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Author Topic: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?  (Read 2495 times)

NW_Kohaku

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Re: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2015, 11:19:28 am »
Quote from: Meneth on May 21, 2015, 01:45:34 am
I once caught a Bronze Colossus with bridges and used him to deal with invading goblins. They eventually chopped off all his limbs, but he kept fighting, by "push" attacks. Turns out Colossi can push pretty damn hard. :)

Keep in mind "push" is just the name Toady gave to any attack that uses full body mass rather than limbs.  It's more like an (American) football linebacker helmet-down ramming your dwarves... And in this case, the linebacker happens to be a 80-ton object ramming into them... So basically, think of it more like a dump truck plowing into your dwarves.
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Re: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2015, 01:14:20 pm »
Whenever my soldiers fight a bronze colossus, the axedwarf of them invariably kill the colossus with a "lower body mostly cut away from the rest of the torso". Once the legendary axedwarf managed it in the first round, before the colossus had a chance to attack. I use only steel weapons for edge (axes, swords, spears) and silver/copper for blunt (maces and warhammers). These last one are useless, swords basically only dent and fracture, while the axes do that, plus eventually kill it the way I described.

What I mean is that at least steel weapons can't be used to dismember the guy, reliably or not. I tried only legendary soldiers. One day I want to experiment with a ballista though...
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Re: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2015, 07:16:50 pm »
Archery training only: even without arms and legs he will nudge your dwarves into bloody messes with the giant amount of weight behind its "nudges"
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Re: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2015, 07:39:24 pm »
Nobody has suggested bait and cage traps?

Capture it, chain it behind fortifications, and have your marksdwarves shoot bone bolts at it. Perfect marksdwarf training system!
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Re: Any semi reliable way to dismember a bronze colossus?
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2015, 04:43:20 am »
Quote from: TheFlame52 on May 21, 2015, 07:39:24 pm
Nobody has suggested bait and cage traps?

Capture it, chain it behind fortifications, and have your marksdwarves shoot bone bolts at it. Perfect marksdwarf training system!


he already knows that.read the ops first post in the thread.

he is asking for the safest way to train close combat for dorfs in his melee militia.
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