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[Gutierrez]

So Goblin Christmas has arrived at my fortress, there is even a partridge in a pair tree this time (the lead goblin is riding a giant save swallow.)  Sadly, they don't seem to want to deliver their presents.  My bridges are down, my military is out of sight, but the elves (the kinds that deliver presents, not the hippy tree traders) and their wondrous offerings of troll leather and goblinite are all just standing around picking their noses.  What can I offer them as the proverbial plate of cookies to get them to come down the chimney (and by chimney I mean 3x3 pathway lines with cage traps, weapon traps, a war giant leopard, and a giant desert scorpion)?  Do I need to toss a kid in a cage and build him outside to tempt them?  I'll do that if need be.

[sdrawkcabcM tsirU]

Well, I've heard that goblin attackers like to cluster around their leader, and he's up in the air, I would assume. Why the leader won't move, I'm not sure. I don't really know enough about fliers.

[Unfrozen Caveman]

They're trying to bait you, it seems.  A lot of ambushes and sieges seem to intentionally take their sweet time, to draw you away from your defenses.  You could enlist your least useful dwarf into a squad of 1, issue a move command to put him close enough to them that they charge him, then immediately take him off duty and pray to Armok that he runs back to the fort.

This won't work against goblin marksmen.  Your bait will be skewered.

[Bouchart]

Try building a siege engine some distance away and start firing at them.

[Gutierrez]

I finally gave in and sent two squads of hammer dwarfs and two squads marksdwarfs after the siege groups.  They were mace goblins and pike goblins.  They didn't last long when the steel bolts started hailing.  Best moment?  Then the lead mace goblin was shot off his giant cave swallow mount and pounced on by a war giant jaguar.

[Duuvian]

Haha, sweet.

[Qinetix]

Build some ramps to your chimy , if you have but anyways lock the front door , i think they cant go thorught (unless that bug was fixed)