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[jaxy15]

Title says it all. Who's your most badass dorf?

For me, it'd have to be my macedwarf from one of my old forts. He was a crippled one armed bronze mace wielding war veteran.
He didn't wear any armor and he still managed to butcher tons of gobbos.
He even stopped to take out a snatcher.
ON ICE.

[JimmyBobJr]

I havent had any real Badass dwarves...
The closest thing i got was when a random lye-maker or something managed to somehow punch a invading Titan in the back of the head, causing "The severed part to sail away in a arc" or something.
I read this as "Concript this dwarf".

The next most Badass dwarf i might have had was when, due to a mistake on my behalf, a dwarf managed to get himself stuck inside a 1x1 channel tile (That was about 10 Z-levels down) that i was digging for my well. problem was, he had broken both this legs and both his arms, as well as a brused spine. The only way i could think of doing to get him out was to use the mining pick that was down there with him (Along with a legendary miner's corpse -dont ask- and a lot of blood) and dig 30z-levels downwards until he breached the caverns.

He did it.

This -Farmer- dwarf managed to dig 30 z-levels with broken arms and legs, fell three feet at the bottom and crawled 30 sets of stairs up to the diningroom for a beer. Then promptly died of infection. I have since learned how to properly dig a well.

[jamesadelong]

I had a dworf hold his own against an entire invasion of no less than three species of sieger and defend a moody dworf.

What happened was that the invasions came one after another. Then, when they were right ontop of my fortress, I opened the gates and had the squad defend the basillica that sat as the grand entry with light casualties and kills. It was at this point that one of the dworfs decided to go all moody on me so he moved back and forth around the fort outside of the safety of the main hall. I assigned my militia commander to defend him whilst his squad held them off. By the time he was finished, I had deemed the (now legendary) moody dworf valuable and escorted him through the various scouting parties that littered the fortress and back into the secure main hall. I hadn't realised that the bassilica was compromised and that I had a number of rather large, rather terrible creatures (Ettin, cyclope, frogmen, crossbow squads of an undefined species, and whatever the FD challenge mod threw at me) moving quickly up the halls toward the bassilica. As soon as the main group were defended by my last soldier, I had him stand his ground in a final fit of desperation. He stood down and obliterated the entire lot, one after another, moving back up to the basillica and finally taking down a war bear riding siege leading prat weilding a silver maul, however one of the scouting parties that had broken off from the main fray had circled around and were now assaulting the main hall killing off a small number of dworfs. At the time the militia commander arrived, he had assumed control since the fort commander had dperished at the hands of a frogman and quickly destroyed the entire assaulting force.

As a result of this, I immediatly made him a nice big Royal office with the entire assortment ofthe fort's artifacts at his disposal. He moved in the artifact breastplate and wore the glove I had used to mark the new leaders of the fort. Finally I had rebuilt the basillica to be his tomb. The siege leader's weapon, the weapon he used in the siege and the artifact created were showcased  around his coffin, the walls lined with artwork relating (mostly) to the siege and an insane number of tablets listing those kills ad any further kills. Finally when he died, I renamed his successor to cary his name. Any and all nobles that complained f him having a better office were crushed  and uried in the ossuary uundercroft with the rest of the commoners.

This was my favourite fort so far.

[malimbar04]

I've had a few with amazing stats, but they all died unimpressive deaths at the hands of goblins and trolls. several forts back I had a miner lady named sarvesh who got stuck though (wonderful dwarven AI). After goblins had destroyed the entire fort, I found her and let her out. Apparently she also had a baby in her arms.

when Sarvesh came to the main hallway, littered in the bodies of her friends, she immediately charged at the goblins with a pick in one hand and a baby in the other. She almost dropped the baby (in the battle reports) about a dozen times. She immediately killed two of the goblins and chased away the rest. Badass indeed.

Of course... I probably should have locked her in a farm or something until migrants arrived instead of having her carry them to a corpse stockpile. She went berserk, strangled her baby and attacked a few livestock. One of them kicked her in the head.

[IT 000]

I've had a few.

Bomrek Truelabor. One of my mayors was a slacker, only demanded querns and iron goods, slept in his quarters 70% of the time. He was in the military, but despite training for a number of years only got up to adequate. He wasn't anything special outside of that, he was a competent bonecarver, but wood was to important so he racked up to a novice wood cutter. One day a Forgotten beast raided the caverns. It ravaged a few weavers and gatherers before I got the military down there. Even in full bronze armor the military was thrown back by the creatures fireballs. Bomrek was asleep in his quarters.

