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[Martin]

Like giving them weapons?

Doesn't matter - when it's 20 on 1, there's always an orc occupying the same tile as Morul, and in that situation they don't use the weapon they have equipped.

I need to mod *Morul* to not wrestle.

[Slogo]

Why not try to make some sort of setup where you can divide off the orcs and let him fight vs smaller numbers at a time to increase his use of weapons?

[Shakma]

I wouldn't think you'd have any problems.  Skilled guys seem to level really fast in new weapons just sparring against other skilled champions.

[Derakon]

Slogo: that's what I suggested earlier. Split up the entry into a bunch of small cells that you can individually open and close, and you should be able to cut down the number of enemies in any particular melee.

[HungryHobo]

Is it possible to mod the orc to have no arms or legs but be huge, slow and hard to hurt?
That way morul can stand beating on them for ages before they die and they won't be able to grab him.

[Sensei]

That's coming once all the *possible* skills have been taken.

[Martin]

Is it possible to mod the orc to have no arms or legs but be huge, slow and hard to hurt?
That way morul can stand beating on them for ages before they die and they won't be able to grab him.

Can't remove body parts without a regen. Morul already beats on them until he's on the brink of unconsciousness (I keep upgrading the orc size/damblock). I'll start on the cells once the moat is done (timing is a bit important lest the magma start melting dwarves... again).

[crash2455]

Morul still needs to train a little more to beat the Captain

[Martin]

Morul still needs to train a little more to beat the Captain

He's on it.

[Slogo]

You can change speed without a regen I'm pretty sure. You could mod the orcs to be super super incredibly slow and they'd be unable to occupy the same spot as Morul as easily as they do now.

[Martin]

You can change speed without a regen I'm pretty sure. You could mod the orcs to be super super incredibly slow and they'd be unable to occupy the same spot as Morul as easily as they do now.

Hmm, let me experiment with that. Incredibly slow, size 50 orcs might actually work.

[Martin]

While waiting for giant, lumbering orcs to arrive, Morul picked up another attribute, so I thought I'd take a peek.

The last two snapshots were pre/post sieges and the tantrum spiral:

Autumn 244, he had the following stats:

1,549,133 xp
42 wrestler
40 shield
26 armor
24 str, 25 agi, 26 tough

At the end of the year (Autumn 245), he was at:

1,586,001 xp
44 wrestler
43 shield
29 armor
24 str, 25 agi, 27 tough

That was 3 sieges (1 little human one) of experience.

In Spring 247, he's now at

1,617,297 xp
45 wrestler
44 shield
30 armor
25 str, 25 agi, 27 tough

No sieges in that time, just sparring and hanging around. Definitely a slower xp rate, and he did pick up one level of wrestler/shield/armor (he was sparring wrestling for a bit during the weapon changeover from hammer to axe). But for overall skilling the fortress definitely need to get the orcs back on a regular schedule.

[Martin]

Based on Slogo's suggestion, I modified the Orcs in an attempt to be better skilling opponents. I reduced their speed to 1% of default (should only affect movement rate, not agility) in an attempt to keep them from just piling on Morul and forcing him to wrestle. To balance this, I increased Orc size to 50 (I had it upgraded to 9) and kept damblock at 7 (which is up from 3 or 4 by default). They have steel armor/weapons.

Morul has his usual armor and a no-quality silver battle axe.

Here's a movie of the result.

Sorry I haven't done movies before now - I've never had good luck in the past with them, but this went well so I'll do more of them. Anyway, Morul just cut through them like nothing (although he is puking the whole time from the sun ). He did that with 2 squads before this one. His skill only went up from competent to skilled, so it's still not enough of an improvement. I'm going to increase damblock to 50 as well and see what that does with the next siege.

[Christes]

Puking on the orcs while slaughtering them?  Wow.

[ChazzyBurger]

Hey Martin, I made a fortress the other day on the Dwarf Heaven site

It was called "MorulTost" one letter off "MorulToast"

Even the very ground that Morul walks Toasts to his name!