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[zombat]

Has anyone killed anything with a catapult? (Dodge traps don't count)

[JoshBrickstien]

Obviously people have killed things with catapults before. that's kind of a given, seeing how it's literally their only purpose. Besides transporting stone, but that was never intended.

[Rushmik]

So long as this thread's current, how effective are catapults?

I've only ever used ballista, and only once. The "gatling catapult" on the wikipage caught my eye though, so I thought I'd give siege weapons another chance.

[o_O[WTFace]]

I think I once broke a goblin's leg with a catapult, but thats it.  They might have a good shot at killing Crundles, if you could get the little buggers to stand still. 

[Mitchewawa]

I used it as a backup for my water trap once; helped me take out enemy giant olms who can swim.

It took a while but I ended up killed around 5 or so olms stuck in my water trap.

All in all, catapults suck and are to only be used for training your future ballista users.

[Di]

Siege engines suck right now, people use them only for fun right now. I've been using catapults to move stone to my off-shore rig once, that all.

[lurtze1]

I still love to have 3 gattling catapults in a long halway. especially if the enemy can't get to them

[Urist Da Vinci]

Catapults are specifically useful if a siege decides to camp at the edge of your map (like the humans do).

[Noodz]

Really? What's the catapult maximum range? And ballistas?

[Urist Da Vinci]

Really? What's the catapult maximum range? And ballistas?

Over 3 times the range of a crossbow shot. The wiki has some numbers, but I suggest you just set one up and see how far it goes. You need to get a feel for their speed and accuracy anyways.

[Dynastia]

The first time I was militaryless and surprised with the invader AI's response to their leader getting caged I ended up building a few catapults to dislodge them. Killed a couple, broke lots of limbs and ribs, and they eventually left.

[Tevish Szat]

I killed some cats with my catapults.  Then I made the door to my catapult training range not pet passable.

[Dynastia]

I should add that I once chained a naked goblin up in my catapult range and he survived over a year of non-stop bombardment by a rookie, so if you're going to use catapults for realsies, make sure you have decent operators.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I don't think catapults can kill friendlies, maybe those cats died of natural causes... or ballistae

[Carnes]

Not sure about catapults but ballista certainly can.  Your dwarves will gladly charge out into the line of fire... your siege operators won't miss them either.