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AfroScotsDwarf

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how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« on: April 06, 2012, 10:54:00 am »
just received 2 cave crocs in a wave, both female, 1 still a hatchling. what's the best way to utilise them to deter theif and stuffs? also, thoughts on trainable giant crabs? i would love an army of giant war crabs :D
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 10:57:44 am »
Try to breed them first and then once you have a reproducing population start putting them on restraints in any dangerous area within your fort.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 10:58:52 am »
make a nestbox near your entrance with a pasture over it for the croc. When the croc lays eggs, forbid them. They won't hatch, but the croc will sit there to guard them forever, and it'll be the first thing a kobold can reach, and quite valuable, so they'll try to get it, disturbing wannabe mommy and likely getting themself killed.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 11:01:55 am »
I got a pair of war cave crocs. Mommy is guarding her nest box as we speak. It's in a safe spot but I hope the damn things (36 eggs) hatch. I want to make a goblin-surprise trap with thirty (or more) war cave crocs in cages. See how you and your copper breastplates but unprotected limbs like that, chucklemongers!
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 11:04:35 am »
thought you couldn't train cave crocs?
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2012, 11:07:37 am »
I've been mucking about with the raws. Making them (and everything else in the creature_subterranean file) pets and trainable.

This can be done without needing a re-gen by the way.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2012, 11:10:23 am »
in related news, having 50 war scorpions in a confined entryway is a bad, bad idea.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2012, 11:13:55 am »
I built a habitat for them in one my forts. It was funny watching gobbos try to escape, though crocs won't attack while in water unfortunately.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2012, 11:17:06 am »
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on April 06, 2012, 11:10:23 am
in related news, having 50 war scorpions in a confined entryway is a bad, bad idea.

So is 50 cave crocs
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2012, 11:24:49 am »
Quote from: Garath on April 06, 2012, 11:17:06 am
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on April 06, 2012, 11:10:23 am
in related news, having 50 war scorpions in a confined entryway is a bad, bad idea.

So is 50 cave crocs

whys that?
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2012, 11:28:05 am »
crowded creatures tend to get a bit snappish, at eachother and at anyone passing by. Maybe you've seen a documentary about crocodiles, sunbasking near a river and how they sometimes lunge at eachother for a better spot, or the other got too close? Usually this results in a scratch for the other croc. Now imagine them bigger and taking a bite out of a passing dwarf.

Now imagine that with a creature with a poisonous stinger.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2012, 11:32:43 am »
Quote from: Garath on April 06, 2012, 11:28:05 am
crowded creatures tend to get a bit snappish, at eachother and at anyone passing by. Maybe you've seen a documentary about crocodiles, sunbasking near a river and how they sometimes lunge at eachother for a better spot, or the other got too close? Usually this results in a scratch for the other croc. Now imagine them bigger and taking a bite out of a passing dwarf.

Now imagine that with a creature with a poisonous stinger.

oh right. in addition, imagine if they had fire breath.
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2012, 12:01:17 pm »
Quote from: Garath on April 06, 2012, 11:17:06 am
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on April 06, 2012, 11:10:23 am
in related news, having 50 war scorpions in a confined entryway is a bad, bad idea.

So is 50 cave crocs

Everything is better with tissue destroying toxins though !
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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2012, 12:03:35 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on April 06, 2012, 12:01:17 pm
Everything is better with tissue destroying toxins though !

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Re: how to best utilise cave crocodiles
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2012, 12:31:50 pm »
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