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Presumably all the coke in said bins would catch fire, creating a helluvalotta smoke.
Do it.
And post video.
For Dwarf Justice


And then dump several kittens / goblins in there too. Also for great Dwarf Justice.

_{Note to Self: Introduce this into my 30z pit of doom (with masterwork spikes) for extra superkilldeath power.}

Hit a huge deposit of iron in first year, got magma powered metalworking up and running, cranked out a ton of armour and caused a fortress wealth explosion.
This + orc mod + Civforge = constant siege for the last 8 years. I have 12 dwarves, 5 of which are children.

As I have nothing else to do (save for the orbital magma cannon) they each have 'rather nice' rooms. Something around 10x10 bedroom, 8x8 personal dining room, and a 5x5 office, each filled with masterwork iron furniture.

The dwarves are somewhat happy.

In the first month I hit a huge deposit of iron and a magma pipe right underneath where I was placing my workshops. Bit of a wealth explosion.
Its been 9 years of game time since then, and I have been under constant siege the ENTIRE FREAKING TIME¹. It's beginning to get annoying. No immigrants at all, making it the opposite of every other fort I've played.
I do, however, have a legendary+5 armorsmith, and several sets of masterwork steel armour, each studded with silver. If only I had some soldiers to wear it. Only one couple in the fort, with 5 kids so far. Each of the 7 starting dwarves is legendary in multiple skills, so I don't really want to lose any of them. Once the kids grow up I can maybe start a military. _{(Yes, that means that 5 out of 12 dwarves in the fort are kids, 42%)}

For the meantime it's just a waiting game, that and the massive floating _{(held up by a single staircase)} platforms of Doom that cover the entire map.
Currently assembling orbital magma cannon and making sets of masterwork silver armour² for when I have a fortress guard.

¹orcs, + civ forge mods = lots of sieging races.
²because I can. And I'm a bit bored.

The guy you throw needs to hit something. Usually a tree or wall. If thrown hard enough, they can lose limbs (explode?).

See golfing hammer damage for other details.

For some reason I added in chainsaws. Not really 14th century technology, but too fun not to. Basically just an axe with gore damage.

Playing in adventure mode I started with one of said chainsaws. I decided the best way to start off a new adventure was to slaughter the entire mountain home I started in.
Halfway through this blood-soaked task, I was interrupted by the dwarf Queen. Apparently she killed a giant at some point.
I have to say, it's probably true, as she broke my leg with her first punch. Out of desperation at being so hopelessly outmatched, I threw the chainsaw at her.
Awesomely, it managed to cut her in half. I then proceeded to pick up both pieces of the corpse, and limped around the area, killing everything I saw by either pummeling them with the corpse, or throwing blood and body parts at them. I decapitated a peasant with blood. Somehow.
Eventually a lucky guard cut off my arm, and then dismembered me once I fell unconscious. It was fun while it lasted.

The best part of it for me though, was imagining the psychological trauma the dwarves were going through while I killed them.
If they had survived they would have definitely developed some kind of psychosis from it. Being beaten (nearly, if they survived) to death with the corpse of your ruler tends to cause that sort of thing.

I'm beginning to think 'better siege engines' might be a more appropriate title by this point.
To expand on the original post, what I was aiming for was a) more variation in size of Siege Engines, with associated advantages and disadvantages,
and b) a wider choice of ammunition, specifically for catapults.

After reading through this I agree: A Trebuchet does sound like an awesome idea. The mechanics of making one work in-game would be somewhat complicated though.

forgot about making anything smaller, that simply makes it less deadly. What we should be doing is making it BIGGER!

Mainly, siege engines. I want it to be possible to vary the size of catapults and such like, something along the lines of 3x3, 5x5, 9x9 etc. Bigger siege engines should of course use more parts, maybe making use of the 3x3 requires 3 parts, system already used.

A larger Siege Engine should have it's own advantages and disadvantages of course;

Pros
-able to fire more / nastier projectiles
-larger range?

Cons
-takes up more space
-should take longer to load / fire
-bigger is not always better

I suppose I just want to make siege engines more useful as a whole. There's something appealing to me about them, maybe just the fact that ballistae arrows are basically just sharpened trees, being fired at high speeds.
On that note, bigger ammo to go with bigger engines? if 1 set of logs = 1 tree = 1 arrow...
The end result of this line of thinking will probably entail firing an arrow the size of the map at invaders, so I'll stop now.