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[RedWick]

I love that when megabeasts get wounded during world gen, they stay wounded when they show up to attack your fortress.  Especially when said wound it their right rear leg and it causes them to fall over unconscious the second they arrive on your map.  Even better is when they slowly crawl toward your fortress, leaving a trail of blood in their wake, and the rest of your dwarves go about hauling wood back inside.

"Eh, wot's tha'?"

"Oh, that's Ade Suckerwastes.  Ee's a hydra wot's been threatening Timberwake since I was a wee 'un.  'spect he'll get to the gate some day.  Leaves a bloody mess though!"

[Lumpy McUglyface]

A TITAN HAS ARRIVED!

Wait.... he looks.... a little lopsided....

what?



So yeah, he managed to move about ten tiles in a season, passing out in pain from his missing arm for extended periods of time...

So eventually, I recruit a peasant, equip him with a copper war hammer, and send him out expecting a comical year-long beating...

The peasant arrives, swings his hammer ONCE, and the titan flies five or six tiles, stone cold dead.

So much for my first megabeast.

[RedWick]

Yeah, I was hoping to catch my hydra in a cage (it actually made pretty decent progress toward my gate when wasn't passed out), but my hammerer saw it and decided to go beat it up.  Didn't do anything to stop him 'cause, you know, Hammerer.

Eventually, the hammerer get to the point where he's tired and almost passing out from beating this thing up, so I send out my two champions.  They made short work of it.  Then I had a butcher carve up the carcass.  Now, I have hydra steaks!  Yummy!

[galmud]

Phantom pain passing out or not most megabeasts tend to be pretty wimpy.

Once I had a perfectly healthy dragon knocked out in the first hallway by a couple of traps. So a few of my inexperienced soldiers spent an eternity standing around the monster hammering away with their shoddy useless copper and bronze hammers

My mechanic who went about reloading traps decided to join the pathetic battle and began beating the unconscious beast with his bare hands

[Cheshire Cat]

ive never managed to catch a dragon.

first one i had died in one go from a stonefall trap

second in 2 bolts from a random hunter he appeared next to (my hunters can get pretty good after a few years)

third got stuck in the moat and couldnt get out, then somehow died. i didnt understand that.

fourth set itself on fire from some goblin clothes that were lying around, and died.

these were all in the one fort btw, and im pretty sure they were all uninjured. ive never had dragons in any other fort or in adventure mode, though i have had titans and hydras and things die to random dogs and horses, i find they get exhausted running across the map trying to kill all my pets and then one of them kicks it in the head or bites its throat out when it falls unconcious. same thing happens when i try to drop them in pits with all my stray cats and donkies.

[Tormy]

The peasant arrives, swings his hammer ONCE, and the titan flies five or six tiles, stone cold dead.

That's kinda unrealistic... .. but yeah I've seen interesting combat related stuff like this many times. Ah well, let's hope that the Combat Arc is next after the Army Arc. 

[Neonivek]

The only Megabeast you have to be worried about for reasons that arn't glitches is the Bronze Collosus

That monster CAN destroy your whole fortress single handedly.

and it is only gonna get even tougher next release!!!

[Cheshire Cat]

i long for the day i encounter a bronze collosus.

i really like the whole mechanic of pain in DF, it really does liven things up and make stuff more real, unlike, say, fps where bullet wounds do nothing until you run out of hp.

but dragons and things, as far as my limited experience shows, seem really succeptible to pain, moreso then i would expect a ginormous firebreathing lizard. my dwarfs when their stats are high can take more damage without vomiting and passing out.

so, bronze collosus with its immunity to pain and blood loss must be a really interesting encounter.

on the subject of dragons vomiting, what if toady made their (or some other megabeasts) blood or vomit acidic, aka the aliens films? with multiple z levels its entirely possible that their body fluids could create a great big hole in the ground, and melt your nearby champions and eat gaps into the roof of your dining room, disolving your peasants and things. that would be more challenging, damned if you let it alone, damned if you kill it. and different materials/armor/weapons could have different levels of resistance to acid. ooh, i like this idea.

[FlamingCow]

I was kind of disappointed by my Bronze Collossus... He took one hit from a weapon trap (Okay, it was 5 war hammers, but even so...) and died outright. Hello to a nice statue though.

[Danarca]

For some reason I misread it as "Booze Colossus", and I decided to share the thought if this magnificent beasts with the rest of you.
On topic, I haven't ever encountered any megabeast yet =/

[Randominality]

For some reason I misread it as "Booze Colossus", and I decided to share the thought if this magnificent beasts with the rest of you.
On topic, I haven't ever encountered any megabeast yet =/

whats great is that this should be possible in the next realease.

[tsen]

I just lost fort to a goblin ambush, oddly enough. I got so involved in perfecting my flow of glass encrusted trade goods that I forgot to train a military and had 2 wrestlers with random bits of iron armor, so after 9 ambushes and a titan right after one another (in less than half a season) one more ambush and the tantrum spiral started. Ironically, they ran away from one of my Jewelers when the spiral started. I guess that's what happens when a friendly soldier has a baby and carries it around on duty.

[Rawl]

I loved my bronze colossus. Caught him in a cage trap, dug him his own special pit, and had myself a mobile archery target. I even made an ammo stock pile around the pit lip, never could keep enough bolts stocked though...

[Hawkfrost]

on the subject of dragons vomiting, what if toady made their (or some other megabeasts) blood or vomit acidic, aka the aliens films? with multiple z levels its entirely possible that their body fluids could create a great big hole in the ground, and melt your nearby champions and eat gaps into the roof of your dining room, disolving your peasants and things. that would be more challenging, damned if you let it alone, damned if you kill it. and different materials/armor/weapons could have different levels of resistance to acid. ooh, i like this idea.

Black Dragon?
I am still waiting for the ability to add in those lovely acid spitting critters.

[LegoLord]

I settled on a cave with a bronze colossus and a magma pipe once.  It started out leaving me alone.
Then Elves came and lured it to my fort.  It somehow managed to walk over all my traps, and chucked a peasant across my magma moat.  Then it tried to dodge a blow from some random, brave worker, and wound up in the moat.  It died, leaving no statue.