Made a nice hammer fighter in my new world, wrestlegrinded him until he was superhumanly strong and superior in all combat stats. I gave him a silver maul in character creation, and I was having a lot of fun beating the bones and limbs off of bandits.
When asking for a quest, my guy ( whom I named Stronghammer ) found the location of a Bronze Colossus shrine. Learning from many repeated past failures, I decided not to go at this one alone.
Brought a spear-woman with me, who honestly did really well in helping divide the Colossi's attention. But, even with all my guy's strength, and a goddamn silver maul ( which has to be the best blunt weapon in the game, right? ) I couldn't fracture any of its bones.
Eventually, my spearwoman companion got their leg broken, and I hoofed it out of there at full sprint, cause I knew the Colossus would start going after me once it killed her.
I had a few more adventures, but eventually decided to retire Stronghammer after he got shot through the lung with a crossbow bolt. It's always annoying playing characters that drop to half speed every few steps.
I made a new character, but this time I wanted to create somebody capable of hurting a Bronze Colossus. Spear and Swordsmen that I've made in past worlds were never able to fracture its limbs, or meaningfully damage it.
I decided to make a miner. I gave him the background of a miner in character creation, which actually put him at proficient in Mining to start with. I bumped it up to talented, and dumped the rest of my points into dodging ( and one point of swimming ).
I wrestlegrinded this guy all the way up to superior and superhuman stats, and boy was my iron pick a good weapon. After killing the usual amount of bandits, I decided to fulfill the next part of my plan.
I went to the hamlet I retired Stronghammer in, and found the Elite Wrestler in a house. After recruiting him, we went after the Bronze Colossus.
I wish I could say it ended in glorious victory. But the damn thing was too tough. I was able to fracture its foot, and its head ( probably because of me having an iron weapon with great penetration ), but that did absolutely nothing to cripple it, or bring it closer to death. I genuinely have no idea how to do enough damage to one to kill it. Get to legendary in mining?
Anyways, me and Stronghammer battered at it from all sides, and even with his faulty lung, Stronghammer did well as I desperately tried to rain down pick strikes and kill the damn bronze bastard. Eventually, Stronghammer got an upper arm beaten to a pulp, and his other lower arm broken. He had no hammer, we had no chance. I ran and hightailed it, far away enough to fast travel.
Imagine my surprise when I see that Stronghammer was still with me. Some scars on his arms, and I think permanent nerve damage in one, and minus his hammer. I renamed him "Armstrong", he's still a legendary wrestler multiple times over. And I sent him on his way.
It's nice not having a former character die on me for once.