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Author Topic: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?  (Read 2739 times)

Catsup

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Re: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?
« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2013, 10:22:00 am »

do not engage undead ever if possible, i've seen legendary fighters go down to them since they shatter bones through candy and steel, and even 1 undead can usually cause casualties if engaged by 1 dwarf. Apparently the undeath syndrome gives them attribute boosts from 300% to 1000%.

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Re: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2013, 10:52:50 am »

To add insult to injury, that legendary fighter will come back 300-1000% stronger. XD

You really need to kill the undead quickly or indirectly else you will find that your strength will be added to theirs.
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Re: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2013, 02:31:56 pm »

Anyone have any tips on fighting the undead in combat?
A drop pit with a minecart grinder or a coinstar grinder(only with weapons instead of coins) on the bottom. Make sure the grinder is isolated from the rest of your fort with a buildingdestroyer-proof, tantrum-proof raised bridge gateway, with a bridge or a hatch covering the pit's mouth to break the necromancer's line of sight.

(You can just drop them into a one-tile-high shaft with a floodgate between them and the rest of the fort, but don't blame me when a tantruming dwarf tears down the floodgate and the zombies break free.)
« Last Edit: April 15, 2013, 02:33:36 pm by HmH »
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Re: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2013, 05:07:28 pm »

do not engage undead ever if possible, i've seen legendary fighters go down to them since they shatter bones through candy and steel, and even 1 undead can usually cause casualties if engaged by 1 dwarf.

Oh they're not that bad. Once I have steel armor I use chained undead for melee+morale training, and I've never lost anyone except new recruits who forgot to put on their armor.
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Re: Fresh fort besieged by the local necros. Ideas?
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2013, 08:23:46 pm »

Anyone have any tips on fighting the undead in combat?
a coinstar grinder(only with weapons instead of coins)
I believe that is called a Dwarven Shotgun.

As for dealing with the dead, I recommend Atom Smashers. They don't leave a corpse to get resurrected, even if it does seem exploity.
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I always seem to end up with a magnificent burial complex and nowhere near enough bodies to fill it, or far too many bodies and nowhere to put any of them.
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