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Okay, managed to do a large-scale cavein and breach past the aquifer. Now... Is it possible to safely dig in the z-level below an aquifer? Because I don't want to abandon all of that hematite...

Quote from: psychologicalshock on April 06, 2011, 05:02:45 pm

I think that marksmen in plate mail is a little absurd.

For a crossbow? Not really since it doesn't get in the way of reloading and firing all that much. For a bow? Then yes. In all practicality, crossbowmen were expected to take part in the melee portion of the fight when the lines closed with each other, and were suitable equipped with the armaments to do such a thing.
You're probably thinking of a full set of plate, in my view, it's probably more of a fuller covering cuirass than the stuff you see in the hundred years war.

True full suits of platemail were fairly rare, so the most you'd likely see even on pikemen and such would be a simple cuirass composed of front and back plates joined by leather straps, and possibly a helmet, with leather or padded linen underneath.

On one note: Apparently bolts fired into merchants standing on a trade depot are marked as being traded if they stick in the corpse.

On another, some metalsmith just completed this: Ultertangak, "The Common Spots", an honest-to-Armok muthafugging adamantine bastard sword. Worth 1.3 million Urists.

"This is an adamantine bastard sword. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with cave spider silk and encircled with bands of oak. This object menaces with spikes of black diamond and celestial marble. On this item is an image of Iden Axeblueness the dwarf and dwarves in adamantine. Iden Axeblueness is surrounded by the dwarves. The artwork relates to the ascension of the dwarf Iden Axeblueness to the position of king of The Infamous Pages in 19"

 

Most badass, most dwarven artifact ever?

Quote from: Mechlin on April 06, 2011, 07:53:21 am

Quote from: jaxy15 on April 06, 2011, 07:34:36 am

Well, I won the battle without any of that.
I also replaced the glowing floor with a diorite floor and removed the upright 2h adamantine masterwork sword.
Silly demons, you can't get out. There's a floor there.

Is it usable by dwarves?

I doubt it, but hey, it's nothing raw editing can't tweak.

You need to edit the weapon raws so that the minimum size to use it is the same as the body size for dwarves. I do that every time I play, as well as allowing dwarves to make various oversized weapons, because greataxes and 2h swords solve Bronze Collosus issues very quickly.


In other news, the Growledsteels merchant trap is exceeding expectations. A trade depot in a bridge airlock, with no roof and fortifications all around the edge of the floor above. Excellent training for my up-and-coming marksdwarves.

Badgers are fine. Giant Motherfuckin' Badgers, on the other hand...

Let's just say that there is a very good reason why I have more marksdwarves than all other military dwarves combined, and why I have a stockpile of roughly 30,000 bolts next to my fortifications.

I'm in the middle of another fort right now, but I'd like to make a proposition.

Train your captured badgers into war badgers. Assign them all to a single dwarf, who goes in his own squad. Send him out alone with his badgers and take on the next gobbo ambush. If he survives, give him a massive room so he doesn't get miserable about all the dead badgers.

Don't you mean "so he doesn't get miserable about wading through a veritable sea of goblin limbs"?

Badger is steadily ceasing to look like a real word anymore to me.

Kinda like "ethics" after a few weeks of DF?