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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Fey Weaponsmith Help
« on: August 11, 2011, 08:08:08 am »
good enough to kick some ass, although masterwork silver hammers may prove better.
you can always give it to you CotG for some ‼justice‼
What is really good is the legendary weaponsmith.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Crossbows + shields
« on: August 11, 2011, 05:47:04 am »
Quote from: RAKninja on August 11, 2011, 05:42:55 am
Quote from: nanomage on August 11, 2011, 05:02:33 am
yes they can equip shields and yes they can block. Crossbow is a one-handed weapon.

Don't know if it has anydownsides.
item weight?

that's all i can think of.

well i have some vague feeling that wielding a weapon two-handedly gives benefits over wielding it one-handedly. Maybe dwarfs swing it harder then, or something like that. I have not done any sciene on that though.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Crossbows + shields
« on: August 11, 2011, 05:02:33 am »
yes they can equip shields and yes they can block. Crossbow is a one-handed weapon.

Don't know if it has anydownsides.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Communist Fortress (Succession Game)
« on: August 10, 2011, 05:47:34 pm »

Here's a darf for you Hugo:



Here's my report.
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First of all, seeing that the People's army is weak, untrained and poorly supplied, I chose to prohibit all outdoor activities.I disbanded the entire military, dismissed all outdoor activity zones and forbade anything lying out side.
Military reform is to be completed later when our new steelmaking industry provides us with enough quality weapons and armor, but right now cuborator needs every pair of hands to clean up.

Right now the only dwarf to train in military is our new People's Commissar for Military Affairs,  Bhrian Bloodadze.

I also started a labour reform, because horrible inefficiency of everyone doing everything vastly outweighs the communal feel it may give to our dwarves. I also ordered to stall food and furniture production and to stop smoothing everything except the People's Hall of Well-fare. I also checked the stockpiles and it turned out we had statues of two of the founders, HugoLuman and Nanomage, stockpiled in great quantities. I ordered one of each statues to be put on display in the Hall. The People's Hall is now furnished as dining room and our dwarves meet there. Distasteful capitalistic job title of manager is replaced by People's Commissar for Labour and Industry.
On the industry part, I've ordered mass mining and smelting of Hematite ore and queued up production of pig iron and steel bars. By the middle of summer our steel armor production is already running and the People's Army will have its first steel-clad heavy infantry squad.

The corpses and trush that were cluttering the Fort are partly thrown into the volcano, partly sold to Elven traders in exchange for exotic animals and cages and drinks. (Second Phoenix, female unfortunately).
Our broker was promoted to the People's Commissar for Trade, but that was too much of a responsibility for him. He got soon posessed and used a precious emerald to carve a crown out of it. While i don't believe he may have betrayed us and have become a Royalist, I just couldn't ignore the insult. I wasn't too harsh either. He is freed from his duty and put to work as a furnace operator under our close attention.

Right after the elven caravan, a goblin siege has come, with an elite bowgob and a squad of trolls.
Two dwarves died repelling the siege, and two others - outpost liaison and a soldier - lost consciousness on top of the cage traps and were caged. The siege was repelled just in time for the next migrant wave to come.
 

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Cat Bone Short Sword
« on: August 10, 2011, 10:48:20 am »
Quote from: greatorder on August 10, 2011, 07:38:18 am
Quote from: Camper2490 on August 10, 2011, 01:34:48 am
At least it would be found offensive by those nature loving elves and the occasional human.
not really. elves are CANNIBLE and humans don't give a crap.
elves have
[ETHIC:MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:UNTHINKABLE]
bonecrafting it's just as unthinkable for them as treechopping.
[ETHIC:KILL_PLANT:UNTHINKABLE]
It's some other tag that makes them refuse wood items in trade, i don't know for sure which one it is. Maybe [TREE_CAP_DIPLOMACY]?

EDIT: wrong quote

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: How screwed am I?
« on: August 10, 2011, 10:10:35 am »
Quote from: franti on August 10, 2011, 10:01:15 am
Lovely.
What kind of soliders do they come with? What materials will they use? Do humans use mounts? Do they announce a siege, or do they sneak up like elves?

