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[quekwoambojish]

A Roc was tearing apart my fortress (at the time I wasn't very good at air defence).

It collided with a statue of a hunter, and it skid across the ground unconscious straight inside of a cage trap.

 

[ZM5]

I think the most climactic battles I've had were against retired adventurers.
The best one was against an Axe Lord Necromancer; I was a Swordmaster so we were more or less evenly matched and also evenly equipped. He was the lord of a hamlet and I went through several of his men (and their zombies) before fighting the man himself.
The fight lasted several in-game hours, and basically consisted of both parties trying to land blows on each other, but being unable to due to the opponent blocking, dodging or parrying. More or less a matter of who could get a hit in first.
As it turned out, the Axe Lord was the better fighter, as he ended our several-hour fight with a single chop to the neck, instantly decapitating the Swordmaster.

[Duul]

My latest adventurer who, after being put through what I like to call training from heaven (raiding a vault) and surviving, has become near godlike in strength and skill.
I decided that as an ultimate test of strength I would attempt to fight a unique demon overlord head-on rather than simply banish him with the slab.
The full fight is documented here: http://imgur.com/gallery/v7pmm, but for those uninterested in a detailed report here's a summary:

I, a vampire axe lord and conqueror of a heavenly vault, did battle with a demon from hell itself. It was a somewhat long fight with lots of dodging and hits taken, but eventually I crippled the demon with a shot to the foot. I followed up by severing his hand, and in desperation he clamped onto my head with his maw and attempted to tear my face apart. I quickly hacked at his head before he could kill me and landed a killing blow, cleaving his head in two. I dropped the slab I didn't need by his side and ran off to kill the next (and last) demon in the mortal world.

[Gem Hound]

Masterwork:
My last adventurer went to sleep in the wilds, and his party was beset upon by a warlock army. The adventurer eventually won with some of his party surviving, but everyone was too exausted to move so they had to sleep, only to be ambushed by bandits the second night, and Frost Giants while attempting to get away from the region. The Frost Giants beat them.

[Scoops Novel]

A Roc was tearing apart my fortress (at the time I wasn't very good at air defence).

It collided with a statue of a hunter, and it skid across the ground unconscious straight inside of a cage trap.

 

[Dunamisdeos]

One time I dodged into a murky pool and drowned in the first round of the fight. The pig got away, and I never saw him again.

It was riveting.

[chaosgear]

Once, I had a titan made of water attack my fortress really early on. I only had my one guarddwarf from the starting seven, so I sent him out while trying to think up a plan B.
The guarddwarf walked up to the titan, roundhouse kicked it's head off, and went inside to get a drink.


As for adventure mode:
I was a swordsdwarf wandering through a (modded) haunted swamp when I got ambushed by three boogeymen. I chopped off the hand of one, then ran it through. I beheaded the second, and then sliced open the third. Just as the cackling subsided, I suddenly got hit in the back with a paralysis spell. I fell back into the mud, unable to move as a "n" icon scurried up to me. It was the severed hand of the first boogeyman! It crawled onto my face and suffocated me to death.

[ClorrProdigal]

I once raided a vault in an evil biome. The angels were all giant elephant creatures made out of stone. I managed to kill one swordsman angel and then ran across the room to deal with an other soldier, an axeman, who had decided to just standby and watch me battle his friend. The axeman and I are about equal in terms of skill so the fight goes on a while when I notice the swordsman has apparently risen as an undead. It charged at us and then begins to attack the other angel. Seeing as this new angel was clearly the bigger threat, the axeman and I decide to form a truce and battle it together. After a long and arduous battle the undead swordsman strikes down my angel companion and turns its headless gaze towards me, during the fight it occasionally lashed out at me leaving me with only one fully functional arm, a few cuts and minor blood loss. That soon turned into only one arm and major blood loss. Refusing to surrender I continued the fight hoping I might get a lucky shot in; it was then that I noticed that the axeman had also risen as and undead itself. In desperation I swing my sword at the swordsman and it finally collapses, turning to the other zombie angel I eventually get in another lucky strike that causes it to collapse. Being fed up with this reanimating vault I decided to look for the exit and then retire my character in the nearest fortress. He wound up bleeding to death before I made it to the exit.

[Haskel]

I started in a pocket world where I appeared to be the sole survivor of my dwarven civilization. Every hillock, every fortress, was completely empty. Barely even any items, besides the growing crops and some leather clothes. Half of the map was covered in Dark Pits, and there was a necro tower adjacent to them. I (correctly) inferred that the goblins had basically decimated my people, so I went out to get some SWEET DWARVEN VENGEANCE.

