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Thank you, I appreciate it.

On a side note, were sieges made more difficult? Does the Orc mod still work?

In light of learning how to make GCS shoot silk through fortifications at rapid fire rates, I am trying to master a way to make Fire Imps/Dragons/Spoilers to shoot flames through them as well. The trouble is that what makes them shoot flames isn't coated in webbing like the bait for the GCS, they are covered in flame; and I end up with !!Kitten!!.

Currently, my fortress is on the Dwarf Heaven map, and any intruders get showered in webbing. Then, they trigger row of pressure plates by moving past the web zone which makes a bait animal fall for the imps, thus the intruders get a quick burst of flames shot into their lines.

In a general sense, this is a semi-effective step towards my goal of an automated defense. The trouble is that with my current design, the flame does not shoot head on and thus while the orks mover from north to south down a hallway, the imps fire west-east, which is sort of like waster fire. What usually happens, is that the orks trigger the bait animal to fall and the imps fire flames far too late to do any real damage. Also, flaming orks tends to be a loose-loose situation when you want to fight them up close instead of using Marksdwarves.

I am trying to perfect the system, and add in Booze-Bombs that drop with the bait animal, thus the burst of flames becomes a burst of flames + explosion. Due to the layout of my current system, this usually scores me 2 dead imps and 2 dead GCS, and a fort full of burning orks and dwarves.

I always felt using marksdwarfs was unfair and made things too easy, but that fighting Orks face to face is too hard. My goal is to somehow cripple the orcs before engaging them. Ideally, my final defense will be as follows:

1. Orks enter hallway and get showered in webbing
2. Orks get shot with flames + 1 large explosion
3. Orks get doused in water, extinguishing flames and leaving behind wounded Orks
4. Orks drop a few z levels into a glass arena in the center of the dining hall, in which my Elite Hammerdwarfs/Wrestlers await. Maybe I can design a badass arena as well. Hopefully stunning them and breaking their legs? I have yet to experiment with this part yet so help is appreciated.

I just found out that I could change the init files to show certain hidden features when choosing an embark location. For some reason when I want to embark on a site with, say; an elven fortress/city I cannot embark there anymore. This is somewhat annoying to me, as I generated a world with an elven hippie-fortress next to a magma pipe.

You could simply put wall over the bottom of the put, fill it with a liquid to kill off all the creatures, then release said liquid down the pit or through a fortification dug into the edge of the map. Then you will have a monster-free pit, and can remove the floors or do whatever you want.

Its WAY more fun to find out about HFS on your own.

How did you get all those turtle?

Does anyone have seed of a glacier map that also had magma?

My first ever ambush consisted of 2 sqauds. 1 had axes, the other whips. The migrant wave before the ambush, I had drafted 10 imigrants out of my total 30 dwarves (all the immigrants) and had them spar to become legendary wresters. Then, I armed then with masterpiece, or the quality below it- obsidian swords, decent bone armor, and wood shields, and had them spar more. They were at all at the "swordsdwarf rank" when I got the ambush message.

The goblins pushed by fisher into a pool of water he was fishing at. Then, they attacked my woodcutter, who managed to kill 3 and cut the legs off of 2 of the mace goblins.

I quickly mobilized my military and drew up the bridge; as this was my first combat I just thought "hey, set the actions all at once!". Only 1 dwarf from the military crossed the bridge before it was pulled up, and 3 fell into the moat. It was connected to a brook, so they all made it out alive but behind the wall.

I check in, and see my 1 dwarf charge the mace squad to save the woodcutter. By this time, the woodcutter has lost BOTH legs, but he was Superdwarvenly Tough, so he was passed out and not dead. I should note that he and the fisher were both drafed so I could have them run away from the ambush, but it didn't help. So, my legendary wrestler/ swordsdwarf with a masterpiece obsidian swords runs in. He massacres the sqaud without so much as a scratch, and when there was only 1 macegoblin left the whip squad charges in. They proceed to circle my dwarf, but he still beats the shit out of them. He started the battle with the second squad in a "tired" state. He kills all of the whip goblins incuring some moderate damage to his upper body, but he passed out due to extreme pain. I thought they were all dead, I was wrong.

I check the fisher, and it seems that 1 goblin fell into the pool with him, and he killed it somehow. My legendary fisher killed a legendary whip goblin. It must have been stunned in the water, but the entire murky pool was filled with blood. I look up, and notice that same legendary macegoblin that was rescued by the whip sqaurd, limping toward my passed out swordsdwarf; leaving a trail of blood behind it. Then, my drafter fisher runs in; wrestled with it and makes it overexert itself and they both pass out.

My woodcutter was rescued, and so was the fisher and militrary dwarf. All were rewarded with platinum plated engraved rooms to recover in. The woodcutter never woke up, he slept for 5+ years with no sign of recovering. The fisher recoved from his loped off arm and mangled other arm, but was ambushed and killed the next ambush. After that, all the seigers were SLAUGHTERED by the 10 dwarfs; even up to 6 squads could be dispatched by 3 well trained, well armed, moderately armored legendary swordsmen/wrestlers