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[lordofthenothing]

How do you execute prisoners? I've deffirent ways every fortress. Flooding rooms, battle in arena, slaughter them, cave-in,...



I want kill my elves with smoke by creating a fire. Does that work?

[Casp]

Fire is quite volatile. Be careful.

I usually just shove them in a room with my militia. Gets the soldiers some decent xp. A couple of the more dangerous ones I save for the purpose of trapping nobles in with them.

[Seraphim342]

One efficient way of doing it is with an atom smasher.  If you only dump useful items from them, a lot of other killing methods will leave a lot of junk laying on the floor that can hurt your framerate.  So I just mass pit them into a 3x3 room with a retracting bridge and make them disappear. 

Removing just their weapons and using them as training dummies for your military is a good way, too.  I've also stripped them of everything and set my war animals on them, one of my tame Giant Cave Spiders has a name about as long as my arm now because of all the goblin kills. 

[WealthyRadish]

I pit them in a room with upright wooden training spear traps on repeat, until they become masters at whatever weapon skill they are. Then I can use them for infinite target practice, gladiatorial fights, FB clearing, or a last ditch contingency plan against some other threat. Fun times.

[peskyninja]

I usually make my gobbo prisoners fight to the death with my war rutherers.

[Ethan741]

Pit of sorrow. A few Z-level deep pit with saws and spears at the bottom. I prefer they hit the spears, their suffering lasts MUCH longer.

[Seraphim342]

I pit them in a room with upright wooden training spear traps on repeat, until they become masters at whatever weapon skill they are. Then I can use them for infinite target practice, gladiatorial fights, FB clearing, or a last ditch contingency plan against some other threat. Fun times.

That is actually a really good idea.  Training them all up to master before using them for marksdwarf practice would really up their survivability.  Dunno if I'd use them for melee dummies though, even with no weapons... at master wrestler they could get in some disarms and ruin your day against lower-skilled dwarves...

[Loud Whispers]

I used to execute everything via moose pit. Pets, sacrifices, prisoners and the occasional kobold... But now that's no longer possible. Instead I use a depressurized flooder to make them drown slowly, or just send in one of the military Dwarves for a quick execution. Marksdwarves if they're a high ranking political prisoner, hammerdwarves if they're a Dwarf, speardwarves if it's a skilled warrior, axedwarves if I'm in the mood for a beheading and 6-20 military Dwarves if I'm in the mood for a mob beating.
Oh! But it's not all bad, I do offer community service as an option out, namely guard duty outside, in the eeeevil.
I'm still waiting for some goblins to test death by training weapons. The last thing a Dwarf of mine killed with a training weapon was a minatour, and I feel the time was too long ago. Alas... Besides corpses, there have been no visitors lately. I hope I didn't scare the goblins.

[Awessum Possum]

I have a gladiatorial arena set up, and a magma pit to throw my prisoners into. Also I like to take their stuff and then lock them in my barracks with a militia squad. It's not a very effective way to train your military, but it is amusing.

[Maxmurder]

Disarm them by dumping their gear. Then pit them in a room with some soldiers.

I am in the process of arming my civilians wit crossbows and a leather cap. I have been pitting naked gobbos with each civvie squad in my arena to give them some crash-course combat experience.

[I am Leo]

Chain them up in the caverns as an offering to the forgotten beasts. When our masters wake they are oh so hungry.
Ia! Ia! Oggez Rashaz!

[Noobazzah]

I prefer dropping them naked in a 4z deep pit with spikes in the bottom. There they face a huge swarm of helmet snakes or some other wildlife. But I also use them for marksman training.

[Gizogin]

Drop tower.  Few things satisfy quite like seeing your helpless prisoners splattered across the landscape.  Even better, time your executions so that you always have a few goblins (or even dwarves) on the way up, so they get to see (and be splattered by) their comrades.