Ran into the necro tower, butchered the zombies and chopped the necromancer into little pieces, took his book, and became a necromancer myself. I raised up all his fallen minions, and the old bastard himself, before taking to the forests and killing/raising every animal I could find.

By the end I had maybe twenty five goblin zombies, a human zombie, twelve or so wolf zombies, three cheetah zombies, two black bear zombies, and an animated head.

Promptly took to the Dark Pits and slaughtered more goblins than I knew could even be in those things. Raised every corpse my minions or I took down, and basically decimated their entire civilization, as they had done to mine.

[Burnup]

Here are some I've posted before:

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I had a legendary wrestler who grew slowly to power by holding enemy weapons while his followers surround and mutilate them.

He died when his group of 20 got jumped by a goblin group of around 60.

He was holding enemies weapons with his upper and lower everything and biting while at it.

so... He could hold down 9 goblins at a time.

but with his followers dead, I kind of saw it as the 9 goblins were holding him down as he got stabbed to death by gobbo spears..

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Really bad ass axedwarf shielduser armoruser on his way to collect his candy everything from my old fort with his 15+ followers.

My fort was classic medieval castle keep with 3 block wide inner and outer walls, both walls and the keep are perpetual roof covered pillboxes. walls and keep only accessible from underground. underground only accessible from the courtyard of the keep.

On his way in I thank armok it hasn't been inhabited by-

Event #1:
You take a bolt to the face
You have been struck down!
...

rinse and repeat around 16 times.

...

He finally got in! Though he is now a wreslter shielduser armoruser.. And has 5 out of the 12+ followers he started with. Fought his way through the first room, then while turning into one of the main halls he-

Event #2:
You got shanked in the face by a goblin!

...

Event #3:
rinse and repeat event #1 a good 8 more times. then rinse and repeat event #2
then rinse and repeat event #3 a good 5 times.
...


He finally got in! Though he is now a lasher shielduser armoruser.. And has 2 out of the 8+ followers he started with. Fought his way through the first room, then while turning into one of the main halls he-
Slew 3 legendary knife wielding goblins! Then went up to the inside of the keep and-
Slew 15+ legendary goblin Xbowmen! While taking bolt hits from the inner wall.. Went back underground, then up into the inner wall and-
Slew 12+ legendary Goblin Xbowmen! while taking bolt hits from the outer wall.. Went back underground, then up into the outer wall and-
Slew 10+ legendary or otherwise goblin Xbowmen!

...

yay redundant defenses.

...

Then proceeded to clear out the rest of the underground, slew the undead fortress underneath pulled the fun lever and-
Left his men to die! sealing the rest of the world from Hell Fun. Then in his shame he left the edge of the world map and turned into a seal. then gorlak. then fire imp. then-
I deleted that save!

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Two of my front gate guards + eight war dogs, held off two ambushes long enough for my civis to get inside. Not one of the goblins died.. I told all military to NOT go outside. But I suppose the sight of the last front gate guard dragging his bleeding and mutilated body closer to the soon-closing gate was too much for one barely competent sword dwarf.

He was one tick away from the gate catapulting him into space.

And now was outside with eight dead war dogs, a dead guard, a guard about to be finished off, and somewhere around 8 goblins.

The sword dwarf charged straight in, stopping the guard from being finished off. Killed one, dodged another. A goblin went after the downed guard again. The sword dwarf would have none of it! He charged passed the three goblins in front of him just to back stab the goblin threatening his friend. Dodged a bolt, killed another goblin.

And so on.. Until no goblins were left. The sword dwarf took no wounds, and gained a title. The guard survived.

I made that sword dwarf go through #$%& as part of a suicide squad until I found that no matter what I threw them at, no one in his squad would die. Years later I ended up making him the military leader, Had a huge tomb made. suited him with artifact; 1 boot, 1 shield. Everything else Candy, with his candy sword named. I planned on having my adventurer come in and don his equipment, then invade the undead fortress in the depths of my fort, then pull the Fun switch.

But the mother#$%&r wouldn't die! And I wouldn't kill him.

That fort was dying due to FPS..
So I had the now legendary sword dwarf lead his squad into the undead fort and do all of this himself. He did it with no losses.. But I had forgotten he couldn't pull the Fun switch.. So I just tunneled down unleashing Fun upon the world. He stopped them.. losing every man in his military, he alone stood atop the bodies.
"What the hell are you?" I said to the screen.

