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[TakiJap]

I had this fortress which had two bronze colosses at the same time. Other one arrived while the first one was still throwing around remnants of my army. Yeah, it was my first colossus I ever saw and seriosly undrmined it's strenght. Anyways, after my angry mob took it down I didn't bother cleaning up it's trail and abandoned.

This was long time ago and now I felt like reclaiming that fort. Unfortunately the other colossus had taken my fortress as it's playground and was toppling down statues inside. I figured I could take it with raw force and rushed my every single dwarf to take it down. At last I met the colossus and it was quickly surrounded and whacked all around.

Then the mysterious thing happened, I looked it's wounds and noticed that it had no eyes. I don't remember if colosses had any eyes at all, but this one had two dark grey (missing) eyes. As far as I remember nobody even touched that coloss while the fort still going. I guess it had bad luck, but the lack of eyes didn't seem to bother it.   :p  

So I continued observing the battle as much as I could from all the miasma and was worried because my dwarfs were only causing lots of light grey wounds. I contiunued to spectate the battle, but next time I looked at it's wounds, I noticed that almost all of them had disappeared. Only white body parts and still no eyes.

For a while I was sure that there had been no wounds in the first place and my eyes had fooled me. Unfortunately no, this kept happening on and on. Finally I realized, that damn thing was regenerating.   :eek: How can one kill something that doesen't fall into traps, doesen't get critical hits and regenates all wounds.

What can good commander do in a situation like this? Save the game and write a bug report. Mind that I was playing with version  0.23.125.23a, but I guess it doesen't make much difference.

[ May 15, 2007: Message edited by: TakiJap ]

[Pacho]

What you need are highly trained soldiers with good stats.  Those things are strong, but if you have someone with high strength, endurance, and agility plus good fighting skill those things will lose limbs left and right.

In fact, I'm not sure you even need a soldier at all, just a legendary miner with a pickaxe should do it =P

That's what I sent the last one I met.

[Heliopios]

Collosus + Nopain = No need for eyes.

[Cuddlefish]

Yeah, it seems Colossus eyes are vulnerable - I had a war dog rip one out. If you mob the colossus with crit. boosting weapons like spears and picks (with lots of war dogs and recruits for cannon fodder) you can take it down.

Not sure how to handle that in reclaim. Can you go there in adventure mode and fight it?

[Toady One]

I think everything heals in the same way right now, maybe even the undead.  It's just not a flag I've handled yet.

[Captain Mayday]

quote:Originally posted by Cuddlefish:
<STRONG>Yeah, it seems Colossus eyes are vulnerable - I had a war dog rip one out. If you mob the colossus with crit. boosting weapons like spears and picks (with lots of war dogs and recruits for cannon fodder) you can take it down.</STRONG>

Tearing their eyes out will reduce their ability to hit you, but they won't be hurt by it.

[Keiseth]

Yeah, I'd go the adventurer route. It should work: Give him high skill in Spearman and Armor User. Maybe shield, too? Bring along as many people as you can to buy time. If you want to be cheap, Thrower and thrown spears appear to be absolutely deadly.

Then retire the adventurer in the town and make him famous! =)