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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

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We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

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I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

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Total Members Voted: 77

[Talvieno]

Someone should note all the levers.

But... that would mean that the overseer twenty years from now wouldn't have to trial and error his way through the endless sea of levers that will link to the 50+ entrances!

That's not the Spearbreaker way!

Agreed. Completely. This is worse than a hell-hole, this is a chaos-hole.

Splint, I disconnected the pitchblende lever to put a lever in a safer, more frequently-accessed location: The dining hall. However, as Mr Frog disconnected that, there's no telling what does what now.

Mr Frog, the coat of arms is proudly displayed on page one, and you got the motto perfectly. lol   Half the people who glanced into this thread uttered those exact words (different language) in their first post. (okay, maybe less than that, but it was recurrent enough to merit notice.)

[bombzero]

nice, putting holy shit in english would have been boring...

[Mr Frog]

@Talvi:
There's a new lever in the dining hall operating the bridge in Entrance #2. AFAIK the bridge in Entrance #1 is now permanently out of order unless some future Overseer decides to link it up again.

@bombzero:
I don't know Latin, so I just hoped that French would be close enough :p

[bombzero]

if i remember correctly, holy shit sounds better in french anyways.

[Mr Frog]

Are there any plans on putting in a ballista gauntlet somewhere? It might be helpful against the Spawn -- they have no ranged attack capability, so they'd be pretty helpless. Plus, they don't have clothing for padding, so even a bare wooden bolt might be somewhat effective (haven't played much with ballistas in 31.xx or 34.xx, though). Thinning the Spawn's ranks before they can get into biting range is crucial.

Micromanaging will be necessary to make sure the bolts aren't made of featherwood, of course :p

I think the minimum range for dwarves not to be scared is around 30 tiles.

[Draignean]

Spring is complete. I'm going to work on the writeup tonight (and tomorrow probably). It's been an interesting spring.

The conclusion of spring was dominated by a single event...

What happens when you cross 21 goblins, 4 mountain barbarians, and two necromancers with an overseer who refuses to yield the surface?

The bloodiest battle in the history of Spearbreakers.

[Mr Frog]

We can recover, though, right? How's our military doing?
I'm sure the necromancers were pleased by the amount of corpses left lying around outside :p

I've come up with a plan for a ballista gauntlet:

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W Wall
. Floor
# Fortification
v Downwards slope
^ Upwards slope

+ Door
>, < Stairs
= Bolt Stockpile

%%\
}-> Ballista
%%/

f Stairs connecting to inside of fortress
x Stairs connecting to entance hall


Upper floor:

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvW
Wv#######..............................#########################vW
Wv#..%%\#..............................#x#...#...#...#...#...#x#vW
Wv#..}->#..............................#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#vW
Wv#>.%%/#..............................#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#vW
Wv#..%%\#..............................#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#vW
Wv#..}->#..............................#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#vW
Wv#..%%/#..............................#...#...#...#...#...#...#vW
Wv#######..............................#########################vW
WvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

On the left is the ballista box; on the right is a convoluted pathway which invaders are to be diverted through.
In between is a 30-tile expanse of open space, to prevent the ballistadwarves from getting spooked.
Since there are no solid walls inside the structure, any bolts that are fired will continue to travel until they hit the outer wall,
after which they will fall to the level below where they can be recovered.


Lower floor:

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
W^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W
W^WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW^W
W^W W=============================W                            W^W
W^WWW=============================W                            W^W
W^+<.=============================W                            W^W
W^W.W=============================W                            W^W
W^W.W=============================W                            W^W
W^WfW=============================W                            W^W
W^WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW^W
W^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

To the right is a bolt stockpile. The ballistas can be accessed through the nearby stairs.
The 'f' represents a stairway that gives direct access to the inside of the fortress.
The door can be locked to prevent dwarves from running to retrieve bolts while the ballistas are still firing.

I'm too lazy to describe exactly how to go about building it, though.

