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[Earthquake Damage]

Is it true that they once did destroy tiles? Or did i just imagine that because it would be cool.

Back in 2D, catapults could blow holes in ice, leaving holes in the glacier and/or frozen river.

[Footkerchief]

Yeah.  I thinks its much less of a problem that siege engines can't shoot up or down z-levels as it is that they can only fire at exact orthogonal angles.

So ballistas can't target enemies in a small arc in front of them?  I never had a ballista of high enough quality to tell.

But yeah, to answer the OP, siege engines still haven't gotten overhauled for the 3D version and their projectiles interact with the z-axis in some pretty bizarre ways.

[HammerDave]

Catapults can fire at an angle up to perhaps 30 degrees either side.  My current fort has a nice line of stones along the map edge about that long.

As for whether they're useful or not, no idea.  Usually when a gobbo shows up it's between training shots and the marksdwarves have killed him before the siege operator returns with the next rock.

[Jay]

The plural of ballista is ballistae.
That is all.

...On a serious note, no, catapults have not been revamped for 3D yet and are basically useless.