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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: sonerohi on November 26, 2008, 01:41:24 pm

Title: !!☼Epicly amazing battles☼!!
Post by: sonerohi on November 26, 2008, 01:41:24 pm
Man, I had to start this thread after seeing this fight. The scene: A 6 tile long, 3 tile wide bridge, connecting my fortress (dug into a shear rock face) on the east, and a dwarf-made peninsula that stretched all the way from a bowl in the cliffs, on the west. The peninsula has no ramps or stairs, it's just 6 tiles long, and nearly 30 wide, connecting to a large flat. The reason there is this shear face, is the brook, 7 or 8 z-levels below. Now, the fight! 4 recruits, standing on this bridge of death as sentries. Only one has any experience, and thats my hammer-dwarf in training, Fath Ironpants. When the ambush came, Fath bravely rushed in, and using only a copper hammer and leather buckler, knocked 3 of the 6 invaders off of the bridge, 2 macegoblins and an axegoblin. However, this is not the focal point. The real epic is my completely naked, no experience recruit that tackled 2 wrestler goblins and took them over the side of the bridge with him. As soon as I saw that blue-background dwarf disapear, I paused and had to walk away for a while. I came back after 5 minutes or so, and slowly started scrolling down the z-levels looking for my brave dwarf and the remains of his assailants. Looking at the brook top, I see hundreds of chunks and limbs, but only two corpses. Astounded, I slowly start panning up, thinking maybe he just hasn't fallen down yet. 1 z-level below the bridge, my lucky-ass dwarf is sitting on an innacessible ledge, grinning next to a bituminous coal wall that I'd never noticed before. I swear to Armok, my eyes watered as I imagined the events in my head. I used all that coal to smelt Urist "Blessed" a set of steel armor and a warhammer, for all to look at in awe when they hear his legend. Ten ambushes later, Urist is now a Legendary shield dwarf, and High master in hammer and armor use. He's going to be the first dwarf that receives the adamantine I've discovered.

Share yours too please, after you finish saying "hot damn".
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Post by: Koji on November 26, 2008, 01:55:04 pm
The next fort I build will have this exact design, thanks to your story.

CANYONLANDS HOOOOOO
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Post by: Cthulhu on November 26, 2008, 02:00:46 pm
That's pretty epic.
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Post by: sonerohi on November 26, 2008, 02:40:35 pm
Thanks Koji and Cthulu. One tip if you do that Koji, try to get sand too. I had a dining room on the level right above the brook, with gem and glass windows being installed, and an arm bounced up onto the floor.
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Post by: Luckymoose on November 26, 2008, 03:20:16 pm
I had a single nude recruit kill a few ambushes at the same time, before I could make him any weapons. One of the gobbos was limping away so I sent my recruit back into the fortress to retrieve his new iron axe. He then walked back outside and hit the gobbo so hard he exploded in gore. He now has over 50 kills and is a champion with full steel armor and a steel battle axe. He lost one of his fingers at some point but that doesn't bother him much. I do love this game.
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Post by: Christes on November 26, 2008, 08:07:09 pm
I posted these a while back.  The battlefield speaks wonder as to what transpired.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Post by: Turnip on November 26, 2008, 08:15:54 pm
Huge fort with 99 dwarves.
Then I accidently release magma into the living quarters
Soon it turns into dwarves killing dwarves, magma killing dwarves, and dwarves killing babies. 10 dwarves died to the magma
Then 69 died to eachother.
Only one military dwarf died because I made them and a miner flee, seal up the fort, and make a mini fort.
Title: Re: !!☼Epicly amazing battles☼!!
Post by: Jay on November 27, 2008, 10:39:02 am
Quote from: Christes on November 26, 2008, 08:07:09 pm
I posted these a while back.  The battlefield speaks wonder as to what transpired.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
How in the hell did a dwarf body get on the inaccessible side of the cave river?Blah, didn't see stairs.
And now I'm intrigued: What in the world are you building up at the top of the second pic?
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Post by: flabort on November 27, 2008, 02:59:25 pm
does 14 dwarfs, a goblin invasion of masive proportions (over 579 goblins), 12 kobold baby snatchers (who were baby snatched themselves by the goblins), a tentacle demon(king?), and two spirits of fire (dukes? Princes?) tell you anything? guese who won?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: !!☼Epicly amazing battles☼!!
Post by: Frelock on November 27, 2008, 03:22:51 pm
How in the world did you get an invasion of over 579 goblins?
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 27, 2008, 03:41:05 pm
This entire post happened over a period of about three years.

I had about 100 dwarves by the time the Skeletal Dragon came. I locked my doors, and a year later after I had built up a military, I lost only 10 military dwarves killing it and had no fire incidents.

