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[Torgan]

I've got 130 pages of combat with my 8 military of axe and hammer dwarves vs a now unconscious blizzardman.  They've got silver hammers, couple of copper axes and a steel axe so they should be able to kill him I think.  But they're not.  Hammers are just bruising the muscles, axes are tearing the muscles, dirty wooden shields are glancing off.  They also missed a goblin snatcher steal an unconscious child 6 feet away, but who cares. The blizzard man's description is now at about 60 pages too, everything is broken and he is a massive scar ball.

Has anyone else had this happen, just wondering if the old non-organic enemies are invincible bug is back.  Or maybe my military just suck. :<  I was managing to kill them earlier on a pre 31.25 version but I moved the save across so maybe something bugged doing that.

[TigerPlushie]

Yeh, I've just read up on the wiki that trying to kill it with blunt force is rather pointless. The axes might help a little though, with a bit of luck.

I've once had 10 unarmored, unarmed and untrained dwarves pummel a troll unconscious for many days. The combat log was about 109 pages long. Since the trapped dwarves were already dehydrating I drafted my miners and they finished it rather quickly.

I'd say go for good swords... but due to the lack of time... I dunno :I

[Tcei]

I've had this happen even with organic creatures (Once had a titan beat an immortal child), try telling your dwarves to stop trying to kill it, then see if it will subcomb to its injuries. This has worked on occasion with some creatures. If that fails try attacking again. In older versions at least this would sometimes kill immortal creatures.

Beyond that there's the traditional magma/obsidian/cave in/ice(would that even work on a blizzard man?) methods.

Or check and see if the blizzard man has the brain tag in its raws and try deleting its brain to make it suffocate.

[Cotes]

They are by the way ideal archery targets when caught alive.

[Naryar]

Your solution: POUR MAGMA ON IT

[Strife26]

I can confirm that icing will kill even a Blizzard man, but it'd be awfully tough to set up with the target already unconscious.

[Cotes]

Stop asking "How do I kill this?" and start asking "How do I use this?". Perfect training dummies, I tell you.

[PainRack]

I like to point out that archers and spears do both piercing and blunt damage. So, if pure blunt or cutting power doesn't do it, those might.

[GotIt_00]

I had an encounter with a blizzard man early in my current fortress. I drafted all 7 dwarfs and they punched him for ages. He killed two dwarfs, but he eventually was decapitated by one of my miners.

Catching one to shoot at would be super useful. I'm gonna have to start using cage traps.

[Lagslayer]

I'm curious how all their unarmed skills leveled up during these endless pummelings. Were they all legendary martial artists and wrestlers by the end?

[Torgan]

Stop asking "How do I kill this?" and start asking "How do I use this?". Perfect training dummies, I tell you.

Yes it is working well, all my recruits and wrestlers are now axe and hammer dwarves.  Just worried they are going to fall over dead from exertion soon, some have tried to head back to the fort for a beer but turn into civilians and keep getting scared off by the unconscious blizzard man.  Odd as the squads are both set to active.

What's really odd thinking about it is one of my original dwarves had a copper axe and average axe skills and was managing to solo kill blizzard men to begin with, but now he's got a steel axe thanks to an immigrant woodcutter he can't kill them even with 7 mates.

[Hyndis]

Stop asking "How do I kill this?" and start asking "How do I use this?". Perfect training dummies, I tell you.

This.

You can use this to have legendaries in no time at all.

Just make sure you rotate out the squads. Don't have 10/10 on duty at all time. Maybe only have 7/10 on duty.

[ThirdSpartacus]

I always seem to get an immediate spawn of a Blizzard Man once I kill one of them. I'm on a Haunted Freezing Tundra.

As the previous posters mentioned, they make great bolt targets, though they occasionally kill one of my civilian dwarves tasked to retrieve those masterpiece shoes off of my previous dwarves' corpses.

[Cotes]

I always seem to get an immediate spawn of a Blizzard Man once I kill one of them. I'm on a Haunted Freezing Tundra.

As the previous posters mentioned, they make great bolt targets, though they occasionally kill one of my civilian dwarves tasked to retrieve those masterpiece shoes off of my previous dwarves' corpses.

The idea is to capture them with cage traps first and then place them in a room specifically designed for training.