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[Angry Bob]

We know that sometimes, we get Forgotten Beasts with blood that makes Urist McUnlucky's eyes asplode. I know that it's been exploited, in conjunction with the current contaminant behavior, to create fields of poison in front of your fort that attackers (or merchants, whatever) wander through. What if, after killing said forgotten beast, you dumped some of your ammo in a pool of its entertainingly poisonous blood and assigned that ammo to a marksdorf squad or your hunters?

Worst case scenario, the poison does nothing.

Best case scenario, you have a squad of dwarves that have been affected by the poison coating on their ammo shooting at enemies that will then be affected by the poisonous coating on their ammo. So, eyeless marksdwarves shooting at a squad of soon-to-be eyeless gobbos. Not saying it has to be eye asploding venom. Any venom usable this way would do.

Has anyone done anything like this before?

Has it worked?

Since the appropriate forgotten beasts are few and far between, I'd like to politely request that anyone who reads this try to do it and post results. I've yet to encounter an appropriate FB, and the HFS works too quickly for me to properly exploit.

[Akura]

Worst case scenario, the poison does nothing.

Wouldn't worst case be your nobles going to move the blood-soaked ammo and getting afflicted with eye-asplosionitis.

No wait, that would be the best case scenario.

[eclipsetail]

Urist McNoble cancels carry ammo: eyes have exploded.

[Epacsten]

You can use a venom covered corpse as an improvised weapon in adventure mode without getting it on yourself, but crossbow bolts don't seem to work that way.

[shadowclasper]

It'll probably be a while until we get to use the alchemist shop to poison weapons and mix antidotes =P

[Angry Bob]

No, the point is not waiting for poisoning at the alchemist's shop, but to improvise a poison applicator now. And if you get a squad of Plague Marine-esque marksdwarves out of it, so much the better.

[eclipsetail]

Would this work for fire as well?

I think it would be fun to shoot flaming arrows.

[assimilateur]

Wouldn't worst case be your nobles going to move the blood-soaked ammo and getting afflicted with eye-asplosionitis.

If we disregard game mechanics (like the fact that nobles do no work other than pulling levers), we can do all sorts of crazy shit!

[Angry Bob]

Would this work for fire as well?

I think it would be fun to shoot flaming arrows.

I don't know. That why I want help. See how people go about it. Here's what I'm doing:

If an appropirate FB shows up, kill it, if possible. It's not exactly something you can design a fort around doing, because you've no guarantee of the proper beast showing up. Quarantine anyone who steps in the poisonous blood(burrows in the bottom of some mine shaft I'll never use again), restrict areas to prevent more contamination, and then make a dump zone in the pool of blood. What I believe will happen is the guys who dump it will get poisoned, whatever, I've got another wave of migrants next spring. Then, you've got to get your marksdorfs to carry them. What I expect will happen here is that if it's a horrific enough venom, they'll never see combat, since they'll just go to rest after handling the tainted ammo. Is there any way to circumvent this?