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Author Topic: Immortal Elephants  (Read 2197 times)

utunnels

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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2015, 10:15:11 pm »

I'd use spear dwarves if yu really want to kill a large animal. They can penitrate the thick hide, puncture organs, cause severe bleeding, and break bones! The hunters might be bad at killing, but paired with some adequate spear fighters, they will take one down pretty easily.

Well I never bother keeping a hunter around, unless the job is enabled by default.
If I want to kill something I just send a squad.
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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2015, 10:24:06 pm »

If you want elephants, set up a choke point using constructed walls where they usually migrate through, and fill it with cage traps. That way you can haul them to a place where they can be killed easily, tame and bread them, or turn them into war elephants.
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Aslandus

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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2015, 10:29:23 pm »

If you want elephants, set up a choke point using constructed walls where they usually migrate through, and fill it with cage traps. That way you can haul them to a place where they can be killed easily, tame and bread them, and turn them into war elephants elephant nuggets.
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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2015, 10:38:04 am »

If you want elephants, set up a choke point using constructed walls where they usually migrate through, and fill it with cage traps. That way you can haul them to a place where they can be killed easily, tame and bread them, and turn them into war elephants elephant nuggets war elephant nuggets.


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Airgeoff

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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2015, 01:23:59 pm »

What kind of bolts were you using? I've personally found that metal bolts are much more effective on tough animals than wood or bone, which seem to really work only on small unarmorred targets.
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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2015, 02:02:42 pm »

You must have been unlucky, yes there shouldn't be more than 100 bolts fired before you have a head hit.

Maybe your bolts can't penetrate elephant skulls ?

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Re: Immortal Elephants
« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2015, 08:44:45 pm »

-wrong thread-
« Last Edit: January 02, 2015, 08:55:30 pm by Baffler »
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