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[gilesguy]

So, as per usual in the other versions, they started friendly to me. There were 3 towers of them so I quickly manage to collapse one tower, hoping that this will lead them to become hostile towards me for much FUN, but that didn't work.

After reading the wiki, I saw that they become hostile to you after the first goblin seige. So, I trained my military, waiting, until finally an ambush arives. I had already trapped the entrances to one of the two remaining towers, so I immediatly captured 7-8 goblins. I activated my millitary, and sent them to deal with the large population of goblins, with I thought would now be aligned against me.

Unfortunatly, they were still friendly to me. However, later I received a message "goblin spearman is no longer enraged!". I found where this goblin was, and couldn't belive it. It seemed as though the goblin invasion had attacked the other tower, where I did not trap, and managed to slaughter almost everyone inside, including the demon who lead the civilisation. What was more strange was other goblins, not involved in the invader/second goblin tower, were fighting each other! I now have many, many rotting goblins (and one demon corpse) in both the towers, and almost all other goblins have injuries.

Has anyone else had a problem with natural goblins going mad during seiges?

some pictures of the devastion.
http://tinypic.com/r/243kefl/6
This one is of a fight ongoing, with the two goblin children beating up a goblin stoneworker
http://tinypic.com/r/1124pj7/6
This is the top of the untrapped tower, where it looks like almost everyone was killed. The demon master's corpse is near the top left.

[leftycook]

Cool tower bro

[Lord Urist]

Some kind of loyalty cascade maybe? The fact that you have two goblin children beating up a stoneworker is... intersting, because neither would have turned up in a siege, so you must have inhabitants of the tower fighting each other. Strange.

[Dorf3000]

Yeah ambushes don't trigger the goblins to switch sides, and because combat is now massively weighted on the side that has armor and weapons, an ambush group can wipe the floor with the friendly goblins and kill them all before you get a seige.  The seige is what makes the goblins turn against you, but I think you need to reach a certain population level and fortress wealth before you get one.

If you put traps in the tower chokepoints you can get a lot of free stuff from the ambushes and also keep your goblin meatbag chums from all dying at once.

[gilesguy]

But it still doesn't explain why I have random goblin civilians attacking each other in the towers.

[Jake]

But it still doesn't explain why I have random goblin civilians attacking each other in the towers.

Well they are the Chaotic Evil faction of the vanilla game.

[Blackburn]

But it still doesn't explain why I have random goblin civilians attacking each other in the towers.

Well they are the Chaotic Evil faction of the vanilla game.

No, I think the reason is because goblins are just stupid.

[Huggz]

But it still doesn't explain why I have random goblin civilians attacking each other in the towers.

Well they are the Chaotic Evil faction of the vanilla game.

No, I think the reason is because goblins are just stupid.

Goblin Child 1: Mr. Mason? Goblins are attacking!
Goblin Child 2: They have spears!
Goblin Mason: Ok, stay here, I will se... Wait... Did you say GOBLIN invaders. YOU'RE GOBLINS! *Attacks*