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[tp12]

i read that ballistas and catapults could fire up and down z-levels...is there a conclusive answer on that one?

Yes there is, it's (unfortunatly) no they do not.

[zooeyglass]

thank you and damn. poor urist mcballistamaniac is fairly useless now...

[Albedo]

pfft - not at all.  Just requires some forethought, to create a good killing field.  You can do that.

[tp12]

also, watching goblins/elves/nobles scatter themselves backwards over a wide area is really fun to watch.

[Time Kitten]

Several notes from my experience.

Raising the fortifications up just prevents goblins from being adjacent... actually, keeps them a step away and a step down, which is like two spaces, giving a more than minimal fortifications advantage.  So, a line of vertical grates or bars or a channel would do the same thing in front of your fortifications.

Next, it seems that fortifications don't block bolts or arrows, but make for a harder to hit roll against whatever is on the other side, and since siege weapons don't discriminate by target, just smashing whatever happens to be in front, they are unaffected.

It seems siege ammo does descend Z levels, but only as it falls naturally.  So if you have a wide field of fire to cover at a specific it may be feasible to use it as such, without your operateers ever getting a line of sight, though I've not tested any of those principles.