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Sabreur

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Random Moment of Badass
« on: June 26, 2012, 11:17:12 pm »
A forgotten beast showed up at my fortress a few minutes ago.  A great scaly leech with a shell.  Beware its fire!  I took a quick look through the caverns and decided it was safely sealed off.



Whoopsie.

Turns out, this particular Hauler was a marksdwarf - and I had ordered all military dwarves to be be in full uniform at all times.  Still, it didn't seem like it would help him much when he decided to get in a shooting match with the fire-throwing, shell-armored behemoth at 3 paces.  I mobilized my military and sent them to finish the beast and recover the poor brave dwarf's corpse.

Turns out I didn't need to bother.

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Corai

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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2012, 11:22:11 pm »
Solid adamanite, thats what i'd do.


But none of my ponies/humans/kobolds have ever done such a feat.
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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2012, 11:25:39 pm »
Yeah, I don't like the requirement for ammunition (which always seems to run out at the worst possible time), but marksdwarves are badass.
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Listen up: making a thing a ‼thing‼ doesn't make it more awesome or extreme.  It simply indicates the thing is on fire.  Get it right or look like a silly poser.

It's useful to keep a ‼torch‼ handy.

SixOfSpades

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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 12:13:08 am »
Quote from: Sabreur on June 26, 2012, 11:17:12 pm
A forgotten beast showed up at my fortress a few minutes ago.  A great scaly leech with a shell.  Beware its fire!
Not to be a party pooper, but were you playing with Temperature turned off (to save FPS)? Beasts that use fire-based attacks are pretty much helpless without it.

(Which I found out by accident when a titan made of flame flew around my base, pushing my civilians, and spitting fireballs that did nothing. My captain of the guard casually one-shotted it. Then a couple of years later, I turned Temperature back on, and had a deuce of a time trying to figure out why my wood stockpile was smoking, and why the grass outside had suddenly caught fire.)
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Dwarf Fortress -- kind of like Minecraft, but for people who hate themselves.

Sabreur

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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2012, 12:47:41 am »
Quote from: SixOfSpades on June 27, 2012, 12:13:08 am
Quote from: Sabreur on June 26, 2012, 11:17:12 pm
A forgotten beast showed up at my fortress a few minutes ago.  A great scaly leech with a shell.  Beware its fire!
Not to be a party pooper, but were you playing with Temperature turned off (to save FPS)? Beasts that use fire-based attacks are pretty much helpless without it.

(Which I found out by accident when a titan made of flame flew around my base, pushing my civilians, and spitting fireballs that did nothing. My captain of the guard casually one-shotted it. Then a couple of years later, I turned Temperature back on, and had a deuce of a time trying to figure out why my wood stockpile was smoking, and why the grass outside had suddenly caught fire.)

Nope, temperature on.  The marksdwarf just sat there shooting holes in the forgotten beast while fireballs went sailing past his head.  My fortresses usually don't have FPS problems until several decades have passed, and even then I can usually delay the inevitable a bit.
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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 12:49:24 am »
Quote from: weenog on June 26, 2012, 11:25:39 pm
Yeah, I don't like the requirement for ammunition (which always seems to run out at the worst possible time), but marksdwarves are badass.
Run an ammunition industry. Tetrahedrite is pretty much everywhere...
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Re: Random Moment of Badass
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2012, 02:18:47 am »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on June 27, 2012, 12:49:24 am
Quote from: weenog on June 26, 2012, 11:25:39 pm
Yeah, I don't like the requirement for ammunition (which always seems to run out at the worst possible time), but marksdwarves are badass.
Run an ammunition industry. Tetrahedrite is pretty much everywhere...

Yeah... I told a no-skill peasant who happened to like bolts to spend his time crafting bolts.  Then I forgot he existed.  Cue checking the stocks later and finding 6000 bolts - and a legendary weaponsmith.
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