Finally, as the last swordsdwarf drew his final breath, I deactivated the squad, hoping that I could get as many people in the panic room. Bomrek awoke, grabbed his iron axe and went down to chop some trees. The Forgotten Beast had already busted through the defenses, meanwhile, Bomrek was drinking a barrel of ale. Finally as he stepped back out to the hallway he saw the beast ravaging an armorstand. "He's done" I thought as I crammed three more dwarves into the booze stocked room.

Nay, Bomrek ran down the hallway at a speed I've never seen him move at. He dodged three fireballs, and with his iron axe, killed the Forgotten beast in one swoop.

Of course I dismissed him as a lucky dwarf. Lucky shot, so what? The body was hastily butchered, just then Bomrek went into a Fey, he grabbed the bones of the beast and a number of other things, ducked into his craftshop and emerged later with an artifact, a statue of him killing the forgotten beast, made out of the said forgotten beasts bones. Of course it was worth relatively little because of the 'Bone artifacts don't get decors' bug, but still. It was placed in the mayors quarters and remained there until the fort was abandoned.

What did Bomrek do after? He went back to bed, and proved to be amazingly successful at meeting with the other dwarves. Probably preventing a tantrum.

[Sphalerite]

Early in the history of my current fortress, I had a badger problem.  I hadn't moved much underground yet, and waves of badgers were marching in, killing my livestock, injuring my dwarves, and interrupting work.

Then, in one of the first immigrant waves, a Hunter arrived.  Normally when I get a Hunter I disable the hunting labor and then turn them into something useful.  In my experience, hunters are only good for getting themselves killed while trying to bludgeon a camel with a crossbow or something like that.  This time, I decided, if he wants to hunt, lets see how he does against the badgers.  So I set up a craftsdwarf workshop producing bone bolts on repeat and let him go to work.

Three years later, every wild animal on the surface had been hunted to extinction, and the Hunter was legendary in marksdwarf and ambushing.

So I moved him into the military, making him the captain of the guard (and for a long time, only member of the military).  He's spent most of his time in the archery range, having actually figured out how to refill his bone bolts when they run out.  His main duties have been to shoot the Elven ambassador when I want to trigger war, and dealing out Justice when another mandate for creeping eye leather items expires.  I do let him kill the occasional goblin ambush or siege from atop the fortress walls.  He has a list of kills several pages long, and his steel crossbow - the same one he carried when arriving - has a name and is a semi-artifact in its own right at this point.

When I started playing this world, the world was in the Age of Mountain Titan and Dragon.  Then one year the Mountain Titan showed up at my fortress.  It flew right over the fortress walls, smashed a few military dwarves easily, and then set the entire inner courtyard and pasture area on fire.  My now multilple-legendary marksdwarf showed up and killed the Titan with a single bone bolt to the head.  At the end of the year, the world passed into the Draconic age.  Just this year, the Dragon showed up.  Again, Captain Headshot showed up and killed it.  I'm awaiting the change of the age name at the end of the year.  Sadly, I doubt that the next age will be the Age of the Incredibly Awesome Marksdwarf.

He has also killed every Forgotten Beast to show up so far.  I've lost count of how many it's been, at least a dozen.  I picture him as being like a safari hunter, carefully stalking whatever three-eyed turtle or skinless dimetron or whatever has shown up.  "Look, it's the rare Three-tailed Water Blob.  Some dwarves will tell you that water blobs are harmless, but this one has Poison gas that'll get you if you're not careful."  <Thwang> *sploosh*  "That's why I shoot it from way over here.  Pity this one won't leave a carcass."

He has one outstanding jail sentence from a failed mandate, that he's never served.  While I know it's because he's the captain of the guard and won't put himself in jail, I like to think that nobody in the fortress has the balls to confront him over it.

[ledgekindred]

I've probably had quite a few, since I usually play my fortresses for many years, giving my military time to grind up to legendary and able to wipe out entire civilizations with a stick and some string.  But a couple stick in my mind:

Reg Liruklor:  http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=65866.0

Reg was just a normal dwarf in a normal squad of normal hammerdwarves.  Wait, no, actually he was in a squad of hammerdwarves who had racked up a couple hundred kills (including beasts and mounts and so forth) and he had one total kill.  One.  It wasn't his fault, he happened to be off duty or downstairs or something whenever the invaders would show up.  He had legendary skills from all the sparring, so he was capable.  The roll of the dice sort of thing. 

