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Awayfarer

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Re: Weapon Traps
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2009, 06:52:31 am »
I put in 5 to 6 miscellaneous weapons, usually just whatever the gobbos have left lying around. My traps tend to have a lot of daggers and spears/pikes.
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Albedo

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Re: Weapon Traps
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2009, 03:58:40 pm »
There's clearly a point where it's overkill on anything but a dragon or colossus, and you're killing gnats with nukes.

I have noticed that the macaqes will happily trip all the cage traps I have up front, but then will put on the brakes in front of my 3-deep row of stone traps.  They did go thru when it was 1-deep early on, which makes me wonder if I staggered them with a gap in between would I kill more by tempting them to tackle "just one row" of stone traps?

Also, I recently traded for a bar of zinc, which is low value but can make brass with copper - 2 bars.  I think there's only 1 use for 2 brass, and every fortress should be able to claim such...

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Re: Weapon Traps
« Reply #32 on: April 14, 2009, 03:11:19 pm »
Quote from: Albedo on April 13, 2009, 03:58:40 pm
I think there's only 1 use for 2 brass, and every fortress should be able to claim such...

I can't find anything in the menus for creating large spheres of metal out of brass, though.
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