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Author Topic: Goblins reluctant to advance.  (Read 1753 times)

Hokan

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2010, 03:33:13 pm »
It's obvious! Polite goblins are waiting for an invitation!
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Aspgren

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2010, 03:57:59 pm »
Now I don't know too much about the siege AI .. haven't had a siege in 31.10 yet

Back in 40d though I noticed some things.

1. when a marksdwarf shot the leader of a siege party, his minions retreated but the siege wasn't called off.
2. groups with many marksgoblins were more reluctant to attack than their comrades
3. it might be a coincidence but several groups have moved and regrouped before invading me. if they just chased the same cat or if they made a conscious decision .. i dont know

 I have not noticed them stopping or retreating due to a leader being caged though.
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Ferret

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2010, 06:08:32 pm »
Woh,
Woh,
Wooooh.
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...I ran out of cats...
How is this even possible? This doesn't even make sense.
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kaijyuu

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2010, 07:23:27 pm »
They all died. Well except the caged ones.

I got more with the next migrant wave :P




Anyway, this is happening with more than just caged goblin leaders.




It seems whenever an ambush party's leader gets put out of commission (death, caged, ect) their minions just stand around. These 3 groups are standing where their leaders died and haven't moved in a month.

Dunno if the same happens with sieges. Haven't had one on this map yet.
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Terisuke

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2010, 09:40:59 pm »
This is why I always stagger my cage and weapon traps, normally with more of the latter.  When the lead gobbo traps himself, the rest just walk back and forth over the weapon traps until they make mincemeat of themselves. 
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lordofhyphens

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Re: Goblins reluctant to advance.
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2010, 04:55:34 am »
I noticed this with my Murdertron 9000 trap rig (single corridor lined with steel saw blades something like 15-20 traps) in 31.10. Didn't bother me overmuch as I had already locked everyone inside (leaving the long, spindly path through the Murdertron 9000 the only way in) and couldn't care less about migrants.
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