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Recently spectacularly failed at attempting to take down an Elven Forest retreat, but I had an awesome moment. So, the first elven child (This is year 4) I attack, I run through immediately. This is the story with the several more who attack me, usually being a quick leg stab, they fall over, followed by a finishing blow-stab. Finally, a bow guard runs up. He shot two arrows at me,which I blocked, and one which cut my knee(Doing nothing). I dodged behind a tree, and played hide and seek with him for a bit, until he got within range, at which point, I started stabbing (Spear human). First stab breaks his hand, so he drops the masterwork bow and starts trying to punch me out. I stabbed around a bit, until I finally ran him through his torso, piercing his right lung and his heart. At this point, I'm thinking that the bow guard is finished, but no. He keeps fighting me, until I ran him through a second time, stabbing him through his heart and right lung again, and getting his liver and his other lung. He finally gave into pain and collapsed, and I stabbed him some more before leaving him to die of his mortal wound.

I've started on a new fort, and this one is pulling together quickly. Indeed, I find bringing 10 cats to start with was a very good idea, as my year-end slaughter of cats is brining me enough skulls and leather to offer great trade benefit, plus wonderful food biscuits to keep the populace very happy. I have been having a slight crisis with my kitchen overzealously converting wine to prepared meals, resulting in a slight shortage of drinks for the dwarves, but this will be taken care of. All I'm waiting for now is the migrant wave to help build up the rest of the fort and really begin to beef it up.

Yeah, I fought a wrestler who had killed several peasants from a nearby human town (Consquently, the person that was supposed to die was another giant in the same cave. I ended up killing seven notables, in the same cave.) He falconed punched my bowman, literally punching and causing him to explode into several mangled pieces. He managed to lock my leg before I got a lucky upper body hit which got both of his lungs, his throat, and his heart.

"Let me get this straight...You engraved images of yourself eating cheese, all over my bedroom."

Armour, in most cases, wasn't really intended to prevent injury.  Although, armour could stop a glancing blow or seriously negate some weapon strikes it was mostly to give the wearer a better chance of preventing death.   Shields and foot work were used to prevent injury more than anything as I understand it.

That's still the case today. A modern combat helmet today is made to stop grenade shrapnel. Any normal .22 rifle round will penetrate it all the way through. Ceramic armor isn't even made to fully stop bullets, simply to make sure that the bullet, if it penetrates, will only either leave a nasty bruise or embed in the muscle and not penetrate through.

Megabeasts remind of "Hotel California"

"In the masters chambers, they gather for the feast. They stab with their steely +elf bone bolts+ but they just can't kill the beast!"

Once, the dwarves of mine let a champion die from being disemboweled.

What did I do? I took 12 dwarves, and placed them in a room full of wooden spikes. I pulled the lever a few times. The one dwarf that survived stumbled to a cage trap where he collapsed, so that a cage fell on him.

That's not evil you might say, but I'm forgetting something important.

I traded him to the elves.

That's actually kind of weird that you should post this. A person I knew in the game EVE Online (If any of you play that) died while hosting a LAN party last week. Apparently, he stepped on an exposed cord, and the electricity stopped his artificial heart.