Throwing is still great for dismembering and hurting people before they can hit you. Maxing throwing takes like 10 minutes anyway so it's worth training it, as a side effect you also train the archer skill to max.
[QUOTE=Vitisus;45372766][url]http://www.dfst.org/en/stories/280[/url]
This story?[/QUOTE]
Yes! Thanks, bookmarked.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ZGgLbpw.png[/img]
what do you guys think my chances are if I throw my entire military at this
I've got about 26 soldiers, 10 ranged, and generally above average discipline
[B]trees will literally murder your fort holy shit[/B]
i tried to chop down some maple logs for beds and a tree fell on my wagon, crushing everyone who wasn't the woodcutter
[QUOTE=No_0ne;45373021][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZGgLbpw.png[/img]
what do you guys think my chances are if I throw my entire military at this
I've got about 26 soldiers, 10 ranged, and generally above average discipline[/QUOTE]
You've definitely got this under your belt. Go for it. Give it everything you have. Everything will [I]turn out just fine.[/I]
Please post back with the outcome. The obvious winning outcome. Thanks.
my propensity for having horrible shit happen to my innocent dwarves has transferred over to 40.03 i see
[QUOTE=loopoo;45373041]You've definitely got this under your belt. Go for it. Give it everything you have. Everything will [I]turn out just fine.[/I]
Please post back with the outcome. The obvious winning outcome. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
i shall return with pictures of my victory
edit: oh fuck my escape key isn't registering
edit: okay thats weird it wasn't registering because i had photoshop open
I remember when some big bug megabeast with chitin attacked my fort. I couldn't do jack shit to kill it, the chitin armour just repelled everything.
Once I got a literal flying blob of vomit FB that shot webs. It killed half my fort until one archer hit it once and it got torn in half.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;45373060]i shall return with pictures of my victory[/QUOTE]
Alright, I safely evacuated my citizen into the safety of the fortress
I set my soldiers to ambush the beast as it crosses the bridge, with luck it'll fall into the river and drown.
I've got three squads, markdwarves, speardwarves and some hammerdwarves, with decent weapons but meager armor
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xkSxDom.png[/img]
The beast approaches
A couple dwarves panic immediately at the sight of it
As the creature draws closer to the bridge the order to charge is sounded, Armok knows what will happen next.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/dW1l0lk.png[/img]
All six of the hammerdwarves flee shamefully, which was somewhat expected as they're a new squad. The speardwarves and marksdwarves however attack with zeal.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/S3egyHs.png[/img]
And then, just as planned, the minotaur dodges away from the speardwarves, plunging himself into the river.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/baDPiOT.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xNQAZdT.png[/img]
Or so we thought! With great strength the beast launches out of the river and entangles himself with two of the speardwarves, mangling the legs of one.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cUWDZtR.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7WHdZOa.png[/img]
Despite this the speardwarves surround the creature, and after a rapid exchange, one lucky dwarf got the minotaur the brain, killing it instantly
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PPofojC.png[/img]
The minotaur has been slain, and the fortress lives on to see another day.
No casualties except the guy who got his legs broke
also funny thing that guy was also the only one of the hammerdwarf squad who didn't run away from the fight, totally promoting him to squad leader
A few years ago, I had a quadruped composed of diamond that breathed out clouds of instakilling dust visit my fort. I sent everything I had at it: conscripts, my legendary +5 swordsmen, EVERYTHING. All of them died and the most hits a single one got in was three. It appeared as if my whole fort was dead, but then I found a dwarf hiding in my execution chambers. This dwarf was going to be killed for having no skill at all, but since she was the last dwarf in my fort, I drafted her with no weapon. I was suspecting I was about to lose, but what fucking happened? She walks up to the diamond horror and BISECTS IT WITH HER FIST. I wish I could make this shit up. A single dwarf with no skill killed the most dangerous FB I had ever encountered.
