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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Face Palm moments you had
« on: November 12, 2014, 06:20:33 pm »
I started to play couple of days ago, after about a year of my absence in the game. Created small fort, started metal industry, clothing, food was fine, I even started dropping caught enemies to the pits and then finishing them off with my military. I was distracted during designing terrain to pump some water closer to my fort, and then the Megabeast appeared. Quite soon I think, and I wasn't aware of all the combat mechanics changes... What went wrong?
1. I forgot about defence from below, so I had one big tunnel going all the way down to the place where megabeast spawned. I had only a couple of doors on the lowest level,
2. so I decided to send one squad of military that was equiped with iron and copper armors and weapons. My idea was simple: I'll try to keep it as far from fort as possible and the collapse the stairs...
3. of course I wasn't aware about new climbing mechanics, so I designated removing stairs and tried to build a wall on it.
Plan wasn't that bad if everything would go nicely. But it didn't. My militia squad was destroyed almost instantly(8 died, 2 run away), so they didn't buy me enough time to finish my sad backup plan. My first designation was too close to the beast, so I had to cancel it and destroy stairs somewhere closer. In act of despair I decided to remove stairs just below 3rd level of fort. That went quite nice, some of my dwarfs were too slow and they stayed down, slaughtered one by one. I thought that it will be over, because I destroyed only entrance to my fort... but I didn't know that megabeast will actually climb up one level above. Yeah, that was really sad. Beast entered my fort and started madness, and suddenly all cries stopped. Stoneworker killed it by scratching it's head and bruising the brain... that was lucky ending:)
I lost around 30 dwarfs and everyone is terrified, so we'll see what's next
1. I forgot about defence from below, so I had one big tunnel going all the way down to the place where megabeast spawned. I had only a couple of doors on the lowest level,
2. so I decided to send one squad of military that was equiped with iron and copper armors and weapons. My idea was simple: I'll try to keep it as far from fort as possible and the collapse the stairs...
3. of course I wasn't aware about new climbing mechanics, so I designated removing stairs and tried to build a wall on it.
Plan wasn't that bad if everything would go nicely. But it didn't. My militia squad was destroyed almost instantly(8 died, 2 run away), so they didn't buy me enough time to finish my sad backup plan. My first designation was too close to the beast, so I had to cancel it and destroy stairs somewhere closer. In act of despair I decided to remove stairs just below 3rd level of fort. That went quite nice, some of my dwarfs were too slow and they stayed down, slaughtered one by one. I thought that it will be over, because I destroyed only entrance to my fort... but I didn't know that megabeast will actually climb up one level above. Yeah, that was really sad. Beast entered my fort and started madness, and suddenly all cries stopped. Stoneworker killed it by scratching it's head and bruising the brain... that was lucky ending:)
I lost around 30 dwarfs and everyone is terrified, so we'll see what's next