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christehchris

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Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« on: August 21, 2012, 11:45:18 am »
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Owlbread

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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2012, 12:12:36 pm »
Just chop their heads off with a single soldier, or if they're prisoners, make sure they're in a cage and just drop them into magma.
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 01:09:50 pm »
Mass pitting room with the animal stockpile setting works best.

You can mass pit them all at once anywhere you want. It could be into a zombie pit with a necromancer having line of sight, or into your barracks, magma pit, onto weapon traps, or simply a 20z level drop onto solid granite.
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2012, 01:39:55 pm »
Throw them into your volcano.

Don't have a volcano?

Make one.
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Quote from: Starver on November 09, 2012, 03:13:15 pm
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2012, 03:53:32 pm »
Easiest? Stuff them into one cage in your militia commander's office.
Best? Strip them and use them for training.
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christehchris

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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2012, 04:34:19 pm »
How do I strip them of their belongings?
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2012, 04:58:15 pm »
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2012, 05:30:42 pm »
I prefer gladitorial combat for condemned goblins (fully armed, freedom with victory - my dwarves are an honorable sort).  The easiest way is probably letting the militia chop them up one by one, but captured greenskins can be used for many purposes:

- Population control.  It can be pretty funny to trap someone in their room with six goblins.
- FB/Megabeast baiting.  Be sure to injure the prisoner beyond a means of escape, with a fall or a trap or something.
- Caravan raiding.  Put a dozen goblins by the Depot, seal it off, and let them loose when the caravan gets there.  It won't be your fault.
- Feeding pet dragons/spiders and such:  Just disarm and drop.
- Goblin prison communities. You can dig out a great oubliette for the enemy hordes and leave them in there forever.*
- Bone source.  Drop the goblins from a staggering height so they explode into pieces, and dwarves will use them in the craft.
- Controlled traumatization.  Have your soldiers slaughter the prisoners en masse so as to desensitize them to horror.
- Biological danger rooms.  Drop a well-fitted dwarf into a 1x1 cell filled with unarmed goblins and they will emerge a hero.

There are many more uses you might consider before executing your enemies.  A life is a precious thing and shouldn't be wasted.

* This doubles as a safe and entertaining way to generate ghosts from unwanted civilians.
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2012, 05:39:18 pm »
Is it bad that I actually know what an oubliette is?
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Quote from: Starver on November 09, 2012, 03:13:15 pm
Here's a tip, though... Use Russian characters in your WPA5 passphrase. If your spontaneous AI is anything like my spontaneous AI (not as aggressive as yours, good conversation, but actually worse than me at chess*), it can't handle any character outside of the CODEPAGE 437 list.

*I hope. It could just be lulling me into a false sense of security.

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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2012, 06:58:58 pm »
Quote from: Pyro627 on August 21, 2012, 05:39:18 pm
Is it bad that I actually know what an oubliette is?
Depends. Do you own one?
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2012, 07:00:26 pm »
Wait, there are people who AREN'T familiar with the concept of an oubliette?
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Re: Easiest way to execute snatchers?
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2012, 07:48:33 am »
Wait, there are people who DON'T own one?
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