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[Joneleth]

I got this battlelog:

The beak dog bites the captain of the guard in the head, but the attack is deflected by the captain of the guards steel helm!

The beak dog latches on firmly!

The beakdog shakes the captain of the guard around by the head, tearing apart the heads muscle.


The first sentence clearly said the bite was deflected, what is it then latching on too?

[Telgin]

I don't recall ever seeing this directly, but my guess is that the bite just didn't penetrate the helmet and deal damage directly, but the beak dog was still able to latch on.  How it could then tear apart the muscle afterward is a bit more of a mystery.

[Boltgun]

Armor do not stop twisting damage but that would have affected the neck (or maybe it's simplified as more damage on the part). I guess that shaking around ignore armor or is treated like blunt damage and compress the armor on the head.

[Joneleth]

I don't recall ever seeing this directly, but my guess is that the bite just didn't penetrate the helmet and deal damage directly, but the beak dog was still able to latch on.  How it could then tear apart the muscle afterward is a bit more of a mystery.

But it says deflected not blocked, deflected very much indicates that the attack missed in its entirety, not just failed to do damage.

[Boltgun]

In DF terms, this means that the energy of the impact was stopped. Latching on is treated separately.

[Joneleth]

Is there any way to make dwarves disengage from battle? I want them to retreat to more narrow corridors but it seems as soon as they begun battle they ignore any and all orders.

[Telgin]

Setting a civilian alert with a burrow and then taking the squad off duty or removing them from the military might work, but they may stay engaged even then.  In short, no, there's not a lot you can do to force it.

[Paralyzoid]

Once a dwarf is in a battle, they'll prioritize defeating any enemy they can see over doing anything else (except maybe sleeping? I'm not sure.)

[anewaname]

I don't recall ever seeing this directly, but my guess is that the bite just didn't penetrate the helmet and deal damage directly, but the beak dog was still able to latch on.  How it could then tear apart the muscle afterward is a bit more of a mystery.

But it says deflected not blocked, deflected very much indicates that the attack missed in its entirety, not just failed to do damage.

Most attacks can have different properties. The beakdog's beak attack includes...

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   [ATTACK:BITE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:BEAK]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
      [ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]

This means it attacks by applying an edge (as does an axe or sword chop) and can also latch on, in the same attack. Even if the edge did not cut into and through the armor layer (meaning the incoming force was deflected), the beast was also attempting to latch on. Once it latched on, the beakdog applied body weight (they are 2.5 times the body mass of a dwarf) and shook the dwarf by the head. Giant cave spiders also do this to armored dwarfs.