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At the moment pikes don't do anything more than pierce the enemies with two-handed force. It helps, but not nearly as much as a true pike would. The game doesn't take size into account for range when it comes to melee weapons. It works for damage, but not range. Once weapon size affects how far away the weapons can hit, then we'll get proper pikes.

We'll also need more control over troops. A single pikeman is only a nuisance to cavalry, not a threat. Get a few mounted warriors in there, and the pike will only keep them at bay if they're packed tightly enough for the wielder to swing it back and forth. Which gets tiring, since the things are so damn long. You need your pike folks standing tightly packed, with a large number of crossbow folks to kill the backed up cavalry.

Really, a lot of our current problems could be solved with proper use of the discipline stat. Highly disciplined troops would stick to formations and fight together, while the ill disciplined soldiers could be shot forward ahead of them as a screening force to distract the enemies until their more skilled brethren came in for the kill.

It's how things really worked back then. The peasant horde soaked up enemy arrows while the armored knights and sergeants marched into action.

Vanilla it's 200. Most forts fall to lag death at about that level.

Or avoid using stockpiles for weapons and armor altogether.

I've only had Minotaurs come to my fortress. Two of them, in my entire career. I only fought one. He died, but caused a soldier to bleed to death on the field because no one would take him inside. This was before I figured out hospitals. I'm hoping to build a serious above-ground castle real soon. Maybe that'll spur some heavy combat.

Yay! You got to mine. That was funny. Kobold Kombat,

And I often still play as human. Just wait til I grab the Startdwarf script and launch thirty person embarks. Things will get fun quicker.

*Clears his throat* Ugh, okay. For some reason the game doesn't want to upload for me. I seriously did very little, so . . . no loss if my turn gets skipped. Next player up to bat please.

Nope. I haven't played since then. I should probably pass the turn to someone else. At least I got the last battle mostly cleaned up, yeah?

I've got the file on my Google Drive. If the next in line has gmail, I'll share it there, otherwise let me know and I'll upload it to that site Woob used.

Instead of apologizing for a repeat . . .I'm also engraving slabs for every fallen person, whether they're ours or not. If the next Overseer wants to sort through and actually pick out ours and cancel the others, they can.