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MuseOD

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Possibly the best, cheapest defence for your fort
« on: June 21, 2013, 05:38:48 am »

So what you do is build a small, roofed aboveground 3x3 structure like so with a 3x1 entrance space. Surround with cage traps, about 10x10 squares in all. (Almost) everything scary that tries to jump you won't be able to. I've gone through 3 gobbo seiges and haven't lost a dwarf, capturing entire armies of gobbos. Just in case, have a perimeter of weapon traps closest to the structure as well, just in case things get too close.
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Qwicol

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Re: Possibly the best, cheapest defence for your fort
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2013, 07:11:46 am »

But where's blood, sweat and tears?! Screams of dying dwarfs and other beings? Where is violence and sound of swords bashing in shields?

""Where is the horse and the rider...
 Where is the horn that was blowing...
 They have passed like rain on the mountains...
 Like wind in the meadow...
 The days have come down in the West...
 Behind the hills into shadow..."
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Matoro

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Re: Possibly the best, cheapest defence for your fort
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2013, 08:08:27 am »

But where's blood, sweat and tears?! Screams of dying dwarfs and other beings? Where is violence and sound of swords bashing in shields?

""Where is the horse and the rider...
 Where is the horn that was blowing...
 They have passed like rain on the mountains...
 Like wind in the meadow...
 The days have come down in the West...
 Behind the hills into shadow..."

Oh how beautiful. Tolkien's poets have the feeling of DF in them.

I agree. There must be blood. If there is not blood, it's an elven fortress.
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Re: Possibly the best, cheapest defence for your fort
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2013, 10:40:07 am »

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(Anyone else have any stories that can compare to a man being beaten to death with his own trousers by a giant gopher?)
(when goblins showed up, I mumbled "Smithers! Release the hounds!" and had the lever pulled.)