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[Lithandrill]

I've been noticing that ever since I started playing MWDF (v3b) that ambushes always seem to happen in clusters rather than as single events as in vanilla. When this means two goblin ambushes it's still manageable but I've had several times where I've gotten 10+ ambushes of goblin archers with drow war spiders. Good luck killing 100+ of that murder combo...

Is this intended or a bug?

[DwarfOfTheLand]

I think Meph stated in a thread that this is not intended and will be fixed.

[Meph]

I did not. You remember the case where I was talking about kobold camp and the ambushes the one reaction spawns.

Yes, its normal that you have more ambushes, because you have more races. And sometimes these ambushes are not ambushes, but ambushing sieges. The difference is that an ambush is always one squad, but a hidden siege is just as big as any other siege, which can be 10 squards of enemies. Depending on how valuable your fort is.

Do you have watchtowers, guard animals scattered around, patrols?

[SabbyKat]

As Meph said, it's a hidden siege. I've seen almost all 'ambush' races come with 2-5 squads and each time a new one is discovered, it says 'an ambush, curse them!'.

So yes, it's normal for masterwork from my experience.

[Lithandrill]

Well a hidden siege would make sense I guess since they are all from the same race. But they usually have an uninvited guest/underground siege pop up within moments as well, which is what led me to believe it was a bug. Also in the example of the goblin/drow spider combo my worth was quite low because 3/4 moods failed and the only artifact I had was worth barely 2400 DB's, Hadn't started engraving yet either.

Well, guess that's DF for you....

[Meph]

Its either value, exported goods, or population. if you have a wealth of 1, but 200 dwarves, you'll be sieged as well.