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[exolyx]

I'm still pretty new to DF, but in an adventure, There were no fortresses nearby (several days of travel to get to the next one, large world. I did finally make it to one of them, but it was abandoned ) so I recruit a few peasants, all of which had copper boning knives. I thought to myself "Meatshields, hooray!" I was wrong, with my party of 3 meatbags I went to attack a bandit camp. I was ambushed on the way there (humans, badly armored). One peasant (I forget his name) charged into the battle with his dinky little knife and instantly lobbed off a maceman's head. Next he headed towards the captain (bowman) and a regular crossbowman. At this point I was fighting a cluster of enemies, expecting to have the peasant be maimed. This peasant decided to be even more amazing and pretty much gutted the crossbowman by ramming his knife (remember, copper) into the guy's stomach. (after a few times of course) I then swoop in to save the peasant. at this point he had an arrow jammed in one arm. Of course, the captain got several limbs hacked of by my demigod. At this point I just thought "Whatever, just a few lucky hits. he'll die soon enough" I was very close to the camp, so I raided it, only losing one unremarkable peasant. Gaining some iron armor form the camp as well. I returned to a town, reported the news, and got some more meatshields. Much later, this peasant still lived but I had some actual soldiers (err, macemen, swordsmen and the like.) So I'm heading off for a quest to take out this goblin, living in a camp. The quest was given by a lady, not just some peasant quest. When I arrived the goblins were simply waiting. Again, this peasant charged forward. I still thought nothing of him. These goblins were armored, with bronze or something like that. He (again) instantly lobed the head off of one of the goblins. I thought it wasn't the same peasant, until I checked. It was. he had the two previous kills (and this one now as well. Not counting this wolf he killed earlier.) and now this one. I then realized that this little dude was freaking amazing. (wait, it gets stupider) he then continued onward to get his hand severed. The one which used the knife of head slicing. The battle was in full throttle by now, and I was heading over (after killing a few goblins) to help this guy. As he is punching and biting the goblins I knocked off the two crowding him. There was no significant damage to these goblins, and after the fight ended he just kinda faded away into obscurity.




Until he kicked in the face of a four-legged hill titan. Thoroughly knocking it out and allowing my axe to get lodged into it's brain. Did I mention a roc bit his other hand off? No? OK then. now you know.

Well, after that I kinda got bludgeoned by some goblins, as he then fled and survived. Unfortunately, my computer got corrupted by a download earlier and had to reboot, deleting his history. but the legend lives on.

So, any other stories of pathetic peasants doing amazing things? I wanna hear them. that was my story of too many lucky hits anyway.

[Alexwarhammer]

I have noticed that peasants are amazing as well , I have more luck with peasants than soilders! Plus , with a medium history world most of the fortresses are abandoned , so peasants become the easy choice to recruit.

I was going to kill a minotaur and I only had 2 peasants with me , so I got there and went inside , where he said the whole 'Halt , I killed Urist Hairybasements , who dared to enter my lair!' and stuff like that , but he had killed about 10 people , so I came down the corridor with my axe wielding demigod but because I had a full-ish armor set on I was rather slow , so the peasants ran ahead. By the time I got there the minotaur was dead with only one of the peasants having a broken arm and bleeding foot. Looking over the logs I found out that the minotaur charged at the peasant , and the peasant rolled away , destroyed the minotaurs lower leg with one stab of his copper peasant knives , and then pierced his heart (after a few turns) before kicking his skull in.

[Cellmonk]

"The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains"
-Karl Marx

I think the power of the peasantry can be explained quite easily...

[Liber celi]

My first successful adventurer was accompanied by a peasant whom i recruited right after my first quest. He was fat, not very muscular,but very tall.
I always recruited the maximum number of followers, and they always died. This guy survived. Everything, including dragon fire and a scratch to the heart. Indeed, I retired with him, after all the megabeasts were slain by my merry, everchanging party.

This is not the cause he was awesome. He was awesome because he cut night cratures in half. Not one time, but six times. I was playing a Swordswoman, reached legendary in almost all combat skills and used an *iron longsword*, but I couldn't chop off the lower bodies of the night creatures in this world when I tried, and he did it with a bronze knife.
One time, during an ambush, he charged at two goblins wearing shields and meele weapons, and disemboweled them in two turns. Just ran them over, slashed their lower bodies and they died. I nicknamed him "Auswaider", since it kept happening. The first time i saw a severed gut in this game? It belonged to a troll he cut up singlehanded. When we retired, I searched for him in the legends mode, and found out that he had about thirty sentient kills. I myself had 60, maybe, plus megabeasts.

While the megabests lie slain in this world, and man can walk the daylight without fear, there was still a ridicolous amount of NCs and their grooms in this world. I think, one of this days, I wil make a copy of this save. Then i will start a dwarf fortress and produce a masterwork short sword and shield. Then my dwarves will dig into the salitre circus where Doom awaits, and leave a staircase to the surface, storing the weapon and the shield in a workshop near the entrance.
Then Whatever-her-name-was the Radiance of Laughter will leave her home, and take the Auswaider with her. They will kill the NCs that are remaining under the sky,  and then they will descend. Descend and not return, for hell is other people... people with a (bronze slicing knife) and nothing to lose but a <loincloth>.

