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[Karakzon]

well, the title says it all.
It started at around 50 or so, but ambushes and seiges kept feeding the zombie horde, now my dwarves are trying to get shit done wile being scared of the restless hordes that walk around our fortress perimeter.  the horde is mainly goblins and kobolds. The living goblins were more of a nuisance xP

The local ravens are being killed, zombiefied, fly over the walls and prove a utter nuisance, but good trainning for the doctors. The only blessing is that its not an evil biome or else i would be dead several times over by now.

Anyone else got hordes of such size locking down their gates? My map lacks the majority of materials to arm my millatery, so its bare pickings at best.

The ultimate goal for my fort is a boatmurderd solution to all the bones and crap litterd about the surface. This is a glacier mind, so it should be extra difficult ^^ and satisfying when i get it all done. Ill post pictures tomorrow, tonights a bit late.

[DrGravitas]

That's about the size of the horde I let take down Evermachines.

Granted, at the time I had ~12 starving/near-raving dwarves more concerned with carving engravings than doing anything to stop them. Oh, and the 4 Necromancers were out for vengeance for the imprisonment I had released them from not too long ago.

Still, yes! Pictures, please!

[Naryar]

Spam traps.

[tommy521]

Spam traps.

Fight like a true dwarf. Drop things on them.

[Kofthefens]

Too bad Necro910 isn't here- He would have a solution I think.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Construct an atom-smasher entrance, and then burrow all your dwarves so they don't try to use it. Problem solved in a month.

[DrGravitas]

Spam traps.

Fight like a true dwarf. Drop things on them.

Stones are things! Spam Stone Traps.

Actually, don't. I did that and I ended up with a bunch of belligerent heads rolling around. Cage traps  work great and weapon traps will at least activate again as soon as the severed part is rereanimated.

[Karakzon]

lol i have no metal and wood is at a premium x)
My dwarf number is at around 80, but the millatery is 24 of that, and another 26 is children.



part of the hordes outside of my circular walls, bit small but the blue things are the zombies.
link for a better look: http://i.imgur.com/gmdKK.jpg


The units screen, ive accounted for the living, the wild and the captured to give 264 zombies and 4 necromancers ive spotted so far.

[katana]

Dem emus. Beware the emus. Everything comes second to destruction of said emus.

Or you'll regret it, believe me.

[Karakzon]

well lets put it this way: ravens fly over my walls and attack my civvies on a regular basis.
now a pack of dingos are on the long route to zombification.

as for the traps: ive scavanged a bit of wood up and ill see if i can make any use of that.

The zombie horde is over 300 strong now.

[werechicken]

Dig down, chop some towercaps and try and pick of the necromancers with wooden bolts.

[Karakzon]

i intend to do so. but keeping the ravens at bay is proving costly. so far theyve attacked 2 adult dwarves and servearly crippled 1 child. I dont know if theyll make it, but its hopefull.

right now im designing a new patroll route so that any wayward zombie birds attack the millatery wholl turn them into their corpse again. the moat and wall structure has proved adiquate to stop a necromancer from resurecting corpses within my own fortress for the timebeing.

[Adrian]

The zombie horde is over 300 strong now.

It's all fine and dandy as long as the law of Conservation of Ninjutsu applies.

[Naryar]

Retreat into fort, spam traps, turtle, open doors, wait as zombies rush your doors, close doors (via mechanism) when zombies are dead via traps, wash, rinse, repeat. May be cowardly, but is better than losing a fort.

[james296]

if the ravens are endangering your people then you need to get the civs in underground while your military clip there wings (if they can do that) and stop the ravens from flying