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[Byakugan01]

Err...not that it's teribly important, but how can I make my GCS shoot silk through fortifications? Say, at a forgotten beast due any minute that willl be heading into a gauntlet of cage traps because I didn't expeect a FB at only 40 dwarves and have no countermeasures ready beyond that? And said beast tends to be of the immortal variety whenever I retry? (NOT loosing THIS fort so soon!)

[EmperorJon]

Er... block the way in off, hope the FB causes the GSC to fire webs at it?

[Nidokoenig]

You basically need to make it see a path to an enemy it can see through the fortifications. Since it's building destroyer level 1, it will see a path through a stone floodgate, but not be able to use it, and thus will spurt webbing all over.

[Byakugan01]

You basically need to make it see a path to an enemy it can see through the fortifications. Since it's building destroyer level 1, it will see a path through a stone floodgate, but not be able to use it, and thus will spurt webbing all over.

Locked doors won't work?

[blue emu]

A lever-controlled door that opens a cage-trapped corridor connecting the GCS to its target will also work. It will fire the webs through the fortifications, then dash into the corridor and get cage-trapped. Then you put it back in the little fortified room, link the cage to a lever, evacuate the area, and release it again.

[Drawde]

I believe the most common way is a hallway with a pressure plate and a door on either end.  With fortifications carved into one wall.

The plates are linked in such a way that stepping on one closes the closest door and opens the farthest door.  So the GCS runs towards the open door to get to it's target, shooting webs the whole time.  It steps on a plate which closes the door in front of it, but opens the far door.  It then runs back the other way and hits the second plate, repeating the entire procedure.

[Byakugan01]

Well, don't have the time to set up something so special.my only hope is to put it in the hall and pray. And the situation just got even more fun. Now, I find that there is a goblin ambush apearing at the SAME TIME. In my second year. Without a standing military...well, I one dwarf is a proficient axedwarf surrounded by good meatshields recruits, so maybe I can deal with THAT. Dammit, I don't even have an anvil to make new armor with!

Update: The GCS successfully caged a mutant shrimp in single webbat. Well, web vs fire at any rate. It can't have a syndrome if it has fire, right?