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[melomel]

Step one:  Wait for the humans to arrive at your Depot.

Step two:  Make a custom animal stockpile next to your Depot; fill it with the approximately 43 caged troglodytes cluttering up your units list.

Step three:  Give your expedition leader some armor and that artifact platinum warhammer.

Step four:  Have your peasants haul every single troglodyte cage into the Depot.
(http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4065)

Step five:  PROFIT!!!  ...Download DF Hack to get rid of the blood.

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That was fun.  I think I'm going to wait a year or so, and then do it again...  With trolls.  When the elves are trading.

[NRDL]

Beautiful.  Really prevents loyalty cascades, as long as you arm your guys. 

Dwarf Fortress, weaponizing POWs since *insert date here*. 

[dirkzen]

Ahh,  so the bug only happens in a trading scenario?   So if I just move the cages with the goblins and badgermen in it normally,  they'll stay inside?

[moki]

Yep, that's the way it works. The bug only occurs when trying to move animals (or rather their cages) to the trade depot.

[MonsteR]

I just constructed a map-spanning pipe to pump water from the nearby river directly down into my trade depot. Already wiped out my first elven caravan xD

I have so much cloth I had to build a stockpile twice as big. My previous one was pretty small though, I never mess with cloth except for a little bit for the hospital.

[They Got Leader]

That was a well thought out plan, my good sir. You must relate how the elves fair against trolls, though...

[melomel]

Ahh,  so the bug only happens in a trading scenario?   So if I just move the cages with the goblins and badgermen in it normally,  they'll stay inside?

Yep.  Only wild animals/hostile creatures get out when you try to trade their cages.  And they escape as soon as the hauler grabs the cage, hence putting the stockpile next to the Depot.  (You don't want to know how many loose goblins/unicorns/elk birds/giant moles/toads/olms/bats/rats etc. it took me to figure it out.)

That was a well thought out plan, my good sir. You must relate how the elves fair against trolls, though...

I suspect that depends on whether or not my expedition leader decides to take a break...  she seems to be quite handy with that hammer.

[They Got Leader]

She a legendary hammerdwarf now?

[melomel]

She a legendary hammerdwarf now?

Nah, only up to adequate.  But she's gotten her physical stats up to absolutely inexhaustible, incredibly quick to heal, mighty and agile.

Between that, the artifact hammer, and the masterwork/exceptional steel gear I've got her in, she hasn't been taking a scratch.  I should probably upgrade her bedroom, in case she feels bad about bashing the mood-failed berserk weaver into paste...

And the elves.  I need to wait for the elves.  The humans made too many of the kills with the troglodyte horde...