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I think migrants were just scared off for a while. I once had a first-summer undead siege in one fort which just loitered in one corner of the map for few months and left. After that there were several seasons with no migrants, then one season of "some migrants have arrived despite the danger", after which migrant waves resumed as usual. The "migrant reputation" of the civ or whatever the counter for that is can apparently take a hit even from an uneventful siege.

Playing again after some pause and I'm constantly finding funny little WTFs I didn't see in the earlier versions.

A dwarf gets hauled into the hospital and is "diagnosed with inebriation." No treatment is prescribed and the dwarf immediately gets up and goes to work further on his inebriation. Yes, that sounds realistic, but why bother with dwarves?

Chief medical dwarf has a night troll uncle and cousin in his relationship screen. They're both pure night trolls, not abducted spouses, and have no real relation to him in the Legends mode. He also feels lonely from time to time because he'd like to spend time with his family. Trust me, you don't.

In the barracks area, bolts missing archery targets somehow also manage to miss the floor below and end up in the Duke's dining room two levels down. They simply teleport through solid stone flashing briefly on the level I was planning to use as the collecting area; I wonder if this could be exploited as a safe way to recover bolts during sieges.

One very useful trick in handling large invader forces is to use water to slow enemies down. Force the attacking force to cross a body of water with depth alternating between 3 and 4. This will let only few enemies through at a time, leaving you more time to rest your troops between butchering invaders in manageable little waves.

Rotate your squads so that you always have rested troops facing the next wave of enemies. One idea I've been experimenting lately is multiple killboxes with a squad in each, with some way of routing enemies to the room with the freshest warriors. This would also need a way to stop warriors from charging out of the killbox and getting overwhelmed by the next approaching group of invaders.

Quote from: Magistrum on April 07, 2018, 10:03:28 pm

Just noticed that dwarves can spar in trios.
I don't know why I thought they couldn't it makes all the sense.
It looks like they are all attacking each other.

This might be something new. It was not the result of one missing a charge and hitting a bystander, right?

No, I believe that has been a thing for some time, at least since .40.something. I have seen it sometimes with large squads, all three participants trading blows equally.

This reminds me of the time when one of a sparring trio decided to leave for a nap; two other participants immediately stopped fighting each other, followed the first one to bed and started hammering on his helmet with their weapons. That was in early .40 version if I remember correctly.

Does Dakost take part in off-site raids too?

No, he just walks off the map and simply vanishes from the game forever if I try to send his squad on a mission. I tried that once and had to savescum to get him back.

Can you give him proper weapons, if so, will he use real weapons on real targets to do real damage, or do ghost wielded weapons phase right through

Sadly, it seems that you can't give ghosts equipment of any kind. In fact I believe ghosts hover through their afterlife completely butt naked, since they leave their clothes in a pile alongside their corpse when they die and never pick up any replacements. No wonder dwarves are sometimes found dead from sheer horror after seeing them.

As it turns out after some experimentation, since he's a Restless Haunt, Dakost the Friendly Ghost Speardwarf provides very little military value. He doesn't participate in any military activity except by hovering somewhere in the vicinity of his militia buddies. For some reason though he is getting Tired when others are sparring around him, even when he doesn't do anything (that's visible in logs) himself. I'm keeping him around as  a militia mascot while I try to think some purpose for him.

Once I sent his squad to loot some nearby ruins to see if he brought anything back; for some reason the rest of his squad simply froze where they were while he alone walked out from the map and disappeared from the game, never to be seen again. I savescummed after that.

I'm thinking... he could be turned into a Murderous Ghost by slabbing him and then deconstructing his slab, but would he lose his squad association in the process? I have a suspicion in that case I'd just have ordinary uncontrolled rampaging undead in my fort.

There are two adventurers in my tavern, both seeking information about the location of Cradleddrills, a valuable wood opal crown. The artifact in question is currently on display in my museum. I'm tempted to let them both know about it and see what happens.

In other news, a ghostly speardwarf is petitioning for residence. Err... should I let him in?

Convincing science in this thread. Time to rethink militia training somewhat, although it might not provide appreciable benefit. In my forts it seems that when I give dwarves some weapons and armor and get them sparring in the beginning, they'll level in just few years up to Legendary in all combat skills, including Biting. How they do that, I don't know; they don't even use bite that often while sparring.