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[Hungry Elephant]

So there's this big announcement on top of my screen.

the Dragon (insert long name here) is coming.
It's a magical beast that spit fire blah blah blah.

Pause the game.
Check the military
4 guys but 4 hardened guys (hammerlord,swordmaster, spearmaster, hammerdorf).

Well we'll wait for the beast to come to us, at least there are some traps, maybe we'll get lucky and cage him or make some damage before the conflict.
But caging the dragon will be great, will tame and train him and then use it versus our enemies.

Nice.

The Dragon approach and smash the doors apart.

Step on few traps, the spinning =spiked silver balls= just chip his scales. Great is going to make it to the cage traps.

The spinning andersite hit the dragon on the head, bruising the skin and jamming the skull into his brain.
The dragon has been struck down.

...
...
...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[lanceleoghauni]

CRITICAL HIT!

[Hungry Elephant]

CRITICAL HIT!

It's really amazing how fall stone traps are useless aganist everything except the big bad things that make you say: "hell he will fuck up my fortress".

I saw spinning stones killing giants, minotaurs and now also dragons.
While goblins are almost unaffected by them.

[wypie]

CRITICAL HIT!

It's really amazing how fall stone traps are useless aganist everything except the big bad things that make you say: "hell he will fuck up my fortress".

I saw spinning stones killing giants, minotaurs and now also dragons.
While goblins are almost unaffected by them.

I know right

[MonkeyHead]

Most likley the dragon was super weak as they take 1000 years to reach maturity. If, as I assume, your worldgen was much shorter, then it was probably not up to much ocmbat wise and instead barely into its depressive teenage years.

[Gabeux]

Or maybe the little size of goblins and their speed, versus huge size of a dragon and lower speed makes stone-fall traps a good choice against big, slow things that still got a head and a brain that can be smashed by a huge rock.

Or it was just bad luck, just imagine if he spitted fire on your booze storage! Early underground new-year's eve!

[ledgekindred]

Even old dragons seem to be Weaky McWeaksauce.  I almost always let my worldgen run for at least 1000 years and I've had a couple dragons show up at the current fort and a few at older forts.  Is there a way to tell how old they are?  If they are created at world start, then they all would have been over 1000 years old.

One stepped into a cage trap right away.  I left it untamed but out by the front gates, waiting for the next siege.  When the siege showed up, I waited until there were a dozen or more goblins near the dragon and pulled the lever.  The dragon managed to take a couple hits before it flamed and crisped a good dozen or two goblins and their mounts and most of their equipment ... and himself.  Dragons aren't fireproof.

The next dragon to show up happened to walk over a random weapon trap and bled out in three steps.

On an older fort I had a tamed dragon waiting as a guard-dragon by the front gates.  A bowgoblin headshotted it without slowing down before it even saw them.

[Hungry Elephant]

Looks like that MG and Semi Mega Beast can be extremely hard or lame, depending on the situation. A lucky shot can and will take them out, especially if you have a lot of stuff to throw at them.

On the side note, Bronze Colossus, lacking vital organs and stuff, are extremely tough and painful to deal with.

[squeakyReaper]

Lack of armor does a lot of creatures in like this, sadly.

[lanceleoghauni]

Back in 40d I was freaking out because I got attacked by a dragon, spent the better part of the next two hours paused and designating a defensive structure in a nearby cliff.

Only to find out that unless they can physically path to the dwarves, they seem to ignore them, even with fire, and my marksdwarves took the better part of a season going back and forth between there and the ammo stockpile plinking it to death with wooden bolts.