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[HMS Kaiser]

Title makes it pretty self explanatory. I've tried two different embarks at the same site with some evil to create undead (since its only fun with zombies). Started out pretty well, everyone had been able to get underground with exception of my lone woodcutter, who, while doing her duties, took time to punch undead raven corpses in the face and then go about her merry way. A couple of other dwarves, while attempting to flee underground, also had the exp of punching birds in the face, and by the time the vile fiend arrived, i had about 20 punched up raven kills shared between 4 or 5 dwarves. I was ready. Or so i thought.

It wasn't until a couple minutes later i realized she hadn't come in for a while (Set her to woodcutter and just her hauling so as to keep the rest safe). I sent out a lone dwarf and what did i find? Her mutilated corpse, the perp none other than a lone undead sturgeon. I foolishy sent my remaning embark party equipped with nothing more than their fists, an axe or two, and sheer dwarfpower. But Slippeddents "The Burdens of Listening" killed each and everyone of them by smashing their heads in with his tail or propelling them so hard with the blunt force trauma of his scaly body that they broke bones... and then got their heads smashed in.

The second embark, I had 3 dwarves armed (the other 4 cowering below) with shields and hammers but they fared no better, and they were immediately struck down by this monstrosity of a fish. Maybe i should've brought helmets...

My 3rd reclaim embark I'm just going to run underground and hide, praying to ARMOK none of the now 14 dwarf corpses rise from their shallow graves, led by this undead fiend. I think my best bets are traps vs such a being.

Thoughts?

[cochramd]

Thoughts?

Try a different site?

[HMS Kaiser]

Try a different site?

AND LET THE FISH WIN?!?!?!?

[PatrikLundell]

Well, since you've already got a site dug out, I'd bring the party in and  cage trap the entrance. It you're sitting there (or, better, working) for an eternity the monster might eventually come close enough to manage to path into the fortress (and be replaced by an undead carp).

Another, more action oriented approach, is to spend all your embark points on armor and weapon training and keep embarking until you gradually turn it into pulp (or get a lucky hit).  The final survivor(s) should then start building coffins/slabs en masse (Coffins if the embark is not reanimating, slabs if it is, though in a reanimating biome you're compounding the problem with all those dwarven bodies you keep producing).

[HMS Kaiser]

So i tried that with the Hammermen trained up with copper helms,shields and warhammers....still no luck, might have to resort to trickery with traps. He's killed 3 straight caravans now... Lucky i haven't seen any dwarf zombies so its possible they aren't reanimating? It would save some hassle

EDIT: The sturgeon now has a friend, one of the pack animals reanimated (Hauntsthrow the two-humped camel skeleton) and kicked two of the dwarves to death and then got put down herself by a dwarf before he got the tail from the sturgeon, so im guessing there are about 21 undead dwarves SOMEWHERE in the fort...f*** me...

[HMS Kaiser]

Im going try ONE MORE TIME. and go straight underground and lock the doors and trap the everlasting s*** out of this mutherf*****... Lets hope...\

Edit: A Yak skeleton from below came and killed everyone hiding behind the traps. Imma chalk to one up as a win for zombies... Time for a new fort ... there is a silver lining though, since the sturgeon has killed so many (although it was a yak to blame this time) and with the new 42.06 symbol ability, i can now set future expeditions to pay homage to that creature in statues... At least ill make money off it....