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Quote from: Reelyanoob on April 04, 2011, 10:09:01 am

I think something in Siege AI is broken sometimes.

This may be intended siege behaviour.

Traditional (successful) sieges through history mean making a blockade around a fortification, until the inhabitants die of starvation, disease, or surrender.
Even if the gate is wide open, you wouldn't charge, because the defender has the advantage.
"Attacking" was typically more along the lines of taking pot-shots, slinging diseased animals & bodies over the walls, and the like.
Full assault was only done due to other mitigating factors (attacker running out of supply, time requirements, concern about reinforcements, show of force, politics).
A smart sieger knows that you win by forcing the defender to come attack you.

So, really, the Goblins are acting like smarter siegers.

Would be nice if they take tribute, or have other diplomatic options which I'm sure are coming in the Military Arc.
Until then, it would be nice if they were more aggressive attackers again, please, Toady.

Quote from: They Got Leader on April 04, 2011, 02:38:34 am

Quote from: Necro910 on April 04, 2011, 12:52:39 am

Quote from: dirty foot on April 04, 2011, 12:45:21 am

Quote from: Sutremaine on April 04, 2011, 12:29:05 am

Yes, anything with functioning eyes will do.

But kittens are the best choice, I assume?

I suggest Russian bears. Unicycles make things much more fun.

Oooh. He's good.

Quote from: dirty foot on April 04, 2011, 12:45:21 am

Quote from: Sutremaine on April 04, 2011, 12:29:05 am

Yes, anything with functioning eyes will do.

But kittens are the best choice, I assume?

Ah I see you're new to DF. See, nothing can be "the best" until you add a substantial amount of magma. I suggest flaming kittens.

Granite quadraped with a dust attack that caused lung rot tore into my cavern dwelling fortress. Many died, some hid behind a forbidden, locked artifact door, safely inside.  Then a moody dwarf walked through it, into the cavern, and others pathed through it, and dropped glass bricks in the doorway, and it ate them all. the end.

Actually, it was mostly tallow. Not sure if there was any meat at all.

And, of course, it's called "forgotten beast foodstuff"...

...I never even got a human diplomat.

feathered wtfbeast

In one of my first forts while i was paranoid about caves i trapped iron humanoid with poisonous gas and 2 other forgotten beasts (between bridges in channeled hole). Fleshy beasts were happily rotting from gas for years until i had magma flooding accident. It burned bridges bounding  forgotten beasts, fleshy ones burned and iron thing just stayed in channeled hole in magma not trying to get out.

Er-Est

Ee-dee-uht.

Quote from: MythagoWoods on April 04, 2011, 04:27:09 pm

Did the Yak land on the camel?

That's probally it, but it doesn't matter, the yak's already faint from starvation.

When you consider it, having some aquifer/river and the magma sea...

INFINITE OBSIDIAN

You can construct your 2000 z-level tower now. Dwarfmade space elevator, to show that you don't have to rely on adamantine-based bugs? Heck yes.

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/fsdfr.png/ This is a link to a picture of the flying stone. I am playing in .25 with a save that has been around since .18.