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Author Topic: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?  (Read 2319 times)

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Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« on: August 17, 2011, 04:04:19 pm »
So I had 2 Titans come in recently. I sent in my military, all equipped with either full adamntine armor and adamantine battleaxes, or equipped with leather armor and adamantine crossbows with adamantine bows. When 2 melee dwares got their, they beat down the titan and beheaded him. They werent even that skilled! So are titans really just a weak pathetic excuse for a megabeast? I had more trouble with giant badgers!
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2011, 04:18:40 pm »
Titans are not all that much.  I've never had one last more than a few seconds against any of my military.

Dragons can give you a bad day if your dwarves get caught in the dragon's fire breath but marksdwarves can take them out from a distance quite easily.

It's the Forgotten Beasts and their random syndromes that you gotta watch out for.  Even if a FB goes down quick, there's always the potential for its syndrome to get loose in your fort and wreak havoc.

To be honest, the worst thing I usually run into are goblin archers or lashers.  Even the best armed and armored dwarf can get a lucky shot to the head with a bolt or a whip and cram his skull into his brain, one-shotting him.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2011, 04:23:18 pm »
Then again, anything fighting against cotton candy is guaranteed to get bisected.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2011, 04:35:07 pm »
For the record, Adamantine crossbows might not be a great idea, unless you're going for mobility. The heavier a crossbow is, the better it is to smash heads in with. And unless I'm mistaken, the only factor that affects how well a crossbow fires is quality.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2011, 06:05:26 pm »
A Titan made of a hard material, like Yellow Zircon, may be tough (from experience) but a titan made from flesh and bone will fall to anything (killed all my goblins, then got piked by a farmer ((yes, goblins)))
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2011, 06:13:42 pm »
Adamantine crossbows...? That is such a waste. Using a less limited material doesn't slow them down that much.
Also, Titans vary greatly in strength, from being 1-shotable by cats to being immune to basically everything.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2011, 10:19:25 pm »
Quote from: Corneria on August 17, 2011, 06:13:42 pm
Adamantine crossbows...? That is such a waste. Using a less limited material doesn't slow them down that much.
Also, Titans vary greatly in strength, from being 1-shotable by cats to being immune to basically everything.

Didn't someone once get a Steel firebreathing beetle?
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2011, 04:12:43 am »
I once had a jackal with deadly everything-rots blood. It was a titan, not a f.b., died fast, but killed near everyone.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2011, 05:50:38 am »
Most of the 'special' creatures (megabeasts, FBs, titans) aren't actually very dangerous at all because you can just swarm them. The only thing to watch out for is syndromes from FBs.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2011, 12:59:00 pm »
Titans can have syndromes too, you know...
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2011, 02:54:42 pm »
For the next titan, outfit your militia in copper.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2011, 04:33:32 pm »
Depends on the material they are made of. I had a Blood Iron (modded material, think steel but heavier) tarantula stomp/bite the shit outta 5 axedwarves dwarves before going down.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2011, 04:53:47 pm »
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on August 17, 2011, 10:19:25 pm
Quote from: Corneria on August 17, 2011, 06:13:42 pm
Adamantine crossbows...? That is such a waste. Using a less limited material doesn't slow them down that much.
Also, Titans vary greatly in strength, from being 1-shotable by cats to being immune to basically everything.

Didn't someone once get a Steel firebreathing beetle?
I remember someone had a steel cockroach in one thread. Nothing could actually kill it, and there were people who proposed putting it against hfs.
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Re: Is it just me, my dwares, their armor, and their weapons, or are titans a joke?
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2011, 07:20:39 pm »
You just lucky because you still have to meet a metal titan.

From my experiences, I even met a cotton candy titan. I don't know if it was a gen bug, but I was pretty fucked, because almost nothing could beat it, and I had no silver.
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2011, 08:21:46 pm »
I had a four-legged Zinc FB with deadly gas, the first stage of which caused massive bleeding and the second stage of which was indeterminate on account of complications arising from the first stage in the form of death in all cases.

Fortunately, I had an endless tide of well-equipped swordsdwarves. Most of them died before the third/fourth wave finally managed a kill shot before joining the dead.
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