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Sgt_Joe

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All the fortresses are full of animals
« on: June 21, 2011, 01:56:23 am »
Ive been playing a few world I have created and cant find a single human fortress with anything other than animals in it, is this a bug or what, because its amazingly hard to find companions without any soldiers around.
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Rumrusher

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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2011, 02:31:11 am »
there all dead your better off retiring some where and making a fortress to pick up companions
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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2011, 10:50:14 am »
Joe, what length of history did your world have?
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Barnox

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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2011, 06:22:05 pm »
Yeah, I seem to get this too. Sadly, you cannot recruit gazelle...
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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2011, 07:50:49 pm »
Don't mess around in those too long, the animals congregate outside the doors (I assume they're trying to get in but can't open the doors) and if you try to leave they curbstomp you. 20 gazelles kicking you at once pretty much turns you into paste.
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Montague

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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2011, 08:01:10 pm »
Yeah they are abandoned.

If you just need soldiers, find a lair in advent mode, retire, build a Dwarf Fort on said lair.

If you abandon the fortress with a lair on your embark site, anybody you had on the fort will still be there and any soldiers on active duty at the time will be recruit able.

I build forts, stockpile tons of weapons and armor and high-value goodies, put every dorf in the militia, train them, and I activate every squad, station them wherever I can find them and then abandon the fortress.

I should note, every dwarf in a fortress abandoned like this will start wherever they were stationed when you abandon and will migrate into whatever areas you had designated as meeting areas. Its kinda neat. Traders and their (recruitible) armed escorts will do the same thing, if you abandon when they are in the depot.
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Re: All the fortresses are full of animals
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2011, 11:40:47 pm »
Quick question. Is there a way to tell if a fortress is abandoned?
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