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Gathers a small band of 6 other Dwarves and embarks in the side of a mountain near a Necromancer tower. Begins mining down continuously while other Dwarves complain about "food, booze, rest, and nourishment. Hits adamantine...

I like to make military choke-points for my battles. The sieges enter to find the 5x5 trade depot, followed by 2-3 layers of traps and a wall. At the wall, there is a diagonal slit in the side of the hallway. When they walk through, they are battered to death by an artifact mechanism weapon trap (or masterwork if I don't have the mechanism) with one whip (to knock them out) and 9 masterwork quality spiked balls to finish them. They then have to pass a 15-20 tile death hallway while Marksdwarves shoot out from behind fortifications. If they've stopped at the wall, I can send in my melee squads to kill them without any disadvantage against ranged troops. If a Goblin siege comes with building destroyers, they'll charge forth into cage traps and be nullified. I always keep at least one row of cage traps to save some prisoners for Dwarven torture and capture Mega and semi-Megabeasts for use, though they rarely show up. I also like to install a cage trap in the wall with an army of all those useless yaks and water buffalo migrants bring, so I can flip a lever and watch them be gored. If I'm really blood thirsty, I'll fill the cage with members of another captured siege or dangerous wildlife. In all honesty, I'm starting to cut down on the use of traps after learning how much deadlier the military is, especially now that sieges tend to wander.
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Sorry if not everything lines up, hope you get the basic picture. There are two cages because I like to have two stocked with fighters.

Urist utters a laugh...

Demons have been struck down

WWUD if s/he knew that s/he was just some simulation in the best video game in the world?

Quartz_Mace: Hp 100:100 (Vampire toughness)

As a Vampire and slayer of one, commands an army of 500 bear-riding humans to march upon the tower, but does not fight himself.

Quote from: Robsoie on September 22, 2014, 12:42:19 pm

If i remember well the fix was about animals, but i notice there are many animals (weren't trolls animals too ?) that have now jobs (like the trolls), some animals can even be found as "recruit" (without even being "animal men"), maybe that's where the fix break : as if an animal has a job (that is a bug in itself already), doesn't it mean that the game does not treat it as animal anymore ?

nah it's most likely due to the game randomly generating a populace for when you visit than "animals count as people too!."

stepping away from regeneration I finally learn where all those items go when you trade with people,
They go into their coin pouch.

Don't worry he's a dad.

Oh my gosh, their carrying babies! Quick try to barter for one. I wonder if he'll sell...

I find it amusing as to how we found a science project that doesn't involve magma.

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Hmmm. Face palm moments... How about all of them?