Then a Titan came. I lost about 10 dwarves. Now I have 80 dwarves, but my military was *decimated* because I accidentally had my archers "off duty", then when I finally noticed, the archers came and attacked with wooden ammo... Eventually only three crossbowmen were left, and I decide to demilitarize all but the one who killed the titan. I decide I can't spare any peasants from their hauling jobs, so I just let the one marksman practice his skills on the range inside.

Then a Skeletal Titan came. I figured hey, no big deal, I'll just close my doors in case it gets through my seven rows of sawblade traps, and maybe in a year I'll have some military trained up. I tell my dwarves to come inside, and then I go and deal with some stuff inside my fortress for just a few seconds. I noticed a couple cancellation messages due to the Titan, and I think to myself, "Dammit. Who the fuck is still outside..." So I hit [u ] and find the Titan, only to discover it run with the speed of a heavily laden african trade wagon to my gates, tiptoed past all my traps, AND is about two steps past the doors which I hadn't locked yet. I lost 25 dwarves after I activated the entire fortress (minus my 10 prized forge/smelter workers), and killed it eventually.

That's all that happened.

Except for the Skeletal Dragon that came about one month directly after that!! I figured the same as with the Titan, that I'd just lock my doors and wait until I could build a military or come up with a plan. I have around 55 dwarves now. This time around, I actually lock my doors so that the dragon can't get in. Except I mod my dragons for flying, aaannnd... I forgot about a channel I dug incorrectly on the surface, and I had holes in the roof of my underground farm, which was connected to my fortress... needless to say, the dragon descended into my farms and lit the nearby seafood pile on fire. This time, I had to activate everyone right off the bat, including my forge/smelter workers... I lost 25 more dwarves before I realized my prized marksmen (two of them, who had each killed one of the Titans before) were both holding adamantium bolts, but were OFF DUTY! About eight adamantium bolts and one burning fortress later, the Skeletal Dragon was dead, and I had only eight workable dwarves left (28 dwarves counting nobles and a crap-ton of children). One of the eight "workable dwarves" refuses to rest and is about to die, and two others are resting, so really only five dwarves can perform labor.

That happened thirty minutes ago, and I've been cleaning up the body parts since. And to add insult to injury, between the time I started and finished writing this, I came under siege by 34 goblins. They won't be any trouble though, since I'll open my front doors and they'll make a bee-line for my traps.

I'm going to try to recover this fortress without having to reclaim... wish me luck. ;)
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Post by: Christes on November 27, 2008, 03:51:06 pm
Quote from: jaybud4 on November 27, 2008, 10:39:02 am
Quote from: Christes on November 26, 2008, 08:07:09 pm
I posted these a while back.  The battlefield speaks wonder as to what transpired.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
How in the hell did a dwarf body get on the inaccessible side of the cave river?Blah, didn't see stairs.
And now I'm intrigued: What in the world are you building up at the top of the second pic?

Giant pump tower.  The wheels powered it and you can see the first pump in the second pic.  The shaft going to the right powers a quern.
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 27, 2008, 10:21:06 pm
Quote from: FFLaguna on November 27, 2008, 03:41:05 pm
This entire post happened over a period of about three years.

......
This is a response to my own story two posts above this.

I cordoned off the burning 1/3 of my gigantic food stocks next to the farm, and forbid their usage, along with creating a 3-tile-wide empty space in between burning and non-burning stocks. One of my five able-bodied dwarves somehow managed to catch himself on fire (even after setting restricted traffic cost) and died. I found out that my nobles did SOME work, namely the cleaning of the traps after every goblin siege. That was actually useful.

Finally after about one full year of non-stop carrying of dwarf parts to the catacombs, I got some migrants, along with the in-game announcement: "Some migrants have decided to brave this terrifying place, knowing it may be their tomb."

I now have 11 workable dwarves, and a crapton of nobles, including Baron, Baroness Consort, Baron Consort, another Baroness Consort... lol
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Post by: sonerohi on November 28, 2008, 12:09:50 am
That Baron is a player and/or bisexual. Way to recover that fort though Laguna, Urist would cry tears of pride.
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Post by: Torak on November 28, 2008, 12:44:19 am
Most everything I posted in the Adventure Mode forum included an epic battle.
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Post by: Rockphed on November 28, 2008, 12:45:45 am
Quote from: FFLaguna on November 27, 2008, 10:21:06 pm
I now have 11 workable dwarves, and a crapton of nobles, including Baron, Baroness Consort, Baron Consort, another Baroness Consort... lol

Nobles will also harvest plants if you have everybody set to do so.

Also, did your baron actually bring 2 wives and a husband, or have you simply gone through a baron and a Baroness already?

As for my epic battle:

It was late Autum of 1067, and all was going well.  Tekkud Thimshurmebzuth Ekastakest Tastrod had just married Degel Berzuglar, and everybody was acting pretty happy.  Then the Frost Dragon, Slet Powercomets the Yell of Wildness arrived and made for the entry of FrozenLabors.

