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[Adequate Swimmer]

Are weaponized GSC viable? Do I need to pair one chained spider that's going to act like point defense to another spider that can be released on demand?

Do I need to periodically retrain the spiders and does this represent a risk to my trainers?

[George_Chickens]

Yes to all questions. One of my GSC turrets went wild again and ate my hospital, so periodic retraining is necessary unless you have extremely strong trainers

[Mort Stroodle]

I've never done it but wiki says you can stick one in a fortification pillbox and as long as there's a stone door that gives them a way to path to their target they'll web the target. Since they're mediocre building destroyers, they can't actually get through the door and will be trapped. With this system you don't actually need the spider to be trained at all, as long as you block the fortification with a bridge when you want your dwarves to go through the area.

[scourge728]

Don't trained GCS not shoot web

[Adequate Swimmer]

Don't trained GCS not shoot web

There are spider options.

[Ninjabread]

Don't trained GCS not shoot web

They shoot web just fine. In my first forum post, back in 44.05, I did a few tests when I noticed the silk farming wiki page was wrong about this. Still don't know if it's been updated yet.

[Adequate Swimmer]

A chained, trained spider didn't web a chained troll. Might be down to turret design (no path to target), I'll test it later.

[Ninjabread]

I never tested with the GCS on a chain, but I did test for chained targets and wild (not invader) trolls, neither got webbed.