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[Retro42]

Feel free to add to this!!

Here's a moment that made me fall in love with DF all over again...

I have my magma furnaces and forges set up in a large clearing guarded by a few soldiers.  Suddenly a lava-creature pops out in ambush and throws a single fireball before being killed.  It hits my Master Smith and tears out his throat, an eye, and severely damages the rest of his face.  He crawls away in terror leaving a trail of blood about 10 tiles long before dieing right before reaching the door to safety.

It was just an incredible moment!  I figured I could hold off the odd ambush no problem, but BOOM!! My smiths face/neck EXPLODES in a mass of flames!!  I'm still leery all these fortresses later about large-scale magma operations.

Retro

[Soulwynd]

I think one of the moments I enjoyed was when I first played DF and found out playing, there was a cave river and that it flooded. Later in that same game, I found out about ambushes. I think a snakeman or something like that ambushed my miner near the river. The miner whacked it so hard the thing flew over the river and smacked against the opposite wall, leaving a huge blood splash... It was one of those great first moments

[Sucker Punch]

Posted this in another thread, but...

I've never really gotten too far.   Never got past the third year, never had serious fighting, etc.

Then, the dwarven caravan showed up.   One of the axedwarves killed a unicorn on my bridge on the bridge over the river outside.   No big deal, so I ignored it.

Checking back later, blood littered the banks, and had flowed 2 or 3 screens downriver.   That kind of detail is just something I never expected to see in a game.   Just blew me away.

[Pnx]

Hmmm I think it was when I ate a corpse and I had blood on my face on the... Wait sorry nevermind.

Ok so what is REALLY the one moment that got me is when I had decided to just shut myself in for a while instead of fighting the sieges and I watched Elves, Humans, AND Goblins all attempt to siege me(3 times on the goblins part). It was glorious and I never fired a arrow.

"Spoils of war anybody huh, huh, spoils of war sir? Fresh of the battlefield. You know you love 'em spoils of war come and get 'em."  

[Squishy]

Onul Fathkin, Elephant slayer.

I was following this trapper around for the heck of it.  In the span of 30 or so seconds, he takes down two elephants, and then beats a third to death with his crossbow.

I custom named his job to 'Elephant Slayer', although he was later killed by an elephant.

[Sucker Punch]

lol, Squishy.   I'm half convinced Toady has secretly coded stuff like that into the game.   Just to spite us.

[Pnx]

And we will never know. *GASP* Conspiracy.

[Slartibartfast]

There is a reason DF isn't OS  

[Syreal]

A kobold elite bowman shot out my adventurer's throat and the game crashed . . . with assistance.

[FaultyLogic]

One cool moment was when a carpenter was ambushed at the chasm (I never take my time to build any reasonable defences). He fought bravely, killing or incapacitating at least 3-4 before one of them charged at him, sending him flying of the edge. It was a dwarven death, and the first time I saw the "falling down the chasm" graphics.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Not exactly priceless, but one moment got me both excited and frustrated, at roughly the same time. For the very first time, in my first somewhat successful fortress, I got the message "<dwarf> created a masterpiece!>. Naturally, I go to see what was it that he made, although it would be nothing but a regular item anyways...  and guess what, that guy was a mason stationed to permanently build rock blocks.. I couldn't even see WHICH pack of blocks was the masterpiece one since they don't have markings....  so much for the first masterpiece of my dwarves..

[j.brigante]

Despite the abundance of free beds at the barracks, one pauper dwarf decided to take a nap exactly in the middle of the internal drawbridge which gives access from the entry hall to the main corridor. I prompt the Sheriff to pull the lever and wake the fellow up the hard way; the drawbrigde goes up, he is knocked against a nearby wall, bounces back a few times and ends up stunned in the middle of the entry hall.

"That should teach him something", I thought, and then I asked someone to lower the drawbridge. But as soon as someone pulled the lever, our sleepy fellow went back to sleep in the very same spot he was before, with the difference that now he was below the drawbridge. Now that's a nap from which he'll never wake up...

[Slime]

Well, on sunday my fortress had grown to over 140 residents. It was going so well! Ok, so we were getting all these goblin sieges, but that's nothing a little trapping won't fix. But then, something came! A bronze collossus decided my fortress was his new home. When he arrived, he saw a squishy looking deer, and gave chase, right into the entrance of my fortress! My population was cut to a petty 60 very quickly. And then it got worse. Another siege! 80 goblins, including their leader who was an elite bowman, two more elite bowmen and a human swordmaster. Goblin and collossus clashed until at last the beast fell. The goblins slunk away. I had 31 dwarves remaining. Ten of these were nobles, and half of my working dwarves were crippled. The rest had lost their minds.

[OldMiner]

Ah, the bronze colossi.  The loss of my last fort.

They have this problem in that they never get tired, never feel pain, and, even though their eyes seem to get poked out all the time, blindness doesn't even slightly alter their lethality.

These features, combined with their size difference, damage blocking, and trap avoiding means that only a few very lucky shots will actually land damage on them -- or shots with incredibly crafted weapons.  Meanwhile, they can lay down many dwarves in a single blow.

Unprepared, at least as I was, the best defense against them was a sheer mob.  Although a colossus can strike down a single dwarf if he gets his hands free to do so, enough random wrestlers can normally make it so he only kills about a dwarf or dog every day or two.  My suggestion is you assign war dogs to every newly enlisted peasant militiaman as he scurries towards his doom.  The dogs will die, but the sheer mass of them will normally save dwarven lives.

I believe that the truly best defense against a colossus is a raised drawbridge and a ballista behind some fortifications.

On a last odd note, I found that the colossus, even though they are able to open doors, will often choose to beat down doors that aren't even locked.  I guess beating doors is just a good time for your average shiny golem.

[Jeon]

I had a bronze colossus come to my fort once.  He followed a cat inside and my foolish captain of the guard attacked him and ended up smashed into a wall.

Then one of my Hammer Lords decided to stop boozing it up and came over and smashed the colossus to many pieces with his masterpiece war hammer.  Then I had a masterpiece statue... of his upper body and head seeing as how his arms, legs, and lower body were all strewn across the floor.