Tried reclaiming Ringscars from the undead water buffalo menace. Spent all I could on equipping soldiers in full copper gear with bucklers and maces. Managed to bring 4 decently equipped soldiers with novice skill level in the relevant categories. I figured four fighters with shields tackling a zombie buffalo could bring it down by strength of numbers. They all had good stats for soldiers, good strength, agility, willpower, etc. I couldn't afford any skill levels higher than novice, but surely the shields and the 4 of them could take on 1 undead buffalo.
Upon arriving, the four soldiers gear up while the 3 peasants go about gathering some plants for food and hauling some of the scattered goods into stockpiles. There's no sign of the undead, and I figure that the undead all left after the fortress was abandoned. Then one of the peasants finds a skeletal dog (apparently hiding under the trade depot) and gets himself chewed up pretty badly before the soldiers arrive to bash the dog to pieces. The peasant's injuries left him disabled and not of any use. Will probably die of infection. Or zombies. Whichever happens first.
Then another peasant finds an undead hen corpse and the dreaded undead water buffalo corpse "Hailedclears the Embraced Alchemy". The undead corpses leap from ambush, despite somehow hiding in plain site on the barren side of the sinister mountain. The peasant decides to fight a huge undead cow like an idiot and gets himself strangled by the beastly bovine bastard's hooves. Despite being crippled and left crawling on the ground, the buffalo seems none the worse for wear. He's covered in scars from the earlier fights (this just in, zombies apparently can scab and develop scars) and his legs are crippled but still useable for wrasslin and strangling useless peasants.
3 of the 4 soldiers charge the monster. The fight starts well. The troops block any attacks and avoid getting gored, although the undead hunk of beef manages to get in wrestling attempts. Then Hailedclears gets a lucky hit on one of the soldiers and turns his leg into chunky meat salsa. The unlucky soldier gives into pain and gets his head exploded into meat by Hailedclears.
One by one, the soldiers are turned into giblets by the animated hamburger slab until only one soldier -the straggler who was late to joining the fight- and one useless peasant remains. Welp, this reclaim is bound for failure.
Think I'll go and generate a new world with more evil areas and hopefully less animated water buffalo corpses. This is making for fun, if brief and futile, embarks.
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Topic: What's going on in your fort? (Read 6113153 times)