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Cutting down trees (especially over a limit that you've agreed on) pisses off elves.

This is good.

Elves that are in a good mood only bring along cloth and other such things to trade because they think that these things are most valuable. Sometimes they bring animals but usually normal ones (Dogs, cats, cows, goats).

Elves that are getting more annoyed tend to bring the real cool stuff, Giant Eagles, Bears, Cougars, and other Giant or otherwise cool animals.

Elves that are really pissed off go to war with you, and since they only use wooden weapons, they will loose horribly, as long as you have a nice set of traps ready, or a competent military and have them armed and armored, even in copper, they will own the elves. Sometimes almost never one gets a lucky shot with a bow and a dwarf will need some health care, but they'll be ok in the end.

You may not be aware, but it's normal for many members of the forum (including me) to just take everything the elves bring until they get mad enough to bring the cool stuff. Yeah you'll need to make a few copper weapons and sets of armor, but you don't even need to train your dorfs to fight, the first time the elves went to war with me I just had my woodcutter and 3 friends go and pickup the gear and they owned the elves, they had some bruises but they were fine.

Two last things:

1. Traps (like I said up there^) are pretty good for taking out elves, and cage traps are a good idea if you want to capture the elves, my current fort has 24 captured elves that I use to fight in my arena.

2. I apologize if you already know all this stuff, but I figured, I may as well share.

Quote from: Neonivek on August 11, 2010, 03:29:10 pm

Which I always personally find odd in any series mostly because in Canada we don't have middle schools.

What the hell you talking about.

It's exactly what it sounds like, we have no middle schools.

I have tried all of the situations you are suggesting, no matter the combination of weapons, the dwarves with shields and without axes win as long as they have armor. The dwarves with axes and shields keep using their axes and they bounce off.

The difference is when you remove their armor, then the axedorfs pwn.

So, as I said before, it seems that if you are going to arm your dwarves, shields are better than axes.

Wot?

Yeah, though my signature is kinda sub-standard... I'll go change it.

Why would anyone care if he's Muslim? I understand the Kenyan part, but not the Muslim part.

And since most of canada is basically the north pole anyway, nobody's going to notice. *awaits vengeful crowd of hokey-playing luberjacks.*

RAEG!

Though you're not far off...