Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!  (Read 1507 times)

Teldin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Canadian Bacon
    • View Profile
An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« on: September 12, 2008, 11:56:32 pm »
I suggest a different version of attacking. There's ambush, siege.. and then invasion. An invasion should be multiple waves of sieges, and each wave should be more inclined to stay and fight than quickly retreat like they do in a siege. They should also assault from multiple directions, and if they're a subterranean/mountain race they should also invade from chasms or pits. They'd be led by some legendary king, of course, maybe the ruler of their entire civilization (or the demon they worship?).

Would be a good idea to do it after the army overhaul, though, and after extra bits like sieges making bridges over moats. It should be difficult, if not impossible to survive unscathed.
Logged

Sprout

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2008, 12:13:14 am »
We need goblins riding dragons and GCS. THAT would make sieges more fun.
Logged

catpaw

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2008, 12:55:41 am »
Quote from: Sprout on September 13, 2008, 12:13:14 am
We need goblins riding dragons and GCS. THAT would make sieges more fun.

# Ground control station?
# GNU Coding Standards?
# Gauss Centre for Supercomputing?
# Geek of Computer Science?
Logged

Demonic Gophers

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • The Tunnels
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2008, 01:02:05 am »
Giant Cave Spiders.  Which is to say, doom.
Logged
*Digs tunnel under thread.*
I also answer to Gophers and DG.
Quote from: Shades of Gray
*Says something inspiring and quote worthy.*
Quote from: Kagus on June 25, 2008, 01:30:40 am
Opinions are great, they're like onions with pi.

i2amroy

  • Bay Watcher
  • Cats, ruling the world one dwarf at a time
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2008, 08:51:45 am »
GCS, where have I heard that before... Oh no! GCS! No, they won't get me alive! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Runs and jumps into a pool of magma.
Logged
Quote from: PTTG
It would be brutally difficult and probably won't work. In other words, it's absolutely dwarven!
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A fun zombie survival rougelike that I'm dev-ing for.

Jintor

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2008, 09:54:06 am »
It would be pretty lulz if enemy AI somehow gained the ability to set cage traps, or to somehow capture your dwarves and slowly torture them...
Logged

catpaw

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2008, 11:09:53 am »
Quote from: Sprout on September 13, 2008, 12:13:14 am
We need goblins riding dragons and GCS. THAT would make sieges more fun.

I don't fear goblins riding dragons and GCS.

I think the nightmare of every fortress is a gobling wielding a pickaxe!

Imagine goblins carving themselves ramps/stairways and tunnel to get through obstacles. Or not to use the obvious entrance which is likely littered with traps.
Logged

Tormy

  • Bay Watcher
  • I shall not pass?
    • View Profile
Re: An enormous horde of goblins has arrived! To arms, to arms!
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2008, 11:20:34 am »
Hm I would like to see more variations actually, once the Army Arc will be functional.
Example:
1. Waves of attacks from different directions
2. Whole enemy army attacks in the same time from the same direction
3. Whole enemy army attacks in the same time from different directions
Logged