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Actually, from some quick research, a crossbow could send a kobolt flying a little bit.

A kobold is smaller then a dog, so I am going to compare it with a European wolf which weigh around 38.5 kilograms. Which is not that much.

Kobolds would weigh less then that, how much less I don't really know, so I am going to guess they weigh around 22.7 Kilograms, or around the size of an 8 year old child.

I cant find any units for the force of a crossbow in metric so I am going to convert the weight to English.

A child weighs around 50 to 60 pounds. A cross bow bolt has the force of about 86.78 ft-lbs. So I think a cross bow would readily knock over a kobolt without much trouble. Depending on the bolt of course.

My marksdwarfs get almost 0 kills. They are just long range support for my melee dwarfs with run around with short sworts dismembering anything in their path... and suffering around 50% casualties in the process. But 4 to 5 dwarfs for 40 to 50 enemies (trolls/gobs) is a fair trade.

I don't consider crossbows and bows to be overpowered at all. It would help if the gobs and trolls would actually show up with armor.

 This is new. I have never seen this happen before.



A Kobold propelled away by the force of an impact. An impact of a copper crossbow bolt? 

WTF is that guy shooting with? A hand held Ballista?

Well...

A human caravan came onto my map and got ambushed by a bunch of goblins, one trader and his wagon died.

Human guards killed the goblin bowgob ambush but now now the entire human caravan is in a tantrum spiral and wont do anything.

So should I kill them? Or should I let them stay and act as bait?

Does this work with the latest version of dwarf fortress?

Stops babies from being born if the population limit is set to 0 as far as I can tell.

I don't have that problem. The problem I have is that I want to run a generational fort, start with the starting 7 and only grow via reproduction. But I cant figure out how to stop immigration.