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[Voltaire]

Hello everyone,

I only started playing Dwarf Fortress last week so please forgive me if I sound newbish: In adventure mode my Axedwarf and his faithful crew had a run-in with 'Bebmal' - the flying Sand Titan. I thought we were gone for sure, and my spearman buddy had his head torn off within the first two rounds of fighting. After some more fighting I picked up his corpse (never leave a man behind) and threw it at the Titan in a fit of desperation (unless you can use him as bait). The mutilated corpse was thrown over two z-levels high - dwarven hammerthrow skills - and strikes the titan: with lifesaving results:

http://screencast.com/t/nyUEErDw6yn

Is this normal - I didn't properly look at the titan but he had scales, wings and a stinger - he lived in the middle of the redsand desert at a shrine or something. Last time a titan attacked me in my fortress, and he slaughtered a few dozen dwarves, but this one died after some arrows, axe hacks and a post-humous body slam...

[Deon]

Yes it's normal. A brain damage equals an instakill, and throwing is not balanced at all. You can behead a bronze colossus with a fluffy wambler if you are lucky enough.

So there IS a reason why do we get no throwers in the fortress mode .

[Deon]

P.S. Let me show you something which totally describes adventure mode throwing and its craziness:

Friend of mine drew something absolutely hilarious, I thought it would be nice to share with you peoples.

[Lexx]

Thankyou Deon. I went into a laughing fit because of that picture..

[Illanair]

Oh Deon - ha...hahaha.... You're killing me.

[KillzEmAllGod]

yes throwing is funny as hell and just as unbalanced since you can throw things many time you weight with no issues, i knocked out a Roc by throwing a corpse of some one at it shame my kill was stolen