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[Stil]

The first time I captured a titan. It felt like the scene in King Kong when they trap him

[Pyro627]

The first time I defeated a siege; a single marksdwarf managed to make it inside. (I train them by making them hunters)

He went up on the walls and peppered the goblins with bolts until he killed a few, then they retreated.

Interestingly, during the siege, a single goblin childsnatcher made off with a kid. I'm convinced that the entire invasion was a carefully orchestrated plan to abduct that single child. I imagine that he was secretly an incarnate deity or something, so I can only thank the goblins for taking care of him for me. I sure as hell ain't dealing with that.

[Loud Whispers]

The first time I captured a titan. It felt like the scene in King Kong when they trap him

You used evil chloroform rain and pig tail fiber rope harpoons fired from ballistae to trap and tie the Titan down?
Socks.

[Callista]

The first time my military killed a goblin siege without losing a single dorf.

[peskyninja]

Forging my first candy weapon gave me a good feeling too.

[ledgekindred]

This was a few versions ago, maybe even 40d.  There was a moderately-sized siege and sent out my squad of 10 marksfodderdwarves to go thin them out a little.  Every last one of those little buggers was some kind of magic Rambo-meets-Hawkeye mutant superdwarf.  They started firing a good 30-40 tiles away, getting 6-7 headshots out of the first 10 shots.  The goblins weren't scared enough yet and kept coming and for just about every bolt fired, a goblin went down.  Finally the remaining goblins got close enough, extremely thinned out, so the marksdwarves beat their skulls in with fists and crossbows until the last handful fled for the hills.  Then the whole squad of marksdwarves came back inside and had started drinking before the lazy good-for-nothing melee squads had made the gates.  Meanwhile I was watching the action on the screen with my jaw hanging open and then started laughing like an idiot.  Then I told the rest of those slackers to go collect all that valuable goblinite.

[Ross Vernal]

Building a complicated series of pump stacks to dry up a river, pump it through a drowning trap/indoor waterfall/dorf shower, then pumping it back up to get the river flowing again.

Also, "Urist McAxedorf is sparring!"

[King DZA]

Designating massive, elaborate sections of my fortress without having a single mistake.

[Casp]

A single hunter kills four goblins in as many shots as soon as the siege shows up. Routs all the rest.

[Friendstrange]

Whenever my crippled, almost bare-chested militia captain with only one hand singlehandedly obliterates several goblins and survives unscathed.
He does this with his feet, a bit of his remaining hand and bone-crushing TEETH.

God I love that guy.

[MonsteR]

Probably the first time I made a waterfall. Had to pump it from the river through a tube halfway across the map and down into my dining room. Took me forever to build. Now that stones slow dwarves down I don't even want to think about replicating said project.

[StLeibowitz]

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I imagine that he was secretly an incarnate deity or something, so I can only thank the goblins for taking care of him for me. I sure as hell ain't dealing with that.

So the dwarven equivalent of Jesus Christ was stolen from under your nose, and you're thankful?

On second thought, the whole "peace-on-earth" thing might get a bit annoying...poor guy wouldn't survive a week in a dwarven city.

I felt pretty awesome when my hydroelectric power scheme (originally intended to provide jobs for immigrants), which also incidently was too far from anything to actually provide power, not only failed spectacularly and resulted in the collapse and subsequent drowning of the slaves pump operators, but also backed up the stream to the point that it overspilled its banks, flooded the dye farms, and drowned a roving band of birdmen (I forget which type). It was the most Fun moment I've had in this game.

How is this small, you ask? Well, the whole calamity was initiated when Urist McWimpyArms fainted from overwork at the pump. I didn't know that could happen before, and it made me feel awesome that I had a minion so devoted to me that he would forgoe such activities as "sleep" and "heavy drinking", just to repeatedly turn a pump handle all day with no progress evident. 

[StLeibowitz]

double post, sorry.

[WaffleEggnog]

Just being able to understand and play this game. Yeah, I've been playing this game for a yeah, but it feels nice to be the only one I know that can play this game with skill. Everyone else is like "I have no imagination because i need mega graphics to play games, or patience because I don't understand how to play this game in 5 minutes, ima go play (insert AAA title here)."

[ClkWrkJester]

When my first really successful fort managed to sally forth and kill 3 FBs in a row without taking a single injury.

Up until this point I'd never even survived a siege