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Wraithsight

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Training Sneek
« on: January 04, 2011, 08:42:23 pm »
Ok 2 real quick questions. I just got this picture in my head of Dwarves in full plate sneeking around my map. So:

1) Will a Dwarf in the millitary sneek? I know Hunters will but just wondering if anyone has seen a millitary dwarf tip-toing about.

2) Short of modding in something, can I train this skill en masse? I dont particually want to make heeps of hunters as I have a Giant Eagle flappen about Im going to catch (one way or another) and dont want to die, but other then that just Slugmen and Snailmen, which I cant eat (clearly I need to introduce my Dwarves to the French) and really have no beef with so dont wanna massacre.
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Re: Training Sneek
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 09:32:15 pm »
Quote from: Wraithsight on January 04, 2011, 08:42:23 pm
Ok 2 real quick questions. I just got this picture in my head of Dwarves in full plate sneeking around my map. So:

1) Will a Dwarf in the millitary sneek? I know Hunters will but just wondering if anyone has seen a millitary dwarf tip-toing about.

2) Short of modding in something, can I train this skill en masse? I dont particually want to make heeps of hunters as I have a Giant Eagle flappen about Im going to catch (one way or another) and dont want to die, but other then that just Slugmen and Snailmen, which I cant eat (clearly I need to introduce my Dwarves to the French) and really have no beef with so dont wanna massacre.

1) I believe so. I once assigned my hunters to military as marksdwarves they walked right up to the goblins before shooting. Though this mightve been because of all the trees

2) Other than having a load of hunters i dont think so 
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Re: Training Sneek
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 09:45:08 pm »
You could make a workshop that trains ambushing if you know how. Deon did it, but with other combat skills.
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Re: Training Sneek
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 11:09:20 pm »
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on January 04, 2011, 09:45:08 pm
You could make a workshop that trains ambushing if you know how. Deon did it, but with other combat skills.
You can mod the dwarves to all have legendary +5 in sneaking to begin with. Why settle for some cheap tricks if you can do the cheapest ways?
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Re: Training Sneek
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2011, 02:01:13 am »
Cos it's not necessarily a cheap trick so much as adding a mechanic (depending on how fast it grows)

Hacking in legenday ambusher is flat out cheating
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Re: Training Sneek
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2011, 02:13:29 am »
Quote from: mrbaggins on January 05, 2011, 02:01:13 am
Cos it's not necessarily a cheap trick so much as adding a mechanic (depending on how fast it grows)

Hacking in legenday ambusher is flat out cheating
If you stop playing IM for a moment (cause traditional danger room is not possible there) you'd find the answer being "ridiculously fast." Danger room will net everyone legendary +5 in all relevant skills in less then a year while live combat training takes 3 years or so to feed ONE dorf to get there and usually only in a few skills at that.

As for ambush, I dont have much actual experience with it to comment. I have always been using military for hunting...
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