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[Sadrice]

I'm attempting to form a weremammoth corps of my military after I successfully isolated a survivor of the latest attack, but I've had trouble getting candidates to survive the experience.  First try was 4 peasants, no armor.  Due to some mismanagement, they had axes, but were unable to harm the precious weremammoth, or even mount a credible defense before being gored and having their heads bitten off.

I read up a bit on the wiki, and second attempt was a bit better.  Only 2 this time, due to being in a hurry before the full moon and they didn't want to pickup equipment fast enough, but no additional success.  I gave them iron helms and breastplates, and now weapons this time, and put them in a room with the mammoth lined with cage traps, so that hopefully they would get bitten, pass out, and be saved by the cage to hopefully survive til the next moon.  No luck.  Opening attack, the mammoth bit through the breastplate, tearing open lungs and causing heavy bleeding.  Then it did a bit of wrestling and mangled shoulders and hips, and then bit his head off, and then bit the other one's head off too.  Neither helms nor breastplates registered as being penetrated by the head biting, though they were easily penetrated by torso bites.

How do I get dwarves to survive an attack by a weremammoth?  The initial survivor was attacked right before the mammoth turned back, and I could try that, but it might be annoying.  Would steel or adamantine armor help?  I'm not sure it would, since it doesn't seem to prevent direct removal of heads.  Would chain mail maybe protect the neck?  Given an iron breastplate can't resist a bite, I'm not sure it would help much.

[Skullsploder]

Steel chain and plate. Cover every part of their body in full chain and plate, so:

helm
mail shirt
breastplate
greaves
high boots

Leave off the gauntlets, so that the bites which break skin can be on relatively non-vital parts.

You will have on obscenely high fatality:infection ratio, but since you're turning your dwarves into monsters anyway...

This thread is of interest to me though, since I want to do a similar thing with my isolated werekangaroo to recycle amputee military veterans.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Throw dwarves at it until one survives
As stalin said, 'quantity has a quality all of its own.'

[TheFlame52]

Throw dwarves at it until one survives
As stalin said, 'quantity has a quality all of its own.'

That's what I did against a weremammoth in another fort. I got five weremammoths the next full moon. The rest is history.

[Skullsploder]

Yes, dog piling it with armoured wrestler peasants may be the way to go. Even if they kill it, you should get some wrestler peasant weremammoths.

[Treah]

Can werebeast infection be spread by blood, like it is with vampirism? If you you could bleed one into the local water supply then turn off the booze  .

[Huntthetroll]

The wiki has some suggestions that may aid you:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Werebeast#Infecting_your_entire_fort

[Bumber]

You could retire your fort and infect everyone yourself as an adventurer.

[Skullsploder]

Can werebeasts become pregnant? Do their children inherit the curse?

[Bumber]

Can werebeasts become pregnant? Do their children inherit the curse?

If I recall correctly: Yes. No.

Tragedy ensues.

[Skullsploder]

Can werebeasts become pregnant? Do their children inherit the curse?

If I recall correctly: Yes. No.

Tragedy ensues.

Ah. two years until independence, one month until face-ripping.

It is inevitable.

[Bumber]

Ah. two years until independence, one month until face-ripping.

It is inevitable.

You could probably put the child into protective custody, though. A lightweight minecart should separate them from the mother, then the rest of the fort should probably feed the child.

[Skullsploder]

Not particularly useful for an all-werebeast fort though.