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Full plate shield/lasher:
losing all My followers when I was traveling over mountains, I was following the mountaintop killing the few who got in my way, avoiding the rest. Got to a chasm with a natural stretch of stone across it, I had no choice but to go for it. Half way across I ran into a dead end. The other half of the natural bridge was 2 tiles away from me through open air.. I looks back, and observe the horde flooding towards me. I fought heroically until dodging off into thin air! And fell over 40 z levels, narrowly missing spikes of stone, and other natural bridges.

BAM, I nailed a 4x3 of 7/7 water at the bottom. I crawl out, and look up. It was raining bogeymen, they were smashing into the merciless stones around me, some even hitting the natural spikes above me, Bodies shattering.. Not one made it into the tiny pond that had saved me. I had lost my way, But I escaped the mountains 3 days later, finding new followers, on a new adventure.

Otherwise recently:

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armor user
shield user
dodger
observer

My most recent character began with no offensive skills, Therefor had to kill any way he could.
I find a camp with some vagabonds. I had a crossbowman and a bowman follower at the time.

A swordman and hammerman walk up to me. I throw my beginning spear and nail the hammerman in the head!
Alright good start.

I walk up to the swordman and grab his weapon. Then start kicking him to weaken so I may grab his throat in the crook of my arm.
Enemy reinforcements are coming! Oh.. ooo.. ah.. Nevermind they are running from the barrage of bolts and arrows my followers are providing. I get a maniacal grin and look back to the swordman in my arms.

I get the swordman on the ground and continue beating on him with my kicks. That is when the wounded hammerman (The one with a spear in his head.) crawls over and interrupts my kill.

I fall back into a axeman that has a bolt sticking out of his gut. I grab his weapon, and then the bolt. Because of the high level of pain (I assume) I was able to choke him out and stomp his skull in. I now have an axe 

By now the enemy commander (Maceman) was in sight and heading to the wounded swordman and hammerman.

I swagger over to the two wounded, the swordman was unconcious and the hammerman was trying to drag himself away.
I look down at them, then up to lock eyes with the commander as I stomp the wounded's skulls.

I get surprised by a axeman coming out from behind the tree right next to me!
I throw the axe! miss! I pick up the fallen sword that lies next to my feet and pull my dagger out of my backpack.

I charge away from the commander and towards the axeman!
That was when the full enemy force reached the plateau where the fight was happening. (About 4 people.) They charge my ranged units! Two instantly scatter and start falling like flies to their shots!

I turn towards our new guests and throw my dagger nailing a two-handed-swordsman in the the arm. He drops his sword!
And then within only a split second I am in mortal combat with the axeman. I grab his weapon and his head, I gouge out both his eyes and then throw my sword at a person who is about to interrupt. The sword gets him in the gut! He starts moving away from where the axeman and I are fighting. Crawling.. I'll leave him for my followers..

The commander is still trying to reach me. He's been in a dead sprint directed towards me the entire time.
He was three tiles away when I got done gouging out the axeman's cheeks. Then suddenly a bolt was in the poor axeman's head. I give my followers a scolding look, drop the axeman but keep the axe, and face the commander with the shit eating grin on my face.

I get cocky and grab his throat first. He bashes me in the leg with his mace! It bruises my skin..

usually one would think: "Oh yeah.. That is why I grab the weapon first.."
Instead I thought: "HOW DARE HE."

And then grab his head.. He bashes me again.. bruises muscle..
"ARRORRR!" I fail to get any further in wrestling as he continues to bash me.
So I start going to town on him to weaken him more.

After exchanging blows for a bit, I finally think of something relatively smart: I should move this fight into the sights of my ranged units.

when I get back there, I notice wounded enemies with tons of bolt/arrows in them sprawled all over the open field.
I ignore the commander and start stomping skulls of wounded. I was thinking: "I risked enough in that fight, time for my followers to take some hits for me." The reality wasn't as charming.

The commander's first hit breaks my bowman's wrist.. He doesn't get a second hit as I jumped in right about there..
I grab his weapon, break his ankle with a kick, and decapitate him with the axe from earlier.

"Woo, that was close right guys?"

[Twinwolf]

...That third guy. Just... that guy.

[Tawa]

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Two of my front gate guards + eight war dogs, held off two ambushes long enough for my civis to get inside. Not one of the goblins died.. I told all military to NOT go outside. But I suppose the sight of the last front gate guard dragging his bleeding and mutilated body closer to the soon-closing gate was too much for one barely competent sword dwarf.

He was one tick away from the gate catapulting him into space.

