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[Necro910]

See the tale of the resting mayor in my sig. Tis win.

[I am Leo]

I had a single hammerdwarf hold off a whole goblin siege. My fortress, clapbronze, was a hollowed out mountain, surrounded by a magma moat spanned by a single, narrow bridge.
One dwarf was outside the moat, fishing, when the siege hit. I activated my military and commanded them to muster at the fortifications around the bridge's guardhouse, a convienient trapped bottleneck on the safe side of the moat. My lone fisherman activates and becomes a hammerdwarf.

He reaches the bridge as the goblins do, the rest of my military is nowhere to be seen. I tell him to hold his position.
The goblins pepper him with 10 combat pages of arrows, mostly to the head, before their infantry hits him. Carnage esnues. He slams greenskin after greenskin off the bridge, into the lava two z levels below and four z's deep. Throught the combat, almost every one of his bones are shattered, as well as his spine and skull, but he fights on. The goblin infantry dispatched, he charges the archers. They flee. He cripples two, and kills a final one by biting him. In the mouth. From behind.

His job done, he calmly strolls to the hospital. In spite of his wounds, his gushing blood loss and his splintered nervous system he is not sick once. He is in surgery for two seasons. During this time a vast and elaborate crystal tomb is prepared for him, containing crafts carved from the goblins he slew and barrels of their blood. He lives. His tomb becomes his new bedroom. He is declared a militia captain and given an artifact mitten as his reward.

His skill as a hammerdwarf has been proven. His is no longer "dabbling". He is adequate.

[Reudh]

Aha, Necro, i have indeed seen that one. It's grand!

In my latest fort (Zalisiden/Tinpaddle) I haven't had any heroes. Sadly. None yet. Our Militia Commander got a title for dispatching our three goblin thief prisoners after defeating two kobolds. He's not really a hero yet.

In the fall of Murakgoden/Boldropes - fell to a poorly timed unsealing of the circus plus siege of goblins plus ambush by more goblins, i had to divide the five squads up. The best squad (Led by Iteb) went down to deal with the clowns, while the other four squads held against the four squads of goblins plus their General Ngom Menacedskinny.

Iteb was the only one to score a kill vs. the clowns. He suffered a melted head.
Zefon Anvilwind the Silvery Dale managed to cut a clown's arms off before i ordered him to retreat...

Up on the top, once the goblins had gotten themselves captured into the traps, the weaker squads were allowed out, with the exception of the marksdwarves who had been placed atop the wall outside.

It was ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. Fighting in the deeps, fighting in the courtyard and terrified civilians sandwiched between.
Udib Churchtongs, a one armed Expert Swordsdwarf looked at the goblins and martial tranced. She killed four before dying.
A herbalist who was caught outside nearly made it back in when his wolf was killed- martial tranced and died.
The two saviours in that fight were Sodel Athammelbil Thebillurith Id (Sodel Focustomes the Silky Scar of Rocks) who slaughtered ten before breaking his arm and falling unconscious, then dying... and Tulon Sarekcatten Okol Gesis (Tulon Echochannels the Voice of Sinews.) Both were legendary Hammerdwarves. Tulon also died of his multiple wounds- he had gotten a raft of broken bones, then two punctured lungs and broken ribs- he attempted to stagger inside but not before a Troll Shearer beat him to death with his own sock.

Ngom Menacedskinny crawled away minus two fingers and a leg- Iteb's squad were beginning to fold slowly but surely so I abandoned the fort before Revax, Zefon and Iteb went down. Tried to find it in Adventure but couldn't. D:

[ledgekindred]

Two come immediately to mind.  The two in my sig for example...

TL;DR versions:

Reg was in the same squad as a bunch of legendary fighters, with something like 100+ kills total in the entire squad, except for Reg, who had only one kill himself.  Then a siege hit, Reg was already out front by the gates and charged in.  He went all martial trance and killed 8 pike-goblins and scattered the rest.  He got the title "The Basic Luck of Irons".

Atir, the Legless Hero of Diamondrelics.  Basically fought a FB to a standstill with his crossbow (as a melee weapon) and agility while the rest of the military had time to get into position.  Did I mention he had no legs?

Another, sort of anti-hero I guess you could say, was some nameless goblin archer.  I had caged a dragon and released it against the next siege.  This unknown goblin archer headshot the dragon, killing it instantly, without breaking stride.  (Of course he got slaughtered in the ensuing combat, and I was pissed that he killed the dragon without it getting a single casualty in, but still...)

In my last fort, before it fell to FB syndrome, I had a crossbow squad with some absolutely insane good shots.  During an ambush I sent everyone out the front gate.  The crossbow dwarves started shooting from a good 40 tiles away, killing a couple with single shots, and totally wiping out the entire ambush before the melee could reach them.

[thegoatgod_pan]

New fort new badass--chief medical dwarf/miner by the name of Asob Testtown--lost half of 15 incomers to rampaging beak dogs, migrants come, get drafted, start futilely beating at two beakdogs that eviscerate them in turn.  Then Asob tantrums, tears one of the offending beakdogs apart with his copper pick and tosses the broken body halfway across the screen.  The rest of the militia scatters in panic--he's not f*cking around, clearly.

