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Dunamisdeos

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Hostile work environment
« on: June 25, 2014, 12:49:49 pm »
I have a new embark, hot tropical broadleaf forests. 10z+ cliffs.

There is also more than 2 pages of absolutely nothing but saltwater crocodiles, hippos, and asps. Any suggestions? I'm thinking sacrificial asp pit.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 12:57:50 pm »
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on June 25, 2014, 12:49:49 pm
I have a new embark, hot tropical broadleaf forests. 10z+ cliffs.

There is also more than 2 pages of absolutely nothing but saltwater crocodiles, hippos, and asps. Any suggestions? I'm thinking sacrificial asp pit.

Ooh! How about a croc moat?

Bonus points if you add in stingrays, too.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2014, 12:58:37 pm »
That's... a lot of critters for a normal embark.

War crocs and hippos are a must though.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 01:10:13 pm »
Full crocodile skin armor for all of your citizens, menacing with spikes if hippo bone.
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2014, 02:11:27 pm »
Fill it with magma, no more pages of critters.  Problem solved!*

*not responsible for lack of problem being solved or creation of additional problems from said solving.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2014, 02:54:56 pm »
YOU CAN MAKE WAR HIPPOS well that's going to be a thing.

Also, yes. Croc moat indeed.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2014, 06:00:46 pm »
Oh, I see you've made it past our asp moat, and the angry crocodilles.  Well, the last thing to defeat before you get to fight the dwarves are the WAR HIPPOPOTOMI!
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2014, 06:52:33 pm »
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Oh, I see you've made it past our asp moat, and the angry crocodilles.  Well, the last thing to defeat before you get to fight the dwarves are the WAR HIPPOPOTOMI!

A bit of plywood can bridge the snake pit, crocs jaws were designed in the Triassic, One of the most dangerous and aggressive animals in Africa- reeeeeeeeeeeeeetreeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaat.
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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2014, 08:40:05 pm »
The hippos will starve long before you can get them to become war hippos. Good luck trying though. Just hunt the hippos down, and get a ton of meat, and make war crocs instead. Beware their ugly shoes.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2014, 10:44:14 pm »
Imma fix dat with the hippos presently.

Also, I think I'm going to reenact my first major personal project, which was a system that automatically dropped live crocodiles on invaders from above.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2014, 07:25:16 am »
hippos aren't grazers so you don't have to worry about anything, except training them of course.

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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2014, 12:36:20 pm »
just randomly place a few cage traps along the outside of your map.  You don't need to overdo it or make pathing traps, you'll get a steady trickle of captured animals.
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Re: Hostile work environment
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2014, 02:08:28 pm »
Quote from: PDF urist master on June 26, 2014, 07:25:16 am
hippos aren't grazers so you don't have to worry about anything, except training them of course.

Oh, you're right. I could have sworn they were. I guess I was thinking of rhinos
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Quote from: Lav on June 11, 2014, 03:17:51 pm
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« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2014, 02:22:03 pm »
Quote from: slothen on June 26, 2014, 12:36:20 pm
just randomly place a few cage traps along the outside of your map.  You don't need to overdo it or make pathing traps, you'll get a steady trickle of captured animals.

Oh, when I want to capture animals I make ~30 cage traps and spread them out over the entire map. Got spammed with Rhesus Macaques though... But I DID get 2 Giant Eagles, which is a plus.
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