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[flieroflight]

Sounds like an excellent last ditch effort if your military got screwed.

why wait until then?

[Psieye]

Tested flaming arrows in arena mode.

Any reliable way to replicate this in fort mode?

Bonfire mod. Optional bonus difficulty: light the minecart's contents without losing a dwarf.

[Old Greg]

Tested flaming arrows in arena mode.

Any reliable way to replicate this in fort mode?

Have your archers fire through a magma fall? You might have to mod and give them [MAGMAVISION]. Though by the time of the next release, liquids will slow down moving creatures/objects, so we'll see if that would still work.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Think of the destruction a few coins flying out a cart at terminal velocity could do.

[flieroflight]

New, from urist inc- the autostaker. vampire in a 1x1 room that is sealed. fire dwarfen shotgun filled with wooden bolts or spears into the room. bam! one terminally perforated vampire. for bonus points, have tyhe 1x1 room contain a lever that the vamp pulls. the lever sealt the room and triggers the spear loaded cart.

[Girlinhat]

Traditionally, flying objects would ignore magma, and only care about their surroundings when they strike terrain or a creature.  Firing bolts through magma wouldn't touch the bolts.  However, a magma-dip BEFORE being airborne, would ignite them.

Of course, with all the changes to flight you may be able to set flying bolts alight now.  We'll see.

[Martin]

New, from urist inc- the autostaker. vampire in a 1x1 room that is sealed. fire dwarfen shotgun filled with wooden bolts or spears into the room. bam! one terminally perforated vampire. for bonus points, have tyhe 1x1 room contain a lever that the vamp pulls. the lever sealt the room and triggers the spear loaded cart.

Magmaproof lever/mechanism, retracting bridge as one wall. Lever raises the bridge sealing the room and requests a cart full of magma be auto dumped on the tile from above. Pressure plate down the track for the departing cart lowers the drawbridge, drains out the magma, cart returns to station to be run again, room is ready for reuse.

[PoodleIncident]

Tested flaming arrows in arena mode.

Any reliable way to replicate this in fort mode?

Have your archers fire through a magma fall? You might have to mod and give them [MAGMAVISION]. Though by the time of the next release, liquids will slow down moving creatures/objects, so we'll see if that would still work.

Something tells me this may be even more !!FUN!! than you are planning... iirc, magmavision is what lets your dorfs path through magma.

[rhesusmacabre]

1. Acquire many severed heads by whatever means, and a necromancer.
2. Load heads onto minecart.
3. Send minecart past secured necromancer to animate heads.*
4. Dip minecart in magma to ignite heads.
5. Launch heads at siege.

*Do we know if this stage will work? (i.e. will the heads remain on the cart?)

[Reudh]

Why not acquire multiple body parts? I think that they'd need to be in a train, because IIRC only one creature can occupy a cart.

[Eric Blank]

I would suggest launching the undead-to-be into the field while they're inanimate, then exposing a necromancer to them from a fortified position. That will guarantee that they all wind up where you want them. Hopefully.

[Uristocrat]

I would suggest launching the undead-to-be into the field while they're inanimate, then exposing a necromancer to them from a fortified position. That will guarantee that they all wind up where you want them. Hopefully.

In theory, they might not animate while in the cart.  I suggest loading them, then setting them on fire via magma, then having the necromancer see them when they're launched or just after they hit the ground.

We have so much !!science!! to look forward to.....

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm curious to see what kind of insane analogue dwarven computer people will come up with, myself.

[Girlinhat]

If anything happens, then the reanimate bodies will become suddenly alive and leave the cart, jamming your railway with dozens of zombies and sending an empty cart to fly into the enemy.

I'd think that the animation process would need to happen on the field, or in-flight.

[Mrhappyface]

This will be released before June, right?