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Author Topic: This is rediculous...  (Read 1543 times)

blue emu

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Re: This is rediculous...
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2011, 07:51:54 pm »

Alternatively leave the front door wide open, but have your barracks be at the entrance to the fortress.

This. I just leave my front door open and the drawbridge down. I only button up when I'm inundating the map with Magma... and only then, to prevent it from back-flowing into my Fort.

Any Invaders have to first cross a single line of traps (just an early-warning trip-wire defense, to let me know they're coming), then pass through the open gate and across the open drawbridge, then cross a six-level deep Dodge-Em Trap which has a neck-deep pool of Magma at the bottom, then get past a couple of sentry-dogs (to de-cloak stealthed opponents). Then they reach my barracks.
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Sutremaine

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Re: This is rediculous...
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2011, 07:59:30 pm »

Can't tell either way if it's from the side. :/

Traders come in the last month of the season, in the middle of the month. It's normally right in the middle, but the 10th and 20th are still options.
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Re: This is rediculous...
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2011, 10:02:32 am »

On one fort i made a little waystation mini fort that was self sustainable. It was positioned near the edge of the map and had round the clock gaurds with crossbows on the battlements.
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