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[Hyndis]

Giant toads.

I modded my goblins so they can train anything, so every goblin in a siege arrives on a mount. This doubles the amount of things to kill and keeps my military and butchers very busy.

Giant toads butcher/rot into bones that aren't quite bones. They're stored in a refuse stockpile as if they were bones, but cannot be used to decorate things, and so they jam up my workshops and cause all decorate jobs to be canceled until I find the offending giant toad bones and chuck them into the atom smasher.

Other than that I haven't found much that massed crossbow fire can't handle. Even a bronze colossus is easy to take down with enough massed crossbow fire.

[Eric Blank]

The flying menaces, including keas, ravens, vultures, buzzards, and falcons, are among my most hated species. But I despise alligators even more. What other animal has been responsible for the loss of dozens of starting groups, before they'd even had the chance to dig a hole? Maybe freshwater fish, but they're moderately less dangerous because they stay in the damn water.

I have to say though that the absolute worst are crundles, troglodutes and elk birds. They all make a beeline for the surface if you've got cavern access, and they'll murder any dwarf that exists within 5 meters of their desired path to the surface. It takes a well-trained and armed militia to stand up to them, as well.

[Quarque]

Hello, newcomer to the forum here. I've been playing for one week, totally hooked now.

I like how all the animals that killed my forts have been mentioned now.

One embark was destroyed by an alligator.. it attacked one of my dogs about 2 seconds into the game. I had just figured out the basics of militia, so I assigned all my 7 starting dwarves to a squad and ordered them to kill it. What happened next was really funny. They pounced the alligator with their bare hands (I had not yet discovered the equip button, so they were 7 little wrestlers), and overwhelmed it. The alligator was scared and ran off. I would have let him, if he had not wounded a dog. A dog!  So I let my dwarves run after him instead to kill it. What followed was an incredibly long fight, where the dwarves just kept pounding and pounding on the beast without managing to kill it. After a few minutes the alligator vomited out his guts, every part of his body bruised or worse.. but he just didn't die. On the other hand he didn't get in a counterattack, either. I had to laugh a lot as I watched the scene. All of my dwarves gained levels in wrestling as it continued.. and then they suddenly all died to dehydration. Lol!

I wonder though: is there a way I could have ordered one dwarf to get booze or water for the others? Learning how to make your dwarves do what you want is really what makes this game difficult. In other games you click on a guy and tell him what to do. In this game, you have to struggle through a menu jungle and hope it somehow influences what your dwarves are doing.

Elk birds have murdered another one of my fortresses, yeah. Fun times. 

[Saiko Kila]

In my embark most of fauna is ravens and keas. I didn't know keas steal things, but this explains their tendency to get stuck into my traps. My dwarves are quite good in training keas and ravens thanks to it, but these birds give mostly skulls, and I don't assign pets. Eggs are delicious though.

Most of enemy mounts are toads and giant olms. They are the worst, but for goblins. They have a habit to enter brooks and pools. While pools have ramps on their almost entire area (no drowning), the brooks (with channelled holes) do not. This makes the mounts drown their riders, mostly goblin leaders, which cripples the sieges. Olms and toads are very easy to kill, and if immobilized under the goblin (bolt chips the bone, toad loses consciousness) they often immobilize him too, making him a sitting duck. I suppose goblins are tied to their mounts with rope and duct tape, due to the slippery nature of amphibians.

[saltmummy626]

keas suck. the biggest problem im having atm are the giant versions atm. I settled on an island where other races cant get at me, trouble is, someone is sending flocks of huge keas the attack me. they try to come in through a slot I cut into the ground and get caught in cage traps, the rest get inside and start attacking children. those that dont go inside or get caught in traps stay outside terrorizing peasants and killing dogs. other than that, they also pick up and drop (cause them to dodge off of) my masons while they work on my current project. I hate keas.

[davros]

I don't mind buzzards. The first time I realized they were on my embark was when a few got caught in my cage traps and I decided to domesticate the species.
The animals I mind are the giant ones, and the animal men.

[JackOSpades]

my most resent Fort had a Kea evasion every spring....
worse was when I sent military squads after them. The darn things would Strip equipment (mostly shields) off the armed dwarves and fly off with it.
that makes them far more effective thieves than anything else I've seen, kobolds and rhesus macaques you could at least fight off.

[Zale]

Wolverine man is enraged.


I had problems with the Wolverine men in one of my early embarks. They kept attacking the idiots outside, so I sent my ramshackle militia to murder them.

All was good for a while. Then, like the turn of the seasons..

Wolverine Man is Enraged.

 

I swear they were just migrating right past my fort or something. Really, I think they'd get the hint after seeing the rotting corpses of their fellows.

[zombie urist]

Troglodytes. 

They're just strong enough to kill your average dwarf, travel in packs, and can't be butchered.

[Urist Da Vinci]

The list of condemned fliers:

Buzzards
Ravens
Keas

??

Vultures. Buzzards of the desert.

[Meta The Golem]

how about clams? or at least zombie clams, there are so meany of them its not funny, i left them all up there when i embarked and now there killing all my dogs and are biting my dwarves to death, and there's 70+ of them

[ZzarkLinux]

Worst? This



It's so ugly, and still runs away after its spotted nakked.

And I don't see what's so wrong with Ravens.
Yea it's kinda emo, but meh, I'd still wokka wokka her.

[SRD]

Elk birds are annoying as, as soon as you breach the caverns they rush up, gore the dwarves with their horns, and run faster than my military :<

[I am Leo]

Zombie thrip men turned out to be my bane on a number of occasions.
Of all the creatures in the world to declare your nemesis, I blelieve the thrip to be the humblest.

[Loud Whispers]

Playing adventure mode, get ambushed by some humans and *BAM*, flock of ravens descends upon their leader. Some hatred has been alleviated.