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[Corai]

Was it that time a lone infant downed a elephant? Or that time a lone hunter went Martial and downed a entire squad of goblins? Tell your greatest wins here, lets see if we cant make them seem better then they are.


And for bragging rights.

[Spinal_Taper]

Axedwarf. Kills minotaur. no injuries. Goes after goblins. Martial Trance. None survive.

[KodKod]

Perhaps not the rarest of events in dwarf fortress... but capturing a precious moment in time on camera completely by accident is worthwhile to me.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Don't look down, guys, that's how gravity gets you.

[ThatAussieGuy]

The biggest win for me was watching a lone militia dwarf go out time and time again in just bone armor, wielding a spear, sword, axe AND shield, and utterly destroy entire seiges of goblins and trolls.  Not even a team of 20-odd marksdwarves managed to slow her down.

[Cydonian Monk]

*grumbles, clears his throat and dusts off his foggy memory*

War stories is it?  Hmmm....   Well there was this one... this old dwarf....  Oh, what was 'is name?  Cog something.  Metalbolt?  Cog Metalbolt?  Sounds right.  So Tombriders 'ere, Tombriders was under siege.  Back in the dark days of the 40d.  Goblins.  Lots of em.  So Cog and 'is squad rushed out to meet them, like the dwarfs they were.  But some dolt trapped the militia _inside_ the mountain.  Everybody except ole Cog.

It wasn't really a fair fight, and Cog he slew the lot of 'em.  Six squads at least.  Mebee seven.  Chased 'em half round the mountain.  Last was this squad of crossbows.  Chickens, really.  One look at Cog and they went runnin' fast for the border.  Cog runs 'em down one by one.  Hack here, hack there.  Leg here, head there.  So 'e gets to the last, knocks the green bastard off 'is feet.... and takes a bolt to 'is heart.  Point blank.  (Fitting, really.  Metalbolt.)

But ole Cog was one tough dwarf.  Shook it off, stepped back a second.  Then 'e took that gobbo's head off with one last hack.

As the rest o' the squad crawled out of their hidin holes, all they saw was death.  Great green death.  A swamp of green blood.  And here was Cog, staggering slowly off to the border.  Pausing e'ry few steps to regain his wits.  But that bolt was truer than true.  'is heart beat its last just as the squad reached 'im. And so ended the days of Cog Metalbolt.

Win?  Win, you say?  Ha!  He who dies with the most scars wins!  Ha ha!

*mutters something about these damned kids as he returns to his ale*

[JackOSpades]

I'd say mine was...
when a group of Civilians got locked outside the fortress when a Titan made from rock showed up and Instead of being Slaughtered
they all opened fire with crossbows and downed the beast without taking a single casualty.
(I'd enabled hunting on everyone and had a good supply of crossbows and bolts.)

[Loud Whispers]

That awesome fuzzy feeling when you mobilize the entire fortress to fight off a siege in order to save one Dwarf trapped in a cage:3

[Talvieno]

I think my biggest "win" feeling was the first time I took down a dragon in fortress mode... Which I'd previously (somehow) thought to be impossible. (I hadn't read the wiki or seen the forums - I was only a couple months in.) The dragon showed up amidst an elven siege, roasted absolutely everything in sight, slaughtered my entire army, except for the captain of the guard, who managed to fatally wound it just before burning to death. But the dragon was dead... I'd won! I could rebuild my army! If a dragon couldn't stop me, what was there to fear?? What was there to lose?!? I was invincible, and the world was mine!!!

I lost two months later due to a tantrum spiral from the military dying. You know, dwarves throwing kittens against doors, little bones flying in all directions, dwarves breaking workshops, contents spilling everywhere, all of that. I haven't seen such a hardcore spiral since.

[AfroScotsDwarf]

surviving my first seige, that, and having a lone farmerdwarf and child fend off a flying forest titan. they pulled both of its wings off before they died and a spear dwarf came and finished the beast off

[Findulidas]

I oneshotted a roc (or was it a titan cant remember) once when it was luckily shot by a marksdwarf and fell to death. Probably because it lost consciousness or something. Ridiculus flying behavior.

[slink]

My most unique happy time was the 40d fortress where I finally had two marksdwarves become elite from properly guarding my fortress's naturally formed courtyard against goblins and orcs (modded in).  My happy horde of semi-naked Dwarves spent their idle times in outdoor roofed-in statue gardens flanking the courtyard.  Their only clothing was silk socks and leather shoes, although admittedly they usually wore both socks on one foot.  The forges were fully a part of the rest of the fortress, because the fortress was next to a volcano.  Unlike our present volcanos, volcanos in 40d had irregularities in their tubes, allowing taps to be taken off at levels other than at the top.  There was a drainable water-filled moat fed by a stream which passed before the courtyard, and a roofed, enclosed fishing area over the stream accessible from underground.  The residences were arranged as a tower carved from the spire whose lower face curved around to form the courtyard.  It was a fortress that pleased me immensely overall, but the elite marksdwarves were the most unique feature of it for me.  I seldom used a military defense in 40d, and never do so now that archers have gone through so many uncertain changes.

[Mitchewawa]

Chief medical dwarf (no skills) gets ambushed by goblins. Their king is there. He kills the king with his bare hands and the others run away.

[LuckyLuigi]

Accidentally flooding the and fortress trapping almost everyone in the living quarters.
Staging a rescue operation with the few remaining dwarves and eventually saving a single dwarf. Everyone else either drowned, starved or died of thirst.
That dwarf ended up captain of the guard and killing three forgotten beasts, saving the fortress each time while the whole army perished.

[Satarus]

Back in a 40d community fort, I had my squad pretty much all go take a break when a goblin siege showed up.  My lone axedwarf proceeded to kill the entire siege single handedly.  Her only injury out of the whole thing was a broken leg as I recall.

[Meph]

I had a 5 times legendary Captain of the Guard, fully clad in masterwork adam, including adam cloak and hood, and sent him alone, acompanied by his giant war-panda, into a curious underground structure. Walled him in, for the safety of the fortress. Fighting could be heard, and after a while the far away deathroar of the panda, then nothing... he was assumed dead.

Months later a knocking on the wall was heard, the wall raised down and a rather angry Captain of the Guard stood there, unscaved, having killed every single undead in the fortress.

He later went a bit angrier, because of the dead pet, the miasma and being attacked by the dead, and proceeded to "fistfight" 3 people to death with the adam battle axe. He was never arrested, because he is the Captian of the Guard after all.

He later lead 50 dwarves to the victory over the HFS, fair fight, no traps.