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Best. Migrant. Wave. Ever!
« on: June 09, 2011, 07:02:57 am »

I'm doing a LP over at the Freakin' Awesome Network forums and got a small but kickass migrant wave.






How good is this dwarf? He made a masterpiece simple meal with some seeds and some tallow. That's how goddamn good of a cook he is.




Eh, they can't all be winners.


Also, what does Military Tactics do? Is it actually useful?

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2011, 07:09:05 am »

what's actually wrong with it? high master cook is just awesome, woodcutter brings his own axe which is very usefull in early game, doctor is good and the fourth, well yeah he's useless unless you work wax.
It's not clear what does military tactics do, but it's safe to assume its effect is negligible
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Re: Best. Migrant. Wave. Ever!
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2011, 07:11:03 am »

what's actually wrong with it? high master cook is just awesome, woodcutter brings his own axe which is very usefull in early game, doctor is good and the fourth, well yeah he's useless unless you work wax.
It's not clear what does military tactics do, but it's safe to assume its effect is negligible

That's what is wrong with it. Without a beekeeper and/or wax, he's pretty much a warm body to just haul or get killed by goblins.

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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2011, 07:15:18 am »

Yeah some useful early game dwarves there.  My personal favorites are the ones with an entire branch of labour.  The ones with all farming/crafts at competant or whatever.

I even once got a metalworker with the entire tree at proficient, h'es a year or two away from his last legendary now :)
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Re: Best. Migrant. Wave. Ever!
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2011, 08:35:21 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2011, 08:38:16 am »

you don't just go and mince those quarry bush leaves as easily as an unsuspecting cucumber!
No, you have to sneak carefully and silently and never let your blade cast a glare before you strike!
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2011, 08:53:53 am »

He's a ninja cook.  Your haulers bring food into the apparently-empty kitchen, turn away for a moment to pick up some refuse and when they turn back, there is a masterwork roast sitting on the table and the kitchen still looks empty.
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Re: Best. Migrant. Wave. Ever!
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2011, 09:05:33 am »

I'd argue that 4th dwarf is the 2nd best dwarf you got in that wave because of Judge of Intent - he should be your broker. If you do fishing at all, then ok the 1st dwarf is darn good too but only for that. The woodcutter's sole value was in bringing an axe. The ninja cook is truly awesome.

Military Tactics is a worldgen-only skill and even there it isn't actually used yet. It's a long-term footnote to make battles more interesting than two sides lining up for a long series of 1v1 duels.

Best migrants... from my forts, I've had a couple high master armorsmiths arrive and there was that one expert dodger/observer who showed up.
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« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2011, 09:47:46 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...

Currently imagining the worlds greatest cooking show...
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« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2011, 10:21:24 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...

Currently imagining the worlds greatest cooking show...

YOU CALL THAT A PLUMP HELMET TOAST? ITS PURE GARBAGE. HEY YOU THERE. WITH WHAT YOU'RE COOKING THE FORGOTTEN BEAST MEAT? DWARVEN SYRUP? GOOD JOB. IT FITS FINE. WAT? YOU GAVE ME A SHITTY PIECE OF QUALITY? GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT.
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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2011, 10:29:51 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...

Currently imagining the worlds greatest cooking show...

YOU CALL THAT A PLUMP HELMET TOAST? ITS PURE GARBAGE. HEY YOU THERE. WITH WHAT YOU'RE COOKING THE FORGOTTEN BEAST MEAT? DWARVEN SYRUP? GOOD JOB. IT FITS FINE. WAT? YOU GAVE ME A SHITTY PIECE OF QUALITY? GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT.

So Gordon Ramsey except that he personally hunts down, murders his ingredients and turns their flesh into armour?

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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2011, 10:37:38 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...

Currently imagining the worlds greatest cooking show...

YOU CALL THAT A PLUMP HELMET TOAST? ITS PURE GARBAGE. HEY YOU THERE. WITH WHAT YOU'RE COOKING THE FORGOTTEN BEAST MEAT? DWARVEN SYRUP? GOOD JOB. IT FITS FINE. WAT? YOU GAVE ME A SHITTY PIECE OF QUALITY? GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT.

So Gordon Ramsey except that he personally hunts down, murders his ingredients and turns their flesh into armour?

More like socks, hats and aprons so he can use it as personal fashion.

AND WHAT IS THIS? OH MY GOD ITS POISON WHERE IS THE MAGMA.
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Re: Best. Migrant. Wave. Ever!
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2011, 10:38:19 am »

Looking at the cook... He's an expert ambusher. Because of that, I got a mental image of a dwarf with a knife between his teeth hiding in a bush wearing a chefs hat...

Currently imagining the worlds greatest cooking show...

YOU CALL THAT A PLUMP HELMET TOAST? ITS PURE GARBAGE. HEY YOU THERE. WITH WHAT YOU'RE COOKING THE FORGOTTEN BEAST MEAT? DWARVEN SYRUP? GOOD JOB. IT FITS FINE. WAT? YOU GAVE ME A SHITTY PIECE OF QUALITY? GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT.

So Gordon Ramsey except that he personally hunts down, murders his ingredients and turns their flesh into armour?

Nah, its Segals character from under seige - actually mega hard but pretending to be a cook...

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« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2011, 10:49:27 am »

I like how the fishing expert is also a diagnostician:

"You're looking a little green around the gills, Urist."

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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2011, 12:28:37 pm »

I like how the fishing expert is also a diagnostician:

"You're looking a little green around the gills, Urist."

Urist McDoctor cancles diagnose patient. The rainbow trout are biting!
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