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Vehudur

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Damn buzzards.
« on: September 18, 2011, 01:39:08 am »
I have a buzzard problem and my marksdwarves cannot aim for shit.  The buzzards keep causing job cancellations with my above ground structure that I'm working on.  Considering my marksdwarves can't aim, clearly, what's the best course of action?
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2011, 01:56:37 am »
Quote from: Vehudur on September 18, 2011, 01:39:08 am
I have a buzzard problem and my marksdwarves cannot aim for shit.  The buzzards keep causing job cancellations with my above ground structure that I'm working on.  Considering my marksdwarves can't aim, clearly, what's the best course of action?
MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
from above, of course.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2011, 02:10:53 am »
War dogs.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2011, 02:37:37 am »
Quote from: acetech09 on September 18, 2011, 02:10:53 am
War dogs.

Only helps for the ones that get close.  :(

Quote from: Necro910 on September 18, 2011, 01:56:37 am
MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
from above, of course.

Of course.

Quote from: XxoriginxX on September 18, 2011, 02:03:37 am
Or pressurized from below, if you want to get technical. Vertical magma shotgun!

Better still.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2011, 02:48:49 am »
Can you put a 1*1 food stockpile near a cage trap? They kept nicking my food.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2011, 03:26:51 am »
At least... they provide marksdwarf training.

Someday (if you have no magma) they will be able to shoot one...
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2011, 03:55:13 am »
Yes, it's great training for your archers!
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2011, 04:11:41 am »
do you have a food stockpile on the surface? I think i remember a buzzard problem and it was because i had food out in the open.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2011, 06:53:30 am »
I actually kept getting ATTACKED by a Buzzard at the start of a game.

Which was odd, because the game took place in a Serene environment.  Yet it was the only one where I was ever attacked by wildlife right at the start.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2011, 07:04:17 am »
Set your outside food on fire. Alternatively if a buzzard starts attacking a dwarf, draft it and have it fight back.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2011, 08:37:32 am »
My marksdwarf clubbed a buzzard to death. Go figure.
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2011, 09:01:11 am »
Try assigning a few hunters, they'll sneak at the range of fire first unlike triggerhappy military (if you give an order to kill one buzzard they start firing at any they see, even the ones across map). Or make food stockpile surrounded with serrated disk traps outside.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2011, 10:10:56 am »
A low ceiling and some weapon traps?  Or better, cage traps, so that you can train archers!  War dogs too, if you pasture them over the food stockpile they do a fair job of protecting against badgers and buzzards.  But not giant badgers.  Of course nothing entirely protects you from those, so that's not a fair comparison.
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Re: Damn buzzards.
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2011, 10:38:46 am »
A food stockpile for my (still training) military is in a constructed building which is the one they're trying to get to.  Still.  With a roof over it and 20 guard dogs fps eaters around it, they can't actually steal any.
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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2011, 10:40:17 am »
War giant eagles, giant bats, anything flying and tameable.
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