-dorf. Pretty young, too (for dorfish standards): 58.

"She has a little difficulty with words and a meager kinesthetic sense". - Not with her crossbow, though.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

general retreat.

*salutes*