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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2010, 04:33:07 pm »

Polar Bears work well too!

Yeah, I do the "why is the roof opening oh god oh god" thing with hordes of grizzly bears.
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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2010, 04:47:22 pm »

i miss my old forts head punching off war gorilla...  :-[
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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2010, 05:48:44 pm »

Well, my horde of 65 war dogs fended off a couple goblin ambushes well enough. Seven dogs even survived!
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« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2010, 06:30:01 pm »

I suppose that by themselves they may suck, but throw a few in with a squad and they provide cheap cannon fodder? Y'know, give the voracious cave crawlers something to chew the heads off of that isn't dwarves.
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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2010, 06:52:50 pm »

I give them to good soldiers, that way whoever the soldier is fighting is also trying to attack a load of dogs & their puppies.
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« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2010, 06:54:27 pm »

I give them to good soldiers, that way whoever the soldier is fighting is also trying to attack a load of dogs & their puppies.
  If you assign a war dog to a soldier, doesn't that soldier now consider that dog a pet and subsequently get a bad thought when it dies?
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« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2010, 07:03:55 pm »

I give them to good soldiers, that way whoever the soldier is fighting is also trying to attack a load of dogs & their puppies.
  If you assign a war dog to a soldier, doesn't that soldier now consider that dog a pet and subsequently get a bad thought when it dies?

Tbh in my fortress they're getting enough bad thoughts from everyone getting slaughtered I don't notice :)
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« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2010, 07:26:35 pm »

Grizzly bears are notably strong, even vs armor.  Unfortunately I don't have any in my current fort....
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« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2010, 08:41:37 pm »

Wonder if we can edit and make War Fluffy Wamblers, destroyers of Bronze Colossus.
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« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2010, 08:50:22 pm »

Fluffy Wamblers are vermin, I think, so no.
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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2010, 09:21:52 pm »

Make giant wamblers then.

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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2010, 09:45:05 pm »

Make giant wamblers then.

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Giant Wamblers which are 1/2 the size of a kobold cutebold.  xD
Allow them to learn and give them a projectile attack which launches Fluffy Wamblers (if possible.)  Make them native to savage good areas.
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Re: War dogs suck
« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2010, 12:08:08 am »

Grizzly bears are notably strong, even vs armor.  Unfortunately I don't have any in my current fort....
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« Reply #28 on: November 22, 2010, 02:19:05 am »

War elephants suck. I ended up training like 20 of them, and then I unleashed them upon a squad of goblin lashers and the elephants were pretty much decimated without killing a single one.
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« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2010, 03:36:10 am »

Make giant wamblers then.

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