Humans can bring any type of soldiers. Scourges are the only weapon they don't have access to.
They can be mounted on common domestic mounts, which generally makes them harmless, because those mounts are all [BENIGN]. Mounted archers, on the other hand, are extremely dangerous because of this.
They may be armed and half-armored (Helm/cap+mail shirt/breastplate/leather armor + shield) in bronze. Iron, copper and silver too if they have access.

Dwarves have no bowmen nor lashers nor pikemen. They are limited in their choice of weapons to what you can make in fortress mode.
 I never seen them mounted on anything, but that's most likely just me and they'll most likely come mounted on cave animals someday.
They can bring armor and weapons made from anything. Raw metal gear is possible only if their civ has access to it, while alloys (including steel) will be present in any case.



regarding slade, they will not have it if it is smelt from slade ore, because they have no access to slade stones. If it's an alloy, they'll have it.

It would also be a good idea to check legends mode to find out what unusual animals have your enemies tamed. Humans law-givers and dwarven generals sometimes may tame something you'd better not see attacking you, like war giant tigers or giant eagles or jabberers or giant cave spiders.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Communist Fortress (Succession Game)
« on: August 10, 2011, 04:00:58 am »
cuborator is hardly crawling at my laptop, and due to the general lack of time i only played to the late spring yet.

a thorough report will be tonight, and here's a small update with the agenda!

Inspired by the newly discovered books and articles of the founders, the mayor is starting the reforms to build the society of the future!
Who will become the new People's Comissar for Military Affairs and People's Comissar for Labour and Industry? Claim the dwarves!
The justice and penitiary reforms are pending, too!
However, the more he is into the study of the texts and books, the less sense they seem to make for him!
Meanwhile, some of the fortress citizens have their own plan to save the motherland! They found a new group within the fortress to overthrow the mayou and replace him with their own leader!
...And there always are the Gaschist hordes of goblins dreaming to bring slavery and death upon the dwarves of cuborator.
Dwarven king with his lords and generals will not defend the workers - they'll only laugh as goblins break the will and bones of the outpost.

Ah, and yes, our People's Comissar for Trade has gone posessed and made an artifact!

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: aluminum armor
« on: August 09, 2011, 08:13:23 am »
Quote from: Tierre on August 09, 2011, 01:44:26 am
There's nothing wrong with moding rutile into titane ore and making an alloy with aluminium 1:2 which will make great armor metal. They are dwarfs not humans;) Just use steel template and lower EDGE as it is not as good for weapons imho. And search wiki for density:)

DF dwarves seem to be restricted to smelting as their means of extracting metal from ores.
Rutile can't be smelted into titanium, you need hunter process or kroll process.
You need gaseous chlorine, metallic sodium or magnesium for that, and they all seem quite anachronistic for df.

seriously, it's dwarfy enough that they can smelt ores without any coal at all.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: ElFarm
« on: August 09, 2011, 07:01:51 am »
afaik local resident are resistant to your traps, you may need a gcs or a cavein device to capture them.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Radioactive Tunic
« on: August 08, 2011, 05:47:54 am »
Quote from: Puresowns on August 08, 2011, 01:52:10 am
So I had a dwarf create an artifact rope reed tunic using 2 pitchblende blocks and a piece of reindeer leather. Normally I'd have this guy burned for being a pansy hippy lover, but I can't get over the thought that he put just enough awesome via harmful radioactive ore into this thing that I should spare him. Any thoughts on what to do with the dwarf/artifact?

Artifact description: The Realms of Mystery, a rope reed fiber tunic.
This is a rope reed fiber tunic. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with rope reed fiber and encircled with bands of pitchblende. It is made from rope reed fiber cloth.
On the item is an image of dwarves in pitchblende. The dwarves are traveling. The artwork relates to the foundation of Swiftfall by The Named Apes of The Avalanche of Escorts in the early spring of 126.
On the item is an image of black-caps in reindeer leather.

i know now what does black-cap look like.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Communist Fortress (Succession Game)
« on: August 08, 2011, 04:55:23 am »
oh, i have tha save how. too bad all named dwarves are dead but i'll work around it.
Guys this is EPIC. none of all my fortresses ever looked like that.
I now understand that all my dwarves had been crawling in overpopulated beehives. Now i see what true scale is!

I definitely love cuborator and i'll do my best to lead it to its glory!

