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[silversurfer]

I have been lurking and trying to read others posts waiting for a sign that catapults might be improved to something in the useful as a weapon area and dreaming of how best to weaponize minecarts.  So far I think I read that we won't be seeing catapults with parabolic trajectories yet.  Which is fine, I can wait....  How many of you are also dreaming of how to send mine carts flying at objects?  After seeing the post today I was soon envisioned mine carts filled with fully armored dwarf squads sailing into combat at high velocity like some weird mash up between a Calvary charge and that scene from jack ass where they are all in a giant grocery cart going down hill.

Oh what fun!  Any thoughts on making this even more ridiculous?

[JackOSpades]

Fill the cart with MAGMA 

[Moonshadow101]

Minecarts as Dwarf-Delivery-Mechanism sounds like a great way to have more dead dwarves than dead goblins, unless the arc is very shallow.

I'm more hopeful for catapults, but I'd still rather have some sort of actual aiming for siege weapons. Babysteps, I guess.

[silversurfer]

I was thinking the military could roll over the goblins in the cart roller coaster style down a track and then jump out and finish up the rest. 


but now that i understand the system. I think that whiny noble dwarfs would make very nice ammo, along with something flammable and magma.

[JohnieRWilkins]

I'd imagine you want to fill the carts with lead objects rather than dwarves for maximum mv. Your dwarves will just have to walk it.

[EveryZig]

I am hoping that you can have a minecart on an elevated non-jumping track, then fill it with crossbow dwarfs for a dwarven drive-by shooting.

That, or modded slade minecarts.

[Itnetlolor]

Minecarts as Dwarf-Delivery-Mechanism sounds like a great way to have more dead dwarves than dead goblins, unless the arc is very shallow.

I'm more hopeful for catapults, but I'd still rather have some sort of actual aiming for siege weapons. Babysteps, I guess.

Already mentioned in one of the threads you likely read, but how's this for a delivery method?

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Just line the barrel with a bunch of rollers.

[NW_Kohaku]

Well, when you collide with things, and they get flung in parabolic arcs, that means we're going to have a whole new wave of "treed" creatures.  Plus, you could play goblinball and knock goblins onto "plateaus" where they get to be target practice for marksdwarves or the like.

[Deon]

A new game of Whack-the-vampire. A locked room with a complex minecart system and a vampire locked in it. Dwarves fling minecarts there and count the tiles the vampire flies after each collision. The dwarf with the most points wins.

[silversurfer]

Drive bye shootings!  oh now I think that is sweet!

[EveryZig]

Drive bye shootings!  oh now I think that is sweet!

I don't know about you guys, but I have a mental image of a dwarf riding in a cart full of bolts while shooting a crossbow held sideways and shouting "West Side, mothersporers!".

[miauw62]

Load carts with stone and launch them from a ramp.
Easy peasy.
You dont even need dwarves for that.