User talk:AbuDhabi

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DF2010:Elk bird

They die easily to a moderately equipped and trained squad of dorfs. 

Hi. I've seen some vague and undefined statements on these boards, but that is right up there with the best of them. What is "moderately equipped"? How "moderately" trained? How many in a squad? Also, there is SO much randomness involved in combat, unless you've seen many combats your one/few encounters are not very significant or reliable. The only real measure is 1:1, or 1:x, and either a naked wrestler or a fully armoured and "well trained" dwarf (or more than one, but a concrete number - not "a squad", which can be from 2-10 iirc). Just letting you know that I'm removing the above, since it's really meaningless - if you want to add something concrete from your experience (perhaps on the talk page, until it gets confirmed?), it would be welcomed. Readya later, --Albedo 21:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I wondered what the hell an Elk Bird was, searched for it here, found nothing, so I created a stubby page. IIRC, it was a 3 dorf squad with iron weapons and incomplete leather/iron armour with skills around competent. I think the first dorf who got to the bird killed it in one shot or so. AbuDhabi 10:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)