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GreatWyrmGold

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Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« on: October 31, 2010, 08:50:29 am »
I've been imagining a battle against a Forgotten Beast.
It begins to cross the bridge that is the only thing separating it from the fort.
A recruit swings his copper axe at it.
The forgotten beast dodges...falling into some magma.

(Hasn't happened to me, I haven't played long enough.0
What's YOUR most anticlimatic battle?
(If it is fictional, mention that.)
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 08:52:28 am »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 31, 2010, 08:50:29 am
I've been imagining a battle against a Forgotten Beast.
It begins to cross the bridge that is the only thing separating it from the fort.
A recruit swings his copper axe at it.
The forgotten beast dodges...falling into some magma.

(Hasn't happened to me, I haven't played long enough.0
What's YOUR most anticlimatic battle?
(If it is fictional, mention that.)
Real:
One siege, killed by my traps, 3/4 killed by my drawbridge linked to pressure pads, then, cage traps, seriously, my military wasn't even needed!
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 08:52:59 am »
I had a forgotten beast killed by a single gcs bite iirc.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2010, 08:55:22 am »
In a new fort where I was trying to do something mad (drain lake into underground volcano IIRC) I've stumbled onto a GCS (my first one ever) in first cavern. I sent in my axedwarf, he swung his axe at it... and beheaded it. I rageabandoned that fort.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 09:05:22 am »
some menacing sounding forgotten beast with deadly spit attacked my fort, it charged the first dwarf who counterattacked and lopped it's head off with his first blow.

Forgotten beasts in general are usually anticlimactic though. Every time I see one arrive I don't think 'oh crap' I think 'ooo biscuits and soap'
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 09:08:40 am »
Forgotten Beasts seem to be akin to Toady playing Russian Roulette with your fortress, as they can be anything from harmless giant worms made of mud to necrotic-gas spewing nigh-invunerable iron hydras of doom.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 09:11:38 am »
From someone else : A FB spawned in caverns, he/she sent the whole army at it. They all died. Then a stray cat killed it.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2010, 09:20:46 am »
I had a siege of 45 goblins all riding jabberers, and I was prepared to lose my entire 15 dwarf army, but only three died, and two were from diving off the cliff into magma.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2010, 09:21:24 am »
Cats are probably the kings of anticlimatic battles. If you see something killed by a cat, you know it belongs in this thread.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2010, 09:48:25 am »
I wonder how many people have modded cats to be trained for war >.>
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2010, 09:51:14 am »
Quote from: NewSheoth on October 31, 2010, 09:21:24 am
Cats are probably the kings of anticlimatic battles. If you see something killed by a cat, you know it belongs in this thread.
Oh god... so many anticlimactic battles with rats! And mice! Oh no!
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2010, 09:52:27 am »
Curb stomp battles, in that.
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Quote from: CinnibarMan on October 31, 2010, 07:22:30 pm
" It... it's finally over. Oh Armok it was like the end of days in some kind of gristly death bathtub of untold horror and wow that is a nice waterfall."
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2010, 10:04:38 am »
The forgotten beast Bronzespider McFleshEatingBlood has arrived!

Send the whole military out, an axedwarf lops off a toe to create a spray of blood that sends almost the entire military to the hospital with fingers and toes and feet and eyeballs rotting out of their sockets left right and center.

The beast follows them inside, I lock a door, it tries another path--and walks right into a cage trap.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2010, 10:08:25 am »
You punch the zombie dragon in the body, bruising the bone!
The zombie dragon has collapsed.
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Re: Most Anticlimatic Battles Ever
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2010, 10:29:52 am »
Quote from: Deus Machina on October 31, 2010, 10:04:38 am
The forgotten beast Bronzespider McFleshEatingBlood has arrived!

Send the whole military out, an axedwarf lops off a toe to create a spray of blood that sends almost the entire military to the hospital with fingers and toes and feet and eyeballs rotting out of their sockets left right and center.

The beast follows them inside, I lock a door, it tries another path--and walks right into a cage trap.
That one is fake.
Forgotten beasts don't trigger cage traps unless a GCS web is on it.

Mine was probably:
"The carp misses you!
You rush at the carp.
You have been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice.
The carp has been encased in ice."

And I hoped to have an awesome fight <.<
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