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these are rocky tiles in the middle of a biome with a soil top layer, right?

If you build a construction on to of a tile and then remove it the tile reverts to the native stone or soil type... so just build a wall on the square and remove it... granted, that's a lot more cheaty then your transforming technique.

if you really need to muddy them, I'd suggest just turning lose a pump to flood the area, with the added bonus of killing off shrubs that would be competing with the trees if the water gets high enough before it drains away

ow, flu sucks, here's best wishes and a get well soon to Toady!

try forbidding all the stone above and below the workshop, see if he'll stop canceling?

also, go to z-stone and make sure that 1: bauxite isn't classed as an economic stone (a very common mod) and 2: that it is not red (forbidden for use- a possible result of being set as economic)

Really? I always assumed fencing was more for show than actual combat, seems like those flimsy swords would get knocked aside like they were nothing by a normal sword.

actually... Rapiers were developed as civilian weapons for dueling and personal defense, not for mass combat, and evolved into the lighter fencing foils used today because a man using a light sword of that nature would most likely end up fighting with other men wielding a similar weapon, and with lighter weapons like that, meant for stabbing, lightness and speed were the most important because you only needed to get past your opponents similarly weighted blade, once, to strike his unarmored torso... and likewise your opponent to you.

Basically, the medieval and Renaissance people knew how powerful a good crit from a piercing weapon was, and they designed a weapon which could attack quickly and have more chances to cause organ damage.

that actually would be interesting; have dueling weapons you can make for your dwarfs to settle grudges, make dueling a crime like destroying buildings while tantruming, but only if witnessed... good thought if you kill the guy you have, bad thought if you don't or lose depending on personality and the severity of the grudge, and the duel would be to first blood or to the death depending, again, on the grudge and the personality of the *seconds* if you have that... then your control is how lethal the available dueling weapons are... those weapons could actually be carried by civilians for self defense, like say your plant gatherer is caught outside by an ambusher and cornered...

A sword might not weigh much, but it can easily feel like it does. Since the center of balance is several inches from the end of the pommel (I think) it takes a good deal more force to swing.

swords, well made ones, were balanced using weights in the pommel (that's the end cap opposite the blade for those of you playing at home) to put the center of mass closer to the grip and in a position that was more comfortable for the user to swing.  Mostly this was just on shorter swords that relied on quickness rather than unstopability, but you could certainly do the same thing to improve the manageability of larger blades.

I'd love to see a clothman or Leatherman.
Like a giant pile of possessed garments, sewn together and whatnot.

And fell mood leather workers could have a small chance of making one.

I'd like to see a leather man too, but I doubt the dwarfs even have the technology for a butterfly knife... that would be awesome, though: "Kobold be sapping mah orbital magma cannon!"

Quote from: Halmie on December 22, 2009, 07:58:38 am

Yeah, a peasant (worth almost nothing) with a crossbow (not worth very much) had a chance to take down a knight (worth shitloads + years of training) back in medievil times.

Though spears were good, very cheap, I think Robert the Bruce used them to take down English Knights.

Chance? A crossbow made out of paper with a paper bolt has been used to kill a person, a medieval crossbow could kill a knight easily if they used it right and targeted the right place and a modern crossbow can pierce 2-3 inches of iron plate(again, if you use it right and aim at the right place) and you're telling us that they had a chance to kill a knight? They would kill the knight no questions asked so long as the bolt hit the target...

my bolding up there...

an untrained peasant doesn't know how to use it or where to aim, but can still be deadly without much training because it's a lot easier to sue than a bow, that's the whole point.

And, actually, mythbusters looked into the whole paper crossbow thing... implausible, you'd only get a few shots, and you'd ahve to be very lucky to actually kill anything.

Armor technology improved right along with weapons technology, and a lot of what they could do with layered armor is only just being rediscovered by scientists; good plate armor could stop pretty much anything.