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In the game, do you build a fortress under ground or a castle?

Castle living for me
- 5 (8.9%)
A bit of all 3
- 20 (35.7%)
Depends on the situation
- 9 (16.1%)
I'm an underground dweller!
- 21 (37.5%)
City-like structure
- 1 (1.8%)

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Megaman

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Underground fortress or Castle?
« on: July 10, 2009, 10:08:27 pm »
Do you live in A castle, or a fortress, or a City? and why? I build in a castle because my human sence of development tells me to :D.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2009, 10:25:49 pm »
Generally i start underground, to start off fast and get fortifications up, then i begin building above ground in later years to help with immigration, and larger sieges
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 10:26:33 pm »
A bizarre hybrid of castle and underground fortress. With an occasional pure version of any of the three.

Also, I built a tree city once. Which is to say, an airborne city supported by an obscenely large constructed tower.
Made of wood.
Surprisingly, the elves still loved me.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 10:27:04 pm »
castles- the humans would be proud...
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2009, 10:29:06 pm »
I built a Dwarven Castle.

By which I mean, it's a castle, but it considers mountainsides as a terrain feature. Basically, it's built half-into the mountainside, with a tall tower reaching up to the main bailey which is on a higher Z-level, and the even more main fortress, which is higher still, with flying bridges all around...

I oughta look at it in 3Dwarf.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2009, 10:30:04 pm »
Quote from: Megaman on July 10, 2009, 10:27:04 pm
castles- the humans would be proud...

You mean jealous - our castles are better than their's.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2009, 10:31:45 pm »
Quote from: RavingManiac on July 10, 2009, 10:30:04 pm
Quote from: Megaman on July 10, 2009, 10:27:04 pm
castles- the humans would be proud...

You mean jealous - our castles are better than their's.
I really hate advertising this now because it is looking like an one-trick pony for me. Buuuuut...
 Humans do it best.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2009, 10:35:51 pm »
remember in-game humans are the ones who have enough spare recources to build towns out of wood recources that in most of my games would deplete the wood recourse for 3 years, and in all that time make luxorious castles.(even though I already chop down all the trees and start a raging war with the elves eventually)
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2009, 10:43:49 pm »
Quote from: Megaman on July 10, 2009, 10:35:51 pm
remember in-game humans are the ones who have enough spare recources to build towns out of wood recources that in most of my games would deplete the wood recourse for 3 years, and in all that time make luxorious castles.

Where do the humans get their stone, anyway?
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2009, 10:46:53 pm »
buy it from the dwarves, of course!. Oh and make mines in caves adventurures clear of monsters.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2009, 10:47:21 pm »
Underground.

When the immigrants arrive, they see a tiny hole in the ground with a massive moat of magma around it.
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2009, 10:51:15 pm »
wow, the first hermit
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2009, 10:53:43 pm »
It usually depends on the situation, and what it would call for.

Like my previous, more successful, fort: Mostly underground, partly above (mostly farmland and barracks/archery range/outpost and tree farms); though lacking in HFS and magma. If anything, it was more of a fractal-fort with plenty of inspirations strewn about. But in most cases, underground due to the ability to make some epic dining rooms easy.

As for access to some fun stuff, hidden or not, it also depends, am I going to Rube it up with some Goldberg action, and unleash Hell as a self-defense measure; or utilize a "fuck the world" lever that burns my enemies and let's Hell loose as it coats the land in a delicious shell of obsidian (magma burns a wooden door keeping them inside)? And to make things more interesting, have a bridgeapult to launch them (magma-enhanced HFS) into the seiges?

Hmm... choices, choices....
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2009, 11:08:51 pm »
Actually, I found castles to be of a 'everything that involves your dwarves but war, getting food, and chopping trees(until you come to your sences and farm TC) is inside
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Re: Underground fortress or Castle?
« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2009, 02:20:03 am »
How about channeling 10 or so levels underground clear, and building a castle in this underground cave?
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