Mant

[RockinRaider]

mants are powerful i mean really i had four people with way of the gnome they lost the first gnome i had all game because of them five fully armored and armed goblins arent as strong as a mant...

[theystillspyillegally]

I turn mants and beetles off in my game. They are a bit overpowering and will attack on an almost daily basis, I couldn't keep up. Not until I got steel. So I walled off the whole map anyways, no place to spawn (edgetiles not clear), means no mants, goblins, iguanas, skunks, or anything! The goblins I left on because they are no too tough. Mants just eviscerate my gnomes. The armor they wear is like bronze or iron in toughness.

[Vermillion Cardinal]

I never bother with Way of the Gnome past the early stage of the game. I'd rather trust in the protection of good plates of armor than dodge chance if I plan on having people survive with their limbs intact. Bare fists aren't good against mants either, if I'm correct.

[RockinRaider]

they arent but hammers are hammer time bronze go

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

Way of the gnome is NOT going to cut it with mants; what happens is around a kingdom worth of 30k and up one mant scout can spawn in the day, if you don't kill it before night-time and it leaves the map a worker invasion occur. The problem is their insane fitness and fighting stats, and you basically need gnomes dual wielding hammers to give yourself the best chance against their armor. I would recommend a few fully armored tanks with taunt to save the amount of armor needed.

[Petrothian]

once you have bronze armour, you will be okay against mants.

[astralprogenitor]

If you have more than 2000 food/drink more mants will start appearing.

Mants are basically the game's way of forcing you out of WotG, as far as I'm concerned. Their attacks are biting and stinging, both of which quickly cause bleeding and severed limbs - and death - to unarmored gnomes. You should have a kingdom capable of making bronze by the time you get them, unless you've turned up your food production and nothing else.

If you have bronze they're pretty easy, but yes you can get away with no full scale invasion if you kill a scout when you see it.

[VUK FARKAS]

Make traps... i personally made like 10 or so spike traps in a corridor throu which they want to pass and they get severely damaged by the time they start fighting with my security gnomes... and i got copper and bronze armor and while most have copper/malachite swords i still got one that uses fists ahahah... for some reason they dont like shields... but i dont complain i got no looses and just in case there is a crate full of bandages at the end of the corridor for my gnomes (interestingly since they got bronze armor they rarely use it)

[RockinRaider]

i go for armor and shields with hammers immediately with a set of hand axes off to the sides for goblins i have made some armor presets as well as professions starting to learn the game

[Vermillion Cardinal]

Never bothered with shields in any kingdom past the first three I've ever started in Gnomoria. The wiki's suggestion about the power of dual wielding weapons (hammer/axe, hammer/sword) has never failed to hold up against everything from steel armored goblins to two-headed ogres.

[ST33L Jaguar Riddle of Steel]

Mants can be Devistating. To put it Blunt. You need a Mix of Weapons and Styles. Firstly you should rush for Plated Armour (Copper is more than enough early Game) Then Crossbows.
Secondly, Remember to have Farmers since these guys Aquire the Best Stats for Speed, so you want your Crossbowmen and the Strongest of your Fighters to be fast and First into Combat. Third, make a good Balanced team! Personally i go with (2X)Shield/Axe,Warhammer. Hammer/Sheild, and a Tower Shield as my Leader. fourth, Stone Bolts are nice, but as long as you can get your engineers on to Metal Bolts the better, since you can buy Copper ore and smelt them you can keep the Kingdom cost down since you are expending the cost per Shot (every shot your gnome takes it Lessens the Cost of your kingdom ;D) and it makes your Gnomes all the much more leathal

[The Infelicitous Monomaniac]

Mants are bugs. Meaning they have exoskeletons. You need armor to fend off their high defence and capable offensive stats.

The armor doesn't have to be amazing at the start though. Just cover everything, else it's simply too easy to bleed your gnomes to death or combo injuries.