THIS GAME IS AWESOME ASDFGHJKL-Let's take it from the top.
My fortress, Anusdimple the Angry Angelic Disembowelment of Artifice, (most of the Dorfs just call it 'Anusdimple', though) is the first real one I've ever done. I've abandoned all others for boredom or lack of skill, and I'm relatively new at the game. I would have let this go, too.... but that name. I knew a fortress with this sort of name was meant for greatness, and so far, it has not disappointed. In the third year of our glorious fortress, I came face to face with my very first Uninvited Guest. I called my militia, all nine of them with leather armor and random weapons, to arms, and pulled up the drawbridges.
A picture taken from earlier in the game, although this is still the layout of the entrance. Simple, effective. I used that natural hillside formation and removed all the ramps to avoid having stuff just walk into my courtyard, and simple drawbridges for defense. Basic nublet stuff. I had people outside since it was a generally peaceful game and I had barely even seen any goblins when this beast showed up, so I scrambled to get them in and lock it out. It didn't work.
I don't have pictures of my Woodcutter's Benny Hill act with the Titan because I wasn't expecting to post this. The story gets epic only near the end, really. I do eventually manage to get the Woodcutter in, but in my bumbling with barrows and civilian alerts and not knowing how to use them, some random dipshit Peasant finds himself outside of our walls. The Titan gives chase, and I'm just about ready to write him off. In a last-ditch effort to get him to move into the courtyard for the airlock trick again, I draft him into the military and give him a direct movement order. I then look away for ten seconds, look back, and-
Titan's dead. Peasant isn't. Sort of a reverse on the expectation, there. How'd it happen?
He starts out by
biting the mutant titanic abomination, and dances around it like a butterfly until
he finally punches its brains out and causes them to splatter like a shotgun blast into the nearby river.
I believe Anusdimple has found itself its hero. The fortress immediately agreed on a resolution (I went into a menu) to give him the profession name of 'Titanslayer'.
(No, he has no military-applicable skills. Or, he didn't, going into this mess. No skills at all, really. Hence his status as Peasant. I think home boy's found his calling now, however.)
I just needed to share that with you. I've been on a DF kick recently, learning the ropes, and this has been the crown jewel so far.
With the Titan safely dead and things returning to normalcy, however, our people can now get back to watching a war between a Forgotten Beast far below the surface and an unknown number of Antmen. The thing showed up (through solid rock, leaving us safe but able to see it with our.... Dwrven.... video cameras?)
while the Titan was rampaging above.
Things could have turned out far worse in either sitation, but as it is, Anusdimple suffered
zero casualties from this whole business. (Only fatality period so far was one of my orginal, now Legendary miners, who was struck by a Mood but couldn't get his stuff.)
In short:
THIS
IS
ANUSDIMPLE [Need that somethingawful emoticon with the axe-crazy guy in black. Just imagine that here.]
[Thank you ToadyOne!]
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Topic: Babby's First Titan Kill (Read 2807 times)