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Drakeero

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Training Eagles
« on: October 17, 2010, 05:38:45 pm »
Can they only be trained into war versions or can you have hunting giant eagles?
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bungler

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2010, 05:46:34 pm »
OMFG that would be so cool!


Yes.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Animal_training

maybe with a mod...
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Drakeero

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2010, 06:09:01 pm »
Well, I remember reading about how the hunting animals are slightly faster [but do less damage] then the war versions.  One embark I had a bunch of war dogs that stayed and guarded the wagon and early outside stockpiles.  Kobold thieves would come, get detected the second they came across a dog, and would go fleeing for their lives.  The war dogs would actually have a lot of trouble catching up to them before they hit the map edge but if they did catch the kobold....

So I was thinking, use a mix of war dogs and hunting dogs so the faster dogs can run down those quick ones.

Then I thought.... instead of a hunting dog, why not have a horde of hunting giant eagles running their asses down?  I got what I need to start breeding the eagles :D
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bungler

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 06:57:56 pm »
Let us know if it work!
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Drakeero

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 07:49:15 pm »
I have both kinds of eagles.  Unfortunately they just follow the trainer around unless I chain them up which makes them useless for guard duty like I had intended.
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Shoku

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 11:25:55 pm »
What do pets and trained animals do when there's no path to their target dwarf?
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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 11:55:17 pm »
Change [PET_EXOTIC] to [PET].

???

Profit!
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Eskielidder

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 12:01:28 am »
on topic..

Yay eagles!

Now to the off topic part. Do war dogs breed?
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veok

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 12:43:02 am »
Yes. If it breeds before becoming a war animal, it breeds after becoming a war animal.
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Lormax

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Re: Training Eagles
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2010, 09:17:49 am »
Quote from: Eskielidder on October 18, 2010, 12:01:28 am
Do war dogs breed?

I read that and immediately thought of the "Does it blend" youtube videos...

The new DF version, "Does it breed?"
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