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[Enzo]

Oh, that's right, damnit. Well, he just chose a rather inopportune time to breach some HFS and now my FPS is 2. But in future versions? Artifact picks should be at least as useful as regular picks

[Shoku]

Picks are worth like 70% base damage but experience with them is so easy to get- legendary miner champions defending with picks seems viable, at least vs vanilla sieges.

[Albedo]

Y'see, that would work, except for the whole champion part.

Bah! Details! Always with the negative waves, Moriarty! Always with the negative waves! 

[azazel]

Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning. Think the bridge will be there and it will be there. It's a mother, beautiful bridge, and it's gonna be there. Ok?

[RavingManiac]

Oh, that's right, damnit. Well, he just chose a rather inopportune time to breach some HFS and now my FPS is 2. But in future versions? Artifact picks should be at least as useful as regular picks

Do fill us in on the details. Epic tales of fortress destruction enrich the forum greatly.

[Jim Groovester]

Herm, to get a soldier to wield a pick, you have to set his weapon preferences to unarmed, and then you need to enable the mining labor. Even as a soldier. This is a problem if you have a champion wrestler.

Oh, that's right, damnit. Well, he just chose a rather inopportune time to breach some HFS and now my FPS is 2. But in future versions? Artifact picks should be at least as useful as regular picks

Do fill us in on the details. Epic tales of fortress destruction enrich the forum greatly.

Agreed. Losing is fun, after all.

[Enzo]

Well, it's not like he breached it at a hilariously inopportune moment or anything.

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Once I have feel for where the pit should be I've very careful to only connect the mining operation to my fort with a 1-tile wide tunnel so I can keep track of any fun stuff that escapes. Unfortunately, my normal grid pattern mine 3 z-levels above the adamantine went straight into the pit without warning. This is when wielding an artifact pick would have been useful. It was also only the beginning of the third year, so I had about 55 dwarves, a dozen military.So I wall off my tomb because it's the easiest chokepoint between my fort and my mine, and I wall my front entrance because my bridges aren't up yet. My miner digs his own tunnel to the surface where he and my woodcutter stare at the walled up entrance with sad faces and are defiled by tentacles.

And then the demons idle. The don't come out to the surface one by one so my marksdwarves can shoot them from the roof. They are too clever. They idle in my mines. I decide to send my dwarves in to reclaim their glory and my fps. They killed  7 8.

And so goes the story of Metalcell. Has anyone else noticed the demons tendency to spare one or two critically wounded dwarves? I always seem to end up with two resting craftdwarves surrounded by melancholy elves after all stuff like this goes down.

[Albedo]

Herm, to get a soldier to wield a pick, you have to set his weapon preferences to unarmed, and then you need to enable the mining labor. Even as a soldier. This is a problem if you have a champion wrestler.

Hmmm - good to know, thnx!  I always figured that "unarmed" would be... you know...

But if you have a Legendary miner (and even one great pick!), that could make up for a lot!  Esp if you have no other military at the time.