Hello all, I just thought I would share a funny story of what happened to me lastnight whilst messing around playing DF.
It all started when I was finishing off my 3rd level of my underground tree farm and pastures. I had recently just broken 1,000,000 wealth and just had a goblin seige in which my masterful dwarven engineers squished flat...literally. I had thought the seige had finished so opened my drawbridge to let the guys and gals out and it seemed to of squished a load of the invading goblins, totally unintentionally for once. The only survivors that actually got into the fort where 4 trolls which didn't last long, one of them was actually killed by a kitten somehow managing to crush it's skull. No idea how, but that made me smile..even more so when it got picked up by the butcher...then I just lost it. Much fun.
However a month or two later, I had my first titan show up. After reading about how lucky and unlucky you can be with them I was a little worried as I had no military, just something I never got around to. However I did have 6 hunters out gathering meats from the animals that strayed too close. When I saw what this Titan was made of, I simply laughed....steam...ooohhh....how can it be taken seriously?
So I grouped my hunters into a ramshackle squad and sent them to head the titan off before it could do any hard. Now as it was a four legged beasty, I expected it to take a while to get a killing blow but within 20 seconds of the dwarves rocking up, all 4 legs where gone, both arms, teeth (steam teeth? Sure why not!) and finally the head. The funny thing is the final blow was by a dwarf that ran out of bolts, ran in and knocked it's head off with their crossbow like a star cricket player hitting a 6, the head went over 5 tiles before landing.
So from expecting to loose the fort, to having a dead titan..makes me smile! Now to work on that military....