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[mill1223]

Just letting the fans know.

[Eric Blank]

The heck do you mean? Kobolds have always sent ambushes and theives! Are you talking about sieges? Because that really would be unusual.

[mill1223]

Ambush is news to me.

[Frogwarrior]

Been that way for a while, yeah. They only send ambushes if you let them steal enough stuff, though. So if you've been successfully repelling thieves until now, no surprise that you haven't seen it before.

[Yaotzin]

So I should make a stockpile of junk outside to get more FUN?

Do they steal anything or should it be something specific?

[78325]

So if i set an unguarded stockpile and fill it with a couple of bins of crafts for them to steal i will get ambushes?Will this also make goblins stronger?

[robertheinrich]

The other day somebody mentioned that he hauls "useless" artifacts like crafts to the edge of his map so they get stolen by kobolds and increase the chance of bigger kobold ambushes. I didnīt try that myself yet but it sounds reasonable.

[Reudh]

I've had a kobold ambush before.

They're abysmally weak, only marginally stronger than meleeing elves. Back when I was a newb I had a kobold ambush outnumber my noobling militia 1.5:1 and the nooblings fought off the kobolds with one casualty. This being 31.08 before I knew how to train people in the military.

[imperium3]

I've heard they are the only civ other than dwarves which can use steel, though. Which could be nasty depending on what sort of equipment they bring.

Do kobold ambushers wear armour/use weapons like a proper goblin siege? Or is it just a dagger and nothing else, like the thieves?

[Reudh]

I believe they come wielding their chosen weapon, and a small copper breastplate, with their loincloth. I'm not certain though, don't quote me on this- i'm basing it on memory alone.

Their bowman were pretty nasty in early DF2010, and with the recent bow buff they're even more deadly. I'd tread carefully if their ambush is mainly bowman, but meleeing Kobolds are surprisingly weak.

You could probably benefit from capturing them, by having a series of animal powered watchtowers with traps all around them. OPERATION SAVE THE KOBOLDS IS NOW USELESS BUT IS STILL A GO!

[Naryar]

Pretty damn sure they can use steel.

And this is very old news, i think it was here since the beginning of the game.

[Fayceless]

Yes, this has technically been around for a long time, but for most of 0.31.x, kobolds were very rare, as they had a tendency to starve to death during world gen. 40d had kobolds much the same as .034 but if you've not played that long you're not likely to know that.

[Girlinhat]

That's the main issue.  Kobolds have always sent proper armies if given enough loot, it's just that for the past year vanilla kobolds didn't exist so no one had a lot of experience with them.

[Loud Whispers]

Pretty much the only people who did have experience with them, were the ones religiously adding [NO_EAT][NO_DRINK] to Kobolds :3

[Psieye]

Kobolds 'use' steel because the game handwaves that they must have stolen it somehow. They're a scavenger race, any civ their 'home cave' is situated near enough to handwave as 'within scavenge distance', they'll have access to equipment from that race. I once modded in gold and platinum ammunition, thinking I was safe as I removed bows and crossbows from goblins and other races. Kobold archers came with highly expensive and dense arrows to kill my adventurer.