There's probably an existing "awesome stuff" thread I could put this in, but I'm too sleepy to go looking for it.
So I was just playing this one fort I like a lot. It's on totally flat ground, with an aboveground structure in the shape of an almost-square. The walls are three tiles thick, and three levels high. On top are eight patrolling cham-peen marksdwarves.
A caravan came and went, blah-de-blah. A few minutes later, a wandering cat reveals a goblin thief who'd managed to get past the gate and into the center of the courtyard. Game pauses and zooms and all that.
Meaning to step forward, I hit unpause instead, and it all unfolded in a blur. Our little goblin thief got hit by a hail of crossbow bolts from all sides, all at once.
And … he just … he just exploded.
Seriously, there wasn't even any corpse left! Just a single sock and a single shoe where he'd been standing, and two tiles away, his right leg. That's all. There was nothing else left of him.
I'd never seen anything like it. Sure, mobs explode in this game when they get hammerdwarfed into a tree or whatever. But even then, all the pieces stay behind. I looked everywhere for this guy's corpse, but it just wasn't there. It wasn't even in the stocks screen, down under corpses at the bottom. There was just the one shoe, the one sock and the severed (and presumably still twitching) leg. And a sort of pink haze that filled my courtyard for a while before settling on the paving stones like crimson dew.
In conclusion, marksdwarves are overpowered.
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