Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[ThrowerOfStones]

Is when they arrive a day before the caravan was supposed to come!

The in-game justification, my understanding is, that they arrive near the caravan in order to threaten it/destroy it/rob it, but when they arrive the day before, they prevent it arriving at all!

Arriving the day after, whatever, as long as you have a protected entrance to your fortress you can deal with them and the caravan will be safe.

But the day before, you don't even get a chance to, because the Caravan never even arrives.

It'd be nice if it'd arrive a few days late or something.

Anyways, I'm playing Fortress Defense mod, so I'm getting at least one siege a season, usually 2-3. Otherwise this is admittedly a fairly minor issue, maybe occuring once every few years at most.

[Urist Imiknorris]

That's only a problem because you don't kill them fast enough.

[Dutchling]

Does it really matter if you kill the merchants yourself or if the gobbo's do it?

[ThrowerOfStones]

That's only a problem because you don't kill them fast enough.

Sometimes they arrive so close to the Caravan time you can't kill them fast enough. Not unless you have the entire border of your map lined with magma cannons.

[mimmfantry]

That's only a problem because you don't kill them fast enough.

Sometimes they arrive so close to the Caravan time you can't kill them fast enough. Not unless you have the entire border of your map lined with magma cannons.

Why would you not want to do this?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Or a map-edge cave-in trap.

[Urist Da Vinci]

That's only a problem because you don't kill them fast enough.

Sometimes they arrive so close to the Caravan time you can't kill them fast enough. Not unless you have the entire border of your map lined with magma cannons.

Why would you not want to do this?

I've actually done that: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-10096-flamegate

[Naryar]

You want to remove sieges ? Wall off your map.

Or make a mega drawbridge trap all allong the map's edges, so you can squish any gobbo ambush that appears in your map.

[ThrowerOfStones]

You want to remove sieges ? Wall off your map.

Or make a mega drawbridge trap all allong the map's edges, so you can squish any gobbo ambush that appears in your map.

I don't want to remove them, else I wouldn't have installed Fortress Defense. I mostly just wished they'd be a bit more polite when choosing their arrival time :-).

I've currently only fought enemies as hard as Furies and Tigermen. I'm a bit afraid of the next stage up, as a siege of fifty or so Tigermen proved a pretty significant challenge. Admittedly, only 5 dwarves died, but 3 of them were legendary warriors, normally largely untouchable.

[Hyndis]

You want to remove sieges ? Wall off your map.

Or make a mega drawbridge trap all allong the map's edges, so you can squish any gobbo ambush that appears in your map.

This. And it works too!

If there is only a single place on the entire map that can be entered, everything will enter there. All caravans, diplomats, megabeasts, and sieges will enter from there.

This means you can park your entire military at that spot.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Or you can cover that path with drawbridges.

[dirty foot]

I've never had a siege that ended before.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You kill them all, then the siege ends.

[dirty foot]

You kill them all, then the siege ends.

Then I had a siege that lasted well over 7 years.

I think I killed about 300+ goblins in my most recent fortress. It's honestly kind of stupid how long sieges last if this is the norm.

[ThrowerOfStones]

You kill them all, then the siege ends.

Then I had a siege that lasted well over 7 years.

I think I killed about 300+ goblins in my most recent fortress. It's honestly kind of stupid how long sieges last if this is the norm.

That's not the norm.