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Tubal_Cain

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Sappers
« on: May 17, 2007, 10:29:00 am »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappers

Having enemy (and allied?) siegers bring a miner with them to get through whatever fortifications you might have has been mentioned.   My sugestion is this: The miners be given a military designation "Sappers" and can be trained in that skill, like a marksdwarf or a swordsdwarf etc. It would be quite intereseting to build yourself a veritable Masada on top of the mountain only to have enemy sappers undermine the mountain and have it come crashing down, nobly sacrificing their lives.

Or preferably rigging the mountain to collapse  and then hightailing it out of their before someone pulls the lever.

[ May 17, 2007: Message edited by: Tubal_Cain ]

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Captain Mayday

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Re: Sappers
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 01:31:00 am »
Hey, nice idea.
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Re: Sappers
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2007, 02:27:00 am »
You can already rig collapses with trapped pillars and stuff.  

Toady said he's wary about gunpowder so I dunno if detonation charges'll be viable.

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Draco18s

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Re: Sappers
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2007, 10:00:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>You can already rig collapses with trapped pillars and stuff.</STRONG>

The problem is needing a 7x7 room supported by a pilliar before it'll work.  I'd like to see the same kind of effect on narrower hallways.
Mines collapsed when not properly shored up and they are only 6 feet wide.

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