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most common cause of losing a fortress?

wildlife
goblin abmushes, sieges etc.
human abmushes, sieges etc.
elf abmushes, sieges etc.
titans, forgotten beasts, megabeasts
demons
magma
necromancers
undead
tantrum spiral
loyalty cascade
giant mosquito invasion

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Author Topic: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION  (Read 68971 times)

Melzer

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #75 on: July 12, 2012, 04:03:21 pm »

let's make it 200 things.
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hiroshi42

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Re: 100 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #76 on: July 12, 2012, 04:06:04 pm »

105. Ballista crossfire hallways do not work.
106. Dwarven mothers take their kids to work, plan your militia accordingly.
107. Dwarven children follow their parents everywhere, burrow the little brats.
108. Always make sure there is enough space in a food stockpile before you thin herds or cook large numbers of meals.
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Re: 100 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #77 on: July 12, 2012, 10:47:07 pm »

101. Military dwarves are always on duty. Unless their hungry.
101. Hammering =/= Execution.
103. Dwarves will sleep in non-room beds, regardless of use. Even if it is in a vampire kings servant den. Or the hospital.
104. Strange mooders are imperious to hunger, thirst, and sanity. Prepare accordingly.
EDIT: Fixed, was not paying attention.
You should improve your Social Awareness skill lol(adventure mode reference, I'm not trying to be an ass lol)
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misko27

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Re: 100 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #78 on: July 12, 2012, 11:57:21 pm »

101. Military dwarves are always on duty. Unless their hungry.
101. Hammering =/= Execution.
103. Dwarves will sleep in non-room beds, regardless of use. Even if it is in a vampire kings servant den. Or the hospital.
104. Strange mooders are imperious to hunger, thirst, and sanity. Prepare accordingly.
EDIT: Fixed, was not paying attention.
You should improve your Social Awareness skill lol(adventure mode reference, I'm not trying to be an ass lol)
Do I look like a bookkeeper to you? no? I'm not. I'm a Mother-dwarfing overseer, and all that needs is a surplus of creativity, and a deficit of empathy and sanity.
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Hanslanda

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #79 on: July 12, 2012, 11:58:26 pm »

And access to magma.
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Well, we could put two and two together and write a book: "The Shit that Hans and Max Did: You Won't Believe This Shit."
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Corai

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Re: 100 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #80 on: July 13, 2012, 12:01:48 am »

101. Military dwarves are always on duty. Unless their hungry.
101. Hammering =/= Execution.
103. Dwarves will sleep in non-room beds, regardless of use. Even if it is in a vampire kings servant den. Or the hospital.
104. Strange mooders are imperious to hunger, thirst, and sanity. Prepare accordingly.
EDIT: Fixed, was not paying attention.
You should improve your Social Awareness skill lol(adventure mode reference, I'm not trying to be an ass lol)
Do I look like a bookkeeper to you? no? I'm not. I'm a Mother-dwarfing overseer, and all that needs is a surplus of creativity, and a deficit of empathy and sanity.

I have a deficit of creativity, and surplus of empathy and sanity. *confused*
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Hanslanda

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #81 on: July 13, 2012, 12:06:30 am »

Do you have access to magma?
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Well, we could put two and two together and write a book: "The Shit that Hans and Max Did: You Won't Believe This Shit."
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Splint

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #82 on: July 13, 2012, 12:07:14 am »

He's a kobold, what do you think.

Hanslanda

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #83 on: July 13, 2012, 12:12:27 am »

Interesting, if not, he has none of the requisite traits of a fortress Overseer. Which may make him the perfect fortress Overseer! My god, get the !! !!, we've got science that needs doing!

109. Minecart tracks. Designating them is REALLY CONFUSING.
110. If your militia is going to fight a pack of hyenas, make sure that they travel as a group. Nothing is so frustrating as watching well armored dwarves get swarmed and eaten one by one.
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Well, we could put two and two together and write a book: "The Shit that Hans and Max Did: You Won't Believe This Shit."
He's fucking with us.

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #84 on: July 13, 2012, 12:14:25 am »

111. Can be aplied to either mode: Shields help alot. But don't give them to dwarves (or in my case humans) using multi-grasp weapons (pikes, halberds, 2h swords....) because that gives them a hit disadvantage. And this slow attack response can mean the deaths of many a soldier.

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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #85 on: July 13, 2012, 06:06:34 am »

112. Dwarves love dipping their feet in shallow water, and prefer the waterfall path to the dry path even when it's restricted. I've lost at least 10 dwarves because they were stupid enough to walk through both natural and non-natural waterfalls.
113. The slow flow speed of magma doesn't mean your magma sea discoverer or volcano breacher won't burn to death today.
114. Magma and pumps go well together. Free furnace power everyone! Water and pumps don't. Urist McPumpOperator cancels Operate Pump: Dangerous terrain. Urist McDrowning has been found dead, drowned.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2012, 06:09:27 am by Chimpanzee »
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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #86 on: July 13, 2012, 06:50:08 am »

115. Dwarves will happily walk into a battlefield to pickup a sock but then get scared and run away from the path back inside and strand themselves until they starve/dehydrate/get killed.
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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #87 on: July 13, 2012, 09:18:59 am »

Permanent dizziness from syndrome rain (which starts the SECOND YOU EMBARK) basically brings work to a standstill.
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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #88 on: July 13, 2012, 11:14:25 am »

117. Flying forgotten beasts can move in vertical diagonals.

118. Once fully submerged, wall grates and fortifications prove no obstacle to swimmers.

119. After firing your ballista, make sure to set it off fire at will after the goblins leave, and before letting everyone out to get their goblin Christmas gifts.

120. After firing your cartcannon make sure to turn it off after the goblins leave, and before letting everyone out to get their goblin Christmas gifts.
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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #89 on: July 13, 2012, 11:49:57 am »

121. Naked children are a disaster waiting to happen.
122. That undead Yak calf hair has the strength of 2 fully grown Yaks.
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