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[noodle0117]

Then just replace "pressure plate" with "accurately timed dwarf lever pull"

edit: then again, the demons will just destroy the support themselves right?

[Karakzon]

the prisoner delivery system should be interesting, are you planning on cage trap delivery or via drawbridge?

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F= Floor
H= Hatch.

this is the one i usualy use for mass prisoner deployment. seal off room below with bridges and a drop. drop prisoners when deamons get close to the area so the falls stun wont affect the battle outcome.  recomended having the chamber floodable with water to drown the prisoners should i the unlikely event of theor survival. will also make an interesting defence station against the surface when we come to building in the deeps.

anyone got any plans for the hell fortress? or are we going to wing it and have the millatery go on patroll to make sure any wandering deamons are put down before they harrass the workmen?


-sign me up for a turn after everyone else of current please, ive come into alot of free time-

[AnimaRytak]

Also, as a last resort, you might consider making a Dwarven Machinegun, which creates unsupported obsidian blocks and drops them a few Z-levels onto demon heads.  Reported to be massively awesome.

[noodle0117]

I was originally going to use cage trap employment, but now that you mention the drawbridge method, it does seem a whole lot more efficient.

I have no idea how to make a dwarven machine gun though, plus I've already have an obsidianizer planned, so I'll just leave that idea to someone else.

Edit: Scratch that! Dwarven Machine gun looks Awesome!

[AnimaRytak]

Also, a good idea for the trap hallway would be upright weapon traps set to a fluid repeater.  More or less the same concept as weapon traps, but without the annoyance of levers.

[Conan]

Holy carp where did the DMG get made before? Sounds like !!FUN!! all the way through.

And post full or partial battle logs, if not too inconvenient. Don't building destroyers destroy traps?

[wlerin]

Don't forget an artifact building (statue, hatch cover, something) somewhere along the line to distract them.

[noodle0117]

After thinking things over and trying them out, I'm not sure if I actually should try making a dwarven machine gun.

Making the machine gun itself is one thing, but making it actually useful as a weapon is another.
I also might not have enough time (both in game and real) to realistically create this thing while simultaneously making everything else.

I'm not saying I'm not going to try, but just don't get your hopes up if it fails/if I fail to complete it before the year.

[Conan]

Also, I just recalled that all demons can fly.

[Blade Master Model 42]

I thought it was only some.

[noodle0117]

Early Summer


Progress is going well

   
Most of the traps and hallways have been dug out.

 
The prisoner arena didn’t exactly look the way I imagined it, but I guess it’ll have to do.

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(and yes, the additional doors between the legs of the goblin corpse shaped Prisoner arena are there for “extra protection”)
It's even multicolored

I’ve revamped most of the economy, laying off more than half of the engravers and crafters while tripling the number of miners and mechanics.

I”ve also drafted a few extra recruits into the military to bolster our forces, but preferring to do the dirtier stuff with mechanisms rather than beard, I’ve mostly just left the squads of candy clad warriors to manage themselves.

The dwarves are busy, work is being done efficiently, no one is having any temper problems and everything is just fine…


Oh noes! a snatcher!

Catching some of the nearby dwarves off guard, he strikes down a peasant and heavily injures one of the recruit hammerdwarves before running away.

And with snatchers there will inevitably be…


Oh noes! An ambush!

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did they change the symbol for goblins?

I was just about to dispatch the military when one of the dwarves mentioned to me that a specific creation used to release magma upon the creatures of the surface was built by a previous overseer just for this situation.

A brief overview of the construction had impressed me, but judging from the designs, I saw grave inefficiencies. Though the device held the potential to destroy armies, its situated position and unnecessarily long release paths meant it would be slow and clumsy with its deployment. I also could not, for the love of all that is dwarvenly, understand why the designer of this magma machine decided that it would be perfectly fine to allow a goat pass above the machine’s blast zone where any would be assaulters could just simply waltz by harm free straight into our fort.


Theoretical outcome of releasing the magma

And it would also endanger the lives of any dwarf who happened to wander outside as well.

So should I send the army or pull the lever?

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who was the player who built the magma release device again?
And how do I make the goblins go through the spiral hall of cage traps? When I gave the ambush a test run, all of the Goblins just simply path through a little tunnel near the entrance into the fort

[Conan]

Just save scum this once and see what happens if you release the magma.

Also, there should be some bridge or something to close up the small passageway. Or did Anima forget to fix that?

[jamesadelong]

Dwarf me please. I would bring neo-classical sanity to this madness Mechanic please, failing that, whatever survivor you first find.

[AnimaRytak]

Pulling either the lever outside the fortress entrance or one marked in the "Notes" in the lever room should cause them to take the long way.  They shouldn't bypass the first two traps anymore.

Also the magma-releaser isn't a magma releaser ala "Fuck the World", it was apparently meant to be a magma hallway that intruders enter, get trapped, then bake inside.  What we're seeing is just the mechanism to empty the hallway.

I was in the process of re purposing it into a doorway flooder before my turn ended.

[tryrar]

As for the creator of the magma room, that'd be me. Though, with the sheer amount of magma, if you open both the drains and the fiery death release, you might actually be able to flood the area you need to, though I didn't test that functionality...

Edit:, heh, you know, with all the extra power from the BATTERY, I just realized it'd been trivial to set up a few pumps and floodgates to direct pressurized magma from the volcano anywhere we needed to, and we could have expanded it easily! If this fort survives, I want another turn to implement this!