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yotmato

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Soldier (No reachable valid target). What am i missing?
« on: July 06, 2013, 07:03:13 pm »
So here is the situation, i'm currently under siege by some goblins, and i have my marksdwarfs on top of my wall behind a fortification, i'm new to this game but as far as i read about it, marksdwarfs should be able to shoot through fortifications right?

This is where im shooting from.

This is the goblin whom i issued a kill order on, just so it would show the unreachable target message instead of Defend burrow.

Any ideas as why i'm getting unreachable valid target?
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Re: Soldier (No reachable valid target). What am i missing?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2013, 07:46:41 pm »
When you set a kill order on a target, dwarves take it as an order to engage in melee.

Dwarves with crossbows will shoot at hostiles whether they're active or not. They don't always do it as soon as they get line of sight, and I think that goblin is just a little too far out of range.
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Re: Soldier (No reachable valid target). What am i missing?
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2013, 07:57:31 pm »
hm i see, marksdwarves range is 20 tiles right? and there is a penalty if u're above in z-level, i guess thats why my guys are not shooting :/
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