Bay 12 Games Forum

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Originally posted by ChaosSonic:
<STRONG>I'm liking the caravan trap method.Route your caravans through an rea htat's easily walled off, like a piece of the road with bridges seperating it from land or something. Anyways, When an elven caravan comes over the area, raise the bridges and unleash the goblins. Watch and enjoy.</STRONG>

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Just make sure you have cage traps in layers equal in depth to the total number of goblins you release, so you can recycle the survivors - you might even be able to use them against the elven siege, if you do enough damage.

Otherwise, you'll have to deal with the survivors the hard way.

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Originally posted by God of Toast:
<STRONG>Is it not possible to sell Goblins to traders?    </STRONG>

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I'd only do that if steel wasn't an issue.

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Originally posted by ChaosSonic:
<STRONG>Just to let you guys know, the area has a chasm with one Goblin tower situated completely over it. Are you guys pondering what I'm pondering?</STRONG>

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Dropping it into the hole, or helping the nasties down below meet their upstairs neighbours?

Well, you can buy most stuff from caravans, especially if you request it. And for metals, you can always buy and melt objects if you're having a hard time getting the bars you want.

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Originally posted by Scorpios:
<STRONG>

They aren't rare - successful succession games are rare. Problem is after the first few turns, problems come up and they never get finished.</STRONG>

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Anyone try solving this by not having a predefined player list, but instead allowing anyone to call a turn once the save is posted? After that they'd have a day or four to finish, otherwise anyone else can call it and take their shot.

Then if the game stagnated, you could simply switch to "who ever turns in a completed turn first" format to get things going again, so people aren't left waiting for posts that never come.

'cause the main problem seems to be people signing up when they have time, but suffering different circumstances, or simply forgetting, when their turn comes around some days/weeks/months later.

Might be a good idea to type any big posts up in notepab or the ilk, then copy them over. Or just highlight&copy befor you hit submit, so you can paste it into a new window if it's eaten.

As for the fort, don't let buggy software push you around! To strive, to play, to post, and not to yield!

I -think- there's still room. If so...

Competent Bowyer
Mechanic
Marksdwarf
Competent Siege Engineer

10x Bauxite(raw stone)
10x Logs
1x Bronze Crossbow
5x Turtle
10x Rum
4x Pitchblende(raw stone)

Should be 210 exactly. If not, ditch a few rocks and whatnot.

Ivanna Openthroat, Female

Daughter of axedwarf and lumberjack Wulfgar Openthroat, Ivanna's keen mind and imagination was long caught by the Balista, with it's lesser the crossbow and other seigeworks of keen interest. Her father, a survivor of Rocksquid's fall, has long encouraged her in this with tales of war, the dragon that scoured Rocksquid, and the promis of her lost inheritence, Wulfgarland.

After long years of study, she had decided to seek out the masters in neighbouring mountain halls, to study their works and seek their knowledge. To this end, she travels by sea, for it is, by way of indirectless, longer and more expensive, it allows her to bypass the elven forests - her father's cautionary tales having instilled a healthy fear of the wooded folk and their murderous trees.

To the end of proving her worth as a student, she has brought choice wood and stone, so that she may demonstrate her skill without delay.

Wood for balista, bolt, and catapult, bauxite to prove the later's quality true(choice catapult rocks, in size, weight, and shape). Pitchblende for her ad-hoc workshop, and later commissioning into furnishings... there's just something about pitchblende, a light in her dreams...

Unfortunatly, a packing error crushed her crossbow bolts, so she's left thwacking things until she can buy some more('cause we can only buy steel, and 30pts a bolt is insane).