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Flok Speargrabber

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OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« on: November 15, 2007, 10:32:00 pm »

My dwarves could eaisily take on a kobold, unarmed, at their weakest.

So why do they run away? Especially since they're thieves.

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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 11:42:00 pm »

Raccoons and groundhogs are evidently much fiercer foes. Watch and be amazed as your WHOLE FORTRESS runs away.
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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2007, 04:32:00 am »

Civilians try to avoid any fighting by default. You should keep a full-time military or if you're low on dwarves just draft the coward for a while and they'll fight.
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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2007, 10:16:00 am »

The major pain in the butt is when a stranded harmless creature on a different level frightens dwarves away from a key area.  I once had a gold vein in a cliff that couldn't be mined because of a baby fawn trapped on a ledge above it with its dead mother.  My softhearted dwarves couldn't stand the pitiful sight.  Drafting them didn't work because soldiers don't dig, and because they can't shoot across the Z axis, they couldn't finish off Bambi.
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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2007, 10:22:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Tyrion:
<STRONG>finish off Bambi.</STRONG>

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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2007, 12:24:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Align:
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I butcher newborn kittens.

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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2007, 12:32:00 pm »

Everyone does.
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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2007, 05:23:00 pm »

In fact, my current fortress has a ziggurat just for sacrificing kittens to Armok.
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Re: OH SHIT. A wimp! FLEE
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2007, 11:07:00 am »

There has to be a way to mod the raws so that groundhogs, deer, and other wimp creatures are ignored like dogs or cats, right?

Or, perhaps Toady One could add a [WIMP] token that marks them as a special category.

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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2007, 11:12:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Vay'lon:
<STRONG>In fact, my current fortress has a ziggurat just for sacrificing kittens to Armok.</STRONG>

Have a DFMA link?

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