A few months later, she went stark raving mad and ran into an alligator. She was absolutely defenseless, but she survived long enough for a migrant wave to come. I had these new migrants beat the alligator to death and mine out my whole fortress. It was turned into a gold and steel tomb for her. After that, I abandoned the fort. There was no way I could continue without all the migrants starving.
So either my human outsider accidentally killed someone who became a zombie or I spawned in a village attacked by a necromancer army.
I killed many zombies but ultimately got surrounded and died along with the entire town.
fuck
So I'm playing Masterwork Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode aaand
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HIHLWo0.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vNfbocc.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lv1zTAQ.png[/IMG]
All this happened in about three or four turns (is that what you call them?) And I thought my guy was awesome after bisecting a cheetah in one slash.
What [B]fun[/B]! One of these days I should move on to Fortress Mode.
[QUOTE=SuperPlamz;45373555]A few years ago, I had a quadruped composed of diamond that breathed out clouds of instakilling dust visit my fort. I sent everything I had at it: conscripts, my legendary +5 swordsmen, EVERYTHING. All of them died and the most hits a single one got in was three. It appeared as if my whole fort was dead, but then I found a dwarf hiding in my execution chambers. This dwarf was going to be killed for having no skill at all, but since she was the last dwarf in my fort, I drafted her with no weapon. I was suspecting I was about to lose, but what fucking happened? She walks up to the diamond horror and BISECTS IT WITH HER FIST. I wish I could make this shit up. A single dwarf with no skill killed the most dangerous FB I had ever encountered.
A few months later, she went stark raving mad and ran into an alligator. She was absolutely defenseless, but she survived long enough for a migrant wave to come. I had these new migrants beat the alligator to death and mine out my whole fortress. It was turned into a gold and steel tomb for her. After that, I abandoned the fort. There was no way I could continue without all the migrants starving.[/QUOTE]
In any other game you would be called out, saying you're making up bullshit.
But this?
This is Dwarf Fortress, where gods have fallen to man. It is the best combat simulator, it is where even when one gets lucky, they can strike down the bronze colossus with luck.
Long live Dwarf Fortress.
[QUOTE=Keyblockor1;45373728]In any other game you would be called out, saying you're making up bullshit.
But this?
This is Dwarf Fortress, where gods have fallen to man. It is the best combat simulator, it is where even when one gets lucky, they can strike down the bronze colossus with luck.
Long live Dwarf Fortress.[/QUOTE]
Agreed, but I'm not sure monsters tripping over shit should explode into giblets when they hit the ground.
How to perform a dwarven dynamic entry: Pick up enough speed while sprinting then jump onto the square your opponent is. They should go flying.
Armok isn't on your side if you bugger this up.
[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;45372816]you don't need to turn off boogeymen,
just always have a companion adventurer with you and you're fine.
and yea, throwing was the old meta due to the way skulls used to work but it might not work nearly as well now with the new update because i think that got fixed?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but that's why I mentioned the rivers.
I've heard countless tales of people's companions drowning in rivers like total fucktards for one reason or another and then BAM.
Boogeymen eat their face later.
DT is now marginally working
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/2ajsoy/dwarf_therapist_df_v04001_success/[/url]
um.... hello?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9NtACP2.png[/t]
a friend of mine just drew this.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/qaSG6M4.png[/t]
I have used a few spare pcs on hand to compile more worlds and test my odd melting bug faster. Out of around 50 genned worlds, only another one has given me the same outcome when embarking on frozen biomes. The saves become corrupt after crash.
Dwarves confirmed for snowmen with beards.
I just went into a "dark fortress" that was not a goddamn fortress at all, it was just some fucking collection of retarded towers full of goblin peasants and shit. I also developed a surefire way to maximize your kill count:
Have sword
Have at least novice skill (or in my case, skilled)
Attack -> Head -> Slash -> "The Goblin Fisherman was struck down."
I had like nearly a hundred kills before the game crashed just as I was clearing the last tower. :(
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;45375077]I just went into a "dark fortress" that was not a goddamn fortress at all, it was just some fucking collection of retarded towers full of goblin peasants and shit. I also developed a surefire way to maximize your kill count:
Have sword
Have at least novice skill (or in my case, skilled)
Attack -> Head -> Slash -> "The Goblin Fisherman was struck down."
