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[leftycook]

Just fought off my first goblin siege, with no casualties or even injuries. I know it gets harder, but im pretty happy I aced my first one.

Ten or so gobbos showed up and hung out on the edge of the map in a wide circle formation. I assume they couldnt path to any of my dorfs, as none were building destroyers and I had doors. they didnt path even when I sent dwarves outside, and only engaged my millitary when i came close enough.

I also hastily constructed some catapults to fire out of fortifications carved into my walls. The catapulted stones would pass over the same tile a gobbo was on, but would pass through it as if it was not there. Does a catapulted stone lose the ability to damage over a certain distance, or do catapults just do little to nothing?

CaveFather sends it's greetings, currently residing at ninety dorfs, two million dorfbucks, a captured titan, a labrynth full of giant scorpions and a magma-flooded special ore vein.

[Sulphuratum]

first things first congratulations for your first siege.
second thing, catapults only hurt the things, which are in a 3/3 grid around the landed boulder.
It hits things just where it lands, the flying stone is just flying over their heads

[leftycook]

catapult stones land? never read that anywhere before. Do I designate a target area or something? From what I've seen, stones always just fly until they hit a wall or leave the map. Sorry if this is just questions- I intended to begin a discussion but it turns out I know very little about catapults.

[Josephus]

There has to be a target on the map.

Problem being that most targets in the game move much faster than the stone, and even if they were standing still you're unlikely to get a successful hit.

[Satarus]

Catapults are only useful for training up seige engineers (for the stats) and for getting rid of excess stone.

[Hyndis]

Catapults are only useful for training up seige engineers (for the stats) and for getting rid of excess stone.

Catapults are great for moving large quantities of stone from one side of the map to the other. Just fling it across the map rather than hauling it. With several catapults and a proper collector basin, you can automatically have all stone quantum stockpiled without needing to give it any orders at all, not even reclaiming or ordering for dumping.

[Psieye]

Catapult behaviour is from the old 2D days. They haven't been touched since we moved to 3D - that's reserved for the Army Arc when sieges will get revamped properly.