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Realmfighter

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Enemy archers
« on: October 03, 2009, 03:55:23 am »
If i caught some goblin archers, put then in a fortification box and dropped ammo in every so often, would they shot at things?
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Re: Enemy archers
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 04:03:10 am »
Yes. Your dwarves and some creatures. (From what I can tell, they don't see them all as targets, but many.)  Don't forget to give them ammo, but you don't have to feed or water them.
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Re: Enemy archers
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 03:22:38 pm »
I think I've read somewhere that a caged creatures first priority is to try to escape to the edge of the map, and only fight as a last resort. I doubt that the captured goblin archers would be a reliable in a pillbox.

if anything they'd attack your dwarves and not hostile things.

I mean hell, I've captured tons of goblins, threw them into a pit, and tossed in a few mountain gnomes and they got along fine..
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Re: Enemy archers
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2009, 03:28:57 pm »
That's why I don't leave survivors. I capture goblins. I toss them down my execution shaft onto the sacrifical alter of Armok. SPLAT! Course, I don't capture many goblins since I finally got my HALL WAYS OF DOOM WITH A COW ON ONE END!
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