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[Azated]

So A few days ago, I saw my first dragon. I thought it was just another random beast, So I ordered my civvies in and sent my military out to dispatch it.

It flew down the mountain just as some migrants arrived, and proceeded to burn half my fortress. I had my first "Holy shit!" Moment in years. Unfortunately my game crashed before I could do anything about it, and when I reloaded all I got was a cyclops.


So tell me, what are your Dwarf Fortress "Holy shit" Moments.

[MonkeyHead]

When one of my swordmasters decided to ignore his "station" order, and decided to charge the 80 bow and pike goblins all on cave crocs on his own, while his fellow swordmasters just stood there gorping.

He killed 35 of them. In seconds. Without as much as a scratch. There were limbs, heads and gore everywhere. It was joyous. The combat reports were brutal - batting down bolts, biting eyes out, cutting teeth out, punching brains...

[ExdeathV]

In an old fort I had, I made a tower of support columns in almost the center of all rooms. They were made of wood and I have not discovered the rich and red flowing gold yet. Suddenly, a creature made out of pure fire I made comes in. To assess the situation, I dropped a cat bomb. Despite the FPS almost being blown to hell, all the cats were melted...except for a few. The cats ran back inside and spread the !!FUN!! around. The !!FUN!! then spread towards my columns then suddenly, the FPS just dropped dead. I am not kidding. The entire game just froze up on me, I was waiting for at least 46 minutes for it to start again.

[Shootandrun]

I once had a legendary, blue-clad axelord. After some FBs problems and a devastating dragon attack, he was the only soldier remaining in the fortress. A siege came. He was standing at the door, his axe ready.

He killed them all. They were 46. He just charged and started killing them. Limbs and heads were flying. I'd say he was killing them at the rythm of...  Three per frame.

[Necro910]

Go into my sig, and go through the tale of the resting mayor.

To summarize: HE WAS THE GREATEST NOBLE EVER.

[Andal]

My first real oh-shit moment was in one of my early yet still relatively successful forts, and funnily enough, also involved a dragon. I had constructed an elaborate trapped entrance, but up on the surface, I had also spent significant time making an elaborate, fortified bunker for a grand total of 12 catapults, which all sat loaded.

I got the notification that a dragon (Oh wow, hadn't seen one of those before!) had arrived, and was interested in seeing what my battery could do. It was thankfully before any of my siege operators had made it upstairs, but the next thing I see is the dragon spitting flame at my battery, and that glorious array of masterwork weaponry going up in flames. The dragon was dealt with quite quickly after that, but I still remember the shock as the wave of flame poured onto my defenses and destroyed them like so many matchsticks.

[gtmattz]

went afk for a few to get a drink, came back to 90% of my fort dead in the moat to a black bear   Those socks are just too irresistable.

[spook54321]

Ill have to say...the first time i ran into a forgotten beast with the dreaded cave in deadly dust.

Armok forsaken giant bird with deadly dust...

[Darkmere]

The first time I experimented with cave-ins I dug out an 8-layer hill, with only supports left, I snapped the support at ground level. There was a winding passageway to the caverns, I almost daylighted some crundles by accident.

If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have chained a puppy at the top and wiped a whole siege with one lever pull.

[RTiger]

Well, there was the time I had a FB with deadly dust show up, and rushed a colony of 6 cave swallow men.

It triggered its dust attack, flooding the screen, then it was dead when the screen cleared, and across the cavern. It got killed by a blowgun, and there was no injuries at all to the birds.

[Tyius]

Breached caverns and got some lamma thing that pit chunks of ice.  It brained like half my dwarves lol.

[Amun-Ra]

I came and signed up just to share this, since it was so... unique.

I was sitting back and watching my fortress start to build above ground, most of it had been below before now. Suddenly, I got a message. A titan had appeared! No problem, I have a military force ready, I'll just... wait a second... it's surrounded by fire...

It was charging at my fortress, leaving a wake of fire, burning through the grass above ground. Now not only did I have to deal with a titan, but I had to deal with him in the middle of a raging fire.

Then, I saw that he was heading straight for a murky pool. He didn't bother going around like I thought he would, instead, he jumped in, intending to swim across. However... the pool started steaming up, and a few seconds later, the titan was trapped in a pit where the water used to be. His heat was his own downfall.

I ordered my dwarves below ground and locked them in and waited for the fire to go away. Luckily, it didn't go over the brook, so not everything was burnt. Also, I was building above ground with stone, not wood.

So, now I have a fire titan trapped in a pit... now what? Just keep him there? Build up my forces and then unleash him? Pour water on him?

Also, screen shot. Notice that there's the brook flowing right next to him.

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9333/firean.png

[darkflagrance]

Too bad steam isn't fatal anymore; you could rout brook water over him, regulated via floodgate, and create a steam trap to sear nearby goblins (or dwarves).

[CapnUrist]

The first time I breached HFS. I had no idea, had seen some stories on the forums, but they did nothing to prepare me.

It was glorious.

[Ahrimahn]

My holy shit moment was when my entire militia was wiped out by kobolds wielding bows it was rather depressing to see them go down so fast.