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JoshBrickstien

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No goblins?
« on: December 20, 2010, 04:35:55 pm »
Hello. I want to be attacked. I've not seen any goblin ambushes in three years. Nor have I ever. However, there is a Goblin Civ listed (Gonem "The Plated Jackals") With a single Macegoblin listed. Shouldn't they atleast send snatchers? All I seem to get is kobolds.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2010, 06:07:21 pm »
Hmm. Maybe they are organizing a huge attack. :D
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2010, 08:32:39 pm »
I went four years before getting my first thief/snatcher.

Another play I got back to back ambushes on the second year and a siege the third.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2010, 09:17:11 pm »
I've had similar problems.  The past three games I've played have had no ambushes until about the 3rd or 4th year, though fairly common snatchers and thieves.  Expect them eventually!  You could fight FBs in the meantime.  Or go for HFS.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2010, 09:19:36 pm »
If you need some excitement in the meantime, try to get the humans to go to war with you. I'd say elves too except they are infuriatingly hard to anger in the current version due to the lack of a treecutting quota to violate.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2010, 11:35:34 pm »
Quote from: twilightdusk on December 20, 2010, 09:19:36 pm
If you need some excitement in the meantime, try to get the humans to go to war with you. I'd say elves too except they are infuriatingly hard to anger in the current version due to the lack of a treecutting quota to violate.
Quote from: Savolainen5 on December 20, 2010, 09:17:11 pm
I've had similar problems.  The past three games I've played have had no ambushes until about the 3rd or 4th year, though fairly common snatchers and thieves.  Expect them eventually!  You could fight FBs in the meantime.  Or go for HFS.

No FBs yet. (100 dorfs) I don't want to go for the HFS until I have more than 5 military dorfs.

Oh, and no Hummies. And elves... well.... hm. Are they TRAPAVOID? No? Muahahahahhaha.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2010, 12:53:41 am »
Quote from: JoshBrickstien on December 20, 2010, 11:35:34 pm
Oh, and no Hummies. And elves... well.... hm. Are they TRAPAVOID? No? Muahahahahhaha.
Humans will avoid traps they have seen when they were at peace with you, and elves are ambushers.
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Re: No goblins?
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2010, 02:23:35 am »
Quote from: rephikul on December 21, 2010, 12:53:41 am
Quote from: JoshBrickstien on December 20, 2010, 11:35:34 pm
Oh, and no Hummies. And elves... well.... hm. Are they TRAPAVOID? No? Muahahahahhaha.
Humans will avoid traps they have seen when they were at peace with you, and elves are ambushers.

So what your saying, is that if the humans fight me, The magma mist generator over the entrance isn't a bad idea?
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