A story I love sharing from an older version of the game and unfortunately the only one that I kept track of as I was left stunned at the result.
A forgotten beast Cyclops decided to pay my dwarven city a visit, so I sound the call to seal the city as I let the hunters act as a vanguard to get my dwarves inside. Unfortunately, the cyclops makes quick work of them and I only just started getting my military in order after getting my iron production started.
So here I quickly assign one of the early recruits to the role of Captain of the Guard, in the role of delaying the foul beast while I scramble to get a militia going to drive it off.
Little did I expect for this single dwarf to not only stand up to the cyclops in single combat but brutally kill it too.
I know cylcops are fairly low on the danger scale, but still to watch and read the logs as this greenbeard dwarf digs into a forgotten beast like I am reading a God of War fanfic was glorious.
What a hero! He did his duty, when the call for arms was given.
To be fair, the farmer should also be given some credit for taking a hit and evading others to provide distraction for the Captain to get stuck in.
Cyclop’s poor judgement to not focus of the greater threat to its demise
Nice! Which tileset is this?
It was quite a while ago and I currently have too old a pc to get back in
Had to do some reading and it was the Meph’s Tileset, but was discontinued on account of profiting off the use of assets without creditation.
https://archive.org/details/dwarf-fortress-47.05-meph-tileset-v-5.5
Seems like a link to the archive of the tileset although I am not too sure how to apply it as recall just utilizing the Lazy Newb Pack settings at the time.
