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[Portalboat]

The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web! x2
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web!
The Swordsmaster is caught up in the web! x9001



So yeah, basically my entire squad of legendary +5 dwarves are unable to do shit because they're all caught up in a web.
Any way to prevent this in the future?

[Girlinhat]

Don't fight cave spiders.  Specifically giant cave spiders.  Regular spider webs just crush.  Giant Cave Spider webs will cause a webbing and be crushed.

That's part of their defensive measure and their predatory action.  They web things, it gets slowed, they stab the shit out of it with poison fangs.  It's not something that needs to be dealt with, it's something to consider.  Hard to hunt for a reason.

Also magma.

[Rollory]

Magma

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Marksdwarves will kill it before it gets close. However, a live GCS is incredibly valuable because webbed creatures lose their immunity to traps. You can cage (most) forgotten beasts!

[Naryar]

Marksdwarves indeed. It's suicide to engage a GCS with melee dwarves, even legendary adamantine-clad ones.

[Uristocrat]

Marksdwarves will kill it before it gets close. However, a live GCS is incredibly valuable because webbed creatures lose their immunity to traps. You can cage (most) forgotten beasts!

This.  Given them a wooden door to nowhere to smash and put cage traps all around it, being sure to go 2-tiles out (they can destroy from a tile away).  With any luck, they will take the bait and run straight for the trap and you'll have a GCS to use for !!FUN!!

Oh, and you can let people collect webs (assign the job via a loom).  That will clean up any stray webs you have lying around.  Obviously, you want to do this AFTER catching the GCS.

[Di]

A GCS can occupy even a dragon for quite a while with it's webs.
Try dropping dwarves right atop of it or sending reinforcements from behind.

[acetech09]

Flanking and/or marksdwarves. Or flank it with marksdwarves.

[HUGE_WALRUS]

Send in squads of sacrificial peasants and flank it with marksdorf squads once it moves to engage the sacrificial lambs.

[Loud Whispers]

Flanking and/or marksdwarves. Or flank it with marksdwarves.

Yup. One bait animal, two station orders - > kill order

[Girlinhat]

Actually, I had one soldier in steel plate ordered to kill a GCS and then run away.  She took several months of being bit on the head, harmlessly through steel, before finally getting back to the fort and getting the spider caged.

[peskyninja]

Happened here too.
NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[BigD145]

I haven't seen GCS in ages. 

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Marksdwarves will kill it before it gets close. However, a live GCS is incredibly valuable because webbed creatures lose their immunity to traps. You can cage (most) forgotten beasts!

I thought it was the other way around-- the cool thing about functional webbing FBs is that you don't have to wait around for a GCS to start your silk farm (and also they don't die of old age).

[Nagassh]

I'm confused as to why you would ever kill one. Far more entertaining to capture.