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[nowanmai]

Hi! First time poster, long time lurker.
Well, I was playing the orcs mod from the mod section.
First got owned in a way that was fixable - i put [can speak] in before the worldgen, so that made 'em come to my fort as traders. At first I was shocked - WTF, an orcish caravan??  Tried to seize all goods they had a couple of times. They didn't go hostile.
Now, today, on my second fort with the mod I genned a world with [can speak] off. And wasn't prepared. Damnit! Now it's lost and gone. Sure I could just reclaim the fort, but that's no fun for me. And, btw, I was kinda prepared, just missed one slope around my mountain and moat and all of sudden, I get a siege. I post my bravest (and only) 6 wrestling champions. And ta-da. They'e dead. Sure, the traps killed most of the orcs, but then came some other messages about olmmen killing a dwarf. Since the moat comes out of a UG river, I didn't already find the threat, but when I found, then all was clear - there is no salvation for the fort. FSCK! 
But it was fun anyway! 

[ungulateman]

Watch'oo got aginst do Orkzes?

In DF, they are Orcs. Standard, Tolkienesque brown / black Orcs. Not the bright green krumpin' partiers from WHFB / 40K.

Or are they? *Twilight Zone theme*

[smjjames]

Actually they seem a bit more towards the big green warrior brutes of WoW.

[100killer9]

I thought orcs had [trAPAVOID].

[Canadark]

I thought orcs had [trAPAVOID].

The orcs in dig deeper do.

[100killer9]

I thought orcs had [trAPAVOID].

The orcs in dig deeper do.

Oh, poo. I'll have to make fairly complex drowning chambers and labrynths instead of traps now.

[Loyal]

I get rid of TRAPAVOID. It really makes no sense that the brutish, lumbering powerhouses are lithe enough to evade them.

[nowanmai]

"I get rid of TRAPAVOID. It really makes no sense that the brutish, lumbering powerhouses are lithe enough to evade them."
This is what I did as well. To no avail though as stated in the first post.

[Beanchubbs]

For the first few years, or until I get 3 champions with slashing weapons, I just turtle, draw them in, and then shoot them. It's not very much fun, but it's the only way to live.

[nowanmai]

To be honest for than a year that i've been playing DF, i have never used marksdwarves. Not a single time. I just like it that way. Makes it more challanging. But with to orc mod, i'm starting to change my mind. The orcs are just too damn tough to just beat with wrestlers.
And in this last fort the magma metalsmithing operation was just about to start when these bastards came and f*cked the whole thing up. 
Had fun anyway.

Edit:

Damn should've placed it in the facepalm thread I guess.

[xdarkcodex]

I get rid of trapavoid tag on all races.

[Cypress]

Hmmm...off topic, maybe, but I just had a thought. Someone should totally make an Ork mod for Dwarf Fortress. Not orcs, but Orks. Sentient mushrooms that grow in your map, popping out of the ground to attack your fortress. They go faster when covered in blood, because as we all know, the red onez go fasta.
It would be funny, until they got into your garden. Then it would be hilarious

[nowanmai]

Hmmm...off topic, maybe, but I just had a thought. Someone should totally make an Ork mod for Dwarf Fortress. Not orcs, but Orks. Sentient mushrooms that grow in your map, popping out of the ground to attack your fortress. They go faster when covered in blood, because as we all know, the red onez go fasta.
It would be funny, until they got into your garden. Then it would be hilarious

Not quite sure what you mean by Orks? And what is has to do with 'shrooms?? 

[Ieb]

To sum it up fast:
Ork's are from Warhammer 40k. They're green, mean and every single one of them is a killing machine.

They also spread by spores, which they release when they fight, and when they die. Both of these are rather common states of being for an ork. End result, one ork invasion leads to ensured ork attacks decades later, unless the "breeding grounds" are burned.

[Cypress]

To sum it up fast:
Ork's are from Warhammer 40k. They're green, mean and every single one of them is a killing machine.

They also spread by spores, which they release when they fight, and when they die. Both of these are rather common states of being for an ork. End result, one ork invasion leads to ensured ork attacks decades later, unless the "breeding grounds" are burned.

More specifically, Games Workshop retcon'ed orks, saying that they not only spread by spores, but are, in fact, giant fungi that walk and talk and crush an' loot.