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[Encased in burning magma]

The old trick of knocking them out with a nearby-cave in that shoves them onto a line of cage traps should still work.

Only it never worked.

For a solution, you can either cave-in it or encase it.

[Maklak]

O build a bridge atop a hole with no ramps, and retract the bridge when bug is there. This trick trapped some monsters in Lets Play: Syrupleaf.

[Quietust]

The old trick of knocking them out with a nearby-cave in that shoves them onto a line of cage traps should still work.

Only it never worked.

For a solution, you can either cave-in it or encase it.

Corona688 was probably thinking of that trick being used on tentacle demons and frog demons back in 0.28.181.40d, and it did work on them - it did not, however, work on spirits of fire because they happened to have the combination of TRAPAVOID + NOSTUN, and that combination is also present on every single titan, forgotten beast, and demon in version 0.31.xx.

O build a bridge atop a hole with no ramps, and retract the bridge when bug is there. This trick trapped some monsters in Lets Play: Syrupleaf.

That was back in 40d, and it never worked against megabeasts since large creatures prevent bridges from operating (and will destroy a bridge that attempts to atomsmash them) - not surprisingly, all titans + forgotten beasts + demons are more than large enough to trigger the same behavior in 0.31.

[zwei]

What If I upload save somewhere and make challenge of it?

[Corona688]

The old trick of knocking them out with a nearby-cave in that shoves them onto a line of cage traps should still work.

Only it never worked.

It's never been EASY, but I have seen movies of a clown caging event that used cave-ins to knock them in.  It took fantastic timing and a PLAIN of cage traps but they caught some.

[Noir]

Zwei, how's the war against the cockroach going?

[expwnent]

In my experience IRL, cockroaches never die. Ever. 

[kotekzot]

PROTIP: GCS web over a cage trap catches anything.

[zwei]

Zwei, how's the war against the cockroach going?

Stalemate, see for yourself: http://df.zweistein.cz/pub/region1_steel_cockroach.zip

Military is pretty legendary now thou:

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No fre-a-king way:

The flying -copper bolt- strikes The Forgotten Beast in the left antenna and the severed part sails off in an arc!

[Jalapeņo Cheesepuffs]

Flag it for melting.

[Lagslayer]

Find a way to keep it from moving, then use it as a training dummy. Especially useful for marksdwarves and unarmed dwarves.

Bonus points: find a way to make the HFS attack it.

[Noir]

Bonus points: find a way to make the HFS attack it.

By all means, that thing is largely immune to both fire and physical attacks - clowns should be unable to do a damn thing to it!

[Vandersleld]

I think that we're approaching this from the wrong perspective.

You need to trap it in a labyrinth and funnel sieges and elves into it. It's basically a giant eldritch war-construct, immune to all conventional weapons. Use it to kill EVERYTHING. As mentioned, it could probably take on the HFS without sustaining much further damage.

[BodyGripper]

Bonus points: find a way to make the HFS attack it.

By all means, that thing is largely immune to both fire and physical attacks - clowns should be unable to do a damn thing to it!

And if they can, you have a bigger problem on your hands... 

[Cruxador]

Bonus points: find a way to make the HFS attack it.

By all means, that thing is largely immune to both fire and physical attacks - clowns should be unable to do a damn thing to it!

And if they can, you have a bigger problem on your hands... 

Even if they were somehow able to defeat it, they would likely still have taken heavy losses. Thus it's still an advisable strategy. Having a backup, like a collapsable layer above the staging ground or magma and water spigots for encasing (or both). You'll likely need to be clever to funnel both clowns and seiges through this.