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[Kofthefens]

What are the most awesome/ inimical forgotten beasts you've ever come across?

At one point, I sent 30 dwarves against one, and it slaughtered them all. Every single body part was bruised or bleeding, but it still managed to kill the rest of my fortress.

[Kirbypowered]

Although sadly I've forgotten many details of it, I had a titan once that liked to fling frozen extract and run up and beat up its targets. Nothing too crazy, it was made out of something I figured would be weak, maybe glass or...something. It decided to swim through my moat so I led all the crapily trained dwarves I could at it. I may have lost three or four dwarves, but the big problem was that it would not die. After a few in-game weeks I stopped watching since they were beating what seemed to be an unconscious mangled body and it suddenly manages to kill a healthy dwarf somehow. With almost all it's bones broken and a few severed limbs. They did eventually kill it, though I don't remember how. I know it's nothing special, but it certainly was a pain.

[geail]

Well, it wasn't a fb, but a hill titan.  It took the shape of a giant, bipedal sheep.  It wielded mighty fire breath!!!  As my dwarves bravely fought the monster, slowly removing each limb, the beast would breathe fire upon its assailants.  Eventually, it turned a Wrestler into a !!Wrestler!!.  This turned the Hill Titan into a !!Hill Titan!!.  Apparently, it was a !!Hill Titan!! that was immune to fire.  I watched as it ran around my fortress, without arms, lighting everything on fire.  It was so glorious.

[acetech09]

A vomit FB... no big deal at all. I open my trap-airlock - a room open to the caverns at one end with 4 bridges for an airlock system, and fortifications all along the sides. I use a wood door as bait and end up trapping the FB in my airlock.

My airlock has a retractable roof, which I can open and then send a random peasant wrestler on the top wall of the fortifications, which gets him coated in FB dust, at which point I send him into the secondary cavern airlock.

I wait for him to show any signs of the FB - he gets minor dizziness, that's all. I then proceed to open the airlock that the FB is in to the inside of my fort... with my best squad stationed on the other side (legendary in all combat skills, all very strong, agile, good spatial and kinesthetic sense - masterwork steel weapons & armor w. candy mail shirt). I then zoom to watch the slaughter, and the FB goes down through the access tunnel, but doesn't come up!. I zoom down a z-level and the FB is going through a secondary access tunnel which I forgot I had - so the FB is now taking a direct route to the inside of my fort - and there's nothing I can do about it, military is chasing but won't get there in time for the FB to land in my main thoroughfare.

"Ahh, no big deal. It's made of vomit so it won't make too much of a mess - and light dizziness is not a bad syndrome".

I go to check on my wrestler, who's still in the holding cell.

He's dead.
HE'S DEAD.

suffocated to systemic paralysis - which was the second stage of the FB syndrome. And the beast was loose, heading to dining hall.

After spending a few minutes on pause, I remember that my second and third squads were idling in my meeting hall. WOOT. I would be able to intercept my FB in the access tunnels, away from the general public. And that's what I did.

Sure as hell killed 9 of the soldiers after the battle, but thank Armok that dust wasn't contagious.

[Kofthefens]

A VOMIT beast? Classic Dwarf Fortress.

[Ieb]

The best/worst so far out of all FB's I've encountered(without any hilarious deadly blood/dust ability as well) was a humanoid made from horn silver.
Steel weapons just glanced off of it so it beat the shit out of every soldier and dorf in the fort as it was unstoppable. With masterwork steel greaves, even.

Twas a fun day to have a fort crumble to it's end.

[Mitchewawa]

Ugh, I once had an FB with fire breath, wings and had pincers and a stinger.

My embark started with a cavern open to the surface, and my base was inside a volcano. I closed off the bridge to outside the volcano and thought, "Golly gee, I sure aren't ready to face a FB like that. I sure darn hope that it can't break down a raised bridge or else it'd have to fight my puny 4-dwarf militia."

It flew through the mouth of the volcano, set everything on fire and killed everyone.

Shit.