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[Musashi]

First Forgotten Beast of Windslap. I see it is a humanoid made of steam that can shoot web. Fully aware being made of such material tend to be easy to kill, I nonetheless bring everyone back inside the fort. Anything can go wrong, after all!
Then it catches up on some guy and starts attacking him. I panic slightly.
Actually, it only tries to attack him. Absolutely every attempt ends up being blocked by his low-quality clothes. And the dwarf doesn't even make any attempt to defend himself. Huh...
I very quickly reach 40 pages of fruitless attacks and vain attempts to run away. The squad takes an awfully long time to arrive. So, I do the next best thing: enroll the dyer into the army and hope he quickly decides to punch the monster into nothingness.
Two pages later, he decided to instead hack his assaulter's limbs with his axe.

...wait, what?

Turns out the guy had woodcutting job enabled and had an axe all along. A metal one at that, not a training weapon. And for some reason, he didn't consider relevant to use that thing to kill the steamy thing that was tickling him and terrorizing the rest of the fort.
Conclusion: one enrolled dwarf who didn't even level up his dodging skills at all, a Forgotten Beast that left nothing behind it, and way too much time wasted.

[TheeBaconman]

First Forgotten Beast *happiness*

I watch it for awhile, place stone traps on the way to the staircase (the staircase that goes everywhere but the entrance and magma workshops) get distracted with caravan and ambush. I found it again fighting the local Fishman population (3-6 Fishmen). I thought it would be a short fight, but it turned out fat was being bruised nothing fatal. The locals seemed to be doing well bruising the Beast, and the Beast really only bruised back. Then the locals started getting stunned and numb and nauseous. Judging this Forgotten Beast as weak I sent my military down there to purge the and locals.

One fishman tried to run away....towards my men. He was finished by a hammerdwarf leading the charge. The fight had just gotten into the water and I was afraid my men would jump in, thankfully they didn't. The Beast got out and started getting its hind handed to it. The Fishmen were disposed of in the water fight with the Beast (much pus floated to the top too) and I also discovered pond grabbers. My melee troops and war-pets destroyed the beast, as the marksdwarves forgot the beast and took cheap shots at the pondgrabbers.

No casualties. At least not until after, the war-pets Jaguar and dog died from suffocation (and I didn't read any injuries in the reports. though I admit I skimmed them, I might look deeper later). The Beast had "deadly blood" so I guess that's what may have done them in (the corpses did have it's blood on them). I didn't play much longer after that, so maybe somebody important may die later. A good portion of the military was standing right on the beast so who knows.

And now I believe the Beast's carcass is being hauled to the refuse pile. To show my achievement.

edit: Nope, the beast is in the craft's stockpile that was meant for bones.

[Aussiemon]

My army of five Dwarves, led by the demigod Tulon GranitePaged, trekked across mountains on the orders of the lord. They crossed rivers and slayed goblins, all to reach the plains titan they were in pursuit of. They arrived at the distant shrine to see the monster... a blob of mud surrounded by Elven corpses! Sounding the battle cry, they all rushed forward...!

Then I threw the copper slicing knife I picked up as a souvenir from my first night creature.

*Head-shot*

Not like a blob of mud is an unkillable fiend of terror, but still...

[qoonpooka]

Two marksdwarves (just barely past recruit) arm up to engage an Alligator which is threateningly close and keeps wandering towards my civillian population which is camped on the surface (0 point, last-dwarves build).

Of course, they each grabbed the single bolt stacks that were available. 

They went out, each fired, then went back for more ammo.

First bolt went in through the right eye (taking it out) and damaged the brain.  Second bolt went in through the nose.  Alligator flopped about for five more seconds and was dead before they got back with fresh ammo.

[Mr. Argent]

The first Kobold Invasion of Oraclepaddle. I was expecting a epic struggle, but they all just got ran down by my tamed Eagles and thrown in the corpse pit.

[narhiril]

Least climactic battle - attacked by a Hydra, which engaged a chained Stray Cria, which managed to break three of its bones before the Hydra finally killed it.  The hydra took two more steps into an iron spinning blade, which cut it in half.  My mustering army got to go take a nap.

Most climactic battle - in progress.  Fort name: Sunsbanners, pseudo-mega-project with multi-level halls and columns, pop of 220.  Breached the HFS with an army of 70 dwarves, about half of whom are experts, lead by my mayor in full spoiler-related metal.  The horde cometh, my citizens retreat to the upper halls.  The enemy breaks down the doors of the Hall of Echoes, deep beneath the surface, where a barrage of steel bolts meets them, killing a few, but they are legion.  In the midst of the chaos, I peruse my combat logs to find that Id Zegrakul Solozthimshur Thum, Flayer Lord (master lasher) has decapitated one of the ancient horrors of the deep.  With her fist.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

[Samohan25]

My most anticlimatic battle? My very first forgottern beast:
A scaly butterfly that breathes fire.
I may be concidered a slight newb to DF but I had heard enough about the forgotern beasts to realise that I now had problems, I sealed the fort and had all dwarves gather in the burrows, however I did not concider the fact that my statue garden only had a one-high wall that the huge butterfly could easily fly over. He entered my fortress.
I discovered him in my stockpiles, disposing of the mangled corpse of a fellow dwarf. The millitary was called in for a heroic stand...

