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[wfan]

Just wondering... How do YOU execute your invaders from sieges/ambushes/etc.

I prefer to dig a big pit with weapon traps at the bottom, how about you?

[ObiWorm]

I have some little bearded things armed with axes, and they take no prisoners.

[martinuzz]

I feed them to my war lions

[Jacob/Lee]

I have 5 foot tall whirlwinds of steel that reduce my enemies to fertilizer.

[Naryar]

I use them as living training dummies for my military.

Really, it's the most reasonable option. Not only it gives you crafting materials (bone, skin and meat... oh wait, you don't mod your dwarves to butcher sentients ? Shame on you) and meat, as well as clothes and a source of copper/silver/iron, but it gives you also precious skill boosts to your military.

If I feel particularly dramatic though, I dump them into the magma sea as a sacrifice to Armok.

[KodKod]

Thread reminded me of this for some reason.

"Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks..."

[JimDale]

Thread reminded me of this for some reason.

"Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks..."

It didn't turn out for them too well at the end, now did it?

[KodKod]

It didn't turn out for them too well at the end, now did it?

Precisely. Most fitting, wouldn't you say?

[Talvieno]

I prefer not to use cage traps... Granted, it's fun at first, and nothing beats watching a troll spray blood and gore when it splats in the middle of a forest after dropping 20 z's... But my favorite methods have been:
1. A large courtyard with bridges that close all at once, trapping the invaders, with a magma-filled aquaduct dumping loads of magma in.
2. A long passageway between two high walls, with 2-z pits dug perpendicularly at intervals. The invaders advance, avoiding the pits, and you release a reservoir filled with water, washing them backwards down the corridor towards the end - and into the pits. Which you can then drain at will via floodgates.
3. A three-bridge pit system. The first retractable bridge is at ground level. The second retractable bridge is one z-level below that. The last bridge is fifty z-levels below that. Retracting the first only allows invaders to fall onto the second bridge, with their only method of escape a long hallway filled with cage traps. This is for invaders I want to keep. Retracting both 1 and 2 allows them to fall to their deaths 50 z's down. This is for invaders I want to splat. Retracting all three gives a straight plummet to lavaland - and this is for those invaders I want to get rid of permanently. Or mock. Imagine falling down a pit with magma swirling at the bottom. Cliche, maybe, but still awesome.
4. A winding maze surrounded by archer towers. For target practice and pincushions.
5. Drop them into a shallow pit with the only escape being through the caverns - starting with the deepest (I loved this fort). However, there is also a forgotten beast lurking down there - which always, always promptly dispatches them.
6. (I only had one fort with this one) If you embark next to a deep, rushing river, simply dropping enemies into it can be fun. Especially if you route the water through the caverns.


and... those are my favorites. Cave-in traps are fun, but a bit too quick for my tastes, honestly, if I have a well-established fort.

[Iapetus]

It didn't turn out for them too well at the end, now did it?

Precisely. Most fitting, wouldn't you say?

Oh my, you've made me realise exactly how like Aliens my amushes turn out.

I'm Lt Gorman sitting at my computer desperately trying to come up with a plan "Ok Urist, I want you to fall back to the fortress...  lay down supressing fire..."

Meanwhile Urist McVasquez is shooting everything in sight, but half the army is dead because I forgot to assign their squad any ammo, Urist McHudson (who looked so good on paper) failed to deliver and is now sulking, and unfortunately there's no Urist McRipley to turn up in an APC and save our asses*.



* Or our horses, lamas, or any other domestic animals.

[GenJeFT]

So far it appears my favorite way to kill things that try to murderize my fotress is to do this.

Throw them in danger pit.

Discover danger pit is built wrong.

Watch as murderizing monsters rampage all over my fortress.

Watch a troll die because it was attacked by an Elk Bird (wtf?)

Watch military fumble around hopelessly.

Profit.

(somehow my fortress survived this, the murderizing beasts turned on one another and killed each other, mostly.)

[Old Greg]

I like to catch a couple in cage traps - nice to have some prisoners to toy with, or to display in the dining room - but largely I send in the marines. Though I have been known to get fed up with the military interface and just atomsmash intruders.

[wierd]

I tell them that kodkod is holding a kissing contest

I usually abuse the crap out of greenglass terrarium cage traps to get bottled goblin.

I then let them explore the inner workings of the world in their shiny new glass bathyspheres, by dropping them into the volcano using a stockpile perched on an extended bridge.

[rtg593]

Normally 20z drop onto spears.

Thinking my next trap will be a dwarven bathroom entrance with a magma resivoir (sp?) perched overhead. Kills em, and seals the entrance... At least until toady gets around to giving seigers picks and the mining labor... That days gunna be !!FUN!!

[King DZA]

"Hey, how's it going? Enjoying your stay in that top-of-the-line, luxury cage? I certainly hope so. We try to provide only the best for our most valuable guests, after all. You know, the wood was harvested locally. That's why it still has that refreshing palm scent. And the milk quartz was cut and embedded by one of our finest jewelers in order to ensure perfection.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt your precious R&R, but we have this lovely new defensive system that we would really like to test out, and could simply think of no better person to ask. So, just step right this way, and we should be done before you know it..."

At least, that's how I imagine my dwarves act when they're leading the prisoners guests to the testing zones...