Hello all:
I've done a search on these boards to try and pinpoint this question, however, I have not found a topic that would apply to this particular situation (more specifically, this EXACT situation).
I'm running DF 2010 version 31.12, have around 133 dwarves, and I've finally encountered my first siege. I have a walled fort protecting my entrance that is 2 z-levels high with a walkway around it on the 2nd z level. I have a front gate with 2 towers on either side that are an additional 2 z-levels higher than the walls (4 z-levels from the ground, easily towering over the lower walls). The top layer of the towers have fortifications to allow my dwarves to fire through.
My plan was to use this elevated position to rain fire down on the goblins when they arrived with Marksdwarves.
Well... the siege occurs, I order my squad of 10 dwarves to the towers. They are armed with crossbows, bone bolts, steel armor, etc.
I close the drawbridge to the front gate to deny the goblins access. They stop 10-15 squares away from the front entrance of the fort... I notice that they are only armed with hammers.
Laughing to myself I say, "Heh... foolish greenskins... not bringing anything to shoot me with".
OK BOYS! Let er RIP!
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boys???
Ok, why aren't they shooting at the goblins? I select them all and select all the goblins with the "kill" command.
Still nothing.
Well, seeing that this wasn't working, I ordered them down to the gate entrance to face them in close combat. I lowered the bridge and they both charged and met each other in the middle.
I then lost every single dwarf I had. I don't even think that I killed a single goblin.
Aside from this strangeness... why didn't my dwarves fire from the rampart like I had planned? What did I do wrong? It's kinda important that I get this worked out since this was the entire point of my defenses on the map. If this doesn't work... well, then I don't really have a backup.
Any advice here would be appreciated.