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[crazysheep]

I've switched to various creatures the elfs have brought. Dogs are for kobolds

brb switching guard dogs to guard bears.

[Garath]

giant monitor lizards are surprisingly effective, as long as the stupid creature remembers to bite instead of grabbing and throwing. Look, the giant anaconda will wrestle it, you bite, lizard? deal? Bite I say, not claw. Right, back to lions

[Syndic]

... 1x1 pastures ... with a war god pastured in each.

 

[Mr S]

Irsnib Blubgudfrobberich cancels steal something shiny, interrupted by Kratos.

[Patroclus]

I've switched to various creatures the elfs have brought. Dogs are for kobolds

brb switching guard dogs to guard bears.

War Giant Leopards work very well too.

[Morpha]

I'm fond of a GCS/Helmet Snake combination.

[Niyazov]

... 1x1 pastures ... with a war god pastured in each.

 

Be prepared for a lot of pasturing jobs

[crazysheep]

Irsnib Blubgudfrobberich cancels steal something shiny, interrupted by Kratos.

Ahahaha that's gold

... 1x1 pastures ... with a war god pastured in each.

 

Be prepared for a lot of pasturing jobs

Urist McAnimalHandler cancels Pen/Pasture Large War God: Handling dangerous War God.

I've switched to various creatures the elfs have brought. Dogs are for kobolds

brb switching guard dogs to guard bears.

War Giant Leopards work very well too.

I remember the War Jaguar that scratched a kobold thief's head. The kobold didn't last very long after that scratch.

[Splint]

Since we've roundly derailed into war beat territory, Giant War Jaguars make great goblin killers, if you don't mind high attrition. essentially I lost a pair per ambush but anyone they didn't kill was left a bleeding or otherwise pantshitting mess trying to flee for thier lives.

[DanteThanatos]

If you're lucky you can deal with a single threat with only a bunch of dogs(not even war dogs)

I had a fort inside a cliff with the top being my pastures and I just throwed the dogs there to deal later breed.
A Thunderbird came(dunno its Size) and I used dfhack to follow it(It could fly...i wanted to know from wich side it was going to enter...front entrace or rooftops.)

It landed on top of a dog and killed it, the other dogs and two war dogs all jumped on it and proceeded to bite and latch on.

AFAIK any creature stuck in combat with something grabbing/latching on it will try to break the grip.

I had no militia neither gear, and the dogs slowly killed it because the Thunderbird kept trying to break multiple latches and died after bleeding for some time.

After that I always bring 3/3 dogs with me at any non-evil embark.

[Urist Da Vinci]

I've found pastured animals are much more combat-ready than chained animals. This might have to do with how the chain only works via mind control - nothing stops the chained creature from being dropped or pushed out of range of the built chain.

Large animals are good against kobolds as the kobolds often get knocked down when the guard animal charges. It doesn't have to be a war animal, just a tamed ("stray") large predator will do.

[Viking]

One of my fortresses was once saved by a pack of dogs when a Roc invaded. The Roc devastated the military and got inside with a bruised foot and one or two scratches. I really thought it was the end of my fort when he got into the dining hall. Luckily my highly fertile dogs descended upon it in massive numbers giving it an untold number of tiny cuts and scratches chasing the thing around the upper regions of my fort until it eventually landed in a cage trap while it had bypassed many others. They sustained a few casualties but dang was I grateful. Dogs: not just good for meat and leather!

[Rez]

Dogs seem kind of under-powered considering that there are dogs like this:



brb, modding dog size to reflect that.

[Splint]

What in dear Armok's name is that breed?

[caddybear]

What in dear Armok's name is that breed?

war god