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Granite

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Ballista shooting through z-levels?
« on: May 04, 2010, 08:47:31 pm »
Hello there!

I've just began a new fortress in DF 0.31.03, and now I'm building a fortified entrace to my fortress, planning on using balistae to increase defence efficience, and then comes my question: in the new version, is it possible to shoot enemies through z-levels, more precisely, one or two levels down, using a ballista?
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Rapidfirewombat

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Re: Ballista shooting through z-levels?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2010, 09:00:30 pm »
My experience with ballistas are that they only fire along the same z-level they are on.

I have had a catapult hit a target that was a z-level below it, though.
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tieme

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Re: Ballista shooting through z-levels?
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 09:15:54 am »
I can't say for sure, but according to the wiki it doesn't seem like siege weapons were changed much so I would guess that they still only affect their z level.
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Granite

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Re: Ballista shooting through z-levels?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 09:32:16 pm »
Yeah, I saw the article on siege engines, but, well, I had ask.
It would be very nice to hear about this from toady one.
But since I know he's probably very busy solving bugs, I guess I can live with this doubt for now.
Thank you, guys!
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