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[AzyWng]

There's likely some range that's close enough to hit goblins at but far enough away to not flee their post in terror.

Yea, anywhere from 250 squares, to about 20, 30, iirc. Butvits so innacurate it still borders on useless.

So seige weapons are currently crap?

[sirdanilot]

There's likely some range that's close enough to hit goblins at but far enough away to not flee their post in terror.

Yea, anywhere from 250 squares, to about 20, 30, iirc. Butvits so innacurate it still borders on useless.

So seige weapons are currently crap?

Yes. It requires very careful design to make them remotely useable. I.e. a long, straight, narrow pathway to your fortress. If a 100 gobs are funnling through a 2 tiles wide tunnel then yes the siege weapons will probably kill a couple in the seconds it takes them to walk from where they enter to within sight of your siege dorfs.

IMO siege operation should be a military action and not a civilian action.

[cochramd]

There's likely some range that's close enough to hit goblins at but far enough away to not flee their post in terror.

Yea, anywhere from 250 squares, to about 20, 30, iirc. Butvits so innacurate it still borders on useless.

So seige weapons are currently crap?

Not if you use them on large, dense crowds of goblins and their friends.

[SimRobert2001]

There's likely some range that's close enough to hit goblins at but far enough away to not flee their post in terror.

Yea, anywhere from 250 squares, to about 20, 30, iirc. Butvits so innacurate it still borders on useless.

So seige weapons are currently crap?

Not if you use them on large, dense crowds of goblins and their friends.

Yea, but to get those types of groups, you have to plan it, or be lucky.

[Saiko Kila]

You can funnel the goblins through a maze of fortifications, or rather a zig-zagging path. Ballista arrows fly through it. But if you have military they are probably better used against more dangerous opponents, where you don't want your soldiers to face them.

[chesse20]

messed around with the properites of diorite, making it weapon grade and powerful as bronze, but then also causing to sublmate when mined/exposed to air, thus destroying 3/4 of my workshops instantly

[Random_Dragon]

...why, Solon. Why are you walking PAST the stone stockpile to go use stone that's several levels below it? Is it because your dwarven wine-addled brain looks at the mined-out section being a few levels below the workshop, ignoring just how long of a walk it is? :V

[snow dwarf]

Had a face palm just a second a go. Messed around tileset on my save with the best fortress I ever had and was about to get my first siege ever and boom... something went wrong and needed to delete dwarf fortress  SO SAD

[Ozarck]

ouch. Delete Dwarf Fortress? That's unpossible.

[snow dwarf]

ouch. Delete Dwarf Fortress? That's unpossible.

Well I did something to the game and everything went crazy and I couldn't repair it maybe the game was always crazy but I was playing it wrong.

[Random_Dragon]

And that is why I always back up my raw folder before I start modding. :V

[FortunaDraken]

Very minor facepalm, but was trying to build the majestic castle to guard my fort's entrance since I went straight down rather than into a mountain. Building the walls out of microline blocks, planning to make it so the second floor overhangs so nothing can climb it, so I don't need to roof it off and can build a statue garden outside to combat cave adaptation.

I wanted to make the floors that weren't microline white, so originally tried diorite, mixing it up with dolomite as I usually do. Diorite is the black-like colour on Spacefox graphics. Facepalm, shrug, tried gneiss. Light grey, acceptable.

Only notice that diorite and gneiss are NOT the same colour after building some floors. Facepalm. Time to designate a bunch of flooring to be ripped up...things must be UNIFORM.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

...things must be UNIFORM.

I once built a castle with mixed metal bars and color stones.

[Bumber]

...things must be UNIFORM.

I once built a castle with mixed metal bars and color stones.

A very large area (about 30x30) of my fort is made of slate and orthoclase. Said area is suspended near the top of the first cavern layer... and very poorly supported. A single cave-in could send the whole floor plummeting several z-levels.

[Random_Dragon]

A single cave-in could send the whole floor plummeting several z-levels.

Dooo iiiit.