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Author Topic: Is it possible to go to war with elves?  (Read 513 times)

snpaa

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Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« on: August 23, 2012, 05:38:51 pm »

I keep killing there merchants and they keep sending new ones.
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Re: Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 05:57:31 pm »

Try offering them wooden stuff, then seizing their merchandise.
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Re: Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2012, 06:08:12 pm »

Offer them wooden goods, then take all of their stuff, then kill them down to the last man, including the diplomat.
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Re: Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2012, 08:14:15 pm »

It doesn't matter if you offend them if you're going to kill them anyways. Besides, offending them is less severe than killing them or even stealing their goods - in order to be equivalent, you'd have to steal their goods and cause them "great hardship".

Also, Elven diplomats don't exist unless you've explicitly modded them back into your game (or used the DFHack "fixdiplomats" command) - if they exist, though, killing them is significantly more effective than killing a caravan.
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Re: Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2012, 08:15:47 pm »

It doesn't matter if you offend them if you're going to kill them anyways. Besides, offending them is less severe than killing them or even stealing their goods - in order to be equivalent, you'd have to steal their goods and cause them "great hardship".

Also, Elven diplomats don't exist unless you've explicitly modded them back into your game (or used the DFHack "fixdiplomats" command) - if they exist, though, killing them is significantly more effective than killing a caravan.


Sorry, I'm prone to assume everyone does that :(
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Re: Is it possible to go to war with elves?
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2012, 08:23:16 pm »

See this post for more information on how to anger Elves.
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