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[Tupimus]

So, any realistic ways of killing a flying condor made out of jade which keeps killing things in my fortress long after everything but several toes in its body have been broken?

My second titan and I was just about to start producing steel equipment for my sole (albeit full) squad and this defecating (Frozen extract hits dog in the left rear leg, bruising it!) bird-brain decides to crash the party.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

You could try decapitating it with a battle axe.

[Tupimus]

Thing is, even after purchasing every weapon of Dwarven make from every caravan there's been through my fortress (humanity seems to be extinct on my map, along with goblins for that matter) I have no cutting weapons whatsoever discounting some pathetic wooden elf-swords. Not that the drafted Dwarves would have any experience with them in any case, though. The military set-up seems to be quite the pain.

[Aspgren]

It's a pain in the beginning but then you put 2 and 2 together and you're like "oh COOL i can assign them all sorts of stuff and customize everything!"

[Tupimus]

A pain as in they don't train. I can set the buggers up just fine (or so it seems) but what little combat experience they have seems to have been from wrestling some of the wolves that occasionally become aggressive.

[PTTG??]

Make it move down a narrow corridor and pin it down with balistas.

[Tupimus]

Now I might add that my plan was to defend a perimeter between two hills with funnels into trapped areas until I have enough well-equipped dwarves to take my things underground.

Then this comes along, flies right over my wall and despite having every useful thing in its body broken keeps killing things.

[Osdeath]

A pain as in they don't train. I can set the buggers up just fine (or so it seems) but what little combat experience they have seems to have been from wrestling some of the wolves that occasionally become aggressive.

Set schedule for all 12 months to no activity, activate schedule, watch them do individual combat training in their assigned barracks, watch them get experience.

I have a grand master axe dwarf who has done very little in the way of actual combat.

[Tupimus]

That does seem slightly counterproductive from a logical standpoint, doesn't it?

Think it's time to abandon, though. Can't get anything going when this is right in the area of my main staircase so I can't dispose of it.

[Lokii]

...I thought the training bug was fixed in this version?


If it's possible to cave something in on it, do that because apparently it's a 100% chance to kill everything.
I believe it's the same with encasing it in obsidian (though you may not have access to magma)

[Osmosis Jones]

I've got 2 squads training right now, only thing you need to do is ensure they have seperate barracks. As for the schedule, I find that while leaving them unassigned means they will occasionally do individual drills (it seems to depend on the dwarf whether they can be bothered), actually assigning them to train means that you get organised demonstrations (dodging, striking, wrestling, etc).

[Hamster Man]

If it's possible to cave something in on it, do that because apparently it's a 100% chance to kill everything.
I believe it's the same with encasing it in obsidian (though you may not have access to magma)

Seconded. Cave Ins, which are fairly easy to set up, kill everything.