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skill at fighting gets you through the caverns to the treasure. Skill at map making gets you back home

challenge: Goliath ending
get killed by some critter that should have had no chance at all to harm you
Sir Hopalong
-with only 1 leg

alternative:
General: (almost) no personal kills, minions ftw!

i cant find anything like this for advice in the wiki, or any sticky around here, but can people post a bit of a reference guide to "how to" play certain weapon wielders

wrestlers seem to love grabbing a weapon and twisting it away, then breaking arms legs and more?

spear/pikemen try to hit a vital organ early on

axes chop chop chop. Great for chopping things, but bad for anything else. Extremely slow vs enemies with lots of fat or multiple appendages

mace/hammer break bones. Its usually easier than cutting a limb off, and creates less mess. no chance to hit a major artery tho

swords can reliably chop off appendages and stab internal organs, so far my favorite. Humanoids tend to be left handed for some reason

archer/crossbow/throwing is limited by not being able to aim for a specific target. One of the ways old arbelaters went about disabling enemies was shooting ... any appendages off. arms, legs, heads. they had that effect. While arrows arnt nearly as effective, you should be able to go for headshots. My swordsman can do headswipes
another problem, these units should try to keep some distance, even in an ambush. In the middle of a melee they quickly get cheesed (like creamed, but it goes on for longer, yes this is a quote)
Its good to be one but one of the worst henchmen, in my opinion

so i had wrestler, spear, pike, mace, hammer, bow, crossbow, swork and axe.

Lashers... i dont know what to think. They tend to die easily in my games so far so i havnt seen them in action much

did i miss anything? whats best for player in general consensus (top 3?) and whats best for followers (top 3)

btw, is it normal that my pike/spear men go after non offensive creatures while the others lounge about till they return. They are always the ones i find wandering away from the group

I wont start a new thread either :p

When I'm trading stuff, do items that i am wearing get added to the list to? I dont want accidentally sell all my softer clothes. I wont accidentally sell my best ones, i know those

edit: i figured it out. all my selable stuff will list under my backpack or whatever container it is in

new question, do traders restock their shops? and get new money? I have lots to sell, but the merchants are running out of cash in this small town

also, while i started out as demi god as adviced for new players since this game is very lethal, and i killed all the night creatures and bandits as per quests, am i ever ready to take on a titan? what would be needed for that, except a great deal of luck?

does the thing with holding many shields still work?

wonderful, my hired help regenerates everything mighty fast, and i'm stuck with a broken nose

one time i ran out of seeds because the goons werent eating those things enough, leaving me with the choice of a lot of brewing or just waiting for them to occasionally eat one

can anyone tell me what the original mine was at the first setled place? i'm still hanging in the area avoiding odditown people. I could mine for some ore there. sneakily like