heres that thread again... undead are utterly overpowered, this time the victim? one of my 2 rocs ='(
i was cleaning up after a huge siege where the goblins and 4 necromancers in ambush mode showed up with about 60 undead. Goblins had 4 squads and came a short time after the undead did. The goblins managed to kill most of the undead but had quite a few casualties and decided to make a run for it, so i raised the bridges around my map and walled everything in. The goblins scattered and ran about randomly trying to find a way out and the undead picked them off.
eventually i managed to trap the ambushing necromancers by opening a passage with cage traps in it, but by then they had a sizeable army of 20 undeads resurrected. Now its important to remember, raised undeads do not path to your fort normally like sieging ones do, so they are much harder to get rid of later than initially sieging ones if you do not engage them. I decided to wait them out a while since it was going to be winter and no caravan was coming for a while. The waiting paid off and within a month or so the undead all pathed to my trap tunnel at 1 time or another and there was only 1 left, at the far west side of the map.
now, since i only had 1 squad of 8 marksdwarves that werent danger-room trained in any way, nor did they ever spar or train against un-armed goblins. I decided to use one of my many war animals to take care of the single undead. Sealing all entrances to the outside, i pitted one of my 2 war rocs from a ledge of my fortress wall and made a meeting area near the single goblin corpse.
The roc starting pathing to the goblin corpse and i watched nervously, since i knew undead were so deadly but a mega beast should have no problem with 1 right? my roc was "gigantic" sized and not skinny and should have been larger than an normal sized adult dragon, so how the goblin corpse managed to even reach for the roc's head was a mystery...
the highlight how deadly the undead are, the goblins had 4 squads but also came with 2 squads of trolls. The trolls fought with roughly a equal number of undead but surprisingly all died without killing all that many. The only squad of goblins that fair reasonably well against a equal number of undead was the archer squad led by a mace lord.