Originally posted by Danson:

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Past the bronze age, greydwarf battles are for skilling-up. I like to preserve the Shamans as long as possible.

I try to get at least one parry in on every enemy that attacks me, even if I can one shot them, and as a result my block skill is quite high. I also use basic workbench weapons on weak enemies so that I'm not damaging the durability of my weapons that require a forge to repair while I'm out and about. Bonus points if that makes the enemies take two hits to kill -- double the XP.

Well met in the wild!

I like to find a rancid bone pile in a burial chamber and just back into a corner with a #1 wood club (or whatever) but a good shield. You can get three or four skeletons pounding on your shield at once, and it takes at least a couple of hits to turn each of them into bone piles. Put on some war music and plan long-term strategy.

You can nerf bow-shots, and take three-to-five hits for a skeleton. With greylings and greydwarfs, too. This is huge help in the early game, when low archery skills are so painful.