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[rhavynn]

Hi there.  I was playing the other day, and wanted to see if there was any way to make dwarves faster.  Flashback to many moons ago when I last read some dragonlance books, and the tinker-gnomes.  Who use catapults as a rapid-transit system.  Even if it's a one way trip, I would _love_ to see dwarves as a valid ammunition for siege weaponry... 

PS  Love the game, keep up the good work!

[varkarrus]

Dwarven CHILDREN would make good ammunition during a seige. Absolutely dwarven!

[praguepride]

Animals would be nice

On a humorous side, you could recreate your favorite scenes from Monty Python.

On a practical side, catsplosions would = more ammo!

[Luke_Prowler]

Launch your squads into the goblin army!

[Volfram]

Don't we already have these?

Not that I've played around much with flinging stuff with bridges.

[Argonnek]

Yay! Another fan of Dragonlance!
On topic: Bridge flinging is possible, but will usually end with injured dwarves going to sleep for three years and complaining about the lack of booze. Or drowning in my moat, depending on wether or not they jump off of the bridge when it goes up

[Pilsu]

Then reality kicks in and you realize that dwarves would die just about every time they're launched, either from the landing or by getting mauled by enemies while they're stunned

Silly idea really

[BurnedToast]

Don't we already have these?

Not that I've played around much with flinging stuff with bridges.

Bridge fling is incredibly unreliable and unimpressive, unfortunately.

[Volfram]

Don't we already have these?

Not that I've played around much with flinging stuff with bridges.

Bridge fling is incredibly unreliable, fortunately, and unimpressive, unfortunately.

fixed.

[Goran]

NO ONE TOSSES A DWARF.

Now, what I would like to see, and what would add use to power in forts would be conveyor belts, moving sidewalks and escalators for faster movement of dwarves and goods.

[charl]

Firing disease-ridden animals and corpses was a common practice during sieges in medieval times. I don't think they ever threw actual people, but the ability to use dead and living creatures as ammo would be really nice.

[alway]

They did throw people, but only after they died (usually of disease). This is expected to be one of the ways the black death was spread to Europeans. There was a seige between (Mongols was it?) and some European troops. The seigers were suffering from disease, and their encampment was being ravaged by it. They used trebuchets to throw their dead over the walls of the beseiged town, spreading the disease to those inside. When the seige ended and the troops returned home to Europe via boats, they infected ports along the way, thus spreading the plague across Europe.

[Neonivek]

I remember reading that they sometimes threw living people who were prisoners or something.

Hmmmm.

[chucks]

They did throw people, but only after they died (usually of disease). This is expected to be one of the ways the black death was spread to Europeans. There was a seige between (Mongols was it?) and some European troops. The seigers were suffering from disease, and their encampment was being ravaged by it. They used trebuchets to throw their dead over the walls of the beseiged town, spreading the disease to those inside. When the seige ended and the troops returned home to Europe via boats, they infected ports along the way, thus spreading the plague across Europe.

There was also that never bathing and throwing chamberpots into the streets thing, too.

[charl]

They did throw people, but only after they died (usually of disease). This is expected to be one of the ways the black death was spread to Europeans. There was a seige between (Mongols was it?) and some European troops. The seigers were suffering from disease, and their encampment was being ravaged by it. They used trebuchets to throw their dead over the walls of the beseiged town, spreading the disease to those inside. When the seige ended and the troops returned home to Europe via boats, they infected ports along the way, thus spreading the plague across Europe.

There was also that never bathing and throwing chamberpots into the streets thing, too.

Plus that they never realizes the disease was spread by fleas living on rats, and so they didn't even try to cull the massive rat populations that was everywhere.