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Lord Zack

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So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« on: April 02, 2012, 04:45:47 pm »

None of the ones I have so far can be trained for war and I've heard exotic animals don't breed. Besides slaughtering them for food, building an arena to pit them against goblin prisoners and possibly restraining them outside the entrance as watch animals, what can I do with them?
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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 04:47:28 pm »

Exotics breed. My naked mole dogs were easy to tame and they started breeding quickly.

You can add [TRAINABLE] in the region RAW's so you can train them.

NonconsensualSurgery

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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 04:58:58 pm »

The queen of my civilization has a throne room with fully domesticated giant cockatiels.

Like this thing:



Except, 2229.22 times that size.

My birds are the size of a human sumo wrestler. Your argument is invalid.

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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 05:05:05 pm »

My birds are the size of a human sumo wrestler. Your argument is invalid.

They still look ridiculous though  :P

Giant falcon ? Yeah, sure. Giant eagle ? Hell yeah ! Giant raven ? Looks badass.

Giant cockatiel.... *cough*

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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 05:06:44 pm »

I've got soldiers throwing cobras at the enemy (added trainable to king cobra), still gotta see if it will really change the war, but it's fun anyway. Old childhood thing, GI Joe, COBRA.
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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 10:27:29 pm »


They still look ridiculous awesome though  :P


FTFY

You're merely jealous of their fabulosity.
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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 10:57:18 pm »

Just cause they aren't war or hunting trainable doesn't mean they can't be useful.

Cave crocs are just as capable of biting a trog in half so I put a pasture/training zone at my cave entrance and put my trained GCS and Cave Croc there. They protect well enough. Even without hunting or war training they can get quite aggressive, especially if a trog or troll is dumb enough to bop them on the nose.
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Re: So what do I do with all this exotic animals?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 11:54:01 pm »

Make a zoo! Get em to breed, have awesome exotic meat farm in your basement.
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