And now was outside with eight dead war dogs, a dead guard, a guard about to be finished off, and somewhere around 8 goblins.

The sword dwarf charged straight in, stopping the guard from being finished off. Killed one, dodged another. A goblin went after the downed guard again. The sword dwarf would have none of it! He charged passed the three goblins in front of him just to back stab the goblin threatening his friend. Dodged a bolt, killed another goblin.

And so on.. Until no goblins were left. The sword dwarf took no wounds, and gained a title. The guard survived.

I made that sword dwarf go through #$%& as part of a suicide squad until I found that no matter what I threw them at, no one in his squad would die. Years later I ended up making him the military leader, Had a huge tomb made. suited him with artifact; 1 boot, 1 shield. Everything else Candy, with his candy sword named. I planned on having my adventurer come in and don his equipment, then invade the undead fortress in the depths of my fort, then pull the Fun switch.

But the mother#$%&r wouldn't die! And I wouldn't kill him.

That fort was dying due to FPS..
So I had the now legendary sword dwarf lead his squad into the undead fort and do all of this himself. He did it with no losses.. But I had forgotten he couldn't pull the Fun switch.. So I just tunneled down unleashing Fun upon the world. He stopped them.. losing every man in his military, he alone stood atop the bodies.
"What the hell are you?" I said to the screen.

D... do you mind if I sig this?

The... the only adequate comparison I can draw is to Doomguy on godmode.

[WisdomThumbs]

My most climactic battle?

Well... my greatest adventurer of all time finally died in a last stand saving the world from Candyland. But that wasn't my most climactic battle. EDIT: I could have survived, but I suck at the combat in the old versions of DF and my RNG luck finally ran out.

I once hunted an elven warlord into the bowels of a fortress (the fortress and its basement were made of gold btw), defeated his army of master lashers, master bowmen, and master axemen, and then fought that warlord in a masterful sword duel to the death while my companions battled around us. But that wasn't my most climactic battle either.

Losing my adventurer's greatest companion 34 in-game years before his death? Now THAT was my most climactic battle. Had to put her down myself because she went werewolf. In the middle of a fight to kill an eight or six armed (I forget) armadillo devil civilization god. She killed that armadillo devil in hand-to-hand combat while she was a werewolf, then turned on my adventurer, and by then everyone else was bloody dead on the floor. And then he had to fight his way out of that city single-handed because he'd killed their god. Actually technically he only killed a few guards and a werewolf, but angry mobs aren't picky once they get the pitchforks and torches going.

It's hard to find the motivation to play Dwarf Fortress after all that. :/

[Tilogour]

I had cool fight with kobolds as a wrestler when I was unable to hold anything in my hands and stands on my legs.
(DF 0.34)
After a lot of wrestling and biting I died as a hero killed by a kobold bowman - Only he survived my angry and furious attacks

[Mincerind]

I'm rather new to the game, but I had an interesting/ climactic death in Adventure Mode!

I was set out to wipe out a small bandit camp made up entirely of wrestlers and the leader with a mace. My companions made short work filling them full of bolts but it was still 3 vs. 8 or so, so I had my hands full as the only melee fighter. I crushed one wrestle's throat in giving him a slow death, and knocked another out and left him to my companions before the macewoman got to me. We were evenly matched and my party was occupied, so she didn't need to worry about any bolts in the back as we smacked each other around.

Finally one of my crossbowmen had enough time to wing her in the arm, dropping her shield and causing nerve damage. Taking the opportuniy Armok gave me, I went about working her other arm. Before I could totally disable it though, she got a good blow on me and damaged a lung. This, combined with bleeding and exertion essentially put a timer on this fight. I finally take her arm out but the crazy lady apparently had great Biting skills cause she ate me up like a damn cake! Suddenly I got chunks of leg all over and my pants are a deep shade of red! I soon pass out and what I woke up to was sheer lunacy

Ten whole announcement pages of her and the wrestlers trying to punch or kick my head in, but my +Copper Cap+ blocks every single blow! I just kept scrolling through in utter disbelief that they couldn't hurt my head and refused to attack anywhere else. The leader eventually dies of blood loss but not before puking on my unconcious body. The most hilarious part was all the wrestlers PASSED OUT FROM EXERTION TRYING TO PUNCH MY HELMET IN.

So my guy finally wakes up surrounded by death and sleeping people with very bruised hands. I crawled away, covered in blood and bile. I found a nice quiet brook to bleed out and drink my last bit of beer before the end.
So ends Punchfist Fistfissure.