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Author Topic: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?  (Read 1325 times)

cochramd

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Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« on: October 13, 2015, 07:56:24 am »

This sounds crazy, but hear me out: I'm already planning to make breeding pits for blind cave ogres, trolls and troglodytes to be unleashed upon an unyet specified enemy, and I'm already making obsidian shortswords for the sake of it. If I were to equip these creatures with the shortswords, they would be all the more effective against my unknown enemy, and if the plan backfires it will be all the more hilarious. So, how do I do it?
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2015, 08:22:19 am »

I'm pretty sure they can't pick up stuff on their own accord.  But in rare circumstances they can grab a weapon or clothing from someone in close combat.  There's no clean way to do it, unfortunately.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2015, 08:49:10 am »

Well, dang, so much for that idea. On a related note, are weapon traps filled with training axes and training swords good for danger rooms for blind ogres and such? If nothing else, they'd use half the mechanisms as a traditional danger room.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2015, 09:06:00 am »

They'll probably get an artery punctured and die. Such is life without the protection of armor.

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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2015, 01:06:44 pm »

BCOs can equip. They're slow learners, but gigantic and strong and fast. Equipped and danger room trained, they will be untameable gods of war.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2015, 07:14:10 am »

I'm curious: how do you plan to recover them to their, erm, "barracks", after combat? Simple traps?
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2015, 08:01:17 am »

I'm curious: how do you plan to recover them to their, erm, "barracks", after combat? Simple traps?
That, and only unleashing them against foes I do not expect them to survive against.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2015, 12:23:36 pm »

Well, that simplify things even more.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2015, 10:43:22 pm »

I'm curious: how do you plan to recover them to their, erm, "barracks", after combat? Simple traps?
That, and only unleashing them against foes I do not expect them to survive against.
what CAN they not survive against
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2015, 12:09:58 am »

I'm curious: how do you plan to recover them to their, erm, "barracks", after combat? Simple traps?
That, and only unleashing them against foes I do not expect them to survive against.
what CAN they not survive against
Well there was that guy that got invaded by like, 3000 goblins at once; that's a force I'd bet on winning.
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Re: Creating a Militia of Troglodytes, Trolls and Blind Cave Ogres?
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2015, 07:14:34 am »

I'm curious: how do you plan to recover them to their, erm, "barracks", after combat? Simple traps?
That, and only unleashing them against foes I do not expect them to survive against.
what CAN they not survive against
Well there was that guy that got invaded by like, 3000 goblins at once; that's a force I'd bet on winning.

Specially because the first thing it would kill is the fps. The rest just follows.
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