...Cut short when a soldier promptly walked up an tore out his thorax, no battle and no casualties. Either this was one fragile forgottern beast or that dwarf just got very lucky, it seems wrestling isn't so useless now.

Anyway, my victory was very shortlived, my fortress soon became invaded by two seperate leigons of goblins riding giant cave swallows, cave crocodiles and other assorted beasts as well as a group of building-destroyer trolls that entered through the doors in my water drainage system.

[omniclasm]

My favorite is when a FB gets killed by underground civs...with wooden darts.

[Shurikane]

A giantess!  Aweso--

She died.  On spawn.

Well, dammit.

[Musashi]

Reached special levels today. And, surprisingly, it does not directly involve cage traps (or rather, they would have been legitimately part of the climax if they had a chance to function).
Milol Battleclash, the Renown of Danger. He's a bronze colossus who has killed so many things he appears in many of my engravings. And he's decided to visit my fortress.
First, I freak out, completely forgetting its deadly weakness to cage traps (which wouldn't have helped me much anyway, as he'd have to get a lot closer in the process). It starts by finding a weaver, kicks him like a soccer ball, and punches his brain out. While it took longer than I had expected, I'm still very nervous. My best macedwarf, looking for her equipment, has her spine damaged upon the first hit, and then, he proceeds to box her until she suffocate. Again, taking a bit long, but I do not suspect a thing.
That's when I send an axedwarf to try and lure the monster on a trap after I remembered their existence that I notice Milol only bruises his victims' heads. That's all he does. He punches too fast to be stopped and most if not all attacks glance away. He pursues other dwarfs and boxes them furiously. He lays a hand on the mayor and won't let go. But again, he only inflict bruises, though they're painful. I'm starting to wonder how long he'll take to kill dwarfs, if my mayor has a chance to survive (he's in the middle of two meetings and was candidate to mayor), and how long before Milol takes the hint and steps on a trap. That might take a while, what with the copious amounts of war dogs stationed on the way.
Then I notice he's using a cougar leather mitten to slap my dorfs.
What?
He turned to have stolen it not from the third, nor the second, but his very first victim, the weaver. And he really likes that mitten.
He was slapping everyone as if he were some gentleman challenging to a duel.
Then a goddamn possession happened, migrants popped up, I was worried about the mayor, and I was fed up with the bronze colossus, so I reloaded. I wish, when he comes back, he won't steal a goddamn glove.

[Osdeath]

I had a GCS v 3 dwarves in copper armor and axes.

Chopped it to bits in 2 seconds with every blow glancing off their armor.

Needless to say I'm now slightly less worried if there's a GCS in the cave system.

[Aner-Dyfan]

Bronze Collossus?! I've only just set up my dangerroom, wait where are my axes? Why aren't you using them! THEY ARE RIGHT THERE! Bah just attack it anyway, 30 wresters should be fine right?

The Bronze Colossus charges at The Fighter!
The Bronze Colossus attacks The Fighter but He jumps away!
The Bronze Colossus charges at The Fighter!
The Bronze Colossus attacks The Fighter but He jumps away!
The Bronze Colossus is caught in the cage trap!

Huh, I was not expecting that. I knew it was possible but still having a terror that was going to happily mince my army and the rest of my fort get caught in one of the 6 cage traps I use in front of dogs for spotting snatchers is rather anticlimatic.

[The_Final_Stand]

My thought process on being attacked by a titan whilst living next to a lake and being sieged:
An Ocean Titan! Oh crud, it can swim. (checks DFWiki) Oh crud, it can destroy buildings. Oh crud, it's going straight for the floodgates! Oh, phew, the goblins are attacking it. Wait, what?! They killed it with a few crossbows?! A FEW LOUSY CROSSBOWS!? There goes todays session of Fun(tm).
 
This is roughly the first time that the goblins have saved any dwarven fort.

[CapnUrist]

First Forgotten Beast to invade the caverns below Orbsports:

The Forgotten Beast Atu Osmattomsu has come!  A towering quadruped composed of ash.  It has a square shell and it squirms and fidgets.

It speeds toward the access point my weavers have been using to collect webs. I hit the panic switch, bringing all my dwarves to the dining hall, but the quick-footed beast catches my manager on the stairs. Logem decideds to stand and fight.

The manager punches The Forgotten Beast in the lower body with his left hand, breaking away most of the tissue!
The Forgotten Beast kicks The manager in the right lower leg with its left rear foot, bruising the muscle through the (pig tail fiber robe)!
The manager punches The Forgotten Beast in the head with his right hand, breaking away half of the tissue!
The Forgotten Beast kicks The manager in the left foot with its left front foot, bruising the fat through the (pig tail fiber shoe)!
The manager misses The Forgotten Beast!
The Forgotten Beast counterstrikes!
The Forgotten Beast kicks The manager in the right upper leg with its left rear foot, bruising the fat through the (giant cave spider silk cloak)!
The Forgotten Beast kicks The manager in the left foot with its left rear foot, bruising the muscle through the (pig tail fiber shoe)!
The manager kicks The Forgotten Beast in the head with his right foot and the severed part sails off in an arc!

Three connecting attacks and the beast is down.

[mcdonaldjord]

hmmmmm i had 50+ cats ready to release on a seige and i thought they would do SOMETHING instead, they all died in 2 seconds. my dwarfs are sad.   i hate cats :C