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Oh!  Even more interesting!  Or confusing.  Whichever.

The vampire this weaver killed was named 'Scarlet' Appearedgate.  I always give nicknames to my vampires so I can pick them out easier.  But this current fortress only has had one vampire, our esteemed mayor. 

In other words, this kill wasn't from the current fort - it was from my previous one!  I think this fella was my hammerer that immigrated!

Welcome back...

Also, I went through the combat reports.  The mechanic that was shot and killed was a miner, not a mechanic, whatever.  Anyway, the miner somehow got in a fight with a stray horse.  This fight somehow became a fight between the miner and a baby.  Once that happened, my archers started shooting the miner, and he was struck down.  It doesn't list the miner in the weaver's kills, but going through the weaver's logs it's clear that the weaver shot and killed the miner.

Clearly, a loyalty cascade is unfolding.


Edit: Aaaand my weaver was sadly shot down.  I don't see anyone shooting anyone else so I guess it's over.

I went through the weaver's kills.  Three goblins.  One dwarf vampire, and it was in my fort.  I never even noticed the kill.

I have no idea what's going on.  My archers are shooting a weaver, which is fine since weavers aren't vital to the prosperity of my fort.  But now my woodcutters are announcing job cancellations because of the weaver too.  I don't see anything on the justice screen to warrant this, and the weaver doesn't appear to be sinister or vampiric in any way...

Thoughts?

The issue is that the flying mount messes up the siege pathfinding.  Similar happens with amphibious mounts - the mount will jump in the nearest pond and sit there, where the rider drowns and the siege gets stuck in position.

I generally remove mounts from all civs as a pre-emptive measure.  I've NEVER seen mounts do more good than harm.  Elves, meh.  Elves on grisly bears?  Even less!  They apparently use the bear's aggro measure, resulting in a whole siege patiently loitering in the yard while a single soldier takes them out one at a time!

Mod the specific creature to no longer fly, that's the best you can do for your current world.  Of course if you've got armed steel, just send some soldiers to mop them up.

Thanks!

It'll be interesting to see what sieges are like once Toady actively fixes their bugs and exploits.

Yes, yes I do.

Is their commander a flying mount that is chilling a z-level above their troops?

Yes, yes he is.

Now I've read tons of posts about how vampires are so common. I never had a vampire. In any of my forts. I genned 8 worlds by now. Or more, I deleted some again. And I never had a vampire in any of my forts.

You may now post the wat pic again.

I've had two 200-strong forts without a single vampire!

Have you tried genning a new world?