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Eagle_eye

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« on: June 11, 2010, 08:57:32 pm »
So.. I embark on a lake, with two rivers flowing through it, and I discover that I have about 3 pages of hippos, alligators, and saltwater crocs. any advice?
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2010, 09:00:10 pm »
Construct a gauntlet of enraged hippos that any invader must cross to enter your fortress.
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 10:45:55 pm »
Quote from: ThrowerOfStones on June 11, 2010, 09:00:10 pm
Construct a gauntlet of enraged hippos that any invader must cross to enter your fortress.

Edit: BETTER IDEA! WAR HIPPOS! RIDE THEM TO VICTORY!
« Last Edit: June 11, 2010, 10:50:31 pm by FuzzyDoom »
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2010, 10:49:47 pm »
Do you think you could get the hippos mad by stabbing them with really weak spear traps?

Three pages won't be enough. Better capture and start breeding now, bonus points for killing off the weak ones to enhance the line.
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2010, 11:07:10 pm »
actually, I meant advice for keeping them nice, safe, and far away from my dwarves
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2010, 11:32:12 pm »
Chocolate. I saw it in a movie once... well, I think I saw it in a movie once, might have been a dream.
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2010, 11:44:51 pm »
one hunting hippo to take out the crocs, the rest become war hippos and go to a sworddwarf; he shall end sieges in moments
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2010, 12:31:14 am »
You can use cage traps whereever you dwarfs get into conect with the hippo's/crocs It has the added bonus of making shure you can train them. So get a trap and kennel industry going ASAP before they breed to much. Remember if you have a lot of annimals that you are trapping you can delay the farming procces and use meat instead. 
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2010, 05:27:13 am »
Quote from: Eagle_eye on June 11, 2010, 11:07:10 pm
actually, I meant advice for keeping them nice, safe, and far away from my dwarves

Keeping stuff away from your dwarves is easy. Just build a nice narrow choke point in front of your entrance and fill it with cage traps. And if any of your immigrants have hunting/fishing, turn it off. Boring but safe.
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2010, 08:07:14 am »
Drain the lake and  then fill it with magma.
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Re: Wildlife
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2010, 09:53:23 am »
Well... if I were you I'd:

1) Build up a nice militia group.
2) Send them to their doom slaughter the wildlife bit by bit.
3) Hippo Steaks for the dwarves! OMNOMNOM (Or dwarven chunks for the crocs.)

But I'm sure you'll end up having Fun, one way or another. Good luck. :)
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