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[Slappy Moose]

Two goblin ambushes attack my fort, each of melee troops. I send in my single squad of nearly max stat axemen.

They charge the goblins as a unified group, and as soon as they meet the goblins, they start chopping. After killing 2, the "dodge" the goblin's attacks by jumping into the nearby lake and getting shot by the third ambush of archers.

This is total bull. I spent 2 years training these guys, and the best they can do is jump in a lake. Not just one of them, but 4 of them jump into the 14 tile big pond and drown/get shot.

The dodging system needs an update.

[Derakon]

You think that's bad, I lots three marksdwarves because they leapt into the caldera rather than be next to a fire imp.

They were drowning before they burned to death.

[Cthulhu]

That's nothing.  I lost my best adventurer because I hit Give in to Starvation instead of Save Game, and every adventurer since him has had Parkinson's Disease.

No joke, one of them was strangled to death by an elf.
STRANGLED
By an
ELF

[ March 26, 2008: Message edited by: Muffles ]

[Hyperturtle]

Maybe the goblins made some sort of joke, like Yo Momma is so bearded, even the circus freaks won't hang out with her.

Then they got depressed and jumped.

[Hypcso]

I absolutely always dig a stairway to every single pool of water on my map when I start. Ever since I lost about 10 champions to a single pool with a drowning goblin in it.

[bigmcstrongmuscle]

It's not their fault. The outer world's just not built well enough for dwarven standards. I mean, any competent architect would have put some grates or safety flooring over his pits and pools to prevent that kind of thing. And what do we get in this "Outside" place? Frigging *swamps*, and shrubs that don't even grow in caves! The building contract for your continent probably just went to the lowest bidder, is all.

[Derakon]

If your dwarves think the outside world isn't safe, you clearly aren't building your fortress properly. Where's the one-wide bridges arcing between towers precariously perched on the edges of volcanos, everything supported by a single pillar with an attached lever for when doomsday comes?

[numerobis]

quote:Originally posted by Hypcso:
<STRONG>I lost about 10 champions to a single pool with a drowning goblin in it.</STRONG>

Ouch.

I keep thinking of training my army in swimming, but not getting around to it.  Maybe I'll up the priority...

But generally I never really let my army far out of the gates.

[umiman]

The general rule is, an army standing outside your defensive line is sacrificing itself to death. Technically, anything after the first year outside is prime for death.

So... don't go outside.

[Hypcso]

I have about 25 military at the moment, they are capable of taking on a force of goblins head to head. Even bowgoblins usually. I haven't lost one to a siege in some years although I normally have a few beaten up and resting at the end ( mostly from said bowgoblins ) so I prefer to station my marksdwarves in the archer tower and let them sort it out.

[Derakon]

I have 27 dwarves in my military, largely because I haven't anything better to do with them. Sure, I could just build rank upon rank of traps to deal with anything that got too close, but that'd be boring. And frankly, I don't need it; my military took out a titan without receiving a single injury (well, the captain of the guard got a little tired, I guess).

I do have some traps as an emergency fallback, but aside from a "secret entrance" that I really don't want to have to bother with guarding, they're all pretty weak traps - two ranks of one iron spiked ball each.