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Cobaldunderpants

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Winter Is Coming...
« on: April 20, 2012, 10:06:08 am »

I spent all night building a gorgeous fort with vast crafting halls and a magma plumbing system/fountain. It is possibly my best planned and layed out fort yet.

About an hour ago I got my first titan. It is a salt blob with wings that shoots webs. Everything sent against it dies. My fort is small (population wise) and I don't have any marksdwarves or even quivers and bolts to equip them with. I am out of wood and I am starting to run short on barrels. I can start digging towards the first cavern, but DFhack puts it at least 40 odd z levels below my current position. Its mid summer now. The elven caravan is gone along with a 16 dwarf strong migration wave. The titan crushes them with its body and not even iron protects against it.

While I dig for the cavern the only thing I can hope for is the arrival of winter, and with it, the mountainhome caravan with complimentary marksdwarf guards.

Honestly, if the thing wasn't flying I would consider just venting the magma to the outside and burn everything.
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slothen

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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 10:13:21 am »

rock pots to the rescue.  You can dig a trap for it, bait the trap, and then open the trap to the surface.  Exploit the inability to destroy hatches from below.  Then lure it into a bunker outside your fort with a shutter of floodgates/bridges, and use it to web siegers before sending your military out.  Then harvest that awesome forgotten beast silk.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2012, 10:15:31 am by slothen »
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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2012, 10:32:38 am »

Just seal yourself in and dig that 40 z levels like a dwarf. It'll only take a few ingame days, even with shit miners. Then cut some wood and make some bolts.

And I thought there would be some actual GoT/ASoIaF content here.
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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2012, 10:34:51 am »

Every winter in my fort it begins snowing Dwarf blood <3

Still, salt blob? I'm sure one good marksdwarf could take it out. How many quivers e.t.c. do you have?

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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2012, 10:41:54 am »

Every winter in my fort it begins snowing Dwarf blood <3

Still, salt blob? I'm sure one good marksdwarf could take it out. How many quivers e.t.c. do you have?
... I don't have any marksdwarves or even quivers and bolts...

;)

This is why my first construction is a mechanics shop, second is a bridge. I seal myself in until the first caravan, and then have the option to turtle if anything I can't handle comes along.

Oh, and that simple draw em in lock em in trap is so simple... It's genius :D
« Last Edit: April 20, 2012, 10:44:20 am by rtg593 »
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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2012, 10:43:06 am »

I read any as many b:

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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2012, 10:47:39 am »

I read any as many b:

;)

Hey, it's bay12. So, a new pictures, eh LW?

Rerail, but ya, like I said above, turtle in, buddy. Place slothen's trap 2z below the surface, get it all ready (I'd use bridges instead of hatches, link remotely, might be a bit slow, however), breach the surface, and profit! :D
« Last Edit: April 20, 2012, 10:49:11 am by rtg593 »
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Re: Winter Is Coming...
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2012, 11:03:33 am »

..shoots webs....


SHOOTS WEBS...

Capture it and end the clothing crisis!
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