As he approached, the call went out for all experienced marksdwarves to take up position by the main entrance and all Melee fighters to stand outside.  Only my two swords-champion dwarves and an Axedwarf got there before the dragon.

As the dragon chased the dwarves around Keystone Cops style beyond the gate, the marksdwarves slowly took their positions.  When they arrived, the dragon had been knocked unconscious, but its wounds were minor, so they started pelting it with bolts.  Unfortunately, they quickly ran out, and ran, almost as one, out to bash the beast with their crossbows.

It was, perhaps, only their stubborness in assaulting the beast that saved the champions from ignoble death, for the beast was so harried that it could not truly target any of my dwarves individually.

After it coughed and wheezed for a while, it finally died of mangled lungs and heart.  Most things have the decency to die quickly when they lack heart and lungs, but this beast just kept fighting.

The two exceptions were that one of my Newlywed dwarves got her wrist mangled(in addition to her missing eye and bruised brain), and that my axedwarf was struck down.  Both happened after the Dragon was mortally wounded.

Edit:  And now I have a siege attacking.  I just hope I can get my champions re-armed properly quickly.(one of them was using a silver sword)
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 28, 2008, 01:12:03 am
Quote
Also, did your baron actually bring 2 wives and a husband, or have you simply gone through a baron and a Baroness already?
I've gone through a Baron and Baroness already. And our civ ruler is also dead thanks to his military advisor who told him that those goblins sieging my fort were friendly ones, and so our king was slaughtered while trying to offer them some of his wife's dwarven cheese. Or maybe he died during the human war which lasted about a year. Humans sent a caravan to me and somehow their liaison died. Next year, instead of a human caravan, I got a huge human siege. The year after that, they sent a trade caravan w/wagons and also a peace offer. I accepted.

Edit: I just found ANOTHER tunnel I dug wrongly that leads to the surface! Yeesh. Hopefully I have all these hidden nooks and crannies all filled in now. The only way into and out of my fort should be through the six-wide hallway with a 6x7 set of traps that have two sawblades each.
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Post by: Siquo on November 28, 2008, 05:44:21 am
Two stories from one setting:

7 dwarves arrive on a gletscher (sp?) and start digging. Immediately they are beset by ice wolves. My dogs jump to the rescue, one is slaughtered immediately, but the other lures the wolves away from the dwarves, long enough for them to get safely inside their newly dug icepit. He died, but very honorable.

A few years later I am beset by a human siege (why I was blamed for a goblin killing their representative is beyond me). The first warrior out is my old, written-off, damaged-spine, continuously falling unconscious wrestler-armed-with-hammer known as "Urist barracks-bedridden". He yells, runs at the siege-party of about a dozen humans, sends three of them flying in quick succession in several directions, mushes a fourth in one blow, and sends a fifth flying into his comrades. The humans ran away even before the rest of my army got outside.

He got a really nice room and a lot of free beer after that.
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Post by: sonerohi on November 28, 2008, 11:45:24 am
How'd he do that without passing out? (Glacier btw for the English spelling).
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Post by: flabort on November 28, 2008, 12:16:49 pm
Quote from: Frelock on November 27, 2008, 03:22:51 pm
How in the world did you get an invasion of over 579 goblins?

erm... i had 12 gobblin civs on the world, one dwarven one, one elven civ, two kobolds, and 3 human ones.

if they have over 18 towers per civ, you can get some massive sieges.

i can't find the seed, though. i believe i had tried world 879992349, name 129745788, and history 488929811, on a pocket width by large hight world, but i can't be sure. thats about 16 by 257 for the world size, but again, i can't be sure. other wise, it's exactly the same as a "pocket" world.
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Post by: Koji on November 28, 2008, 01:20:21 pm
I've posted this before, but since we're sharing--

I had a mason and an engraver who were best friends. One day, the mason built an artifact table that was just about the most bitchin table anyone ever saw. The engraver was so jazzed that he would constantly engrave images of his friend holding up the table for everyone to see, it was heartwarming.

One day, a goblin invasion came, and the mason was outside doing some hauling. He was the last one to get in (I called all the dwarves inside) and got caught in a hail of arrows. He and his dog went down, and he dragged himself a few sad paces before the axe goblins got to him.

The engraver went ballistic. He became enraged and charged back out with no weapons or armor, dodging a constant stream of arrows, and tackled the axe goblin and threw him into a murky pool, where he held him under until the bubbles stopped. He was approached by another axe goblin, who kindly asked him to stop before having both his arms ripped off. The dwarf threw the unconscious goblin to one side and rushed the bowmen, who scattered on his approach. Only one or two goblins escaped from the lone untrained engraver, and they were not in good shape.

