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[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

So a bear just started walking around near your stockpiles and dwarves and you are being spammed with job cancellations due to combat. Don't have a crossbow yet?

Ok first, go to 'm'ilitary screen. Scroll to someone with a pickaxe or a lumberjack axe (which are called battle axe). Press enter on him, then scroll to the other people wielding pickaxes or axes, and press enter on them too. Their names should move slightly to the right to show that they are now following the first guy you selected.

Next, go to the newly made squad-leader, and press a for activate, then v for view squad. Alter the option so that they harass dangerous animals.

Finally, go back to the main screen, still paused, and press x which will command the newly formed squad of recruits. Now station them near or on the bear. And then wait. And pray they win.

Once the battle is over, either cry for your dead, and make a new squad to battle the bear, or go back to the military screen, deactivate the squad and then promote all the squaddies by doubletapping the enter key on them so they promote themself, so that they are not in a squad anymore.

Voila, either you ran out of dwarves (damn bear) or you have a nice tasty bear corpse to process in the butcher's workshop  

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

I regret having to do this, but *bump*

[Gedsaro]

Good job killing that bear. luckly I haven't had any bear attacks yet although i'm still in the first year of my first game.(it's autumm now) Ah yes, and thanks for the help with how to order your dwarfs into a massive killing frenzie. I may not have had any bears yet but those damned Raccoons! They come in packs and steal my stuff! I don't think i'll ever get over them killing my dog either.      

[Zonk]

I picked the 'start now'option, and got 7 jack-of-some trades dwarves...but no marksdwarf...I knew that would have been trouble, a grizzly bear came after some time, it killed two stray dogs and started going around...I placed a stone door for the cave but even with the option 'dwarves stay indoors'they didn't go there(probably because there were no interesting things)...so I picked all of my dwarves(except the miner who was safe), made them soldiers and ordered them to attack the bear. A lucky dwarf can STUN a Grizzly bear it seems. While things were somewhat grim and there were some seriou woundings, in the end 4 of my dwarves surrounded the beast and slew it. Amazing. And they didn't have any previous experience, I think the one that got the killing blow(and probably most of the damage)was just a 'Novice Wrestler'.
However, the main thing is to have at least one crossbow-dwarf. Melee with grizzlies -> not good.

[ussdefiant]

particulary when immediately after you manage to kill one bear with several wounded, another insists on immediately wandering onto the map.
Rather annoying, especially when Play Now! always insists on dumping you in some bear infested spot.

Edit: By the bye, dwarves don't seem to notice when another dwark is trying to recover in bed, even going to sleep in the same bed or dumping another wounded in it.

[ August 09, 2006: Message edited by: ussdefiant ]

[Toady One]

It's important to keep the wounded warm!

[JT]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>It's important to keep the wounded warm!</STRONG>

However, it's also important not to overstimulate or overexert the wounded, particularly if the other is a really sexy female dwarf with a beard you'd just love to tug on... ;-)

[Virtz]

Woah... when I noticed a grizzly bear coming about, I assigned 6 dwarves to be a crossbow squad to slay the beast. Unfortunately, as I placed the marker near the bear's position, one of them didn't bother to go for the crossbow and instead he just went at the grizzly bare handed. Strangely enough, he won single-handedly! I checked his stats and he was only dabbling at wrestling, although very tough. He only had two gray wounds and I noticed the bear got a chunk off him, but hell, reading all these stories about bears killing whole populations makes me feel lucky. :]

[JT]

After your first year of survival, you'll probably note that your original batch of dwarves -- assuming all of them survived! -- will be Tough or Very Tough at the least.  My colony got ambushed by lizardmen, and I drafted everyone, and they smashed those lizardmen to death with their bare hands.  One dwarf was grievously injured, however, and he eventually went berserk, which of course caused the civil war bug. =)