I had my first ever visit from a Bronze Collossus today and as I do not use cage traps I had to fight it the good old fashioned way.
My 5 squads of 3 (axe,sword, spear, mace and Hammer squads) were novice to mediocre in skills due to natural training (no danger rooms) so I wasn't certain what the outcome would be.
After a very long fight and lots of toes, fingers etc. flying off it finally succumbed to the onslaught, leaving a debris field of body parts and a statue. I lost one Maceman and another was badly wounded but didnt bother with hospital after finding out it was flooded thanks to the colossus destroying the floodgate leading to the well in the hospital (oops). It was just a small pond that I emptied into a cistern and closed off hoping it would refill with rain because it was the only water on the map, but I didn't expect or plan for something like that. lol
Anyway, is there any use for all these body parts or do I just dump them into my trash compactor (dump square under a bridge)?
My bonecrafter doesn't want to know and there is no option to melt them unfortunately which is a shame as there is several tones of Bronze lying around right now. It's funny to see the Dwarves trying to carry the pieces about though, even a toe seems to weigh more than an elephant.
Now I want my clothier to make a T shirt that says "I fought a Bronze Colossus and all I got was this lousy statue".