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[Kaphonaits]

This has probably been seen before, but I'm just plain dumbstruck at the moment. I was in the Object Testing Arena and I simply created an Elf and a Dwarf both wielding short swords. They charged. As soon as they collided the Elf was instantly killed and I watched his head soar rather quickly off to the left and smack against the wall with what I thought must've been a resounding squish accompanied by a blood fountain. I checked the reports.


Holy hell. What a bad-ass. Has anyone else seen things like this in regular Dwarf Fortress mode or anywhere else?

[KrunkSplein]

Not only does it happen not uncommonly, it is also one of the most satisfying things your dwarfs can do.  If you're playing in Fortress mode, you tend to miss the relative minutiae of the fight since you are generally more concerned with winning before something terrible happens.  In adventure mode, though, since you take each action one at a time, you see wonderful things like this more frequently.  Another of my favorites is when you strike something so hard that it flies into a wall and kersplodes.  Good stuff, that.

[Kaphonaits]

Not only does it happen not uncommonly, it is also one of the most satisfying things your dwarfs can do.  If you're playing in Fortress mode, you tend to miss the relative minutiae of the fight since you are generally more concerned with winning before something terrible happens.  In adventure mode, though, since you take each action one at a time, you see wonderful things like this more frequently.  Another of my favorites is when you strike something so hard that it flies into a wall and kersplodes.  Good stuff, that.

Indeed. During my first goblin ambush in DF 40d, a bunch of goblins had burst from the underbrush. My two marksdwarves who were on duty that cold night attempted to fire upon them. They were quickly knocked unconscious and pushed aside, broken legs and arms... But still alive. Then slowly from the depths of my Fortress comes Miss Urist McWrestlerChampion. She throws one goblin into the weathered wooden walls of my main gate and the goblin exploded on impact, splattering my courtyard with gore. She then jumps on another and kills it instantly, its guts now decorating the Trade Depot floor. Then her Champion trainees emerge, and quickly tackle two fleeing goblins. By now the rest of my marksdwarves had arrived and picked off the remaining goblins.

Damn, It sounds so epic now that I type it like this.

[Particleman]

I've had things like that happen occasionally. In my first fort (back in 40d) one of my champion swordsdwarves, armed from head to toe in steel, charged a dragon and lopped its right rear leg off. The leg ended up twenty tiles away in a tree. Meanwhile, the dwarf proceeded to absolutely butcher the dragon, then merrily went back to training.

Oh, and the dragon's leg landed AFTER he was dead.

In another fort I had dwarves hitting goblins so hard that body parts were landing five or six Z-levels above where they severed. Until then I had been unaware body parts could get flung that high.

My favorite instance of military badassery, though, involved a marksdwarf who had come outside after the other soldiers. She was a legendary marksdwarf and one of the founding seven (I gave her military skills at embark because it was a dangerous area.)

During a siege (I'd modded goblins to be more aggressive) she was the last soldier out the door, and consequently she got ambushed and messed up pretty bad before the others could get there to help. Most notably, her left lung got mangled. Most of the goblin squad was decimated, but one straggler got away. As the rest of the military left to take care of another squad, she pulled herself to her feet and clambered up a hill after the goblin who had decided to retreat. Down to her last bolt, she loaded her crossbow and fired.

Now, because I like watching injuries accumulate, and in 40d you didn't get the detailed combat reports, I paused the game after the bolt struck to see where she'd hit him. His brain and left eye were brown (moderately wounded- the equivalent of yellow in v31.x.) She had shot him in the back of the head and the bolt had completely skewered his skull and taken out an eye. Naturally, he fell over, having seizures. A moment later, with half her torso missing, she caught up with him and beat him to death with her crossbow.

[Jake]

A couple of favourite incidents spring to mind. My first real fort had limped along somehow until I got a Sheriff, and one of my newly-appointed fortress guard was mother to a young child. (I was and still am bad at remembering to check genders, relationships and other details before giving my dorfs tasks.) She was outside keeping an eye on the statue garden when up pops a goblin snatcher.
I hadn't got armour sorted out yet, but I can only assume the goblin crept up on her at an angle that prevented him from noticing the fact that she was carrying a shortsword. She spotted him, turned around and beheaded him in one swing.

Another quite spectacular moment a few forts later came with the arrival of a dragon. Watching a single elven caravan guard attempt to take it on single-handed with naught but a longbow, I activated everyone who might be useful in a fight and sent them to meet the dragon on the field of battle. I never did figure out exactly what happened at that point, because the dragon set fire to the wood stockpile just outside the back door and there was smoke everywhere for quite a while, but when it cleared there wasn't a single dwarf injured. The dragon had been slain by a half-trained miner with one swing of his iron pick.

Another elven merchant caravan in another fortress was caught by an ambush, leaving a lone guard to fend off a squad of goblins with his wooden mace. I watched him kill five of them before going down with a crossbow bolt in his back mere seconds before my militia came racing to his aid.
I built a statue on the spot he fell.

[Kaphonaits]

Damn, these are awesome.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I love my adventurer that proceeded to lop off every digit of a goblin that had pissed me off. Toe, toe, finger, toe, foot, hand, toe, finger. Then the goblin died.

[Solifuge]

And it's hard to beat Cacame, Elf-King of the Dwarves, tackling an entire Human siege by himself, weaving past a swarm of arrows, punting mounted archers off of their horses his War Hammer, and ultimately holding the main gate and breaking the siege by himself.

[nbonaparte]

After seeing this thread, I wanted to mess around in Arena mode. I just tried pitting a full adamantine grand master axedwarf against 40 proficient oak/dwarf leather swordelves. He only lived to kill 6, but he did something epic. I just happened to be listening to the music that played in the big multi-Smith fight in the second Matrix movie. And at exactly the right time, Dwarf 1 threw all the elves off him and they went flying 10-30 tiles. I'm going to runesmith in a superdwarf and double the number of elves and see what happens.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I want a video if it works.

[nbonaparte]

Well, I messed up. I made the dwarves the same civ as the elves. And now I can't kill the bastards (I made 7). they run away from magma, faster even than I could obsidianize them. they kill bronze collosi in one hit. now what? how do I kill 7 gods?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Is this the arena? If so, just pause, then obsidianize.

[nbonaparte]

Do they merge instantly? Because I tried that. maybe I should just do that for 10 tiles in every direction.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You have to place the water first. Placing magma then water causes the water to overwrite the magma.

[nbonaparte]

Ah, okay.