I had like nearly a hundred kills before the game crashed just as I was clearing the last tower. :([/QUOTE]
You can also aim for the neck, civilized creatures will have their heads lopped off by that, but other humanoids wont.
[editline]13th July 2014[/editline]
I just realized length and width are skewed my fucking brain hurts now my OCD is going off the charts.
[QUOTE=Tureis;45375114]You can also aim for the neck, civilized creatures will have their heads lopped off by that, but other humanoids wont.
[editline]13th July 2014[/editline]
I just realized length and width are skewed my fucking brain hurts now my OCD is going off the charts.[/QUOTE]
Square tilesets yo.
So, I forced myself into learning this game and I think I'm doing quite good on my first try.
I spawned in a house full of humans constantly saying "It is terrifying." I tried to talk to some dude who was an exalted sacrifice of something and he spit me on my chest and said "I hate you."
Right now I'm walking around taking occasional licks from a chalk rock I picked up.
[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;45372816]
and yea, throwing was the old meta due to the way skulls used to work but it might not work nearly as well now with the new update because i think that got fixed?[/QUOTE]
Actually I found that with this new update throwing is quite OP again, even in close quarters combat. With the new opportunities to act halfway an attack it is possible to throw something into your opponent while they attack you, leaving them no time to block in melee. Apparantly throwing is fast enough to get that hit before even a swordmaster can finish the attack and block.
Close quarters throwing saved my life when I was outnumbererd 5-1 and lost my shield to a swordmaster. Perhaps it was just sheer luck but a god throwing skill and timing can turn any battle.
[QUOTE=Mrfantasticool;45376274]Actually I found that with this new update throwing is quite OP again, even in close quarters combat. With the new opportunities to act halfway an attack it is possible to throw something into your opponent while they attack you, leaving them no time to block in melee. Apparantly throwing is fast enough to get that hit before even a swordmaster can finish the attack and block.
Close quarters throwing saved my life when I was outnumbererd 5-1 and lost my shield to a swordmaster. Perhaps it was just sheer luck but a god throwing skill and timing can turn any battle.[/QUOTE]
Makes for far scarier situations as well. I once threw a spear into a guy's chest and got it to stick. [I]But it didn't even slow him down.[/I]
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;45376216]Right now I'm walking around taking occasional licks from a chalk rock I picked up.[/QUOTE]
Good advice for DF and life in general: chalk should not be the first thing you reach for when you're hungry or thirsty :v:.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;45375077]I just went into a "dark fortress" that was not a goddamn fortress at all, it was just some fucking collection of retarded towers full of goblin peasants and shit. I also developed a surefire way to maximize your kill count:
Have sword
Have at least novice skill (or in my case, skilled)
Attack -> Head -> Slash -> "The Goblin Fisherman was struck down."
I had like nearly a hundred kills before the game crashed just as I was clearing the last tower. :([/QUOTE]
works with spears as well, but obviously 'stab' either the head or neck
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;45375077]I just went into a "dark fortress" that was not a goddamn fortress at all, it was just some fucking collection of retarded towers full of goblin peasants and shit. I also developed a surefire way to maximize your kill count:
Have sword
Have at least novice skill (or in my case, skilled)
Attack -> Head -> Slash -> "The Goblin Fisherman was struck down."
I had like nearly a hundred kills before the game crashed just as I was clearing the last tower. :([/QUOTE]
dark fortresses actually do have fortresses. I found one filled with a bunch of trolls, and at the top there was a goblin lady that I killed to take claim over the fortress. the FPS was so bad that I had to retire, but at least I became the lord of a dark fortress before ending my game.
[editline]13th July 2014[/editline]
I created a world where most of it was an evil biome, and the mead hall I started in had a bat as a law giver. I tried to see the description of the bat and I crashed.
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