Also, I never realised bolts did so little damage. I mean, I knew they did "little" damage, but not that little.
Bolts aren't actually that bad. It's blowdarts that suck. Bolts are actually reasonably lucky to damage a treant, while darts have very little chance of it.
I did it again.
I meant darts.
I noticed
It's funny how used to talking about bolts when we're speaking of players' marksmen. I bet that that'll start to change in the next version, since supposedly we're going to be able to use bows and blowguns as dwarves, but it'll probbaly take a while to break the habit.
Also, on the context of cats, cats cant use shields, and their weapons are less effective than normal weapons. But, dragons breath fire...so......but they also bleed and other bad stuff, so eh. - Could be wrong on this, never actually fought a megabeast, I usually get bored before it happens.
Yeah, cat's suck as warriors, which is why I've been reliant on architecture and markscats for defense so far. In another cat fort I had, though, I had 4 multi-legendary champions who could take out many times their number of goblins, though, and a goblin squad is typically somewhat more dangerous than the average vanilla megabeast, so I figure that those kitties at least could probably solo a megabeast. Then again, they had full layered masterwork steel cat chain+plate and masterwork or artifact steel weapons, as well as being legendary or higher in every military skill, so they had superb stats and were stupidly durable.
Also, treants dont have trapvoid, so if you get enough cage traps, you could just capture them all in the first siege or two.
I've actually dealt with a treant siege now. The siege spawned when a bunch of my cats were on the mountaintops, but treants are so slow that everybody got inside safely. Then, I just started my spikes repeating and as the treants came up they got stuff broken or mangled, then slowly died. It probably took a half-dozen hits to down them, but since I was hitting every single one of them simultaneously, it wasn't very hard to kill them. And at the end, I cancelled the spike lever and dispatched the last treant with my markscats. It only took a couple hundred darts!