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My dwarves are bravely trying to save the life of a thirsty wrestler with a broken arm. Instead of getting one job and having it canceled, they're trying again and again to get water, though unfortunately there is none at the moment because all the water is frozen.

Did Toady change it so that dwarves actually try to feed/water the wounded better?

I would if you could sell artifacts. They'd LOVE it, I'm sure. Or you know, kick my ass because it's made out of wood. -.-

I didn't know dwarves knew how to make bows, anyway. O_o

... And instead of something my dwarves can USE, like a CROSSBOW maybe, he made a maple bow.

Am I ever gonna get a legendary weapon? T_T

Ah well, at least it boosted my wealth and he's a legendary bowyer now.

I prefer "newbie", honestly, since "noob" in many internet circles means "a newbie who doesn't learn or is purposefully annoying", whereas "newbie" is a kinder version used to refer to those who are new but mean well.

I think I saw this in the dev notes. Toady definitely wants to blend the two to some extent - he's mentioned that he wants to let you switch over to adventurers or adventuring parties during regular gameplay, and control your patrols when they're sent out to do battle.

Welcome to the forum, by the way. Hope you enjoy your stay.

To 'zerg rush' means to mob with many many units (usually weak ones). It comes originally from the game starcraft because a viable tactic when playing as the Zerg (an alien race) was to make loads of their cheapest unit and win the skirmish in a few minutes by rushing them with your horde.

More specifically:

Starcraft has three races which are well known for their good balance.

You have the Protoss, who's units are insanely expensive but hard to take down (and I mean very hard).
You have the Marines (humans), who are well balanced and have technologically advanced units.
And finally you have the most well known, the Zerg, a parasitic organism of some sort that infests and controls all it comes across. Zerg units are weak but VERY cheap.

Now, a "rush" is a tactic that basically means "crank out some early units and go straight for the enemy base before he has a defense set up at all". Seeing as in the game early on your buildings are utterly defenseless and you have no military, a rush could be your doom. Zerg are the best for this, seeing as their weakest unit, the "Zergling", can be produced in MASS numbers to blot out the... ground... for the enemy. So you can destroy them before they get enough resources to put up a fight. It's a well known and effective tactic, but often derided as cheap.

In response to a rush, you could "turtle" - build up tons of defensive stuff, mine resources as fast as you can, and mow down the zerglings before they can do any real harm. However, this means you're lacking in offense and can't skirmish in the early game. One of the well known tactics for countering a rush was to build bunkers and Siege Tanks (I think that's what they're called) behind your defensive line, which will _murder_ the zerglings en masse.

So you can obviously see the similarities with elves. Charging brute-force with hundreds upon hundreds of individually weak soldiers in a swarm against a superior but underprepared and outnumbered opponent.

Just make lasgun ammo really, really light, bundle it in like packages of 500 (if that's even possible, though I doubt it) and call it lasgun power. The cells that are used in lasguns can last for hundreds of shots, and can be recharged on solar energy.

If you'd like, I could give you my race or post the raws here. If nothing else it would give a general idea about how to mod in a human-like bird race.