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[Humberticus]

....just lounging around in the dining hall? It seems I can't appoint them to champions as pets. I don't have much use for them as pets as much as siege assists. Any ideas?

[Phantom]

Mod them as trainable
Set cages outside and pull the lever
Screw them, Get Magma

[Neruz]

Chain them up outside.

[dragon0421]

Build a restraint, ether a rope or a chain, where you're going to be fighting. Assign whatever animal you want there (just make sure they're tame).

[Sartain]

Add the [trAINABLE] token to them and you'll be able to train them as war jaguars. My current fortress has war dogs, war cougars, war jaguars and war black bears. [trAINABLE] is a fun little token to apply liberally

Addendum: I'd suggest getting a breeding pair (or five) of jaguars and chain them up somewhere safe. It's a big cat, but it's not immortal so it's nice to have some spares

[Graven]

Make a small 5x5 room with a wall in the middle leaving one single passable tile. Place cages in the four corners of the room, stuff them packfull of giant jaguars, connect them to a pressure plate placed in the single passable tile.

Then make the level above this room a reservoire and flood the entire fortress. With water, because screw that magma stuff, we need innovation.

[Wolfius]

I like to build a courtyard, which can be sealed at either end. And/or a Trade Depot Airlock.

Trap a seige in here, along with a cage containing your critters(lever or pressure plate), and release them to butcher your enemies.

If you want to be fancy, you can put pressure plates across your enterence/the aproach thereto, with the cage(s) further out, so that, once released, the invaders are between the kitties and the meeting area they'll inevitibly run for.

Alternativly, designate a meeting area where you want the animals to intercept the invaders, making sure it's outside, and order the dwarves to stay inside. I think that should do it.

[kefkakrazy]

Note though that right now the game doesn't have very good controls for war animals-I don't know how exactly it works, but when assigning war animals to a dwarf, there's no option to assign a specific type.

Add the [trAINABLE] token to them and you'll be able to train them as war jaguars. My current fortress has war dogs, war cougars, war jaguars and war black bears. [trAINABLE] is a fun little token to apply liberally

I can trump that. One of my fortresses has war monkeys. War jaguars might be dangerous, but war rhesus macaques make you wish you'd never been born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhesus_macaque

How would you like to get torn to pieces by fifty of those?

[Phantom]

I think a few dwarves with high level in mobster and equipped with SMGs will kill those monkeys.

[Albedo]

It seems I can't appoint them to champions as pets.

Yah.

3 choices:

1) Train more military, assign before champion level, enjoy increased military.

2) Use as guard animals

3) Use as fire-and-forget attack animals (as suggested above) - you will lose them in combat this way.

[Doppel]

As in tossing dwarfs towards the goblins?