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[Urist McPlayer]

How do I kill those hippies?

[petersohn]

Create an alternate route to your fortress, that has a deathtrap included. When the elves come, lock your main entrance so they will chose the alternate route. Lock them in the corridor, then flood the whole thing with water/magma. Alternatively, retract the drawbridge they are standing on so they will fall 15 z-levels into their dooms.

[Urist McPlayer]

Create an alternate route to your fortress, that has a deathtrap included. When the elves come, lock your main entrance so they will chose the alternate route. Lock them in the corridor, then flood the whole thing with water/magma. Alternatively, retract the drawbridge they are standing on so they will fall 15 z-levels into their dooms.

So there's no way to directly send my troops to attack?

[puke]

nope.  but if you keep killing them in death traps, you'll eventually prevoke them into sending ambush parties.

[Derakon]

From what I've heard, killing caravans will never turn the elves hostile. You have to kill their liaison, who only shows up once your population is high enough.

I know that the humans besieged me very shortly after their liaison died on my map (to the orcs, of course).

[Quietust]

If you kill/seize enough caravans, the elves will eventually send ambushes.

[assimilateur]

You have to kill their liaison, who only shows up once your population is high enough.

Any info on how high this population requirement is (and if/how it can be changed)? The fact that I only remember having seen an elven liaison once or twice leads me to believe that it must be either pretty high, or not the only requirement.

[Jim Groovester]

I think he means the elven diplomat, who arrives the spring after your baron arrives. He's the guy you gotta kill to piss the elves off.

[mal7690]

I just set up a multi-purpose trade/killing room.  Then when the liaison is meeting with my broker, I fill the room with water and wait a month.  Those hippies can hold their breath for a long time...

[N3X15]

Drop kittens on them from a tall tower.  While they're reeling from the barrage, slam the floodgates closed and flood them.

KEEP IN MIND THAT ELVES CAN SOMEWHAT SWIM

[Comrade]

Or drop the kittens from 40 stories onto the floor and don't clean up after...

[JamPet]

Heh, three years straight now the elven caravan has showed up on the edge of my map and bumbled into a set of goblin ambushes.  Thats how I been doin' it!

[shadowsofwhite]

I always build a watertight room with a water tower above my trade depot. The elves come in, I flood it, and their dead before the next human/dwarven caravan arrives! Lots of stuff to sell! Lots of cheap booze that they drop, too.

[Crowbar]

I always build a watertight room with a water tower above my trade depot. The elves come in, I flood it, and their dead before the next human/dwarven caravan arrives! Lots of stuff to sell! Lots of cheap booze that they drop, too.

I tried that, and it works quite well, as long as you make plans to drain the depot before you flood it.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Drowning chamber with your Trade Depot in it.

Bonus if it's the only entrance to your fort.