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Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« on: February 22, 2011, 03:38:15 pm »
Given the rapid breeding rate of fowl, I've been thinking about adding the [TRAINABLE] tag to the Chicken raws and forming an army of War Chickens.

Would this work? Would it require a world regen, or would it work in an existing fort? Would they be useful for anything? The typical Dwarf has a beard that you could hide a Chicken in... could my Military Dwarves fire War Chickens out of their beards? How cool is THAT?

Fear! the ferocious fanatical fighting fowl of... my fort...

... led by their veteran Chicken Sargeant, Buck Bukaw (so named because of his blood-curdling battle-squawk, "Buc-Buc-Buk-BUKAW!")
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 03:41:37 pm »
It does not require a world regen, and I believe it could work. There's downsides, though. Chickens need to graze, or they'll starve, and assigning them to your millitia dorfs will do that. Then comes the fact that they're not very large, and ergo won't do much damage to invaders - they'll provide moving targets that'll distract them, though. And before you ask "chicken bomb?", caged chickens will also get hungry.

Stick with war dogs.
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 03:43:12 pm »
I have a war giraffe.  I think this is better than any other war animal even though it is probably useless.
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 04:35:43 pm »
Surely if you were modding in [TRAINABLE] you could remove the [NEEDSTOGRAZE] or whatever it's called?
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 04:37:14 pm »
Chickens are not grazers, they do not have the [GRAZER] tag, ergo they do not need to eat (yet).  However, they have a maximum size of 3000 at 2 years of age, so they will be pretty useless in combat, especially against armed intruders.  Still good for a laugh.

JMZ

EDIT: For reference, dogs have a max size of 30,000, 10 times the size of chickens.  They are ok, sometimes, against unarmored opponents.  Usually.
« Last Edit: February 22, 2011, 04:39:39 pm by JmzLost »
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2011, 04:48:02 pm »
Increase their size times a million.


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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2011, 05:05:12 pm »
Hunting Chickens.
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2011, 05:18:53 pm »
No... NO!


WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?



Memories...swarming back... ARGH, NO, I'M SORRY I HURT YOUR BROTHER, MY EYES! SO MANY CHICKENS! IT HURTS! (cookie (::) for ref)
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2011, 05:58:23 pm »
Quote from: Supercharazad on February 22, 2011, 05:18:53 pm
No... NO!


WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?



Memories...swarming back... ARGH, NO, I'M SORRY I HURT YOUR BROTHER, MY EYES! SO MANY CHICKENS! IT HURTS! (cookie (::) for ref)

Best use of the Master Sword: CUCKOO HUNTING
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Quote from: Girlinhat on February 20, 2011, 01:01:53 am
And when you build your fortress walls from the bones of skeletal elephants, slain my weapons forged from melted goblin plunder, fed on cattle that graze on grass that blinks.  Then, you will know dwarfdom.

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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2011, 06:14:28 pm »
can bees have the "war trainable" tag?

suddenly... war bees, thousands of them...
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2011, 06:17:59 pm »
I am going to copy the chicken entry and rename everything chocobo and make it 100x the size of a normal chicken and make it rideable.  Too bad our dwarves probably wont ride them. >_>
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2011, 06:45:34 pm »
Wait till we get ostriches (if we do), then make them rideable and war trainable.
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Re: Chickens + [TRAINABLE] = War Chickens?
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2011, 12:54:57 am »
Quote from: gtmattz on February 22, 2011, 06:17:59 pm
I am going to copy the chicken entry and rename everything chocobo and make it 100x the size of a normal chicken and make it rideable.  Too bad our dwarves probably wont ride them. >_>

Add the "carnivore" tag, "large predator", and "likes fighting", then call them velociraptors.  PET and MOUNT tags are also a must.

JMZ
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Quote from: Auto Slaughter on October 10, 2010, 11:58:53 pm
Also, obviously, magma avalanches and tsunamis weren't exactly a contingency covered in the mission briefing.
Quote from: DuckThatQuacks on September 29, 2010, 04:08:11 pm
I can assure you that Ardentdikes is not the first fortress to be flooded with magma. What's unusual is that we actually meant to flood it with magma.