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[strongrudder]

Yeah i've seen snail, slug and tigermen in various spots.

My contribution to the fail parade.

Spent 3 hours setting up a trio of GCS to web across a line of cage traps for capturing FB's entering from the caverns.

Another 2 hours waiting for an FB.

Finally, he has come.  Giddy with anticipation I watch as he bee-lines for the cage corridor.
My expedition leader steps from behind a nearby rock pillar and sticks a masterwork dog bone bolt through his brain....I curse....apparently he's 'hunting'.

On the upside I now have a stack of 340 FB meat

It's entirely possible that I'm missing something here... But aren't FBs immune to cages anyway?

Emphasis (red) mine. I do believe that when things run into webs, it makes them vulnerable to traps the way unconsciousness does.

[duckInferno]

I'm about four years into my current fort.  I just recently had an elven caravan arrive... my first caravan.  Wot?  Elves?  I always figured dwarves always arrived first, then the other races 'unlocked' for subsequent years.  Then it hit me that it was a rather long time to wait for a caravan to arrive.

Sure enough:



[SON_OF_A_BITCH]

Yeah, no goblins or humans, either... but I'm sure I saw them on embark.

[MaximumZero]

What graphics pack are you guys all playing with? I'm really digging the above font.

[duckInferno]

What graphics pack are you guys all playing with? I'm really digging the above font.

Pheob's, with truetype turned on.

[MaximumZero]

Schweet. Thanks for the info.

[Skald]

Spend a good half hour setting up a tunnel system to bring water to my farming grounds.

Set up a flood gate, hooked it to a lever, pulled the lever. Designated last space of dirt to be mined, flooding the farmlands.

Forgot that I pulled the switch, come to the farmlands a few minutes later to see that its full of water. Over 200 spaces, full, of water.
6 Layers underground.

Goddamnit.

[proxn_punkd]

I put a fishing point in the cavern as soon as I breached it. My fisherdorfs periodically go down there, then report to me that there are no fish. One has made Legendary by doing this.

This evening, I looked at the surface river in my territory, preparing to use it to flood a new underground plot for a farm and then drain the water into a reservoir for a hospital well.

The river has fish.

*facepalm*

[lollius]

finding out theres a new version while rebuilding moria(after it was overrun by orks,that is)

[celem]

Spent 3 hours setting up a trio of GCS to web across a line of cage traps for capturing FB's entering from the caverns.

It's entirely possible that I'm missing something here... But aren't FBs immune to cages anyway?

Emphasis (red) mine. I do believe that when things run into webs, it makes them vulnerable to traps the way unconsciousness does.

^^This.

I have since gotten this to work correctly, the (retractable) bridge into my fort is now lined with 4 cages, each containing a 'Fun surprise' for seiges that make it that far.

[Greiger]

I'm one of those oddballs that relies mostly on my military to handle attacks.  I do have a line of weapon traps, but I avoid making them overly high quality, and it's only one weapon in each.  Not enough to repel, or even significantly weaken in invasion, but enough to repel the odd monkey or two.

Ever since .31 came out my crossbow squad has been significantly weaker than the previous versions.  No matter what I did only a few of them would fire their crossbows.  Either because not all of them would have the sence to stand where they can actually shoot anything, or when they did shoot they would run out of ammo and not want to go get more.  They were under 's' menu move to station orders.

I just recently discovered that when under a burrow defence assignment if one crossbowman can shoot an enemy the entire squad will immediately move to a position within their burrow that allows them to shoot it too.  And not only that, if there is an ammo stockpile within the burrow they will actually reload their quivers when needed.

My single squad of crossbowmen, that previously could barely stop an ambush squad, just repelled an entire siege by themselves...Using wooden bolts.

And here I thought I had the military system all figured out.

[Lord Shonus]

Brilliant discovery.

[Zidane]

Brilliant discovery.

I... I think I might use crossbowdorfs now!

[MonkeyHead]

i just managed to flood my current fort with the genuis method of not checking what was below my hospital well. i cut a channel and  proceeded to fill it with a floodgate water lock... only to wonder why by the 4th or 5th load the 2x2 chamber feeding my well was dry. much to my amusement it had filled my masons workshop, which i discovered just as my mason and 4 haulers on door fitting duty died... of course the first door they fitted was the one that trapped the water drowning them.

[MrNuke]

My most epic facepalm yet.

Having a skelatal horse come along and rock up by the entrance of the fort. So i thought, "why not get my military to kill it?". It  slaughtered my 2 military squads, armed in full iron by kicking them in the face. By the time it killed my military, it moved into my fortress. I thought it would be fun to whatch the horse get slaughtered by steel weapon traps, but that turned out to be FUN.

When i thought it could be over by a cage trap, messages came up saying "Urist McMechanic cancels load cage trap, need empty cage". I had a whole line of cage traps, but due to a recent goblin ambush, they were all used up, and my idiot self forgot to make more. My last defence was to draft my 72 remaining dwarves to the military, and tell them all to wrestle it to death! One by one, this FRIGEN HORSE killed them all. And those that crawled themselves to the hospital were the last to survive. The horse eventually rocked up in there, and killed the wounded sleeping in the beds.

The panic, the bloodshed, the tantrums, the !!FUN!!. So, are horses overpowered?

[MaximumZero]

So, I found a really good embark spot, heavily forested with plenty of foliage, some interesting looking cliffs, a river, flux, lots of visible metal, everything but a volcano (which is fine by me.) I spent the time trying to determine which of my favorite five friends get to come with me (the wife is a no brainer,) what skills everyone would get, what equipment everyone would have, everyone's pets, etc, etc. So, I attempted to get my metal industry started...

and I forgot the anvil. *facepalm*