> Since there are probably 100 statues or more, I am not enthusiastic
> about chipping them one by one with the pickaxe.
> I do have wands of striking, but I'd really prefer to keep any
> potions these soldiers and sergeants might have had. Is there any
> way to achieve that quickly?
No. You have to choose between destroying the statues quickly (with a
force bolt or a wand of striking) or tediously chipping them to
pieces and getting their potions.
You could conceivably stone-to-flesh them, but that kind of defies
the purpose...
Raisse, petrified by a cockatrice
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Actually, if you destroy a statue that has a potion inside it with a
spell of Striking, the potion stays intact. just noticed in ludios
myself, and tested by calling in numphs in wizmode. just first pick up
fragile objects from the ground.
Actually, if you stone-to-flesh 100 statues occupying the same space,
you'll get 1 live critter and 99 (possibly less) corpses.
-Shaman