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[Leonidas]

I trapped some goblin crossbowmen in a hallway. At one end of that hallway were some fortifications, and behind those fortifications were my marksdwarves. My guys did just fine with their shooting, while the goblins just stood there and took it. The goblins never fired a shot.

My conclusion: Missile-armed invaders won't fire at a dwarf unless they have a path by which they could engage in melee with the dwarf. If an invader can see the dwarf but can't walk up next to him, then the invader won't fire. Is that what you guys have observed?

[Fire_fox]

Where the goblins out of arrows?

[Stargazer]

No, not at all. Most likely, the goblins were not high-level enough to shoot through the fortifications. An elite goblin marksman will utterly decimate your military through fortifications even if there is no way for him to physically reach them.

Or they could have been out of arrows...