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Madurjafro

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Dwarves Riding animals
« on: June 20, 2011, 10:11:12 am »
Hello Everyone,

First post on this so don't kill me or anything.

Just wondering if it was possible for my military dwarves to sit on animals and ride them forth into battle. It'd Be nice to have an Air wing with some Dwarves riding Giant Eagles.

Thanks in Advance.
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AutomataKittay

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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2011, 10:15:15 am »
Nope, not currently or in next few versions, as far as I know. Invader mounts are generated off-map from nothing.
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Madurjafro

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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2011, 10:19:36 am »
Quote from: AutomataKittay on June 20, 2011, 10:15:15 am
Nope, not currently or in next few versions, as far as I know. Invader mounts are generated off-map from nothing.

WHYYYYYYYYY

Well Ok, I guess I can live with that.
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ShinWalks

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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2011, 10:20:45 am »
Upcoming content release #7 includes "Mounted combat rewrite," so possibly that one (which, at the current rate, means maybe a year?).
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Lexx

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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2011, 10:22:10 am »
Or more. It'll be worth the wait though. Its not like there's nothing to do in DF as it is!
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The Mechanical Man

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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2011, 10:53:30 am »
Does anybody know the chance of invaders having mounts? I have yet to see any.  :(
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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2011, 10:57:10 am »
It's fairly random for me, I suspect it depends on the invader's homeland biomes and creatures available there. As well as random chance of them showing up with something. More likely than not, they won't pop up with mounts, I've had invaders that never had trolls show up, and another world where everyone rode in ( which makes for funny result with swimming mounts  :D )
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Re: Dwarves Riding animals
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 11:28:56 am »
do you use very 'young' world? (<200 years)
I've seen people taming animals in caverns in legends mode so that might be required before it is possible for people to ride/tame creatures.
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