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[hactar1]

Stinthad Udartun Shukarreg was a legendary axedwarf, legendary shield user, legendary wrestler, and master armor user equipped in +Adamantine+ armor or better, with a *Adamantine Battle Axe*. Ultra-mighty, Perfectly Agile, Super-Dwarvenly Tough, yadda yadda yadda.  I had him solo the entire HFS army, except I forgot about one thing... exertion.  Something like 35 tentacle and fire demons later, he collapsed, uninjured, from exertion, at which point one of the five remaining tentacle demons ripped off his +Adamantine Left High Boot+ and proceded to beat Stinthad and the entire remaining population (of 200+) to death with it.  The rest of my army (mostly marksdwarves and war dogs) dealt with the four unarmed tentacle demons, but that one boot-wielding demon was the last creature standing.

... until my adventurer, Domas Steelmonks the Molten Group of Screams, came along, that is.  After killing the tentacle demon and arming himself with adamantine, he pretty much single-handedly depopulated the entire world of goblins and surface-dwelling demons.

[musicmastermsh]

I've got a squad of machine gun crossbowmen, they mow down sieges faster than the melee guys can get out of the front gate.

[Clockworktortoise]

I once had a terrifying desert-river biome populated by hundreds of skeletal carp and hippos. The wagon embarked right next to the river and everyone got killed instantly. I reclaimed it, there was a big fight, everyone died except for a few wounded people. One of these wounded was a wrestler named Urist Astbetan, with a missing leg. He went berserk and crawled around killing a few unconscious people. Anyway, I abandoned and reclaimed again. There was another big battle, etc.

But at one point in the battle, Urist (now with a much longer name) sprung from ambush. He killed thirty dogs and a few dwarves (with shields: he held one in each hand) before I figured out to stay away from him. He was Ultra-Mighty, Superdwarvenly Tough, etc. Luckily he was pretty slow thanks to his missing leg. I checked his legends page and he had exactly 100 kills, most of them attained during the year he was left in the desert.

Technically he wasn't a soldier. But he had been. At one point.

[Milskidasith]

i have one,hes name is "the slayer"(i called him that cause the guy has ober 500 kills,wears adamatine masterpiece hammer with bone and jewel decorations worth over 100,000 and the best armor(masterpiece adamatine decoraded with bones and jewels(the whole set)))

the guy is indestructible takes a whole siege down himself without a single scratch.hes a hammer dwarf with every combat skill legendary.he also took down a mega beats with 3 other men(they were legendary aswell but got killed)the guy got so many broken bones and shit hes been in a bed for about 5 years now.hes also got the best mausoleom in my whole fort.

To this guy on page 1: I call BS. Not only does it make no sense that you could get the entire set of artifact ADAMANTINE armor (Ok, it's possible, but that's like 10 different pieces), but you seem to have him weilding only one set, which makes no sense since they will dual layer it (and it's likely other dwarves would get it). Killing sieges by himself: Possible, I suppose, but against later crossbowgoblins unlikely. And then getting his bones broken by a megabeast? What the hell? Have you fought one? The things are pathetic, and a single champion can easily beat a skeletal dragon into submission, yet 4 of yours died to a generic one? Even a masterwork bronze statue isn't that tough.

Anyway, my best, so far, is a legendary marksman. He was able to kill 40 goblins at once (20 with a rapidfire string of arrows, and another 20 or so in melee combat with his masterwork steel crossbow) (most of them were wrestlers, and luckily three of the four squads he fought were led by marksgoblins so they didn't have any to shoot at him). He then went from ecstatic from that to miserable in an instant (lots of friends deaths in a siege near exactly a year later) and took down most of the fort.

[Jackrabbit]

i have one,hes name is "the slayer"(i called him that cause the guy has ober 500 kills,wears adamatine masterpiece hammer with bone and jewel decorations worth over 100,000 and the best armor(masterpiece adamatine decoraded with bones and jewels(the whole set)))

the guy is indestructible takes a whole siege down himself without a single scratch.hes a hammer dwarf with every combat skill legendary.he also took down a mega beats with 3 other men(they were legendary aswell but got killed)the guy got so many broken bones and shit hes been in a bed for about 5 years now.hes also got the best mausoleom in my whole fort.

To this guy on page 1: I call BS. Not only does it make no sense that you could get the entire set of artifact ADAMANTINE armor (Ok, it's possible, but that's like 10 different pieces), but you seem to have him weilding only one set, which makes no sense since they will dual layer it (and it's likely other dwarves would get it). Killing sieges by himself: Possible, I suppose, but against later crossbowgoblins unlikely. And then getting his bones broken by a megabeast? What the hell? Have you fought one? The things are pathetic, and a single champion can easily beat a skeletal dragon into submission, yet 4 of yours died to a generic one? Even a masterwork bronze statue isn't that tough.

Oh I don't know. Have you seen the Nist Akath video when the captain charged a squad in masterwork steel armor? But yeah, my peasant managed to kill a dragon. (granted, it had no lungs, throat or guts by that time but it he got credit for the kill, not my champion. Bastard, I only drafted him for meatshielding.)

[Milskidasith]

I can understand dwarves killing goblin squads, or even early goblin sieges. But by the time you managed to get a dwarf specifically weilding full addy legendary armor and weapons, your sieges are probably 200 goblin affairs, and a stray arrow WILL kill your men.

[WorkerDrone]

*Cough*Dwarves*Cough*

[LegacyCWAL]

Sieges get up to 200?  You mean they do start trying again?  Every fort I've had, they get up to 80, and then after I beat a couple of those, they seemingly give up and drop back down to 32 for year after year after year.

