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I just had my first siege, but I was confident. Cocky even. I had prepared for this. I was expecting this, so I got every man on station, the walls were lined with marksmen, and the gates were guarded by my militia. I pulled the levers to close the gates, and wait it out.

My gate to the south closed, but my one to the east stayed open. And open. And open.

Turns out I forgot to link the bridge and it's lever. Ah. They all died. So I closed it down using task manager, fortunatly I had saved before with JUST enough time so I repeated this but with a mechanic hastily linking them together, it works no problem then. However, a thief was sighted inside my walls. He was easily taken care of, he must have slipped in just before the south gate closed. Then a Master thief appeared, and started stabbing peasants left right and centre. He was [Eventually] killed when the goblins poured out of the wood works.

Turns out they can move diagonally. They slipped in through a hole in the wall.

Quote from: UnrealJake on November 25, 2010, 06:23:32 am

Oh...

UristMcButcher is stricken by melancholy!

You can butcher 4Chan'ers.

Ohhhhh it's not the same 

Have you also designated where they fire from? You would want it from left to right.

HOW CUTE! TWO CATS!
NO-ONE TOUCHES THE CATS!

Kittens? Are they ok? I mean, we need leather after all and the bones for training bolts and meat for food, there ARE a lot of forumers...

Quote from: thegoatgod_pan on November 23, 2010, 06:46:01 pm

Are you kidding with the crossbows?! You have a neighbor and friend! Dig above, make a pit drop and feed him all your goblin visitors--it's a readymade arena complete with pre-scattered bodypart. Plus for Science check if he turns any goblins into himself, nightcreatures do that.

AFAIK - unfortunately they do it only in worldgen.

D'=

As it has been mentioned, burrows could be perfect for this, but when new migrants arive it would be a bit of a problem to get them settled if you have burrowless "Merchants" bustling around as well.

As for sieges path finding, I have no clue how it works, but if they spawn at different parts of the map they might change targets.

It would be cool seeing things "Evolve" as you elect a mayor, the baron arives, or one fort or tower is over run.

You could make each fort a mixture of underground and above ground, linked above surface.

Wasn't Mana some sort of bread that Mosses managed to summon to feed his people?

Or was it spelled Manna? Either way, Adamantine is now bread! You're mining bread for FUN!