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[Liber celi]

Warfare is now mainly psychological in nature.

[KingKaol]

Do marksmen train at archery targets yet?

[Splint]

Do marksmen train at archery targets yet?

They did before, but when active the range needed to be in thier assigned barracks area (that is, the designated area needed to have the ranges in it.)

[Jackboot]

Warfare is now mainly psychological in nature.

Kind of realistic, when you think about it. Most battles in ancient times IRL were more about which sides routed first rather than who killed the most. Plus it'll be fun to figure out how to catapult out corpses at the enemies just before releasing the macedwarves on the horrified goblins...

[Tomcost]

Warfare is now mainly psychological in nature.

Kind of realistic, when you think about it. Most battles in ancient times IRL were more about which sides routed first rather than who killed the most. Plus it'll be fun to figure out how to catapult out corpses at the enemies just before releasing the macedwarves on the horrified goblins...

DF 0.40: non-necromantic weaponization of corpses.

But maybe the demoralizing thing is to watch something die. In which case, you now have something to do with your spare cats.

Also, minecart shotguns.

[Cerol Lenslens]

Welp, the guy who climbed into the river ravine was still at it, so I breached fortress security and tunneled down to his landing spot to give him a way into the fortress that didn't involve climbing up over the smoothed walls. He ignored it, climbed back up the wall, and died of dehydration, falling right back into the river for the eighty millionth time. Then one of the other founders, who was crossing one of the bridges to install a ramp, cancelled her job in horror after she got a glimpse of the dead guy in the river below.

Rather hilariously, I'd checked out the guy who died shortly before his death, and he supposedly had nerves of steel. I bet he wouldn't have cancelled his job...

[Liber celi]

Warfare is now mainly psychological in nature.

Kind of realistic, when you think about it. Most battles in ancient times IRL were more about which sides routed first rather than who killed the most. Plus it'll be fun to figure out how to catapult out corpses at the enemies just before releasing the macedwarves on the horrified goblins...

Reminds me of this article which in turn reminded me of DF a lot...

[Puzzlemaker]

Warfare is now mainly psychological in nature.

Kind of realistic, when you think about it. Most battles in ancient times IRL were more about which sides routed first rather than who killed the most. Plus it'll be fun to figure out how to catapult out corpses at the enemies just before releasing the macedwarves on the horrified goblins...

Actually, I am excited that DF is going that route.  I think it's like 20% casualties before people start routing?

[Broseph Stalin]

DF 0.40: non-necromantic weaponization of corpses.

But maybe the demoralizing thing is to watch something die. In which case, you now have something to do with your spare cats.

Also, minecart shotguns.

It's both, they react to corpses, death, and injury, I had a serious problem with wood hauling because a dwarves kept seeing the mangled corpses of owl men and being gripped by existential terror. .

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Plus it'll be fun to figure out how to catapult out corpses at the enemies just before releasing the macedwarves on the horrified goblins...

It'd be interesting if, when siege engines for invaders are implemented, after you do that to them, the next time they come back, they pull the same tactic on you, or perform it on another battlefield.  Even if it was a one-off thing, that'd be awesome that they basically learned a new warfare tactic from you.

[Jacob/Lee]

"Discipline" is a skill you can give combatants in arena mode that determines how well they take morale checks. I had a fistfight between a grand master in discipline and somebody with no skill and the no-skill guy immediately panics and runs, gaining a bit of experience from the event. I wonder how you can train it in dwarf mode...

[chaosgear]

"Discipline" is a skill you can give combatants in arena mode that determines how well they take morale checks. I had a fistfight between a grand master in discipline and somebody with no skill and the no-skill guy immediately panics and runs, gaining a bit of experience from the event. I wonder how you can train it in dwarf mode...

Perhaps sparring? Maybe just being exposed to a hostile creature? Just have a goblin walled in in your dining hall and everyone who sees it gets a little discipline? We'll need to test this. Then find a danger room equivalent.

[Mickey Blue]

So far pretty interesting, same experience with trees as other people here, and some fun little fights here and there though nothing big yet (early on). Genning a new world to try our reclaiming an NPC fort and to check out legends mode.

Much more lag than in the past, normally I run the game at 60fps (I just prefer that to dwarves racing around) but my game can't even keep up with that.

Will comment with anything new.

[Broseph Stalin]

Perhaps sparring? Maybe just being exposed to a hostile creature? Just have a goblin walled in in your dining hall and everyone who sees it gets a little discipline? We'll need to test this. Then find a danger room equivalent.

Training and being scared train discipline. The sight of fresh corpses does it, so does exposure to non hostile non pet animals.

[RealFear]

"Discipline" is a skill you can give combatants in arena mode that determines how well they take morale checks. I had a fistfight between a grand master in discipline and somebody with no skill and the no-skill guy immediately panics and runs, gaining a bit of experience from the event. I wonder how you can train it in dwarf mode...

Doesn't seem to affect moral as much as i'd like though, as soon as about 5 out of 10 guys in a group die, even grand-master disciplines seem to run.
And if you have a area that has bodies in it from a previous, unrelated battle, absolutely no-one wants to stay in a fight for long.