[Milskidasith]

I've had quite a few big sieges.

My current fort, however, is yet to be determined. They already sent and lost the local leader with no beak dogs or trolls, and those things make it interesting. At least I have a human siege to look forward too.

[Axe27]

I've had quite a few big sieges.

My current fort, however, is yet to be determined. They already sent and lost the local leader with no beak dogs or trolls, and those things make it interesting. At least I have a human siege to look forward too.

Hey, when you have reduced local civilization to their knees, it's always a safe bet to go to the elves.

Don't fall over yourself preparing for them, you'll be surprised by how easy they are.

[Sophismata]

I forget his name, but my greatest Dwarf was a humble Ranger.

He foolishly went out hunting while a Titan was visiting, and when he finally decided to join the rest of his comrades underground, found the Titan to be between him and the fortress entrance.

He would approach the entrance, and run, the Titan chasing him. Then the Titan would turn around, and so would the Ranger, his faithful hunting dog following him until, after a few of these back-and-forths, it accidentally strayed too close.

The dog attacked the Titan, bravely trying to defend its master. Sadly, it was crushed in seconds - but the Ranger avenged him. Firing a single iron bolt, he pierced the Titan's heart, bringing down the great beast in an instant, and then fired bolt after bolt into its unconcious body as it slowly bled to death.

When the Titan finally expired, the Ranger picked up the corpse and hauled it to the refuse pile. I like to think that, somehow, he was simply returning his kill.

His dog was enshrined in a coffin decorated with Titan bone.

[koruth]

Not exactly a soldier (I don't like to play with military too much) but certainly a brave fighter.  Spudok the friendly mule.

About halfway into the life of Frenzyvessel, one of my better forts (ironically enough, it fell to a tantrum spiral) some hapless merchants tried to get into my fort during a siege.  They died horribly, and their pet mule fell into a pit that was part of my castle defenses.  It broke all of its legs, and was in horrible pain for months.  I considered pumping magma into the pit and putting the poor thing out of its misery, but a small cadre of three goblins fell into the pit, apparently solving this for me.

The mule, however, was not one to give in so easily.  Despite having no workable limbs, it lashed out at the vile goblins, biting out their throats with its powerful mule teeth.  My dwarves named it Spudok the Friendly, and I ordered the construction of stairs into the pit, to allow our newest pet into our fort for a much deserved alfalfa feast once its legs healed.

The beast refused to leave, even after mending its limbs.  Worse yet, a new wave of goblins was upon us.  The stairway was immediately deconstructed, and all civilians evacuated.  Several more goblins fell into the pit, and it seemed Spudok's life was again ended.  Once more, however, the mule annihilated every goblin in the pit.

We kept an open access way into the pit whenever it was safe, but the mule never left.  Over its long and eventful life it killed something like 30 goblins, before dying of old age.  Its bones were made into an artifact trumpet, which stands to this day in a glass display case (box) in the fort's now deserted great hall. 

[DG]

Koruth...Your mule wins.

[Maltay]

My Ranger.

She was one of the seven starting dwarves and accidentally had Glassmaking enabled.  Something I never noticed until in year 2 she went nuts and crafted my second artifact.  Oddly, her Legendary Glassmaking granted her almost perfect Toughness and nary a single point in Strength or Agility.

Fast forward ten years, and she has managed to reach Legendary in Marksmanship, Armor Use, Shield Use, Engraving, Pump Operating, and Wrestling.  She has killed 43 Goblins, 2 Kobolds, 1 Dragon, 1 Giant Eagle, 2 Sasquatches, 3 Cougars, 13 Wolves, 2 Dwarves, and 20 Resus Macaques.

However, she has not escaped without horrific injury.  The first was the Giant Eagle, which bit off her left hand mere minutes after achieving Legendary Shield Use.  The second was the first Sasquatch, which tore her left shoulder and arm from her torso before she pegged it in the brain with a crossbow bolt.  The third was the Dragon, which trampled her so badly she spent two years in bed and eventually stumbled forth intermittently stunned with a Moderately Wounded upper AND lower spine.  The nail in the coffin was when she passed out in mid-combat with a Kobold and took a dagger to the face.  She now has a single eye and has yet to muster the Toughness to stumble more than a few steps from her bed before keeling over and getting dragged back to bed by her helpful watcher.

I plan to relocate her bed to the main entrance hall and place armor and weapons close at hand.  Hopefully she'll stand upright long enough to fire off a shot or two before collapsing.  Provided, of course, her consciousness and and an invasion or ambush occur at precisely the same time.  The odds are slim, but she still has a half-dozen war dogs from her less than Legendary days to fend off invaders until such point as she fights past the mind crushing pain to once again brandish her crossbow.

[Luckymoose]

One of my forts had a professional soldier, which started out as one of my embark miners. I named him Luckymoose like I always do, it adds a bit of personality to the fort. Anyway he singlehandedly killed several sieges with only cat bone armor and a chestplate made of iron studded with steel I think, maybe it was bronze or something. Anyway he had a room full of the bones of his victims as well as an artifact throne with platinum and gobbo bones. The throne room for his awesomeness had a mini water fall and a clear glass room filled with water and alligators, they died and just rotted in the water though but it was floating in a big opening only held up by a support. He had an artifact battle ax that had turtle bone on it and a tomb with a platinum sarcophagus with gold walls, floor and ceiling. I had to abandon that fort because he was a cat lover, and I accidentally let his pet population explode. At any one time he would have like ninety cats following him.