v0.31 Talk:Cyclops

I was attacked by a cyclops during my second year. I had a very meager military force of only 15 or so dorfs. One squad was armed with training weapons and the other had training weapons and crossbows with wooden bolts. Somehow, my dorfs killed the cyclops with no causalities. This same force was later wiped out by goblins (who they outnumbered) even though they were armed with iron weapons and armor. This was my only fight against a cyclops (new player), but it seemed too weak to be right. Anyone have any thoughts? The_Dorfen_Spartan 01:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Have you scrutinized the combat logs? I've heard of powerful unarmed opponents grabbing the first object they come across to use as a weapon, and if that happens to be a sock, you end up with a laughably ineffective enemy. Alternatively, what training weapons were your dorfs armed with? Maybe a speardwarf felled the big lug with one lucky shot to a vital organ. Bognor 03:50, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Come to think of it, I'm not sure about the speardwarf bit, as training weapons are blunt, not sharp. Though I guess a crossbowdwarf might have been similarly lucky. But really, I'm not that surprised that a swarm of dwarves could take down a cyclops without casualties, especially if they all reached the cyclops together and were armored. Gobbos armed with blunt weapons, whips, or scourges would be a bigger threat. You could get a better answer if you asked at the forums ([1]). Bognor 04:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for such a swift response. Alas, when I went to the combat logs the event was too old. I'll keep the world in case the reports are in the files or something. I checked my weapons and found two large daggers which he might have been carrying. Where my dorfs dumped his body I found a steel crossbow and a single pine bolt (probably the killer). I think that the marksmen getting a lucky shot is the most likely cause. Thanks again for the help. --The Dorfen Spartan 07:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

To add to this, my fortress was attacked (in version 0.25) by about 8 or 9 goblins. Since I was unprepared to fight them off, I simply shut the door to wait them out. During this time, a cyclops showed up. It went straight for the goblins, but almost immediately turned and spent the remainder of its life running all over the map until they finally killed it (without any goblin casualties or injuries that I can tell). -- Dark T Zeratul 22:50, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Cyclops are really not that dangerous. I sent in my military when one showed up. Now they were pretty well trained. Level 12 or so swordsdwarf, the first dwarf got there before anyone else, the cyclops never even got in an attack. The dwarf missed, then slashed his arm, destroying it, then nailed him a couple times in the head and that was it.--Crossmr 12:12, 12 May 2011 (UTC)