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AtomicPaperclip

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He put up a legendary fight
« on: September 06, 2009, 12:48:40 am »
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A noob marksdwarf just wrestled a bronze colossus from dabbling all the way to legendary, before dying in battle.

You are getting a hell of a tomb.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2009, 01:14:17 am »
That'd be like one of those duels you see in epics, where they fight for years. One-on-one.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2009, 01:27:05 am »
That's pretty crazy. I didn't even know skills could go up that fast.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2009, 03:14:11 am »
Gahhh, I just lost the dwarf who actually killed the thing to sparring *facepalm*

Damn legendary armor/shield/wrestler/axedwarf dies sparring...

I turn invaders on, and within less than a season I lose half my military without fighting any other civs -.-

Anyway, made a tomb out of platinum walls/floors and put the bronze statue in it.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2009, 03:37:28 am »
I've seen it happen, like once. In my case, it was a wrestler (civilian activated into the military for "all embark dwarves dogpile the threat and cross your fingers" defenses) against a zombie marmot. He got caught outside and went to sleep, and eventually got dogpiled himself by marmots... but the damn things couldn't hurt him. Not only that, but he couldn't kill them either, zombies being surprisingly resilient when it comes to strangling attempts. Net result: he spent the entire "all embark dwarves sleep at the same time" cycle wrasslin' dead rodents until one of his buddies ran out with an axe and killed them all in like two seconds. By that time he was past Great in wrestling, so I made him a full-time military dwarf, running around on patrol killing zombies constantly. He passed Legendary wrestling and had started working on axedwarf when he got caught in a gobbo ambush and killed in something like two hits (no armor).
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2009, 07:00:58 am »
Yea, not much can survive a gobbo ambush dogpile.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2009, 11:11:38 pm »
a great alternative to the embark wrastlin dogpile. when "preparing for the journey carefully" give each dwarf 1 rank in swords dwarf and upon arriving making 7 obsidian swords. alot more effective than trying to strangle a zombie that does not breathe.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2009, 10:49:15 am »
Quote from: Stargrave on September 06, 2009, 11:11:38 pm
a great alternative to the embark wrastlin dogpile. when "preparing for the journey carefully" give each dwarf 1 rank in swords dwarf and upon arriving making 7 obsidian swords. alot more effective than trying to strangle a zombie that does not breathe.

A zombie hoary marmot isn't exactly dangerous, an unskilled swordsdwarf could easily kill it. Especially with a weapon as freakin overpowered as an obsidian short sword.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2009, 11:00:35 am »
Quote from: Grendus on September 07, 2009, 10:49:15 am
Quote from: Stargrave on September 06, 2009, 11:11:38 pm
a great alternative to the embark wrastlin dogpile. when "preparing for the journey carefully" give each dwarf 1 rank in swords dwarf and upon arriving making 7 obsidian swords. alot more effective than trying to strangle a zombie that does not breathe.

A zombie hoary marmot isn't exactly dangerous, an unskilled swordsdwarf could easily kill it. Especially with a weapon as freakin overpowered as an obsidian short sword.

Monomolecular blade, biotch!
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2009, 12:31:39 pm »
I just got attacked by a dragon

I just remembered, megabeasts are still size 50,000. That explains a lot.

I think that the size bonus in combat is capped, because my 3 champions killed it easily but it still weighs 25,000,000 pounds.
« Last Edit: September 07, 2009, 12:49:08 pm by AtomicPaperclip »
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2009, 01:22:37 pm »
At that size, it shouldn't be taking any damage at all, and should oneshot your dwarves no matter what.

You might have overdone it and its damage/block went into the negatives.

That or your data/objects needs to be cleared.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2009, 07:41:54 pm »
not to mention it was 20 miles tall.... probably died of asphyxiation.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2009, 10:59:50 pm »
Or his organs collapsed.
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Re: He put up a legendary fight
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2009, 12:54:08 am »
Quote from: Grendus on September 07, 2009, 10:49:15 am
Quote from: Stargrave on September 06, 2009, 11:11:38 pm
a great alternative to the embark wrastlin dogpile. when "preparing for the journey carefully" give each dwarf 1 rank in swords dwarf and upon arriving making 7 obsidian swords. alot more effective than trying to strangle a zombie that does not breathe.

A zombie hoary marmot isn't exactly dangerous, an unskilled swordsdwarf could easily kill it. Especially with a weapon as freakin overpowered as an obsidian short sword.

well im talking more about zombie trolls and the like.
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