Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: piecewise on May 23, 2009, 12:48:40 pm

Elves are good only for wrestling training or testing how sharp your blade is.

NOTHING ELSE

They're good for porn.

WHAT!?!

Apart from your soldiers and guards, who obviously expose themselves to the most danger by battling orcs and goblins, what generally is your most dangerous occupation?
My current fortress has lost 6 miners; 4 to magma, 1 to orcs and 1 to insanity. 2nd place is the hunter/rangers, who have lost 3 to the grizzly bears and 1 to the orcs.
I love it when my civilian dwarves die actually. During my most recent siege the orcs siezed a hatch and were spilling across our massive main hall, a 50 by 50 set up. Watching the civies run chaotically away from the monsters was pretty awesome.
I'm getting carried away. Who dies the most and why?

I have never managed to convince the humans to go to war with me, although hopefully in the future I will be able to through generous supplies of magma and locking meeting room doors. Nonetheless, I'm really interested in the idea of humans riding horses into battle. How does this work? Is the soldier part of the horse's inventory? Can you kill the horses? Do they travel a lot faster than they could otherwise? If anyone could tell me an exciting story about them being under siege by mounted knights I would be very interested as I feel this is one of the coolest features that I have yet to see in action.

My first drowning chamber was filled through a large murky pool. While at only 4/7, the pool dried up. I'd also forgotten to put in a fortification to prevent the goblin from swimming towards the pool and he did just that, disappearing into the tunnels. I had to mine out a tunnel above the tunnel, channel the floor directly above the escaped prisoner, and station a marksdwarf. These days all my drowning chambers are aquifer powered and HEAVILY fortified.

Yeah one of my saddest forts went from 150 dwarves to 4 dwarves after an intense break into a .
After one brave dwarf gave his life removing a wall that held back the aquifer we had mined back, flooding the entire mine, we managed to wall the last into the mortuary area, where he proceeded to destroy the burial spot of every dwarf in my fortress.
3 of the survivors were gravely injured and the last dwarf spent all his time treating them. A guard recovered and almost murdered the last dwarf, who apparantly had killed a dog during the chaos surrounding the opening of the .
Anyways, the King and all the rest of the replacement nobles arrived in the Spring, sadly with no civilian dwarves. A titan arrived, and after a frantic chase through the fort structure, managed to beat to death every noble but the hammerer. The original 4 survived, locked into the old Duke's room which I had converted into a hospital. The crazy titan was eventually locked into the dungeon area of the fort where he remains to this day.
So yeah, the King got killed pretty hard, ripped limb for limb in the middle of a booze stockpile, and since all I had left was one champion guardsdwarf and an old jeweler who spent his time feeding the other two, he wasn't even buried.
Whoops.
Shoulda brought some soldiers with him I guess.

I generally donate my XX objects to orphans. It's important to give back to you community.

My dogs bred fairly fast, and I usually purchase more from caravans.  My standing army of 41 war dogs (some chained up around the entrance, one or two assigned to military, a few standing around the glassworks where a glassmaker went beserk... weird).

The glassmaker might have had war dogs assigned to him and when he went berserk he was taken down by his own dogs in a tragic and heartbreaking battle. War dogs with fallen masters always keep a vigil at the place their master died.

Hey thanks everyone for your help it was something to do with the creature and entity file relationship; I never found the problem so I just changed the entity and creature names both to ORK as opposed to ORC and somehow this worked instead. Weird but I don't mind.