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dwarfhoplite

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ambushers killed themselves?
« on: January 05, 2011, 02:48:56 pm »
i got an ambush of 3 goblin squads but they all died at the edge of map by theirselves:D what could have happened?
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2011, 02:54:50 pm »
Check their corpses: did they boil or something????
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2011, 02:58:18 pm »
any combat logs of them fighting? there's an issue with ambushes from different factions fighting each other over your turf
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2011, 03:04:54 pm »
Possible loyalty cascade.
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2011, 03:43:28 pm »
What's a loyalty cascade?

I've had elven caravans dispatch entire ambush parties before.
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2011, 03:59:53 pm »
It's when the game doesn't quite flag invaders as all being on the same side, so they start trying to kill each other. But since they're partly considered to be on the same side, anything that scores a kill is considered a traitor and dealt with accordingly. Rinse and repeat.

You can also get this in your fortress if you order dwarves to kill members of their own civ.
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2011, 04:31:37 pm »
One time I had a bunch of ambushers apparently arrive just before I sealed off that region from the rest of the fort and they stayed there for so long that the horses they were riding gave birth. The baby horses weren't flagged as invaders, so they revealed the ambushers and then the horses killed their treacherous foals.
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2011, 05:55:50 pm »
Quote from: Untelligent on January 05, 2011, 04:31:37 pm
One time I had a bunch of ambushers apparently arrive just before I sealed off that region from the rest of the fort and they stayed there for so long that the horses they were riding gave birth. The baby horses weren't flagged as invaders, so they revealed the ambushers and then the horses killed their treacherous foals.

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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2011, 09:42:13 pm »
i got two ambushes at the same time both with five sword goblins and a couple elves and all but two goblins in one and one in the other group died and the others ran.  i then looted the corpses, made traps from their weapons and later those traps destroyed several other ambushes, kinda ironic
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Re: ambushers killed themselves?
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2011, 05:31:29 am »
I have several squads appear from different map edges and then they all promptly slaughtered a human amoung them (stolen children? botched caravans?) before retreating. I had just one small squad of lashers who just waited at the edge until my archers killed them :P
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