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Author Topic: Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?  (Read 913 times)

hiS_oWn

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Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?
« on: March 12, 2009, 06:09:09 pm »
Is it possible to wipe out a civilization by destroying every single last one of them that comes to your doorstep?
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praguepride

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Re: Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 06:13:16 pm »
If you kill all the goblin leaders, they stop sieging, so I've been told.

You have to remove their intelligent tag to make then unending.
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Quote from: Pilsu on March 12, 2009, 04:36:48 am
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Re: Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 09:00:24 pm »
It's been my experience that if you wipe out all the goblin local leaders they just siege without them. You get units led by perfectly average gobbos.
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Re: Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 09:11:35 pm »
They do seem to scale back the sieges a bit though. Post-leader, the sieges I get are all really piddly.
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 09:33:11 pm »
If you capture a leader and just keep him in a cage forever, does that affect the sieges any?  Also, how can you tell if a particular gobbo is a leader?  Do you have to look through the world history, or will it say "Leader" or something by his name on the Fortress Mode interface?

(edit)  Wow, I never realized that.  The more I learn about this game, the more I find out that I don't know yet.
« Last Edit: March 12, 2009, 10:00:43 pm by Bromor Neckbeard »
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Re: Can you ever run out of goblins/orcs?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2009, 09:48:17 pm »
[c], highlight the goblin civilization, [enter] to see the local leaders. During the siege itself they're the legendary dudes with good armor. Dunno about the caging thing. =/
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