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In the US Army, a Captain is leader of about 250 men.
The ancient position of Centurion was a commander of a hundred men.
Supervising two hundred dwarves is a challenge, and to do it well is good exercise.
Also, throwing is useless unless you throw something really sharp. Or really heavy. But I saw a dragon corpse that only bruised a bone of a wolf.
I don't know how sharp or heavy an elf corpse is, but I once killed an entire forest retreat by throwing corpses of elves at other elves. I didn't use a single punch in the whole fight (I killed the first elf, a child, by breaking most of his limbs and then strangling him to death). It was awesome.
I also rather enjoy wielding a dragon corpse in each of my hands, but that's for another forum topic
Consider training some war animals, they're excellent for defending your fortress against minor threats such as zombie groundhogs, goblin snatchers and rampaging elephants... okay, maybe not that....War unicorns.
can i make war dogs patrol by themselves? i thought they can only follow someone, this is what i made them do anyway..Chain them near the entrance. Should do the job. If needed, cage the rest into a quantum cage near the entrance, make sure they're all trained, and install a lever to go with it. Just in case anything gets past your elaborate defences, you can throw over a hundred war dogs at them. It's the same thing that lets 40 dabbling wrestlers kill a dragon, really.
man those hogs are such a pain..
right now one of them is above the entrance to my fort and all the dwarves piss themselves and dont want to go out for water..
i better get my well running..
FPS would not be much of a problem for the demon spike trap discussed, since you could implement both (a) a magma flush, assuming you used magmaproof devices, to clear the excess bodies, and (b) an obsidian-casting "door", for when you needed relief from the waves of demons.You could just change the dwarven body into pure adamantine/slade/some modded, awesome material that is an alloy of both and can be used to create a random forgotten beast at a workshop.
Now, if you can inject funbats into hell, a way of finding out how infinite the demon waves are suggests itself.
Simply make a form of funbat that is completely indestructible - like a hundred bronze collosi tied together, with breath weapons and no-tire and webs and all that - and make them [CAN_LEARN], and slam them into hell.
Open up a fortress, and the funbat population should start slaughtering the demons (you may have to uncap hell for this). So you'll get a continuous tally of demon deaths, without having to lift a finger.
Am I right?
Yeah. Thrower is one of those skills that I train up right away. It might take ten minutes of picking up rocks off the ground and throwing them back, but it's SO worth it. Just a few moments ago I was reminded of how awesome it is...Best name ever.
I was clearing out a Wesman town (they're like humans that are part of the Genesis mod pack) and I was using my superior throwing skills to throw crossbow bolts at people and kill them with relative ease. My character, Kelvas Swiftcut the Youthful Rogue of Clods, a legendary almost-everything with superhuman strength, was almost out of arrows when he was accosted by a ranger. I threw my last couple arrows at him and missed horribly. Then, completely by accident, I threw my quiver at him... Well, the result had me laughing for about four minutes at the hilarity of what had just happened...Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:molten royal slade]
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[ABSORPTION:15]
[IS_METAL]
[DEEP_SPECIAL]
[REACTION_CLASS:ROYALSLADE]
[REACTION:ROYAL_SLADE_MAKING]
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[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
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[REAGENT:B:3:BOULDER:NONE:STONE:SLADE]
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[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]
[INORGANIC:ROYAL_SLADE_ST1]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:ROYALSLADE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:impure royal slade]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten impure royal slade]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling impure royal slade]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:2:2:1][MATERIAL_VALUE:930]
[SPEC_HEAT:330][MELTING_POINT:14334][BOILING_POINT:17692]
[ITEMS_DIGGER][ITEMS_ARMOR]
[ITEMS_HARD][ITEMS_METAL][ITEMS_BARRED]
[SOLID_DENSITY:8490][LIQUID_DENSITY:9770][MOLAR_MASS:94552]
[REACTION:ROYAL_SLADE_MAKING2]
[NAME:purify royal slade]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:300:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:ADAMANTINE]
[REAGENT:B:1:BOULDER:NONE:STONE:ROYAL_SLADE_ST1]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:ROYAL_SLADE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]
[INORGANIC:ROYAL_SLADE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:ROYALSLADE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:royal slade]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten royal slade]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling royal slade]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:0:0:0][MATERIAL_VALUE:1200]
[SPEC_HEAT:330][MELTING_POINT:25000][BOILING_POINT:50000]
[ITEMS_WEAPON][ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED][ITEMS_AMMO][ITEMS_DIGGER][ITEMS_ARMOR][ITEMS_ANVIL]
[ITEMS_HARD][ITEMS_METAL][ITEMS_BARRED][ITEMS_SCALED][ITEMS_SOFT]
[SOLID_DENSITY:5000][LIQUID_DENSITY:7440][MOLAR_MASS:61245]
Not sure if it works.
Why has a horse just suffocated to death? And I'd suggest canceling all of LordSlowpoke's digging designations.Come on, I'm trying to make an area for legendaries. And the peasantry that'll support them.
And DF just randomly crashed on me after a lot of people started mysteriously dying after I pulled the lever in the hospital and went to stock to zoom to the corpses...what did you DO LordSlowpoke?Oh, DF has the tendency to crash when large amounts of mechanisms go off. That's why I labelled the murky pool lever as "suicide", at least one of the reasons. Too much stuff has to be calculated at once, and there's not enough RAM. Stercus Accidit. And then you went to check up on the huge amounts of corpses. That had to be found, obviously. Even more strains on the CPU/RAM. I'm keeping stone stockpiles low for a reason.
And I see you stole my brilliant well shaft trick you sly devil you. Wanted to send me on a suicide mission to down below eh? Trying to off old Spoony eh? We'll see about that.Oh, not that. I meant to send some expendable peasants down there and get you to fight one of the two unkillable forgotten beasts lurking in the caverns.
Until I declare it unusable the rest of the turn is up for grabs by someone other than LordSlowpoke.I wasn't really planning on playing this thing three days in a row. First my computer suddenly shits bricks. Then, it works mightly fine (30-40 fps, even 80 after I dl'd DF accelerator) and BAM the entire town's power goes down.
And why did you rename my lever for opening up the bridges over the murky pools for refilling via rain as the suicide lever and warned that it would collapse vital areas of the fort? I'm gonna pull it just to see what happens now, and the lever in the hospital, and my dwarf doesn't have a office, how can I be expected to become one with the universe and do our accounting without a office?! How I ask you?!1. Because fuck the world, I'm a noble. Also, the lever in the hospital just locks random doors. It's supposed to operate the entrance/drawbridge.