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[dwarfhoplite]

1. Is the effectiveness of war animals relative to the size of the animal?

Please rate these animals by how good they are. 1. being the best
list: Polar bear, grizzly bear, lion, tiger, elephant, gorilla

2. What's your favourite war animal?

[shlorf]

1. Yes, the attacks the animal has available also play into this, tho.
elephants, bears, wildcats, (gorillas i never tried).
2. The giant desert scorpion (mind it's not trainable without modding). Fast working poison sting and pincers that can snatch off limbs.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Werewolves are also good, and make great nobility, but tigermen are better (faster learners and available without modding--if you get elves to settle in a jungle by chance or design)

[Girlinhat]

I've heard interesting things about tigermen, particularly that they function almost as a part of society, able to learn skills and build relationships, and can ever be elected to mayor!  They also eat and drink, but don't drink booze or from wells.

Elephants are always good.  Sheer size matters a lot, bears aren't bad either because they can bite through chain mail.  They make short work of leather-clad goblins.  Gorillas, I dunno, except that I sent a few wrestlers to deal with some bonobos at my shrubland embark, and a few wrestlers can take down one of these without injury.  So, I'm guessing "not very dangerous".

As with all factors, it depends on the real-world physics.  All materials have a toughness and strength, and all animals have a size.  A larger animal can throw a lot more weight behind its attack and do a lot more damage.  A dog will attack with mediocre power, but a bear will perform the same attack with a lot more size.  A groundhog might try and tackle a dwarf, but an elephant will perform the same action and break bones.  Size matters a whole lot with animals in combat.

[TheyTarget]

I've had one gorilla before. As far as I could tell it was pretty good. It was chained up out front and fought a titan alone, eventually dying but severely wounding the titan (winged quadruped made out of salt?). Afterwards a tiger finished it off in just a few hits gaining a name. My dwarfs never even had to see it. So thats all I know about gorillas.

[Girlinhat]

Anything that can take on a non-gas megabeast can't be that bad...

[abadidea]

My favorites are of course war elephants.

They breed like crazy, but a calf reaching maturity takes fer-EV-er  Fortunately, they tend not to die much.

[MythagoWoods]

My favorite war animal are my War Cows/Bulls... for the sole fact I modded them to be trainable so I COULD call them battle cattle.

[Shootandrun]

My favourites are the grizzly bears. More common than the elephants, easier to breed. Of course they are not as strong, but hey, nothing is perfect.