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[vooood]

Hi!

Just started a new fort with a max skilled hammerdwarf (at least what you can get from embarking) and was instantly attacked by a zombie bat. They kept bashing at each other all the way to SUMMER when the hammerer finally died of thirst and the combat ended. They both had SOME bruises but it seemed like they can't really damage each other.

[Tuv]

Not a bug, he probably got disarmed and tried to wrestle it to death. Wrestling zombies doesn't work all that well.

[vooood]

Not a bug, he probably got disarmed and tried to wrestle it to death. Wrestling zombies doesn't work all that well.

He should have died like a complete nub in wrestling?

[Tuv]

Since zombies can't be killed just by breaking limbs, or strangling with wrestling, the dwarf can never give the killing blow, even if the zombie has all it's limbs broken and cannot fight back. So the dwarf will sit out there, trying to finish off the zombie, and fail, until he dies.

The only fix is to send some other dwarf out with a bladed weapon to finish the zombie off before the wrestler starves or dies of dehydration.

[Derakon]

And zombies are pathetic combat-wise, to the extent that an untrained wrestler could very well manage to avoid being killed by one. I'll bet he was pretty good at wrestling by the end, though.

[Quietust]

This is probably bug 001018 - "dwarves try to strangle undead creatures to death".