Then one day he was by the front gates when a squad of pike goblins showed up from the edge of the map closest to the gates.  So they were nearly on top of the fort.  Of course, being a dorf and having very simple brain functions (outside of the vast amount of brainpower taken up for "how to be drunk") he charged the whole squad all on his own before the rest of the military showed up.  I figured that was it for Reg.

Instead, he went into a martial trance and became a vicious force of death.  Eight total killing blows among all the other damage he caused that scattered the entire squad before the rest of the military showed up to clean up after him.

Reg Violenttool, the Basic Luck of Irons.  Awesome title for a very dorfy dorf.

The other one was Atir Stigildegel, the Legless Hero of Diamondrelic:  http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83136.0

Atir lost his legs early in the history of the fort, I forget how, but I kept him in the military since he had become a pretty good marksdwarf.  And really, you don't need legs to stand there and shoot a crossbow.  So here goes Atir, dragging himself around the fort with no legs, going between marksdwarf practice and weaving cloth.  For a good eight years he does this, becoming a legendary weaver in the meantime. 

Sadly Atir was ... he moved slowly.  No legs and all.  So he kinda, well, never showed up in time to kill stuff.  So even though he was a legendary marksdwarf I think he had maybe two or three kills.  So I always pictured this dwarf huffing and puffing as he dragged himself by his hands and beard to get to duty on time, arriving too late to take part in the action, then stoically dragging himself back to his loom to weave and slowly make his way downstairs to collect webs, only to bring them back up and continue weaving.    And the thing is, he always showed up, eventually.  He was one of the most diligent and consistent dwarves in the fortress.

And then one day I get the notice that a Forgotten Beast shows up.  I call my military to the panic zone where I set them up, between the caverns and the rest of the fort.  Fortunately my military is well trained and should have no problem taking the beast out, despite the fact that it's made out of stone.  Unfortunately, it is also moving very fast and I'm not sure my military is going to get to the panic zone before the beast does. 

Then I notice that the Forgotten Beast is fighting on the stairs with some unlucky dwarf about to get his head pounded in in short order.  So I figure, well that'll slow it a little bit.  Oh how wrong I was.  It was Atir, coming up from gathering webs to go on duty.

Remember, Atir has been at this for a long time now.  He's grappling with the beast, and since I cross-train all my marksdwarves with hammer skills, he's beating the snot out of the thing with his crossbow.  For seven pages of combat reports, Atir dodged, blocked and parried every single attack from the beast while breaking chips out of it and even ripping a mandible off.  By now my military is in position but I'm just watching this epic battle between a Conglomerate Forgotten Beast and a legless dwarf hitting it with his crossbow and somehow dodging every clumsy swing it makes.

Then the beast got a lucky shot in and hit Atir in the head.  At least it was fast.

Meanwhile my military has had plenty of time to get into position and made short work of the beast when it got to the panic zone.  It put up a little bit of a fight, especially relative to the steam and water and snot beasts I'd mostly had so far who would die when you looked at them crosseyed. 

An iron sarcophagus (because what military dwarf wants to be buried in some sissy metal), two golden armor stands and two golden weapon racks adorn his mausoleum.  It was the first one I built in that fortress.  Just for Atir.  There was much drinking in honor of Atir that night.

[thatkid]

I've had a few.

Bomrek Truelabor. One of my mayors was a slacker, only demanded querns and iron goods, slept in his quarters 70% of the time. He was in the military, but despite training for a number of years only got up to adequate. He wasn't anything special outside of that, he was a competent bonecarver, but wood was to important so he racked up to a novice wood cutter. One day a Forgotten beast raided the caverns. It ravaged a few weavers and gatherers before I got the military down there. Even in full bronze armor the military was thrown back by the creatures fireballs. Bomrek was asleep in his quarters.

Finally, as the last swordsdwarf drew his final breath, I deactivated the squad, hoping that I could get as many people in the panic room. Bomrek awoke, grabbed his iron axe and went down to chop some trees. The Forgotten Beast had already busted through the defenses, meanwhile, Bomrek was drinking a barrel of ale. Finally as he stepped back out to the hallway he saw the beast ravaging an armorstand. "He's done" I thought as I crammed three more dwarves into the booze stocked room.

Nay, Bomrek ran down the hallway at a speed I've never seen him move at. He dodged three fireballs, and with his iron axe, killed the Forgotten beast in one swoop.

