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My personal latest total suck - armorer via posession, so not even a skill boost. i was still hoping for a mail shirt or suchlike, but got this...

Desorsub, "Entranceddrip", a copper shoe. This is a coper shoe. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. This object menaces with spikes of violet spessarine. On the item is an image of Tobul the Copper Oil, the deity of jewels, depicted as a female dwarf in copper. Tobul the Copper Oil is contemplating.

Probably contemplating why urist McOneshoemaker immortalised her in a left shoe instead of a helmet.

doubled barrelled ballistae form the second or third layer of my defenses. i only bother with wood projectiles unless i have a lot of copper or other poor material laying around. they are at the end of a 4 tile wide and 30 tile long corridor protected by trench and fortifications. use of burrows allows thier operators to reach them in emergiencies in saftey whilst keeping everyone else out of the firing line... meaning a choice between using troops against invaders of the siege engines has to be made if i dont want to risk green on green incidents.

wooden bolts have proved devastating against some goblins, presumably down to thier mass more than anything. i have not tried them against armoured opponents, only gobbo archers (due to keeping my own troops out of thier way - silver bolts are scary). a wooden bolt from a ballistae has knocked a gobbo about 8 tiles back and evicerated them on more than one occasion - easily beating thier leather armor. maybe i should turn them on the next melee opponents i come across. so far i have not had a combo hit of more than 3 crossbowgobbos, but it did kill or mortally wound each one. i dont really notice that much difference between thier behaviour in 40d and in 31.12...

i never bother with catapults, as they seem quite innacurate unless you somehow get a high skilled operator (using patience presumably), and a very high skilled seige engineer to get high quality parts.

I just had a horrifying thought. You know all those stone earrings and stuff dwarfs are always making as artifacts? What if they're NOT chiseling a huge rock down into a tiny earring? What if, instead, they are simply attaching a little hook to a huge dwarf-sized boulder and calling it an earring?

genius. added to sig.

1200 DB one humped camel bone chain anyone?

I was looking at the Meld version of the tile-set and I noticed there are two four tiles that are devoted to being question marks. Is this necessary? If not I would suggest using one of them for an up/down stair and/or floodgates.

i did the counting for you

simple ground with punctuation is great - thank you. small request: a tileset with the simpler stone icons from the meld tileset and the simpler ground. i have tried merging the 2 myself but either cut and paste badly, or ruin the transparancies... (to be fair I am using paint as i have no access to any other programme to edit with, as i lack the patience to go download, work out and use GIMP)

construct cage containing troll (use x to expand cage list) right next to the restraint. might help. thing is you then will want to deconstruct the cage after chaining the troll... which might lead to the cage remover getting trolled. lol.

posting here to recive updates on this promising looking set.