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[NRDL]

Extreme carefulness when it came to selecting my strikes.  Anything lower than an EASY target rating was a no no. 

[hops]

Run.

Run like hell.

Also while sneaking if possible.

[Gaybarowner]

I ran then lost my two feet kids these days with their feet

[Foamybeard]

I was playing a Dwarven Axeman, with steel armor and a steel axe. I had just killed my second titian, but in the process, all my companions were killed by the thing. I think it was a Giant Wasp made of Diamond. Nasty creature, had to use my Steel Pickaxe to kill it. Anyway, all my guys died, and on my way back to the town I got my quest from, I was ambushed by five of them, I think. Two bled to death, the other three were cut it half. Didn't get a single scratch on me, thankfully.

[MrWillsauce]

I just build 8 fires in all the spaces around me and wait until dawn. I try to make sure that the spot I'm standing in has small rocks, so that I can try to dispatch them sooner.

[NRDL]

But how do you get out of the firecamp trap?

[hops]

What most people don't know is that you can lure things onto brushes and light them up, effectively immobilizing them and almost always killing them.

But of course against hordes of bogeymen the fire can get out of hand pretty fast.

[EnigmaticHat]

And fell over 40 z levels, narrowly missing spike of stone, and other natural bridges.

BAM, I nailed a 4x3 of 7/7 water at the bottom. I crawl out, and looks up. It was raining bogeymen, they were smashing into the merciless stones around me, some even hitting the natural spikes above me, Bodies shattering.. Not one made it into the tiny pond that had saved me. I had lost my way, But I escaped the mountains 3 days later, finding new followers, on a new adventure.

Is that possible in this version? The last time I remember jumping into water from a significant height wound up fracturing bones and killing me, though that was over a year ago.

Nope.  Unless something has changed recently with the physics stuff, falling through water maintains your current speed.  40z of air + 3z of water = 40z fall, instantly lethal.

In fact, I'm pretty sure Burnup made this up.  Boogiemen don't appear in mountains, enemies don't throw themselves off cliffs, and some boogiemen can fly.  I'm also pretty sure giant chasms with rocky bridges aren't generated; the current terrain tends to avoid sharp drops and keep everything passable slopes.  Its possible this happened in an earlier version, but I doubt it.  I think I'd have heard if there was a version where enemies routinely committed suicide.

[birdy51]

Actually, for those who still have issues fighting them, I always set my combat preferences to Charge against them. I "think" that most of time you'll be knocking them over with a well-trained strike, which can help keep them off your back.

It was actually kind of funny with my Vampire/Necromancer hero after a while. I got to a point where I was so powerful that one hammer blow would be enough to take a boogeyman off their feet and carry them through the air. Because I always preferenced the head for kicks and giggles, they always died when then they hit the ground of a crushed skull.

[Rumrusher]

Their the size of koblods or even smaller. so you could go bowling or play DF golf with them.

[Loud Whispers]

I think I'd have heard if there was a version where enemies routinely committed suicide.

Rivers and cliffs. You get great fights when attacked near a waterfall. Both sides trying to fight the water and each other.


More on topic, I ran.

At first I thought I could take them on, you know it was oh so easy to knock them over. Why not keep fighting? My strikes missed, and they only bruised me. But these small wounds accumulated till I had to run. I had no idea where everything was in the dark. Badgers kept appearing out of thin air to attack me or the bogeymen.
I finally reached the village - but in the dark I couldn't see a single house. After reaching so far they broke my right foot and killed me right there in the village.

[random_odd_guy]

Lets see.. My endurance sword human stood there killing them until the morning.

Another cool one was my lasher: losing all My followers when I was traveling over mountains, I was following the mountaintop killing the few who got in my way, avoiding the rest. Got to a chasm with a natural strech of stone across it, I had no choice but to go for it. Half way across I ran into a dead end. The other half of the natural bridge was 2 tiles away from me through open air.. I looks back, and observe the horde flooding towards me. I faught heroically until dodging off into thin air! And fell over 40 z levels, narrowly missing spike of stone, and other natural bridges.

BAM, I nailed a 4x3 of 7/7 water at the bottom. I crawl out, and looks up. It was raining bogeymen, they were smashing into the merciless stones around me, some even hitting the natural spikes above me, Bodies shattering.. Not one made it into the tiny pond that had saved me. I had lost my way, But I escaped the mountains 3 days later, finding new followers, on a new adventure.

And thus occurs the great migration of the "bogey-lemmings" quite a gory sight, and dangerous to those below.

Followed by a singing of "It's raining (bogey) men! Halleluja!"