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[Zrk2]

The exact opposite of facepalm moments. Place them here.

Like, shit! I don't have any.

Anyway, post yours here!

[UnrealJake]

Pulling a drawbridge shut as I had just spotted an ambush. A cat had JUST adopted a dwarf before it was launched through the fortifications above the bridge. When I say through, I mean partially through.

The blood and body parts splattered all over the new owner. It's kinda meek but it made me giggle.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

When I had a forest fire burn the tigerman caravan.

[AngleWyrm]

I had a newly trained squad of steel-plated axe lords, and I set up a patrol route that goes around the perimeter of the map. I set the squad to patrol on the third month of every season, and on their first patrol they strung out around the border.

Just then not one, not two, not three, but four goblin ambush teams were discovered sneaking in from all different directions. The goblins were no match for the axe lords, and the invasion was handily thwarted, and the civilians were saved.

I love it when a good plan comes together. Goblinite for everyone!

[kawaiidesunekochan]

I caught two full goblin sieges in my drowning trap. 

[leftycook]

when i dug a giant twisting labrynth, with a resident titan, some giant desert scorpions, lots of engravings and statues, a few rooms unsmoothed with muddy floors and small lakes.

I dropped my prisoners into there and watched them flee through the twisting corridors trying to evade all my nasties.

the entire labrynth was covered in blood and guts.

it was beautiful.

[NewsMuffin]

In my personal Orc Fortress mod, I had two Orcs, one with a copper battle axe, another with a bronze pick, fend off an entire Elven siege all on their own. With no armor. And no skills.

[shadowform]

One of my speardwarves is now up to 3 forgotten beast kills.  One of them was a one-hit-kill as he broke off the lower body of a humanoid made of salt by whacking it with the blunt end of his spear, the other was a fight against an animate blob of steam in which he killed it by KICKING ITS BODY AWAY.

[decius]

(40d)I built an execution tower entirely out of soap. Except that the top floor two, with the cages and lots of gem windows. It looked like it would give anyone epilepsy just standing there. Then I filled the bottom 15 levels with lava.

Nothing worthy of such a tower dared approach the fortress. Even the nobles were cowed by it's awesomeness, and made reasonable demands requests.

[Zidane]

When my mason started to carve an immigrant being torn apart by skeletal carp, over and over and over again.

[Zrk2]

Oh! Grassfires burning hunters to death!

[Megaman3321]

My militia captian axedorf fending off 5 gobbos. With only talented axedorf skill . And during a seige, single-handedly killing a squad of pikegobs. And then took out his anger on the head gobbos mount when he got away. Needless to say, he now is treated better than my royalty.

[Xerillum]

when I sent 10 dwarves to kill a forgotten beast with fire breath, and my wrestler that was given an axe killed the fb by himself with no injuries. He just cut it in half.

[absynthe7]

So, a Forgotten Beast shows up, made of filth and with deadly spittle, but he can't get through the walls surrounding my farms in the caverns. He wanders off, but I try to keep a close eye on the Units screen for his eventual reappearance. Two seasons pass, and I gradually check the unit screen less and less until I no longer check it at all. At this point, I've got a dozen dwarves running into the caverns in a bucket brigade to fill a bathhouse inside of my fortress with water from the underground lake there, with water coming into my walled-off region via a channel.

"Urist McBucketBrigade cancels Fill Pond: Interrupted by Forgotten Beast"

With the floodgate open, the FB had run up the channel and emerged in my farming area. I quickly mobilize my military, sending them down the main stairway as chaos breaks out, with the Beast chasing dwarves to and fro, spitting frozen globs of extract and generally making a nuisance of himself before chasing one of the dwarves up the main stairwell into the fort proper.

Where he is intercepted by a pair of hammerdwarves.

They begin pounding on him with their silver warhammers, blocking each spit attack with their shields until the steel-clad sworddwarves show up. Meanwhile, my marksdwarves, who have until now insisted on bludgeoning every single enemy, sit 2-3 flights up the stairway, raining bronze bolts of death on their enemy for the first time ever. Several minutes of frantic battling ensue, until finally, the first dwarf to intercept him cuts the beast in half. With his hammer.

Seeing extract and blood on the stairs, I immediately restrict all traffic to those tiles and designate constructed stairs to be built over them. My masons clean up the mess within minutes, while my now-inactive soldiers duck into the new bathhouse, all traces of the beast rinsed off in the water that other idle dwarves soon clean up and haulers dump the "filth" that was left behind in lieu of a corpse. Soon, no absolutely no traces of the creature remain. No casualties and, one season later, still no syndromes.

So yeah. I feel pretty awesome right now. Can't wait for my first DF2010 siege

[Pukako]

Quite a few forts ago, while still learning basics (I hadn't worked out the use of the [shift] button back then), I was dealing with two forgotten beasts in the caverns, when a hydra turned up, destroyed a wall I had in the middle of nowhere, and headed to my fortress.

Everyone was inside the raised drawbridge except for a kitten.  Well, no loss there, I thought.

A chase that warranted Benny Hill music ensued, with a least three circuits of the entire map, then the hydra ran into my only remaining cage trap on it's first run past it.  Beautiful.