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1. Wall them in.
2. Dig a tunnel between their cave and the circus.
3. Breach the tunnel at both ends.

Huh. I use the novel strategy of making clothes for the kids. You get enough by making them with elven cloth (turns out they DO have a use). Edit the d_init file to prevent too many children from being born, as too many children means you need more clothes.

He does make clothes for them, the problem is that they go insane from nakedness anyways.

I occasionally have dreams about trying to design a cyan-colored megaproject so I can do something with all that microcline.

There's a thread about this issue that I can't be bothered to dig up, but the easiest way I've found to deal with this is to have a 3-tile wide entry hallway.  Above the hallway, have a non-grazing animal pastured on top of a row of 3 floor grates. The animal will be impervious to arrows, immune to building destroyers (not 100% sure about flyers), and safely above any cleansing floods of magma.  Since diagonal tiles are still 'adjacent' for detection purposes, a single creature pastured in the center will spot every thief and ambusher without fail.

Quote from: Asra on May 20, 2012, 01:21:59 pm

Quote from: Garath on May 20, 2012, 12:11:12 pm

cave scorpions? interesting mod

You know it. But seriously I meant Giant Desert Scorpion. I wonder though, since they don't ever breed, do Giant Bark Scorpions breed or other giant insect breeds? I know they have pretty low life expectancies, but it might be useful to try to shore a fort up with some giant scorpions capable of reproducing.

Scorpions are arthropods, not insects.[/OT]

Dammit, it looks like snakes can't be war or hunting trained in vanilla DF. War (giant) rattlesnakes would have been pretty boss.
Neither can wolves or giant dingos. Much disappointments. Guess I'll have to settle for war dogs and/or hope for a pair of grizzlies or maybe giant tigers...

From personal experience, giant dingoes are awesome even without war training. I accidentally left two outside during a siege and they brought down four trolls before dying despite being massively outnumbered.  War training doesn't matter as much for predators that out-mass a tank.

In the future, sieging necromancers will have a whole spectrum of destructive spells at their disposal.

Isn't that one already on the list of future goals?

After the fall of the Soviet Union their enormous reserves of obsolete guns got liquidated and many of them ended up on the US market too (so did their nuclear weapons via the Megatons to Megawatts program- almost 50% of commercial US nuclear power is generated from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons!)

Learn something new every day!  I'm looking this up when I get home, it sounds fascinating.