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.

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      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.