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)