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[Oliolli]

How the hell do you stab a bronze collosus' arm off with a spear!?

The same way you can stab a finger off with a knife. The spear goes straight through the ENTIRE arm, the axe just tips the surface.

What kind of bronze collosus has such a small arm... :/

What's your average Bronze Colossus look like? :p

Keeps changing. Sometimes they ook like purring maggots, sometimes clouds, based on the statues they drop.

[Panopticon]

And sometimes they look like a statue of dwarfs traveling, and it relates to the founding of your fort.

[Lord Dullard]

And sometimes they look like a statue of dwarfs traveling, and it relates to the founding of your fort.

"Urist, come quick! There's a huge monster attacking the fortress!"

"By Armok! Well, what's it look like?"

"Um... you, actually."

[orius]

I didn't think the marksdwarves would actually kill it, I was more irritated that only 2 or 3 of them was actually willing to give fire support to their comrade while the others just loafed around.  And one of those guys was packing bone bolts like a fool (I really should not have have produced bone bolts on repeat for several years, stupid dorfs use them in combat like idiots.)  I guess that's peasant levies for you.

I made sure she got a good tomb for at least standing her ground and preventing the colossus from penetrating my defenses.  She'll have to wait for the seige to end to actually get buried though.

[Nyxalinth]

And sometimes they look like a statue of dwarfs traveling, and it relates to the founding of your fort.

"Urist, come quick! There's a huge monster attacking the fortress!"

"By Armok! Well, what's it look like?"

"Um... you, actually."

and Catten, and Dodek, and Litast...
Sigged.

[Loud Whispers]

I especially like the vague colossi that look like FB's or something other.

What's your FB look like? o_O

And sometimes they look like a statue of dwarfs traveling, and it relates to the founding of your fort.

"Urist, come quick! There's a huge monster attacking the fortress!"

"By Armok! Well, what's it look like?"

"Um... you, actually."

URIST MC TWILIGHT ZONE :O

[Oaktree]

If it's an articulated statue then I suspect the dwarf pushed the spear into a joint seam, discombobulated the joint and then popped the joint right off by levering with the spear, whose excellent rigidity helped with the operation.   

[bombzero]

I had a bronze collosi drop a statue in adventure mode, so i drop it off somewhere and start a fortress on it.

4 years into the fort a FB comes, it kills half the fort and makes it to the dining room, only then do i notice something,

its a statue of said FB that i got in adv mode.

[terkiey]

I had a bronze collosi drop a statue in adventure mode, so i drop it off somewhere and start a fortress on it.

4 years into the fort a FB comes, it kills half the fort and makes it to the dining room, only then do i notice something,

its a statue of said FB that i got in adv mode.

I vaguely remember that when a statue or engraving or anything else has an FB on it, it will give no description and just say 'forgotten beast'.

[Knigel]

How the hell do you stab a bronze collosus' arm off with a spear!?

The same way you can stab a finger off with a knife. The spear goes straight through the ENTIRE arm, the axe just tips the surface.

What kind of bronze collosus has such a small arm... :/

Bronze collosi size average size is 20,000,000 (the same as a whale) compared to a dwarf's 60,000. Taking the cube of that and assuming mostly human proportions shows they'd have arms about 7 times the width and circumference and 49 times the cross-sectional area.

[Flare]

The spear was obviously thrust with such force that it created an explosion upon impact with the bronze arm. I don't know how the dwarf survived the molten bronze flying everywhere, perhaps he/she had some adamantine armor.

[bombzero]

don't forget that dwarven ballista bolts are a tree trunk with a point, so im not surprised that their spears are large enough to sever limbs off BC.

[Loud Whispers]

Think of the spear as a crowbar -> Stab and twist, arm falls off.

Lever = MULTIPLY THE FORCE = Arm sailing off in an arc

[NinjaBoot]

I didn't think the marksdwarves would actually kill it, I was more irritated that only 2 or 3 of them was actually willing to give fire support to their comrade while the others just loafed around.

My guess is this is where a Militia Commander with a decent Military Tactics skill would come in handy to get your Military Dwarves sorted out ASAP.