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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1065 on: February 25, 2012, 12:40:17 pm »

I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.

Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.

That doesn't make any sense.
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1066 on: February 25, 2012, 01:09:14 pm »

an adamantine whip. gave it to a dorf and he now kills everything.
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1067 on: February 25, 2012, 01:15:07 pm »

Think this is my favorite, Simple, elegant, yet brutally effective.
(Old picture, it got a lot more use, and the wielder got even more kills). I dont remember the killtotal the end.
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Flinging children halfway across the map to land in magma is good, wholesome fun, but extramarital reproduction?  Why, that's just unseemly!

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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1068 on: February 25, 2012, 01:19:33 pm »

an adamantine whip. gave it to a dorf and he now kills everything.
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1069 on: February 25, 2012, 02:04:24 pm »

I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.

Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.

That doesn't make any sense.
Not sure why the steel axe doesn't kill them, but iron is pretty much useless against bronze colossi. If I remember correctly, iron is better for weapons, but bronze makes better armor("armor" includes bronze colossus skin) than iron weapons, but makes weapons weaker than iron armor.

Dunno about the gold sword. If anything, it's smashing(not neccessarily cutting) pieces off, since gold is pretty heavy, and thus good for smashing(pommel strikes are smashing attacks as well).


Of course, I'm probably just blowing all this out of my ass, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1070 on: February 26, 2012, 04:57:15 am »

My smith just made a silver anvil named Beastthins. It's circled with bands of silver and has a depiction of a Necromancer being appointed general of my civilizations armies in the leather of a freshly slaughtered zombie water buffalo. I live on a volcano on a glacier in a terrifying biome. I'm gonna redesign my forge room sitting on the magma into a temple to Armok with this in a forge at the center of the volcano.
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1071 on: February 27, 2012, 03:16:25 pm »

I just got a sterling silver shield. That should be good for bashing. I gave it to Asmel, our resident fortress champion, to go along with his artifact gold shortsword.

Fun fact, artifact iron spears can't touch Bronze Colossuses and steel axes mostly dent them but artifact gold shortswords will cut them in half. Even the pommel strikes fractured it.

That doesn't make any sense.
Not sure why the steel axe doesn't kill them, but iron is pretty much useless against bronze colossi. If I remember correctly, iron is better for weapons, but bronze makes better armor("armor" includes bronze colossus skin) than iron weapons, but makes weapons weaker than iron armor.

Dunno about the gold sword. If anything, it's smashing(not neccessarily cutting) pieces off, since gold is pretty heavy, and thus good for smashing(pommel strikes are smashing attacks as well).


Of course, I'm probably just blowing all this out of my ass, so take it with a grain of salt.

Screenies just so you can see what I'm talking about. The combat reports have expired but I recalled the sword lopping off a hand and a lower leg before the finale. The steel axes dented about half the time and fractured the other but 8 pages or so of artifact iron spear hits all glanced off without fail.

Some kills are missing from the middle, they're not important.


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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1072 on: March 20, 2012, 08:25:14 am »

Nothing impressive, just a chalk bed... named Shislugvathez (muddled virgin), engraved with an image of "edzul lonepaint the dwarf...

I do not have a dirty mind I swear, that's my first artefact in this fortress!
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1073 on: March 20, 2012, 11:06:55 am »

Er most valueable is adamantine breastplate. It was over a million. I nicknamed the wielder Holistic. My best is in my current fort and its a crown with a list of all the kings of my civ up till now.
« Last Edit: March 20, 2012, 01:58:54 pm by Malarauko »
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1074 on: March 20, 2012, 01:08:28 pm »

My new Fort created this as the first artefact in the fortress:

Rovod Idathmorul, Blacksmith has created Tomemavuz, a steel statue of Kikrost Handletombs!

This is a steel statue of Kikrost Handletombs. All Craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.
The item is a masterfully designed image of Kikrost Handletombs the dwarf and dwarves in steel by Rovod Idathmorul. Kikrost Handletombs is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Kikrost Handletombs to the position of queen of The Legendary Irons in 101.
It is encircled with bands of steel. This object menaces with spikes of chestnut.

Value: 127200


Currently all my Dwarves have "dined in a legendary dining room" and/or "admired a sublime statue recently".

It's a dirt walled hole in the ground with mismatched no-quality wooden furniture & half a dozen dogs, but it's got a beautiful statue of 'er majesty, you know?

I can work with this.
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It's a dwarf.  Their natural habitat is "trapped on the wrong side of a wall".

Flinging children halfway across the map to land in magma is good, wholesome fun, but extramarital reproduction?  Why, that's just unseemly!

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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1075 on: March 20, 2012, 01:45:17 pm »

Had another iron war hammer.

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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1076 on: March 20, 2012, 03:49:56 pm »

Oh god and now a perfect lavende jade : declinefences the fissure of loving XD
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1077 on: March 24, 2012, 06:59:25 am »



I just got a sarcophagus called 'joyous combat', ideal for someone who had a little too much fun.

It was made by a vampire, 'joyous combat' is the only way he thinks he will ever need one. It also depicts how some night creature thing become the queen of my dwarfen civilization.

PS: how does the include image work? Where does it look for the image?
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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1078 on: March 24, 2012, 07:06:43 pm »

 heh, a coat called 'Armor'

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Re: Your best artifact ever
« Reply #1079 on: March 24, 2012, 08:38:12 pm »

that's just awesome. It translates to 'Flesh temple' or 'Flesh head'.
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