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[timmeh]

Is there any way to prevent goblins from entering the map hidden?  Normally I'm all for making the game a little harder, but it kinda makes a mess when one manages to ambush some random kid and starts a tantrum spiral...  if not, it's not too big of a deal.  I can usually tell when some show up, cause the new units cause a few frames of lag.

[yaklin]

try posting multiple dogs/cats/other animal around the edge of the map on chains as soon as an ambush comes the animals would see them

[TettyNullus]

Walls up the edge of map, funnel them into a hall of traps with a few dogs behind some doors to catch the kobolds. Don't forget to make the funnel at least 3 wide and stick a trade deport in there so you can trade 

[Michaelsoftman]

What I like to do is have an 'Early warning Donkey' or some other useless animal.

Chain him right outside the entrance to your fort, so that anything that tries to come in must pass the Donkey and get revealed when they try to kill it.

Replace EwD as needed.

[Atlas]

I wonder if "Early Warning Elephants" would be at all effective.

[timmeh]

Alright, I guess I'll just un-cage some of the random baby animals I don't need to sell and chain them up alon the edges of the map.  I don't suppose (although I may need to have the topic moved for this) there is a way to mod the goblins to start visible?

I wonder if "Early Warning Elephants" would be at all effective.

I get the feeling they would be very effective..... now I just need to figure out where the heck to get elephants.  I wish I could request animals for trade...

[Blakmane]

Alright, I guess I'll just un-cage some of the random baby animals I don't need to sell and chain them up alon the edges of the map.  I don't suppose (although I may need to have the topic moved for this) there is a way to mod the goblins to start visible?

I wonder if "Early Warning Elephants" would be at all effective.

I get the feeling they would be very effective..... now I just need to figure out where the heck to get elephants.  I wish I could request animals for trade...

If you remove babysnatcher, and give the gobbos [CAN_CIV] and [CAN_LEARN] instead of [INTELLIGENT], they should only siege. However, they will siege you as early as when they would start babysnatching. This will require a world regen.

[timmeh]

Alright, I guess I'll just un-cage some of the random baby animals I don't need to sell and chain them up alon the edges of the map.  I don't suppose (although I may need to have the topic moved for this) there is a way to mod the goblins to start visible?

I wonder if "Early Warning Elephants" would be at all effective.

I get the feeling they would be very effective..... now I just need to figure out where the heck to get elephants.  I wish I could request animals for trade...

If you remove babysnatcher, and give the gobbos [CAN_CIV] and [CAN_LEARN] instead of [INTELLIGENT], they should only siege. However, they will siege you as early as when they would start babysnatching. This will require a world regen.

Would they seige full force or would it be weaker sieges?

Thanks!

[Ieb]

I think the siege force wouldn't be affected by the change. They'd start small, and eventually send more and more units to attack.

[Phazer]

you could also add in the orcs. wont sneak and will siege you before you reach 80 pop like goblins usually do

[Porpoisepower]

Dude!!!

If you remove babysnatcher, and give the gobbos [CAN_CIV] and [CAN_LEARN] instead of [INTELLIGENT], they should only siege. However, they will siege you as early as when they would start babysnatching. This will require a world regen.

Does this mean if we mod in Babysnatching our Civilizations could have kidnapped Goblins migrate in?  Could there be kidnapped cannabil Elven Wrestlers to skare the crap out of humans?

[Skorpion]

I use trapped early-warning bears. A particularly successful system is a bear surrounded by three-deep stonefall traps.

[Aspgren]

try posting multiple dogs/cats/other animal around the edge of the map on chains as soon as an ambush comes the animals would see them

I did this... didn't work out as I had hoped since the goblins patrolled from chain to chain and butchered all the animals.

[yaklin]

try posting multiple dogs/cats/other animal around the edge of the map on chains as soon as an ambush comes the animals would see them

I did this... didn't work out as I had hoped since the goblins patrolled from chain to chain and butchered all the animals.

that means that you have plenty of time to muster the militia

[timmeh]

Do hidden goblins still activate pressure plates?  If so then setting up some kind of early warning system shouldn't be too hard.  Just build some bauxite grates on the ground somewhere that default to open then have them repeated switch after something triggers the plate and tada, flashing red warning "lights".