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[Girlinhat]

Magma crabs are easier to catch, and if everything is getting a rewrite then they may become rather lethal.  Fire imps too, to a lesser extent.  I always see crabs but rarely imps.

[Uristocrat]

I'm now wondering if we can get, say, an artifact wooden cart that burns forever and still load it?  That could also be !!FUN!! ...

But yeah, if we can catch and minecart certain FBs, they would be potent weapons that we could deploy on demand and store in dwarven railgun with a return system.  Especially webbing FBs, which could spray an area with webs only to return to their holding area.  Though depending on the exact setup, you might want to put a lead minecart in front of them to clear the tracks and make sure the FB itself doesn't get derailed.

There's just so much !!FUN!! to be had...

[sackhead]

we know that dwarfs can ride carts but can marksdwarfs fire from them

[Sadrice]

In the second to last future of the fortress reply, toady said that it might be difficult to get your squad into the cart, but if you did they would happily fire from the cart.

[Martin]

We need a more reliable way to precisely station dwarves so we can make a Batman style military transporter. Carts remain stationed under the barracks, a lever is pulled dropping your fully prepared marksdwarves into the cars and the rollers fire up launching your military onto the Disneyland monorail trip from hell - making repeated passes at high speed past each entrance before returning them individually to reload ammo and get dropped back into action.

[Tsuchigumo550]

We need a more reliable way to precisely station dwarves so we can make a Batman style military transporter. Carts remain stationed under the barracks, a lever is pulled dropping your fully prepared marksdwarves into the cars and the rollers fire up launching your military onto the Disneyland monorail trip from hell - making repeated passes at high speed past each entrance before returning them individually to reload ammo and get dropped back into action.

Orbital dropship (held by a single support) anyone?

[Itnetlolor]

We can always have a cycle of multiple carts, whether full or not, one at a time, always going in circles and stopping where appropriate in order to properly cycle prepared dwarves and dwarves with empty quivers and between posts where the cycle is linked up. 1 lever controls the action of all stations, and a series of other levers can alter the course which still keeps starting and ending in the same station.

For each station, add a cart. Cycle accordingly.

[Chronomancer]

Talk about whalin' on them.

* Itnetlolor mysteriously gets hit by a tomato from [DATA EXPUNGED], and suffered a concussion. Tomato clocked in at 250mph.

EDIT:
Ow.

WOOO SCP REFERENCE!

[Uristocrat]

We need a more reliable way to precisely station dwarves so we can make a Batman style military transporter. Carts remain stationed under the barracks, a lever is pulled dropping your fully prepared marksdwarves into the cars and the rollers fire up launching your military onto the Disneyland monorail trip from hell - making repeated passes at high speed past each entrance before returning them individually to reload ammo and get dropped back into action.

"Disneyland monorail from hell" ... that has definite megaproject potential.

Seriously, how much of the next release is going to be us finding new ways to weaponize minecarts?  Forget trap hallways.  We'll just put rails on them and have lead minecarts loaded onto the railgun, ready to blast through anything stupid enough to waltz through the main hallways.  OTOH, gremlins might get a lot more !!FUN!! if they can cause untold mayhem by blasting several dozen lead minecarts and a few thousand coins through the main hallway when the traders come.

We'll have to start a "post your worst minecart accidents here" thread once this comes out.