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canon

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Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« on: November 22, 2010, 09:17:15 pm »
Whew, depo set up, the booze is flowing... AMBUSH!
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Where's the gobbos?

Turns out they attacked their snatched humans
(verified thru looking at units screen and seeing them listed as invaders)
then attacked each other.

This has been going on for about 2 years.
What's going on?
I swear, no mods to my raws except 0speed dwarfs and dwarf/elven cities,
which i changed back.

On the bright side, I don't have to worry about them harassing caravans.
But they leave so much blood and stuff on the edges, which i wanted to fill with trees...

Anybody know why?
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duckInferno

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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2010, 09:26:12 pm »
I get this, too.

After a while, it seems like they run out of humans and ambush properly. xD
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2010, 10:11:37 pm »
loyalty cascade
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2010, 10:55:41 pm »
Quote from: atomicthumbs on November 22, 2010, 10:11:37 pm
loyalty cascade

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Quote from: Tibbles on November 13, 2010, 07:17:24 am
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2010, 11:17:16 pm »
Loyalty cascade: A goblin for some reason attacks a human captive. The attack on a member of their civ marks the goblin as an enemy of his own civ. The other goblins attack the new enemy/member of their civ, and are marked as enemies for attacking a member.
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2010, 11:33:10 pm »
The humans are probably thinking. "Hey if we kill these goblins maybe them dwarfs let us have some booze!" Second human "yeah and maybe they won't give us an overly warm welcome."
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canon

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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2010, 11:49:02 pm »
unfortunately, magma is pretty far down, so i can't give them any warm hugs.
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2010, 03:43:46 am »
Yep, same here
I got one goblin squad leaded by human lasher, another by bowdwarf, and two goblin spearmen - don't know for sure are they third squad or what.
Bowdwarf was killed by his his goblins-macemen, lasher is being shoot by his goblins-bowmen, and spearmen are attacking each other.
Maybe they got so impressed by my trap designs and want to get away as soon as possible?
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2010, 04:27:21 am »
Maybe Nurgle's rot has eaten their brains, throwing them into Blood Rage... oops, sorry, wrong game!
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2010, 05:11:07 am »
Quote from: decius on November 22, 2010, 11:17:16 pm
Loyalty cascade: A goblin for some reason attacks a human captive. The attack on a member of their civ marks the goblin as an enemy of his own civ. The other goblins attack the new enemy/member of their civ, and are marked as enemies for attacking a member.
This actually used to happen to dorfs at one point.  A guard other than the hammerer would beat someone, he would get marked as enemy, his attackers would get marked...  et cetera.  It lead to full-scale riots, which was always Fun.
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2010, 12:28:52 pm »
Quote from: Kamamura on November 25, 2010, 04:27:21 am
Maybe Nurgle's rot has eaten their brains, throwing them into Blood Rage... oops, sorry, wrong game!

No. No it isn't. Just look at the assorted threads dedicated to gods of DF.
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2010, 12:31:47 pm »
I noticed this today, I had two ambushes, at first I thought the local fauna had uncovered them as the first were next to gazelle, but it could the Human/Goblin fighting cause them to be uncovered too?
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Re: Seasonal displays of goblin treachery
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2010, 12:42:03 pm »
I've had this problem bad with my current map. The first huge siege the turned on their own warlord and killed him, he didn't come with any clothes on either, kinda odd. Now during ambushes they show up with humans, elves, and dwarves, who they kill quickly... It sucks when it's a dwarf because my dudes want to run out and bury him.
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