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[Crowbar Offensive]

So there I was, minding my own business, when I got the message "The swamp titan ustru okomukong has come!". It's basically a feathered python that breathes fire. I successfully got all my dwarves inside my fortress and raised the drawbridge, and the titan has kept himself busy chasing the animals around and turning the world outside my walls to ash. I've got about 100 dwarves and no military set up yet. I have lots of iron, but unfortunately no flux, so I am limited to 9 bars of steel. Any ideas on how I should deal with this?

[Niccolo]

If he's fire breathing, you're in a spot of trouble with limited metal. If your heart is set on close-range combat, your dwarves need fire-safe shields and armour as a must!

Better to just turn it into Swiss cheese from some fortifications one level up. The flames will go through ground level fortifications, if I remember correctly.

[Garath]

iirc, shields arn't damaged by the fire they block, so leather shields or wooden are fine. Furthermore, unless the titan is made of iron itself, iron is going to be enough to kill it. I know steel is more dwarfy, but iron will be fine for most situations

[Niccolo]

iirc, shields arn't damaged by the fire they block, so leather shields or wooden are fine. Furthermore, unless the titan is made of iron itself, iron is going to be enough to kill it. I know steel is more dwarfy, but iron will be fine for most situations

I could have sworn I remember reading about people having shields catch fire and the dwarves continuing to use them...

[Garath]

well, first off then I admit that I don't know if they won't catch fire, however, I do know that they arn't directly damaged by it. Shields can be used to protect a soldier agains dragonfire, which is hot enough to destroy practically everything including things that survive magma. If it can do that, regular fire breath should be fine.