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[Elerion]

What's it going to do? Omygod omygod omygod. Okay, do this properly. Dwarves, indoors. Crossbowdwarves, position on ramparts. Hammerdwarves, position inside.

Oh god this is tense! What's going to happen?

Here it comes!

It... died in the weapon trap halfway to my fort.

:/

[Quift]

Traps are way to cheesy.

[Captain Mayday]

I need to amp my dragons up to crazy levels to even threaten a single one of my hero dwarves. It's part of the reason I'm making a mod to make megabeasts that much more dangerous.

[Alfador]

It's a delicate balance. With megabeasts the way they are... a few traps won't even scratch them, but load them up with all the weapons you get from a good-sized siege or a year's worth of weaponsmith training, and you get dragon giblets in no time.

It's not so much a matter of being ABLE to do these things, in my opinion, it's what you would rather do: Have a thin line of traps to weaken an opponent prior to an epic melee with military dwarves? Have a thick forest of traps and crossbowdwarves behind fortifications to minimize the risk? Or set up a sweet magma-channel setup to encase dragons in obsidian? Bridge-crushings aren't all-powerful now (if I recall correctly), but they were yet another option.

It's all up to you whether you want it to be cheesy-easy or nail-bitingly epic.
It's up to the computer, though, whether your adventurer valiantly wrestles a demon to death or dies to an arrow that crosses his eye, lung, pancreas, and left third toe.

[Puzzlemaker]

My first dragon decided to attack the human caravan at my trade depot.  It died, after lighting EVERYTHING on fire.  Took my haulers a whole in-game year to clean it up...

[numerobis]

quote:Originally posted by Puzzlemaker:
<STRONG>My first dragon decided to attack the human caravan at my trade depot.  It died, after lighting EVERYTHING on fire.  Took my haulers a whole in-game year to clean it up...</STRONG>

My first dragon was in Landsdiamond, which I posted about a while back.  Did exactly that: one breath, then death by guards.  But I was a newb, so I didn't realize that I should forbid everything in the depot.  More than 80% of my fortress died in the fire.  Took the survivors a whole in-game year just to bury the dead.

[Patarak]

Toady said he' going to balance traps in the Army Arc if he works on it long enough. Here's hoping.

[Worldwaker]

I'm sure that they'll be ironed out soon enough.