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[Puriri]

I know its a scary notion but:

In my fort after a huge tantrum spiral leaving four dwarves to fend for themselves I finally get an ambush in the second year. After a marks dwarf goes down (yes I did get some immigration) another ambush shows up. After killing an already wounded war dog and its master the goblins, mostly lashers, see a war cat (I made them trainable). The cat waits till they get close and then charges them. It some how bites one of their hands off, then after jumping around a bit attacks another one of them. The goblins start running and the cat goes after them. When it catches up to one of the lashers the goblin manages to cut the cat's paw, stunning it. But the cat picks itself up and runs after the fleeing goblin and bites its head off.

Um...

[The Scout]

I know its a scary notion but:

In my fort after a huge tantrum spiral leaving four dwarves to fend for themselves I finally get an ambush in the second year. After a marks dwarf goes down (yes I did get some immigration) another ambush shows up. After killing an already wounded war dog and its master the goblins, mostly lashers, see a war cat (I made them trainable). The cat waits till they get close and then charges them. It some how bites one of their hands off, then after jumping around a bit attacks another one of them. The goblins start running and the cat goes after them. When it catches up to one of the lashers the goblin manages to cut the cat's paw, stunning it. But the cat picks itself up and runs after the fleeing goblin and bites its head off.

Um...

You made the size or dmg higher.

[The Scout]

I know its a scary notion but:

In my fort after a huge tantrum spiral leaving four dwarves to fend for themselves I finally get an ambush in the second year. After a marks dwarf goes down (yes I did get some immigration) another ambush shows up. After killing an already wounded war dog and its master the goblins, mostly lashers, see a war cat (I made them trainable). The cat waits till they get close and then charges them. It some how bites one of their hands off, then after jumping around a bit attacks another one of them. The goblins start running and the cat goes after them. When it catches up to one of the lashers the goblin manages to cut the cat's paw, stunning it. But the cat picks itself up and runs after the fleeing goblin and bites its head off.

Um...

You made the size or dmg higher and by bit off you mean bloody arc which means you changed that to.

[Puriri]

All I changed was add the tag to cats so they could be trained.

[Carpman]

I know its a scary notion but:

In my fort after a huge tantrum spiral leaving four dwarves to fend for themselves I finally get an ambush in the second year. After a marks dwarf goes down (yes I did get some immigration) another ambush shows up. After killing an already wounded war dog and its master the goblins, mostly lashers, see a war cat (I made them trainable). The cat waits till they get close and then charges them. It some how bites one of their hands off, then after jumping around a bit attacks another one of them. The goblins start running and the cat goes after them. When it catches up to one of the lashers the goblin manages to cut the cat's paw, stunning it. But the cat picks itself up and runs after the fleeing goblin and bites its head off.

Um...

You made the size or dmg higher.

Explain why you are so sure of this?

[The Scout]

I know its a scary notion but:

In my fort after a huge tantrum spiral leaving four dwarves to fend for themselves I finally get an ambush in the second year. After a marks dwarf goes down (yes I did get some immigration) another ambush shows up. After killing an already wounded war dog and its master the goblins, mostly lashers, see a war cat (I made them trainable). The cat waits till they get close and then charges them. It some how bites one of their hands off, then after jumping around a bit attacks another one of them. The goblins start running and the cat goes after them. When it catches up to one of the lashers the goblin manages to cut the cat's paw, stunning it. But the cat picks itself up and runs after the fleeing goblin and bites its head off.

Um...

You made the size or dmg higher.

Explain why you are so sure of this?

I can't get 20 cats to kill a groundhog and their base damage wouldn't do that.

[Biag]

The DF combat system allows for a kitten to get a critical hit and one-shot a dragon (biting its head off with gore damage), to use the usual example. Also, being a war animal probably confers some type of benefit, although I can't imagine what.

[Hyndis]

Works the same way as a kitten blender.

Tiny, 2x2 pit full of kittens.

Drop a goblin into the pit.

Each individual kitten does almost no damage, and is almost completely harmless. Almost. But not entirely.

They sloooowly nibble the goblin to death. All 100+ kittens.   



And to make things more fun I dump other things into the blender, like cave crocodiles, dogs, wolves, tigers, lions, polar bears, ice wolves, horses, donkeys, unicorns, foxes, rhesus macaques, hoary marmots...

Things are blended!

And there are many decorations of goblins being struck down by animals.

[Puriri]

The blender sounds hilarious! I'm going to have to try that.

Biag's explanation must be the answer, but since I've seen this happen twice? Maybe not.
A war cat managed to kill several harpys.

And like I said earlier, the only thing I changed was the trainable.

[Argonnek]

And to make things more fun I dump other things into the blender... tigers, lions, polar bears...

Oh my!

[Renault]

A pit with hundreds of cats could certainly be useful for more than just goblin-devouring. I imagine a suspended tower, a dozen levels above the ground, with a floor grate....ahh, the glory of catrain would surely make any fortress proud.

Who knows, maybe you could run it through your dining room and allow the mayor an occasional dinner show.

[SkyRender]

The cat pit has just given me a fine idea for how to keep FPS in check with a large cat population: just pit all the cats in a 1x1 hole before they can pick a master, and when they inevitably do, so what?  They'll all be trapped on a single tile and unable to path anywhere, and it's not like their owners care enough to go and pick them up.

[Hyndis]

The cat pit has just given me a fine idea for how to keep FPS in check with a large cat population: just pit all the cats in a 1x1 hole before they can pick a master, and when they inevitably do, so what?  They'll all be trapped on a single tile and unable to path anywhere, and it's not like their owners care enough to go and pick them up.

Yup. I originally did this to keep my FPS in check, keeping all of the animals pitted and occasionally dumping some so they explode for bone harvesting.

Then I realized I could also dump uninvited guests into the pit.

Sure, I dont recover the goblinite right away, but thats okay. Its still there to pick up later on.

[sunshaker]

Somewhere it was mentioned that War animals do double damage, the cats 1:6:GORE becomes 2:12:GORE, which is rather respectable.