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Not if they go down!

Quote from: malvado on September 04, 2012, 06:08:46 am

*There's no weapon avaibable that would in some way affect the undead : No blessed / holy weapons , no torches to set corpses afire , no bonuses for using silver weapons , no bonuses for maces and so on.

Not to put out your holy fury (since I agree with a lot of it and a fair amount is actually planned for the future, it just hasn't been implemented yet), but unless corpses are really old and they were stored in a dry place then they actually burn really badly. First it would be difficult to get them to catch in the first place, and then they would burn for a long time, (since most problems with burning to death is pain/blood loss, not structural damage) so all that lighting the zombies on fire would do is make them even more dangerous for the next few hours before they finally collapsed.

This is why the few zombie survival guides that take themselves seriously and many that don't advise the use of fire as a tool, not a weapon.

They still shouldn't burn worse than living dwarves.

Dwarves' clothes burn well. Zombies don't wear clothes.

Make a massive tower out of crystal glass blocks, and import star sapphires/rubies to make windows from. Add several public rooms, including a dormitory. At the top, make some rooms out of platinum, aluminum, or ideally candy. In these rooms, house your greatest dwarves. Add metal and/or masterwork statues and artifacts to taste. Garnish with dwarves.

Generally, if your ethics don't prohibit the butchering and eating of sentients, you should be able to. You can in Fortress Mode, why not Adventurer? Presumably the same thing could work in both.

I meant create a national debt. Every country has one, and we may even be able to pay it back in the long run.
DORA was the biggest BFG ever created. Made in WWII by the Germans, it cost 7 million reichsmarks, and was the second out of only two created. The company, out of policy, didn't charge for the first one.
It was a railway gun, over 100m long, and took a week to set up.
It fired shells that were over five metres long.
If we modify the design a bit, it may even reach the outer atmosphere.
It was so big it was actually an entire battalion.

Maybe if we put it on Luna. A landside gun that size would just be a big target for air forces.

We've discussed tons of options, from violently conquering some Caribbean island to Kickstarters.

Just like starfish!

Why not just minimise it? Or...save every month or so, tops?
(In-game month, not IRL-month.)