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[towersquid]

So after getting yet another useless beardie, I came up with the idea of using some useless dwarf and using them as ammunition. I haven't tested this yet but I will update soon. So my idea was you would just have a bridge enclosed on all sides by walls, the dwarf would then be placed at the very end of the bridge and the lever pulled. Effectively launching the dwarf into whatever is in his path. I'm starting a new fortress now, so I'll test this out.

# = Wall
o = Bridge
l = lever
. = floor
D = dorf

                 . . . . # # # # # # #
                 . . . . .  <-ooD # l  .
                 . . . . # # # # # # #

Edit: I tried it out and nothing interesting happened. . . I did get a Yak stuck up in a tree though.

[Aslandus]

It might be more effective as a military deployment than siege weapon, send a few recruits over a wall and toward the encroaching horde as a distraction while your real soldiers are still collecting their weapons...

[towersquid]

It might be more effective as a military deployment than siege weapon, send a few recruits over a wall and toward the encroaching horde as a distraction while your real soldiers are still collecting their weapons...

That could actually work. . .
You might be able to cushion the fall with water so not everyone would die. In that case, you could easily have a jumper squad that would go behind sieges. Extra points if you light them on fire before launching.

[utunnels]

Well you can train them, if you need more soldiers.
Trained cannon folders.

But won't their friends have a fit if all of them died?

[Larix]

Bridges don't work like that.

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..., you horrible person.

[towersquid]

Bridges still propel creatures throughout their current Z-level still right? If not, that sucks.

[Loyal]

Even if you were able to launch them in the correct direction, dwarves don't do nearly enough damage on impact nor fly nearly far enough to be effective as bridgeapult ammunition. If you absolutely must utilize your dwarves as fodder in senselessly dangerous weapons projects, you're better off using the dwarf as both bait and activation mechanism for a lever-operated cave-in trap.

[towersquid]

I have no idea if this is possible, as they may be to large, but is it possible to launch a wagon off a bridge? If so, that would be pretty funny flinging a wagon at a bunch of goblins.

[Pencil_Art]

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http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Bridge#Raising_and_Retracting_Bridges

Raising bridges fling stuff up, not just through their z-level.

[Ysyua]

Could also try impulse ramp "drop pods". I don't know how well this bodes for the occupants of the minecarts.

[Voidlord]

I have thought about assising all dwarves in the miltary, give them armour, and what not, and conscript them as nessarcy, with a core of constantly training dwarves as well

[MonkeyHead]

Forgive my ignorance, but how easy would it be to fill a minecart full of useless cheesemakers, and fire them as some kind of dwarven minecart shotgun meat shrapnel?

[Loyal]

Don't think you can have more than one dwarf per cart.

[Voidlord]

Okay how about a Volleygun, multiple barrels that fire all at once. So multiple minecarts each with a cheesemaker in each, a very effective weapon

[towersquid]

Okay how about a Volleygun, multiple barrels that fire all at once. So multiple minecarts each with a cheesemaker in each, a very effective weapon

That could work, and for added effect, make the minecarts dip into lava to set those damn cheesemakers on fire.