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Author Topic: Another way to kill the enterance dance.  (Read 832 times)

Jackrabbit

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Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« on: January 19, 2009, 06:27:54 pm »
Either someones already mentioned this and I shall be ridiculed or it will be a good idea. Onward!

Cage a goblin (or dangerous animal, whatever) in a space, 1x1, behind a glass wall near your entrance (which should not be too wide)

when the time comes to seal your entrance, release the goblin! Dwarves will run from it despite the fact its behind glass, but the military wont (hopefully).

Once the all clear sounds, pull another lever and open a door behind the goblin which leads to a cage trap.

Rinse and repeat.
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beorn080

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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 06:37:22 pm »
Or you could put goblins underneath the entrance, with hatch covers attached to a lever to open them up to the entrance way and scare the dwarves back from the entrance while letting the military through, Marksdwarves will kill them though.
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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 06:57:42 pm »
I don't think it'll stop the dance, just knock it back inside some tiles.
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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 07:00:58 pm »
You should keep it up on a platform.

Though i personally prefer exterior walls.
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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 07:14:14 pm »
You could actually dewpopulate a very large part of your fortress by using this trick, mass engineering, and a lever located in your "bunker". I may try to to that one day.

Question: If I use goblins from ambushes/sieges, will it prevent any other ambush/siege to happen?
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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2009, 07:42:09 pm »
Well I was going to say "Magma".
But I guess we are trying to keep the offending dwarves alive.
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Quote from: Raphite1 on April 14, 2009, 09:40:33 pm
"Yeah. My plan was to drop some kittens into the siege, and have my dwarves freefall into battle, landing on top of the kittens. The plan was kinda dumb though because the kittens were standing on grates, and the goblins killed them with arrows just as I was releasing the freefalling dwarves. So the dwarves weren't able to land on kittens and just fell and died."

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Re: Another way to kill the enterance dance.
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2009, 09:56:07 pm »
Quote from: CobaltKobold on January 19, 2009, 06:57:42 pm
I don't think it'll stop the dance, just knock it back inside some tiles.

That was my intention, the titles a misnomer. sorry
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