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[Nil Eyeglazed]

If what you want is a way for your marksdwarves to fire outside of your pyramid, while remaining protected from relatively unskilled goblins, how about:

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Here, you've replaced the outside floors (above the second level) with grates or bars, and you've built a level of fortifications on the inside second level of your pyramid.  Now, marksdwarves fire upward at goblins climbing the pyramid, who may only return fire if they're skilled.  (It'll be a pain in the ass to build that layer of fortifications though.)

If you don't expect goblins to climb your pyramid, you can lower everything a couple of levels, so that dwarves shoot up at goblins moving around on a ground made up of a grid of grates/bars.

Ultimately, though, having a wide field of fire isn't particularly important, unless you're all walled up.  You would probably do better to station the marksdwarves behind fortifications at your entrance, so that they meet every goblin, rather than having to run around to shoot at various squads.

[Guedez]

in the middle of the reading i had this idea:

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then i stopped reading and went to draw.


not very efficient, but damn awesome, all i need is for floor grates to be buildable near the edges

will also work to drain the magma wave that will be released from the top of the pyramid in the far, very far future

Edit: damn. grates, floor bar, etc can't be built on the map edges...

[Urist Da Vinci]

I suppose no-one checked to see if you can shoot through floor bars or floor grates? Because you can't. Someone please prove me wrong.

I've tested this by embarking, building grates and bars, and then returning as an adventurer. The floor grates and floor bars block line of sight and line of fire.

[Guedez]

I suppose no-one checked to see if you can shoot through floor bars or floor grates? Because you can't. Someone please prove me wrong.

I've tested this by embarking, building grates and bars, and then returning as an adventurer. The floor grates and floor bars block line of sight and line of fire.

D:

[Loud Whispers]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Floor_grate

Even the wiki is confused