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[Hungry Elephant]

First one:

Announcment pop: A giant is coming to the fortress! The nickname of the Giant (Giantess to be precise) is something like "the grace of robustness". Weird.
Well I expect a tough cookie, so I muster the army (around 10 very unlucky dorfes) and station them near the drawbridge, after the trapped corridor (not so much trapped, around 5 traps).
I lower the drawbridge to lure the monster in, soft her with traps then hack her with the soldiers.
Giantess come in, stone trap trigger and hit her in the head. The skull crack and the giantess die. To much for robustness...
The now lucky soliders are relieved with little satisfaction...

Second one:

Goblin siege. I recract the bridge as usual and station some marksdorft to soft the gobbos up a bit. They shoot poorly and do little. I decide to retreat the squad, lure the gobbos on the traps to soft them and then attack them. As soon as the bridge is extended the marksdorf militia captain rush out to clobber the gobbos with his crossbow. Of course he die horribly. So I rush out my soldiers that fight with the gobbos with some casualties. Then my bloody militia captain in full plate mail go back to the station post and manage somehow to trigger the stonefall trap. The stone crack his skull and he's good as dead. He was a legendary fighter. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Bottom line: stonefalls traps... bloody deadly!

[Girlinhat]

Strange, I've heard that they're underpowered.  Perhaps it depends on the type of stone?  I would assume a platinum nugget falling would do more damage than raw adamantine...

[Hungry Elephant]

Strange, I've heard that they're underpowered.  Perhaps it depends on the type of stone?  I would assume a platinum nugget falling would do more damage than raw adamantine...

I don't know. It was a simple microline stone. That killed a semi megabeast!

[Girlinhat]

Fancy!  I might need to use some of those, especially with their low production cost.  A single stone and a single mechanism.  It'll be more fun with multi-tile traps are built.

[thegoatgod_pan]

If he triggered a stone fall trap, he must have fallen unconscious.  Attacks against passed-out opponents strike for the skull.  I think they are pretty undeadly normally.

[Jake]

Stone-fall traps weren't all that lethal in 40d either, at least versus armour. They are however quite good for forcing your opponent to dodge onto a pressure plate, or off a narrow bridge.