v0.31 Talk:Combat

Fighting a forgotten beast, I was getting lots of severs from hits with the flats of blades and pommels of wooden training swords. LOTS of severs. Now, the beast was a quadroped made of snow with a bloated body and a long swinging trunk. Were these severs a bug, or because the beastie was made of snow? --Zombiejustice 15:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Different types of layers provide different types of protection. Snow monsters aren't as hard to damage as, say, an iron man. Not a bug

Untrained, unarmed

Had a thief show up, and sent the 4 closest dwarves to KILL him - untrained, unarmed, plus a (untrained) dog. After four days of tag team action, with the gobbo delivering various wounds to the group, they finally bruised him into an early grave. I had saved the part where the thief arrived, so I ran it a few more times - each time uglier than the next. Red wounds, one lost hand - and each time, days and days for the gobbo to succumb. Template:L lungs/heart/kidneys/etc, every body part yellow or red, and he would still crawl toward the map edge. I guess 4 untrained adults (and the family dog) against one psychotic child armed with a bowie knife is not as good as one might have hoped. On the Skill front, one dwarf went from No Skill to Competent Fighter and Wrestler (and Dabbling Striker) - seems that Skill is now more important than anything else (like size or numbers).--Albedo 23:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Actually, from the reports I have been hearing, the thief having a weapon was also very important. The long time it took to kill him was because of the untrained nature of those going after him but the reason so many of them were hurt so badly was because he had a knife more than anything else. --PencilinHand 15:45, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Had a nasty fight myself, a black bear snuck in near my booze and starting a maul frenzy. I dispatched some Unarmed/Untrained and took heavy casualties. Fight lasted several days and the Black Bear lived, bruised everywhere but alive and deadly. Someone wrestled him through a doorway and I was able to lock it up. SlMagnvox 20:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Friendly Fire?

As far as I remember there was no friendly fire in earlier version but now I got this: Two human guards were caught in the line of fire between my marksdwarfs and a bunch of goblins and they both ended up dead with my bolts stuck in them. Here are screenshots from the combat logs: http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3425/friendlyfire1.png http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2575/friendlyfire2.png There were also goblin crossbowmen in the area, but the bolts are definitely mine.

Not sure if the same can happen to other dwarfs but when they are also vulnerable to friendly fire it would be an important factor to consider when planning a defense strategy. 84.46.86.146 20:28, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

I thought I remembered friendly fire from before. I think it's a function of skill... if they are very good, they always hit the target and nothing else; if they are pretty lousy, the trajectories may include other creatures or obstacles. Cannot confirm, though. --Zombiejustice 01:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)