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Shrike

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2010, 07:36:19 pm »
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darkrider2

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #31 on: July 07, 2010, 08:04:32 pm »
Crossbow... screw close combat.

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #32 on: July 07, 2010, 09:22:08 pm »
Swords for us, individual-choice melee if we're desperate. Sucks to grasp cat-sized animals' toes with wrestler moves.
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2010, 06:53:16 pm »
Spears.  I love equiping my fortress/royal guard with them.  Just something regal about them and some sort of guard in formal dress.
Maces are cool too but my military gets axes or swords.
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Shrugging Khan

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2010, 07:03:21 pm »
The ability of swords and axes to take organic enemies apart always impresses me. And the tactical advantage of spears and crossbows is something I've been wanting to see for a long time.
But in the end, due to the current load of bugs, all I end up with these days is Marksdwarves that eventually get re-kitted to Hammerdwarves, because they've been bashing their foes with crossbows for the last five years  >:(

EDIT: Scratch that. Just now, a dragon popped up. And my only axedwarf, on her way to a sparring match, killed it within two pages of combat report, sustaining no injuries at all. She practically just waltzed through that megabeast without so much as being distracted by it.

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Consider: No injuries, and only two pages of report log, and there goes a decapitated dragon. Thousand year life-span? Not anymore!

From now on, I'm all cutting weapons.
« Last Edit: July 08, 2010, 07:13:58 pm by Shrugging Khan »
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #35 on: July 08, 2010, 07:27:32 pm »
It's possible that it was a young dragon?
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i had the elves bring me two tigermen, although i forgot to let them out of the cage and they died : ( i was sad : (

Shrugging Khan

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #36 on: July 08, 2010, 07:36:36 pm »
Do young dragons get their own special announcement and spit 15x5 cones of fire?  ???
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #37 on: July 08, 2010, 07:42:27 pm »
Yeah, there's no actual difference between a young dragon and an old one save for the fact that young ones are much easier to kill because of their size (apparently).

I once beheaded a dragon in two strikes with a greatsword, only for someone to point out that it was probably quite young.
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Quote from: ricky on July 15, 2010, 08:24:43 am
i had the elves bring me two tigermen, although i forgot to let them out of the cage and they died : ( i was sad : (

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #38 on: July 08, 2010, 07:47:09 pm »
.31: Steel axes
40D: Thrown monarch butterflies
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Shrugging Khan

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #39 on: July 08, 2010, 07:48:36 pm »
HAH! But it was only an IRON axe!
Seriously now. Don't ruin my effortless triumph  :'(

EDIT: Some pictures you might be interested in...
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Doesn't say "young" anywhere here. May I bask in the glory of my supreme Axedwarfess now?  :D
« Last Edit: July 08, 2010, 07:53:16 pm by Shrugging Khan »
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Shogger

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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #40 on: July 08, 2010, 08:31:21 pm »
Cutting weapons have been overpowered since .31 (when I started playing DF) and crossbows have been bugged, so all my dwarves carry axes. And a battleaxe just seems more dwarfy to me.
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #41 on: July 08, 2010, 09:42:45 pm »
I prefer to kit ou my dwarves Roman fashion, with a sword and shield.
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #42 on: July 08, 2010, 10:06:12 pm »
Artifact Adamantine Battle Axes.  I have two so far, and I'm eventually hoping I can kit out my whole squad of seven with them.

They do this:



No muss, no fuss, just clean simple lopping off of parts.
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #43 on: July 08, 2010, 10:35:05 pm »
Weapon of choice?
I choose drunken brawler dwarf fists.

Wrestlers are terrifying against anything of a size under 10 most of the time.
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Re: What's your weapon of choice?
« Reply #44 on: July 08, 2010, 10:48:58 pm »
in 40d I loved hammers. Cause they sent goblins flying FAAAAAAAR!

Now I didn't choose yet.
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