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− | + | Is amphibious, though quite slow on the ground. Given its size (and the density of its flesh), the ball's diameter is about half a meter. | |
− | Flesh balls are featureless | + | Flesh balls are featureless, but still easily killable via slashing weapons. A novice swordswarf with a steel short sword will take about 10 seconds to kill a single flesh ball, and kills it by repeatedly tearing and slashing the Ball's body until it bleeds to death, and the dwarf remains completely unharmed. |
− | Confronted with a blunt force attacker, a flesh ball laughs by slowly undulating in a rhythmic manner. In an arena test, a novice hammerdwarf with a silver war hammer, no other skills and no armor, attacked | + | Confronted with a blunt force attacker, a flesh ball laughs by slowly undulating in a rhythmic manner. In an arena test, a novice hammerdwarf with a silver war hammer, no other skills and no armor, attacked the Ball for about 20 minutes, at which point he was a Legendary Hammerdwarf, Wrestler, Fighter, and Striker. The flesh ball sustained bruises but was still alive and attacking the hammerdwarf in vain. After about 40 minutes of pelting, the hammerdwarf got a lucky hit and tore the skin of the ball, which caused it to bleed out and die. |
− | + | ===Training melee skills with flesh balls=== | |
− | + | You don't like [[danger room]]s ? Good for you ! | |
− | + | Flesh balls, due to their extreme resistance to blunt weapons, are excellent training dummies. You would do better to catch the flesh balls in cage traps first - it simplifies things. Catch several if possible. | |
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− | + | Arm your edge damage dwarves with training weapons (NOT wooden Elf weapons), arm your blunt damage dwarves with their normal weapons, clad them in metal armor (because flesh balls ARE able to wound your dwarves, as harmless as they look), and send a dwarf on a flesh ball. You may want to retire your dwarves every two weeks because of over-exertion and drinking, eating and sleeping. Or schedule your dwarves so only one goes to the flesh ball training room. | |
− | Put your flesh balls in a closed room | + | Put your flesh balls in a closed room, add cage traps to the exit so they won't escape and interrupt your dwarves, and send a military dwarf against one. Three or four weeks of constant flesh ball bashing should be sufficient to make a legendary dwarf. |
− | + | An advantage of 1 dwarf vs 1 flesh ball is that the flesh ball will attack the dwarf as well, which should give you a few levels in armor user as well. | |
− | You can train all | + | You can train all attack skills excepted marksdwarf (use [[iron man|iron men]] or [[bronze colossus|bronze colossuses]] for these) on a flesh ball, including the unarmed attack skills and of course Fighter. Armor User and Shield User may earn a few levels, but Dodger will generally not, so you will need to complete your dwarves's training program with more dangerous fights. |
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