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[vonkebabosh]

Hi
The usual "An ambush! Curse them" comes up on the screen and as always there is a pack of goblins somewhere.
But instead of attacking me they start bashing eachother to bits and retreat (1 or 2 might attack).
Why is that?

[Bordellimies]

On a more serious note, I think that's a bug.

[Dariush]

The goblin clans decided to settle their disputes and attack the hated dwarf fortress of Hatefortress, but when their arrived they started an argument about which clan entered the map first, someone hit someone else and soon there was a massacre.

[Zrk2]

When the combined IQ of five individuals is less than that of a single lemming-like dwarf there is no reason for them not to engage in pointless self destruction.

[TheJackal]

Hi
The usual "An ambush! Curse them" comes up on the screen and as always there is a pack of goblins somewhere.
But instead of attacking me they start bashing eachother to bits and retreat (1 or 2 might attack).
Why is that?

Two different Goblin Civs?

[nordak]

I noticed this as well, but they were a part of the same siege. Appeared to cause a loyalty cascade, and two squads killed each other off.

[vonkebabosh]

The ambush came and I checked where they were. They were 6 or so not important. It was the 6 that fought eachother.
I got multiple ambushes at the same time, and they all would fight themselfs.

[thegoatgod_pan]

It could just be that there are two goblin fortresses and they are at war.  Having said so I once had a goblin loyalty cascade after a reclaim of a fortress that really fell to a titan, but the titan (a coral something with mandibles--we cut off the mandibles. and arms. and legs. but not the head). Thankfully a goblin siege came and they took out the titan and the sole survivor. when I reclaimed there were a LOT of goblins hanging out. And they attacked invading goblins, and then each other in a loyalty casade.  Only one survived, he was a legendary hammergoblin, he was surrounded by dead goblins on the map and never joined an adventurer of mine no matter how leveled i was--too cool for me.

[Aspgren]

Earlier I embarked on an elven outpost (not possible anymore huh? ) and it went crazy. elves murdering eachother left and right

I looked into the legends and found that there had been a war and the outpost had been occupied. Elves had fled, peace trieaties had been signed, elves had travelled back to the place, they had married and had children .. then another conflict arose I think .. i never got to the bottom of it.

 What i do know, however, is that elves who died were walking around with new memberships and former memberships and all kinds of luggage. worldgen set them up to go bananas and as soon as you visit them you "activate" this and it turns into a massive free-for-all.

 its awesome isnt it

[duckInferno]

I've had this in two fortresses in a row now (separate worlds).  Only one goblin civ, but I noticed in the second one that it appears that my human civ conquered a dark fortress or something and folded some goblins into its ranks (or vice versa?).  When ambushes show up, the goblins fight the human mercenaries in their own band.  Sometimes they attack other goblins, whom I assume are related to the humans somehow.

tldr; I think it's a bug concerning takeovers by/of dark fortresses..

[veok]

I've had this in two fortresses in a row now (separate worlds).  Only one goblin civ, but I noticed in the second one that it appears that my human civ conquered a dark fortress or something and folded some goblins into its ranks (or vice versa?).  When ambushes show up, the goblins fight the human mercenaries in their own band.  Sometimes they attack other goblins, whom I assume are related to the humans somehow.

tldr; I think it's a bug concerning takeovers by/of dark fortresses..

I think you're right.