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All the more reason to chain it up and let spiders web it to death

Quote from: khearn on November 02, 2011, 07:41:08 pm

I agree with AWellTrainedFerret. Dwarves are very attuned to the earth and would notice someone else digging in their area. Since digging can wake up dwarves, I'd suspect that all awake dwarves would notice it. Then you should have time to have your miners countermine to meet them so your troops can deal with them.

I'd like to see siegers also be able to do some digging. Maybe sapper orcs that arrive with shovels and can only dig through dirt, and later sieges might have miner orcs with picks that can even dig (slowly) through stone. No more being perfectly safe behind a raised drawbridge.

The first siege wouldn't have any diggers, and if they get stopped by impenetrable walls, then later sieges might being them. So you could hide behind walls once or twice, but you'd better have something better set up eventually.

But...But my aesthetics...

Can't we have something else to increase difficulty? Like siege engines that can take down walls, or airships that can drop down enemies onto a specific place?

I don't put all that work into royal tombs just so some bastard orc can break his way in and fuck everything up.

Burrowing/tunneling enemies would be the perfect way to get the weird OCD neatness types to drop their habit and give in to the terrible, badly organised chaos that is a well designed fort.

Quote from: Wannazzaki on November 02, 2011, 06:16:12 pm

This is a demon tough bone statue of forgotten beasts. all craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. The item is a masterfully deigned image of forgotten beasts in demon tough bone by Domas Luslemral. it is encrusted with pinfire opal, encircled with bands of demon bone, demon hide and pinfire opal. 

theres an image of a whitemane werewolf being mortally wounded by a dwarf in silt clay, the werewolf is making a plainitive gesture. the image also references the artifact red steel crossbow and the centaur bone bolt which did the wounding. it occured in midauntumn of 158 during ozokok, the stormy assault.

I DEMAND PICTURES!!!!
[sounds ubertasty]

...You want me to draw it? What D:

I found this. That is an Umber Hulk from the DnDiverse. It can burrow it is angry, it is ravenous. They also make great tame body guards. So the next update: Burrowing enemies that leave fortification like structures behind them other burrowers can use to path but not non-burrowers? better yet just dig, dwarf with pick style and often randomly open up your caverns to invaders from caverns. WHO ELSE LOVES THIS IDEA?

Not really a suggestion mind, i'm just bored and like it.

This is a demon hide buckler, all craftsdwarfship is of the highest wuality. It is decorated with field maple and encircled with bands of demon hide, red tourmaline and dusk elf bone. this object menaces with spikes of wax opal, cryolite, gneiss and red steel.

Also: This is a waterholly composite bow, all craftswarfship is o the highest quality. this object menaces with spikes of aplaca woold and silkworm silk.

On the item is an emage of dak snarledcrab the oaken persuasion of climaxes the rock and dwarves in water holly. Dak Snarledcrabs the bla bla is surrounded by the ddwarves. The artwork relates to the rise of the roc (bla) as an enemy of the ancient guild in the late spring of 131 during the rampage of the roc( bla) in manomerged. On the item is the image of Stakud Braidwheels the moss dwarf in sandy clay. On the item is an image of unbelieable fool in clear garnet

I have a causeway a few t levels up with lots of weapon traps and drops onto spikes below, the entrance is a ring of weapon traps with X10 adamantine masterwork discs apiece, ambushes are dead before i get the announcement. they try and sneak up into the causeway and become a blitzed mess. I Walled myself off initially with a drawbridge in for caravans and kept import/export/fortress blinging to a minimum to discourage ambushes while i got the defenses ready for the big stuff. Now i am all but impenetrable.

In vanilla i have had armed Minotaurs o.O It was a legendary blacksmith to boot, it had an x large breastplate, a warhammer and some greaves.