Edit: he got the other beakdog, this one so soaked in dwarf blood its title expanded to "the cruel ink of distinction".  He isn't even in the militia, just tantruming more effectively than the actual fighting men of Razorfancy

Edit, edit:  He went to "attend meeting" with the expedition leader.  Apparently his idea of "attending meetings" is to meet the expedition leader over by the town well and dismember him with a pick---so far the poor guy lost his foot and hand and now life. The last thing he did was break the guy's spine and bite him in the left lower leg.  Leader bled to death while still being chewed by the chief medical dwarf.  Who then promptly became the new expedition leader.  I love this game

Edit.  he finally went berserk, fun is going to ensue, reclaim will be epic.

[AaronLS]

I LOL'd at that Goat.  Maybe the name "Testtown" meant his destiny was to test your town to it's full extent.  I'm kind of curious to hear the rest of the story.

[thegoatgod_pan]

The fortress crumbles to its end, our last hope is a beak dog.  The rampaging miner/chief medical dwarf/badass has acquired a name

He is Asob Testtown the Sad Berry, butcher of Razorfancy!

Edit:

he is dead. a bull calf (now named "Laborlanced") got a lucky kick to the brain.  Of our live stock only the heroic bull calf and a duck remain outside.  The "expedition leader" is a passed-out engraver sleeping in the "hospital".  The only sane, capable survivor is one of the original seven, now "militia commander" by default, who locked himself in the poultry coop when the going got bad.

Caravan should be here any minute, I guess Razorfancy is not in reclaim territory yet

[Samoorai]

Roadhouse

Kivish Keskalilush Likottatlosh Zuden (Kivish Shotcarnages the Inky Fish of Keepers): The most badass axedwarf alive. 107 years old, perfect physical stats, and 139 notable kills to her name, two of those being titans (her first and third kills mind you), and she has never once been injured! Seriously, not even a bruise. I had to build a ramp to get on top of my entryway because severed body part were being flung up there from her enthusiastic dismembering! I had a plan to line the entire 14 levels of entryway with green glass spikes, but it's no longer even slightly needed. The only reason her kill count isn't higher is because I finished the actual fortress, got bored and stopped playing.

[FrisianDude]

Ustuth Scribepaged the Sacrificial Anguish of Chasms. Perished in battle against a forgotten beast with deadly dust (frozen and boiling extracts).

[w0ef]

The Spearmaster strikes The Goblin Maceman in the right ear with her *highwood crutch*, tearing apart the cartilage through the ({troll fur cloak})!


I'n now waiting for her to name her crutch.

[Reudh]

My first hero in Zalisiden!

Militia Commander Zaneg Meetingcrypts the Blockaded Recluse of Justice. A goblin snatcher stole one of the babies of a miner with twins and very nearly made it away. Zaneg at the time was an Expert Swordsdwarf and Professional Fighter, wielding an exceptional iron shortsword and brutally ripped the goblin apart piece by painstaking piece. I don't know what it is that causes dwarves to cripple rather than kill enemies, perhaps they have vengeance coded?
Zaneg caught up to the Goblin Snatcher as he is quite fast, with the rest of the squad lumbering behind. I ordered them to stand down so I could get Zaneg his fifth kill and the title: so they all went and slept.

Zaneg removed the hand carrying the bag. Baby fell out, Urist McMummyMiner cancels Dig: Seeking infant. She scooped him up before he got to a herd of unicorns, thankfully.

Zaneg then removed the snatcher's lower arm, upper arm, severed the goblin's motor nerves and it fell down, then cut both legs off- which the snatcher managed to survive. This goblin was now a head + torso + one arm. Zaneg then battered the torso, bruising just about everything in there before removing the goblin's remaining arm. Finally, he punched it in the skull, smashing it to bits and sending the goblin flying a good five tiles away.

THAT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IS HOW YOU DEAL WITH SNATCHERS.

[Specter513]

OILEDMOONS
Gimli Masostirist was one of my first militia dwarves. She came up with a silver battle axe out of nowhere, and knew how to use it. In my first ambush, half of my militia were killed, except for my militia commander, and some other nameless who was killed later. She decimated two and the rest ran because they knew they couldn't fuck with Gimli. After 2 more ambushes, I was besieged the first time. Many of my dwarves were outside, so I waited to pull the lever. Too late. All of my people got inside, but the lever puller ran when he saw the gobbos 5 tiles away. Gimli was first on the scene, even before any marksdwarves. She charged alone into a crowd of 8. She entered martial trance and killed at least two before being overwhelmed. However, her sacrifice gave my militia time to arrive and dispatch the rest.

Oh, and did I mention she lost use of her shield arm the first ambush?

[Monkeyfacedprickleback]

GEMTRADE

"Hel" Swallowbolted the Rough Admration of Buds

The lone survivor of a civilian no equipment draft to delay a siege. She managed to kill 6 goblins with a copper pick earning her name in her first battle. In her seond battle she lost the use of her arms to 3 skeleyaks. No longer fit for any work She was commisiond into her own squad, given a new name a legendary tomb, top tier quarters and the title of "the Heroic". She was assigned to be the first line of defence intercepting skelegoats and skelemarmots for lumber jacks. She wrestled to death a total of 27 skeletons and two goblins before being struck down by em "the cowardly" a troll in the fifth abduction attemt in gemtrade in the year 17.

[Gamerlord]

Godabbeys

Some female dwarves:

A snatcher decided to try and steal a baby. He succeeded, and as he tried to run he was engaged by three mothers. Two defended themselves from dagger thrusts using their babies as shields, and the third punched through his skull.

[Monkeyfacedprickleback]

Dwarven ladies are hardcore.