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[Jiri Petru]

The title says it all. I want to provoke war with humans, what's the best way to do it? Will caravan guards attack me if I steal the caravan's stuff?

[IHateOutside]

Humans dieing on your site may provoke a war with them. You need an ingenious trap to kill the traders.

[3]

Also, seizing goods helps. The guards won't resist, though.

[Dwarfu]

I invoked a war with the elves, but without killing any of the merchants.  I seized all goods on every caravan and always replied negatively to the elf diplomat.

It took 3 years.  On the fourth summer they sent 1 squad of ambushers with a unicorn.  I killed them all.

The next summer they sent another caravan and the diplomat sues for peace.

[(name here)]

Killing the human diplomat works.

[Phantom]

1.Use ballista
2.Mutilate survivors
3.Smite the diplomat
4.
5.*Bang bang bang*
6.*Dakka Dakka Dakka*
7.Victory
8.Profit

[Lordinquisitor]

Just seize their goods, kill them or let them die.

You know, just play as ever.

[vagel7]

kill every human you see and take theire goods.

[Elliott_Thinas]

Nothing angers then more than losing their diplomats; most human civs will send both diplomats to admire your fort and trade guild liasons; KILL THEM BOTH! Seizing goods and drowning caravans helps but diplomats seem to be much more important.

[KaziArmada]

I've never actaully HAD a elven Diplomat.....
Im personally setting up a fort for a war with them *In the world Im in, their appairently bad asses..they killed off the Dwarves AND gobbos..*

But like everyone said, either keep siezing goods and respond negativly, or off some Caravans

[Glacial Eidolon]

Alternatively, you could trade long enough so that one of the human guild representative dies of old age. When that happens, you take a huge hit with the human faction and they may immediately start sieging you. This wouldn't happen off the map, either, as nothing happens off the map in fortress mode.

If they ever get killed accidentally by the wildlife, that could potentially cause it as well. For an even more luck-based, unpredictable exercise set it up so that the caravan has to take a long route to your fortress's entrance. They will have a greater probability of getting mauled.

Good luck killing the money-loving xenophobic warmongers, hmm?

[612DwarfAvenue]

Why war with the Humans? Their stuff may not be as good as Dwarves', but at least they bring plenty of it.

What do Elves bring? Cloth, wooden weapons and above-ground plants. Friggin above-ground plants!