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DrSazar

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Mounts for dwarves
« on: April 22, 2011, 09:27:32 pm »
Not sure if this was asked before but, is it possible for dwarves to mount animals in fortress mode? Can it be modified into the game?
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Avo

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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 11:24:27 pm »
Nope, its coming soon. It might be possible to mod this in game, its going to be glitchy though. Goblins however LOVE riding deadly animals right into your traps.
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2011, 12:00:23 am »
Or over your walls!  Seriously  A goblin on a giant bat jumped the wall at my last fort.  It was sic!  I had no idea.  Luckily they immediately started to go after all the livestock and pets... then parts of them were flying through the air when the axe men showed up.  Watching goblin limbs fly back over the wall has to be the best friggin combat I have seen yet.
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 12:48:53 am »
Miners on Giant Cave Swallows...  That is all.
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 04:34:11 am »
i could see that making mining in caves...fun, what's that precious gems? your like 5 z lvl's above my head? *whistles for my cave swallow* not now bitch!

id also imagine flying mounts, would make xbow squads a wee bit better no? have em fly 1 z lvl above the melee guy's, the melee cant hit em and they're actively shooting lol
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 05:17:01 am »
Until they run out of bolts, then they swoop down and try to use their crossbows like croquet mallets...  Towards a fatal end of one kind or another, of course.
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 05:22:01 am »
(Actually, could mounted miners actually allow also digging out truly no-exit pits?  Not sure if haulers or constructors could haul material out of/into position, while mounted, but clearing dug-out detritus from said pits or constructing tall walls without scaffolding would be interesting.  I sort of suspect, though, that the whole "I won't fly to what I can't path to" process will still prevail.  Barring the old Random Wander process, which could strand idle aviators on top of walls, then spam cancels when they pick up a real purpose again and find there's no way to get there...)
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2011, 08:41:18 am »
I doubt that there would be mounts for dwarven civilians, and just be assigned to military personel only.
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Re: Mounts for dwarves
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 02:28:25 pm »
Quote from: silhouette on April 23, 2011, 08:41:18 am
I doubt that there would be mounts for dwarven civilians, and just be assigned to military personel only.
I know, that was just an idle aside.

Although in the post previous to that, I meant polo mallets, so I obviously wasn't thinking at all clearly. :)
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