[InfiniVide]

I had a female peasant in my party and we were attacked by goblins.  She was off fighting one and got her left lower arm cut off.  I was going to go rescue her but I figured she was already dead.  However, she proceeded to pull off both of the goblin's arms.  She then killed him without my assistance, and survived to fight another few months with me.

[PijanySmok]

I once had totally epic peasant. I recruited him on start (because I always play as human outsider hero its often that there are no fortress around) and I went away to kill some animals. When I found badgers, my peasant ran into one and jumped into nearest lake then drowned. Totally epic peasant.

[Dwarfoloid]

There seems to be something buggy about the "new" tool weapons (which are what random peasants and night creatures use). The fact that they weight far more than they should should be of some indication. Ie. compare size of copper boning knife (50) and battleaxe (800) in the raws, then look at the actual ingame weights (about 8 urists or so for both, IIRC). Whatever is causing that bloated weight might be inflating their cutting surface stats as well, causing those wierd dismemberments (and much inflated combat capability when compared to large dagger overall).

[Cellmonk]

I once had totally epic peasant. I recruited him on start (because I always play as human outsider hero its often that there are no fortress around) and I went away to kill some animals. When I found badgers, my peasant ran into one and jumped into nearest lake then drowned. Totally epic peasant.

We've got a situation on our hands here, General. The peasant terrorists are polluting our water supply.

[Tirion]

Question: if I give a peasant some equipment by using dfusion, will they eventually gain skill and change profession? For example, if I give the peasant a sword, and take away his knife, will he become a swordsman/dwarf if he kills enough with it?

[Loud Whispers]

Question: if I give a peasant some equipment by using dfusion, will they eventually gain skill and change profession? For example, if I give the peasant a sword, and take away his knife, will he become a swordsman/dwarf if he kills enough with it?

If he becomes skilled enough, I'd imagine so.

[Pokon]

Its the years of heavy labor and working with large animals. Probably some ogre blood in them, too.

[Blead]

I remember when I was traveling across the mountains to hunt for a Giant Roc. But because of all the beasts and steep cliffs I had already lost a lot of man and with only 5 peasants left I wasn't really sure about our chances, but we actually manage to pull it off. I killed it with a clean swipe to the head. He died after killing 3 peasants. We then tried to descend from the mountain to the nearest fort. Half way I.. lost all my peasants. they didn't get killed they just disappeared. I had no clue where they went. I only barely survived the night. I finally reached the fortress and to my big surprise one of the peasants was standing in the Fortress hall next to the Lady.

While He was away he killed 5 wolfs (at least that's what the kill count on his knife said). I recruited him and some soldier and was tasked to kill a dragon by the Lady.

We later on got ambushed by some goblins and I saw the peasant tearing off the head of one of the goblins. What on earth happend to this peasant!? He must have been through hell getting off that mountain.

[Edmus]

My first successful adventurer was accompanied by a peasant whom i recruited right after my first quest. He was fat, not very muscular,but very tall.
I always recruited the maximum number of followers, and they always died. This guy survived. Everything, including dragon fire and a scratch to the heart. Indeed, I retired with him, after all the megabeasts were slain by my merry, everchanging party.

This is not the cause he was awesome. He was awesome because he cut night cratures in half. Not one time, but six times. I was playing a Swordswoman, reached legendary in almost all combat skills and used an *iron longsword*, but I couldn't chop off the lower bodies of the night creatures in this world when I tried, and he did it with a bronze knife.
One time, during an ambush, he charged at two goblins wearing shields and meele weapons, and disemboweled them in two turns. Just ran them over, slashed their lower bodies and they died. I nicknamed him "Auswaider", since it kept happening. The first time i saw a severed gut in this game? It belonged to a troll he cut up singlehanded. When we retired, I searched for him in the legends mode, and found out that he had about thirty sentient kills. I myself had 60, maybe, plus megabeasts.

While the megabests lie slain in this world, and man can walk the daylight without fear, there was still a ridicolous amount of NCs and their grooms in this world. I think, one of this days, I wil make a copy of this save. Then i will start a dwarf fortress and produce a masterwork short sword and shield. Then my dwarves will dig into the salitre circus where Doom awaits, and leave a staircase to the surface, storing the weapon and the shield in a workshop near the entrance.
Then Whatever-her-name-was the Radiance of Laughter will leave her home, and take the Auswaider with her. They will kill the NCs that are remaining under the sky,  and then they will descend. Descend and not return, for hell is other people... people with a (bronze slicing knife) and nothing to lose but a <loincloth>.

I will be interested to hear the results of this endeavour.

[acetech09]

You guys get awesome peasants...

I bring my ten into an abandoned fortress to sleep the night, they all get slaughtered by large savage savanna creatures before making it to the keep.

[Mythos]

I've never had any particularly awesome peasant companions, but when I was playing earlier I decided to attack a human town (I was a legendary swordsman, shield user, armor user, and dodger by the way) and through some sort of magic as soon as the fight started one of the peasants stabbed me in the head and killed me. A random peasant killed a legendary warrior, who had slain countless dragons, titans, and various other megabeasts, and he did it with one stab. I checked the legends and he wasn't even some famous warrior, or a retired character I had forgotten about. He was just a random peasant.