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Zeebie

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Sudden hunting skills?
« on: November 04, 2012, 03:05:46 pm »

About a dozen dwarfs in my fortress have suddenly gained ranks in Ambusher.  Could it have anything to do with the recent necromancer sieges?
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Brewster

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Re: Sudden hunting skills?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2012, 08:51:16 am »

Hrm... sure they didn't come like that as a migration wave?
Thought discovery necromancers worked on their Observer skill... maybe if you do it enough you could get a TAD Ambushers skill too?

Zeebie

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Re: Sudden hunting skills?
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2012, 01:17:30 pm »

Definitely gained after arrival, it's probably 20 or so dwarfs now.  Some of them are up to great ambushers.  I have no dwarfs with that skill enabled.
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AutomataKittay

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Re: Sudden hunting skills?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2012, 01:18:45 pm »

Did you set any of them to be hunters? They're the only job that I know of that gives ambusher skill. And if there're no wild creatures on map, or they don't have weapons, they won't actively hunt.
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Re: Sudden hunting skills?
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2012, 01:26:53 pm »

They're all assassins hired to kill each other, and have been scouting each other's rooms.
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