Of course I dismissed him as a lucky dwarf. Lucky shot, so what? The body was hastily butchered, just then Bomrek went into a Fey, he grabbed the bones of the beast and a number of other things, ducked into his craftshop and emerged later with an artifact, a statue of him killing the forgotten beast, made out of the said forgotten beasts bones. Of course it was worth relatively little because of the 'Bone artifacts don't get decors' bug, but still. It was placed in the mayors quarters and remained there until the fort was abandoned.

What did Bomrek do after? He went back to bed, and proved to be amazingly successful at meeting with the other dwarves. Probably preventing a tantrum.

Bomrek sounds like he would be the main character in a stoner comedy/action flick
Dude is now my hero, at least as far as ascii dwarves go

[jaxy15]

Anyone who kills a large, powerful beast and makes a statue relating to it's death from it's own bones is truly badass.

[MrCompassionate]

I had a guy with no fighting experience at all who was the last guy in the fort and everybody else was getting webbed over and over by a giant cave spider and dying of thirst. In an impossible last ditch attempt to save the fort I make him a soldier, no weapons or armor and send him in a flanking motion through the cave. On his way he kills three crundles with his bare hands by breaking every single limb one by one then punching their skull in with a single strike. He is now behind the spider and runs in, he punches it to death without it even getting a chance to retaliate and saves the whole fort. He wasn't even especially strong, just manly.

[4maskwolf]

Major Necro, but I'm glad.

The most Badass dwarf I've ever had was my accomplish speardwarf/accomplished armor user/accomplished shield user migrant.  He wore the only set of iron armor the fortress produced (everyone else had no armor), wasn't full time military, and still managed to defeat an ENTIRE siege by himself.  I was wondering where he had gone off to while the other military dwarves ambushed the first squad (a group of marksgoblins).  Then he came up, wearing full armor, and turned back the entire siege BY HIMSELF!

[AWellTrainedFerret]

The most badass dorf I've had in recent memory was a nameless Grunt (the name I assign all useless migrants before assigning them to militia duty). He went into battle with the rest of my militia to battle a trio of ogres who were happily tearing down doors near my relatively undefended back entrance. The militia fared relatively well, primarily because I had a couple of extremely good marksdorfs who could easily drop an ogre while the Grunts distract them. This one particular Grunt, however, manage to have his axe hand smashed completely off. While he was heading back to the hospital, minus a weapon and his weapon hand, he ran into a snatcher. So this badass was obviously in a foul mood, because he immediately removed the tunic from that snatcher and them proceeded to beat him to death with his own shirt.

[Arkansan]

My most badass dwarf to date was Tobul Othilzuntir Osreshozleb. He was a member of my current fort, when he arrived he already had something like 30 goblin and 6 troll kills. Of course he was quickly drafted and made militia commander. He survived our first ambush, a fire spewing marsh titan that killed most of my axe dwarves and all my crossbow dwarves and one siege that left him and one other out of 20 alive. Our second siege he was gravely wounded, broken left shoulder, right hand, skull broken, damaged lung, and several large gashes. He lingered for months in the hospital until he finally died. I made him a kick ass tomb, smoothed, engraved, 4 golden statues, the works.... and then I accidentally flooded it and most of the rest of the grave halls in an ill fated tempt to move a river and produce a well.
This fort has been both fun and !fun!

[Splint]

Excluding Col. Fischer of Spearbreakers, my most badass I guess was my old glacier fort champion who managed to lead her soldiers to victory with a messed up leg, dual wield maces in one hand, and slew several forgotten beasts on her own with said maces - often only killing them after breaking every single bone in their bodies and essentially having reduced their skulls to lumpy meat - as well as out living several squadmates, having four kids and managing to not kill them while on duty, getting stuck in traction for a year, and managing to not get shot once by enemy archers (the ganked leg being courtesy of a swordgoblin.)

In a current masterwork fort, the title of badass goes to my hammerdwarf MC who managed to decapitate a colossus with blunt force trauma, though somehow a fucking leprechaun managed to abscond with the remains.

[Boltgun]

It was a modded game (no crazy strong stuff). I had a swordman who received an iron buckler and sword.
He killed 2 kobold thiefs by bashing them repeatedly with the buckler. The buckler received a name afterwards and it was featured on 2 artifacts later on.

Then a forgotten beast attack, a large one not made of special materials with a poison sting. The swordman ran to the beast and punched it. And that's it, one punch in the head was the whole fight.

I imagine him like a sort of samurai, who will pull out his sword only once he find something he deemed challenging.

I lost the save afterwards. To bad, that was promising.