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« on: January 11, 2009, 09:18:21 pm »
So, my first seige ended.....not too good. My soldiers were cut down and I lost an axemaster to say nothing of the tons of poor poor recruits whose bodies littered the field. Learning from that I built some serious defenses, including some massive pillboxes (filled with loads of marksmen) long trapped entrances, drawbridges, etc.. My soldiers trained night and day, and I could only think to myself 'next time, it will be different, there will be....a reckoning!'
With autumn comes some much needed merchants, and since they are much needed, so to does another seige. I was lucky (unlucky?) enough that the seige popped right next to the merchants, who downed a couple gobbos and bought me some time. Then I proceded to activate my soldiers. They would all be in well designed stations that would butcher the incoming goblins. Victory would be mine.
While waiting for my soldiers to get into place I watch the goblins ruthlessly hunt down a couple of other merchants, then noticed that the wagons were almost at my base. But hark, what jackassery through yonder ascii breaks? Tis my soldiers, all running outside of the fortifications one by one, all with the mission 'pick up items'. They all leave the fortress and run to where the goblins offed the merchant guards, and I guess take gear from them.
Let me take this moment to say I was lucky. My soldiers were well trained and even outside of the fortress and strung out they managed to cut down all of the goblins (~15 including 2 masters) with limited losses. But WTF were they doing outside in the first place??? They've never tried to pick up gear before? Why NOW, when it is of utmost importance that they don't?
Any thoughts, cause I can't allow this to happen again.