[Draignean]

We can recover, though, right? How's our military doing?
I'm sure the necromancers were pleased by the amount of corpses left lying around outside :p

We can recover. All in all the battle went many times better than I had feared. Still, there were losses.

[Mr Frog]

Would now be a good time to mention that I accidentally deleted the [NOT_LIVING] tag from the Spawn at some point?

Cremate the remains. That is all.

[bombzero]

Would now be a good time to mention that I accidentally deleted the [NOT_LIVING] tag from the Spawn at some point?

Cremate the remains. That is all.

uh huh, im so going to believe that...

[Mr Frog]

I have no idea when I did it, but I didn't notice until a few days after the game started I didn't mention it because it was already pretty clear by that point that there aren't any reanimation effects on the region.

If I'd known that Splint had apparently embarked within range of a necrotower, I would have warned y'all right away

[Splint]

1. Damn it Frog, you beat me to the punch.
2. I didn't even notice the necro tower on embark, so.... Thats was kinda my bad....
3. This place is going to go right down the shitter in very short order, so I do infact have a request that all dead invaders be dumped into magma disposal partially to aleviate FPS problems. Thier junk left behind is for the current overseer to do with.

I now feel inadaquate at making symbols. And it doesn't help that I don't have a scanner D:<

[Talvieno]

necromancers... lovely... well, that makes me feel awesome. Yep, we're going to die. Let's see how long we can hold out. lol

Mr Frog - just a thought - what if you arranged the passages so that they were perpendicular to the line of fire from the ballistae? You would effectively halve the number of ballistae required to cover all points the spawn would be, in addition to allowing you to hit multiple targets (if I recall correctly, ballista bolts travel through the first 3 or 4 enemy units hit).
Also, I liked it better when it sounded like you neglected to tell everybody about the missing tag on purpose. But yeah... cremate the remains...

Splint - I don't have a scanner either. The cavy picture was a photograph of a backlit sheet of paper, cropped, with the contrast increased. The paper thickness was what gave it that stone-like texture.

Can't wait to read the write-up about the battle, Draignean. Curious, though - how are you planning on putting out the updates? All at once, per-season, or...?

[Draignean]

Can't wait to read the write-up about the battle, Draignean. Curious, though - how are you planning on putting out the updates? All at once, per-season, or...?

Per season, and do bear in mind it has been a LOOONG time since the last time I did a succession (You still had to pour water on soil to get plants, clay was useless, and the caverns were covered in plain mud), so my writeup skills are a lot rusty.

necromancers... lovely... well, that makes me feel awesome. Yep, we're going to die. Let's see how long we can hold out. lol

We can survive! We still have more dwarves than my turn started with and the entrance is still open, so migrants can still come. 
It would, however, be quite a lot easier to survive should danger rooms be allowed. Most of the dwarves that got killed were the raw recruits that I signed in from the migrant wave.

[Talvieno]

Can't wait to read the write-up about the battle, Draignean. Curious, though - how are you planning on putting out the updates? All at once, per-season, or...?

Per season, and do bear in mind it has been a LOOONG time since the last time I did a succession (You still had to pour water on soil to get plants, clay was useless, and the caverns were covered in plain mud), so my writeup skills are a lot rusty.

I'm sure it'll be great, regardless of how long it's been. Once a season should be good, yeah.

necromancers... lovely... well, that makes me feel awesome. Yep, we're going to die. Let's see how long we can hold out. lol

We can survive! We still have more dwarves than my turn started with and the entrance is still open, so migrants can still come. 
It would, however, be quite a lot easier to survive should danger rooms be allowed. Most of the dwarves that got killed were the raw recruits that I signed in from the migrant wave.

Ahh, true... +1 to you for keeping control of the surface during the necro/goblin battle, but if spawn show up...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

SHUT     DOWN     EVERYTHING!!!

Really, I would strongly suggest you put the place on total lockdown. =P Especially if necromancers show up at the same time. (oh, and I'm sure you've started working on it, but archers in the tower would be an awesome way to deal with necromancer threats.)

Did Ashsaber get redwarfed yet?