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[femmelf]

Sadly, this cannot be done in fortress mode, but at least I can still do so in adventure mode.

Clearly the first step is severing the arm. I am having trouble doing this. Though I can select a range of wrestling moves, I can't seem to target the arm with my axe. This is clearly a problem.

After the limb is severed, clearly one must equip it and beat someone with it thusly. How can I do this?

[valcon]

Drop whatever weapon you were holding, then, pick up the arm.  Alternatively, if the arm is in your backpack, 'p'ut away your current weapon or 'd'rop it, then 'r'emove the arm and it will be weilded.  Commence bashing. 

Sadly, you can't target arms, but with a sword or an axe it's only a matter of time.  Choose a target rich environment and your wish shall be granted!

[Skorpion]

With elves, you're likely to beat them to death with someone ELSE'S arm. They die quickly.

Especially when you bash them out of sight with a clownite hammer.

[bamorrow]

Beating someone to death with their own arm, though delightfully poetic, is problematic from a pragmatic sense.

You need to successfully sever the arm.
Then you need to get the arm.
Then you need to beat them to death.

The problem arises when the test subject bleeds to death before he can be bludgeoned to death.  All the wounds with your axe or sword that you create prior to severing the arm can cause this.  When you sever the arm that will also contribute a significant amount of blood loss.  Then there's the trouble with how effective a weapon that arm is, each not lethal strike with it prolonging the entire process. The race against your opponent's blood loss can make this quite a difficult feat to pull off.

As it has been mentioned, wisely, beating someone to death with their friend's/brother's/mother's arm is far simpler to achieve, and with some poetic license can almost be as good as the real thing.

[spikedball]

Alternatively you could bludgeon them to death with your head.

[Doomshifter]

You could just use your weapons normal--

Doomshifter cancels Post: Interrupted by dwarven logic

[femmelf]

Alright, so we've established that I need an axe that can sever an arm but not make someone bleed to death before I take said arm and beat them to death with it.

Ideas?

[Akura]

Well, a really high axe skill(or sword, if using one) has a tendancy to sever the head, causing an instakill. So don't train axe very high. A silver no-quality axe probably would reduce the chances as well.

[spikedball]

Whaaat.
Can't you just play a badass treehugger and whack them with an -oaken ballista arrow-?
I actually noticed certain things when I did this, notably the fact that the buggers bleed to death in three of mine (speed 2000+) turns, i.e. severing a limb deals normal over-time bleeding damage as well as instantly removing some blood.
I also remember seeing a human McUselessWorker bleed to death after a single hit in the left hand with a clownite bolt. It broke the hand and mangled several fingers, and that was enough. I would not be surprised if a masterwork steel greataxe deals twice or thrice as much of over-time bleeding as the ballista arrow.

[Kagus]

It depends a lot on the toughness of whoever you're beating up.  I once managed to go completely black knight on a guy and leave him with just a torso sitting there and bleeding out.  He still wanted to fight me.