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Uristocrat

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Tigerman Soldiers?
« on: February 20, 2011, 02:38:54 pm »
How much have other people been able to weaponize Tigermen?  I now have a small breeding population and I'm starting to wonder.

I figure that I can train them by pitting them against naked goblins, but is there anything else we can do to improve their effectiveness?  I doubt it's possible to arm or armor them, but I have to wonder.
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Re: Tigerman Soldiers?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2011, 06:25:12 pm »
Colosseum battles are unfortunately currently the only way to improve non-dwarves. If you unleash a horde of these guys en-masse though, their sheer size might help make up for their lack of armor or weapons against a less numerous goblin squad.
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Re: Tigerman Soldiers?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2011, 06:30:37 pm »
I modified tigermen and gcs to domestic and they do a good job together. The gcs web/poison the enemy and then tigermen tear the helpless enemy to pieces. The spiders tend to take heavy casualties, however, with the tigermen taking relatively few.
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Re: Tigerman Soldiers?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2011, 06:59:17 pm »
Quote from: Bererez on February 20, 2011, 06:30:37 pm
I modified tigermen and gcs to domestic and they do a good job together. The gcs web/poison the enemy and then tigermen tear the helpless enemy to pieces. The spiders tend to take heavy casualties, however, with the tigermen taking relatively few.

Hmm, that's an interesting idea, if I can ever get a damn GCS to wander onto the map....

But I'd modify them to form a GCS-pillbox, using a variant of the silk farm on the wiki so that the GCS remained protected while webbing the intruders.
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Quote from: forsaken1111 on January 09, 2011, 08:22:09 pm
Quote from: Uristocrat on January 09, 2011, 03:46:41 pm
You could have berries on the rocks and the dwarves would say it was "berry gneiss."
You should die horribly for this. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.