The engraver went back inside, and immediately claimed a workshop. He crafted an amulet set with an image of a dwarf. The dwarf was raising a table.
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Post by: darknight on November 28, 2008, 01:43:42 pm
Damn, That is beyond epic! Man I love this game!
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 28, 2008, 02:25:15 pm
Update on my story above:

"The dragon Ngotol Parcheddusts the Bones of Gold has come!" I have 26 workable dwarves now (up from 4, previously!). I'm going to call my dwarves inside, shut the six-wide hallway's doors, and pray to fricking armok that there are no HOLES in my fortress leading to the outside, because this flying, greatly strengthened (from raw editing) monstrosity will probably be the end of my fortress if that's the case.

Oh, and my Baron died inexplicably, so I have a Baroness Consort, Baron Consort, and Baroness Consort. When I get a replacement, I'll have another. Lol.

Edit: The dragon sat down on my trade depot and exploded some kittens, and the dragon burned to death! Hooray.
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 29, 2008, 08:38:43 pm
I got ANOTHER dragon, separate from the one below! So that's:
1x Skeletal Dragon
1x Skeletal Dragon
1x Skeletal Titan
1x Titan
1x Dragon
1x Dragon

Jesus christ!
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Post by: sonerohi on November 30, 2008, 12:48:10 am
Laguna's fort is either being designated for raping, or just incredibly lucky/unlucky.
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 30, 2008, 01:47:15 am
I killed the dragon, but then I got bored with my fortress, so I stationed all my dwarves on a platform right above the magma tube. Here's a tile that resulted!


(http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1520/dwarf02ub4.jpg)
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Post by: FFLaguna on November 30, 2008, 01:48:42 am
And another! o_O


(http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8615/dwarf03wy8.jpg)
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Post by: AlienChickenPie on November 30, 2008, 02:06:51 am
Quote from: FFLaguna on November 30, 2008, 01:47:15 am
I killed the dragon, but then I got bored with my fortress, so I stationed all my dwarves on a platform right above the magma tube. Here's a tile that resulted!


(http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1520/dwarf02ub4.jpg)
Can you recover the molten copper, or is it just something you see for a few seconds before it disappears into the magma flow?
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Post by: Archaeologist on November 30, 2008, 02:59:37 am
For a while until I goof'd and mined too much ice, I had a series of ponds/ one giant pond which served as a sort of barrier for my fort except in Winter.  Since crap was starting to build up in the bottom, and I was worried for drowning dwarves, I dug out a ramp into the pond.  My planning paid off, and it saved a AxeDwarf's life.


Several years later, that very same Axe-Dwarf is the first responder to a goblin ambush bearing across the 3x bridge choke point going across the water.

After murdering some goblins wholesale, and a few more dwarves show up, he manages to knock one goblin so hard he flies into the nearby pond, stunned.  Normally that would be the end of things, but no, not today.  What does my veteran AxeDwarf, one of the oldest soldiers in the fort, what does he do?

He leaps in after it, and proceeds to kill it 10 kinds of dead underwater.  Then he swims over to the ramp, and goes on with his day.
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Post by: Siquo on December 01, 2008, 06:06:40 am
Quote from: sonerohi on November 28, 2008, 11:45:24 am
How'd he do that without passing out? (Glacier btw for the English spelling).

Thanks, glacier, keep forgetting that one.

He went into a "battle trance" or something, maybe that stopped him from passing out...
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Post by: TrombonistAndrew on December 01, 2008, 07:28:23 am
While looking around in Adventurer mode, I got a curious quest from an elf druid, to go kill a human who was supposed to be stationed up in another elf town.

So I go there, and lo and behold, I start to get message spam about fighting going on. I walked toward the middle of town, and walked by an elf fighting a guard. The ELF attacks me, for some reason, and immediately breaks my lower spine. After which while said elf continues to beat on the guard which the elf eventually kills, I kill the elf with my handy spear. I then get attacked by another elf and an elven child - obviously, I did something here which the elves didn't like, such as DEFENDING MYSELF. I'm not sure if that initial elf just attacked me out of delirium or what, but there you go. Anyway, I proceed to kill the child and the second elf (while on the ground with back broken still), then proceed to crawl over to grab the dead guard's crossbow and quiver, just in time to get charged by another elf and a guard. I shoot and kill both, then decide to crawl inside a near shop . . . only to find inside a guard who shoots at me and misses. I definitely crawl out again, and get myself around a tree. The guard follows me out, and issues the challenge thingie, and complains about having all of his friends killed. So, I start firing at him - not with as good aim this time. But while I'm doing this an elf bowman comes in and starts shooting at me, ultimately shooting me in the lower body - injuring it even more - and kills me. Then kills the guard. Then kills another human. Then goes off screen. Then I decide it's time to call it a game.

Pretty epic.

I looked it up in the Legends, and oddly no battle is listed, just a bunch of deaths.