Да здравствует Революция!

"Mr. Arzeskib, Mr. Arzeskib!"

The mayor was asit in his office with eyes closed (his office was the former Hall of the Glorious leader), when a very fat dwarf entered the room.

"How can i help you?" - he asked, and then added - "comrade?"
"Oh, i'm sorry, Comrade Arzeskib! I had a letter sent to you, on one, hm, unusual finding. Did you have time to read it?"

Mayor had no time for reading. After the goblin raid they hardly had time to eat and sleep. Most of the time was hauling corpses and cleaning the halls.
All of the fort's founders were dead in battle, having taught to the newcomers. He was the mayor, but even he did not know much beyond that they were to call each other "comrade", work together, build "communism" and stay aside from the Mountainhomes for some reasons. That was definitely not enough to make a successfull fortress. And that new outpost liason looked like he was so happy to see corpses and despair everywhere! Mayor would have killed him for his smile when he offered to send a squad of Royal Guard to their fort and suggested that one of baron's sons could "clean up" here a bit. No! Despite his ignorance, he knew for sure that Cuborator does not belong to any of baron's sons. It must belong to the workers!

"Comrade Mayor" - he heard again, and the voice was getting worried - "Did you read my message?"

"No, not yet. What's the matter with it, comrade?"

"It's about this, ehhp, book." - the fat dwarf put a heap of paper and parchment and rags on the basalt table. I have found it in the carpenter's workshop, i'm a carpenter, you know. Kib the carpenter."
Kib winked and continued. He was looking nervous and he was making funny sounds when he took his breath to speak.
"It, ehhp, looks missing a few pages, and i'm not a great reader, ehhp. I think it's by one of the Founders.

Mayor took the largest and the least torn sheet of paper. It contained endless drawings of hammers, picks, hooks, shovels and other tools, sometimes intercrossed with eash other. Some images were underlined or circled. There were also several short poemsstrange piece of poetry on the paper - they looked like crude translations and none of them had any pace or rhymes.
"This is the old world. /
All sufferring of craftsdwarves is of highest magnitude./
It is adorned with hanging rings of violence/
And menaces with spikes of exploitation./
On the world are images of awfully designed kingdoms/ - this line was written in different handwriting and in different colour.
The old world is slated for removal/
To build the new world is our labour/
We will spurn the dust and win the prize."

"What is it? It doesn't make much sence" - said Kib.
"Wait, here's a signature" - said mayor. "It reads E.Pottier tr. b. nevyn&nanomage. Nevyn and Nanomage! it's a translation by the Founders!"

Mayor was looking through the other sheets, excitedly.
"Look here! That's not all poetry, these are two pages of the In defence of Hugoism and this is The New Course. And there are some texts by others as well! "
A small scroll fell down from the heap of rags and torn paper and rolled on the smooth floor. The fat carpenter bent down, lifted it and read the title
"The lessons of Hematite."



 


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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Communist Fortress (Succession Game)
« on: August 07, 2011, 02:09:51 pm »
i'm sorry for late answer, that was unexpected. i'm taking Angle's save, ok?

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Communist Fortress (Succession Game)
« on: August 05, 2011, 12:09:29 pm »
what's happening? who's having his turn now? why has the revolution stopped?

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DF Suggestions / Re: Armor padding
« on: August 05, 2011, 12:07:40 pm »
can it be modded? wouldn't raising the amount of body space occupied by common clothing and adding new padded clothing work?(with armor tag, as they seem military only from your text)

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DF Suggestions / Re: dwarfs and other races should use goblets.
« on: August 05, 2011, 06:04:02 am »
Quote from: Nil Eyeglazed on August 05, 2011, 05:28:50 am
How would you handle the details?  Would dwarves have personal goblets that they carried around with them?  Would a drink task make them fetch a goblet, then go to a barrel, then drink (making the task take longer from the extra hauling)?
i'd suggest the dining hall zone working in a similar way to the hospital: after the zone is declared and furniture is constructed in it, dwarves would store the necessary tools and drinks in cabinets, chests or stockpiles inside the zone. When a dwarf wants a drink, he would go fetch a mug, fill it, have his drink at a table or a bar and be happy.
If there are no mugs in this zone, well, he'll drink in the old-fashioned way

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