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[Minority]

Hi
I’m planning on capturing and training some elves in an arena until they are legendary fighters so I can create an army of slave. I was wondering whether they would pick up any armour and/or weapons that I throw at them or will they stick with what they have?

Cheers

[EveryZig]

I am also interested in this, though with the slightly different motive of giving a Bronze Colossus [CanLearn], danger room training, and an ☼Adamantine Two Handed Sword☼.

[Couchmonster]

I still think a Bronze Collossus Fist hits hard enough if not harder than anything

[Mitchewawa]

I think the same bug which allows you to steal an enemy weapon then drop it, forcing them to fight with their hands, would not allow any enemy to pick up any weapon.

I think, anyway.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I still think a Bronze Collossus Fist hits hard enough if not harder than anything

I think someone has never had a bronze collosus snatch a masterwork addy battleaxe from a militia dwarf and lay waste into your troops as though armed with a lightsaber.

[ASCIt]

If I were you, I'd save them for the clowns. Your regular, dwarven army can take care of lowly goblins. Promise the elves that if they can clear out the circus in its entirety, they are free to leave via the map edges down there.

[Diamond]

If you are cool with using cheat-like utilities, Dfusion in this case, then you can indeed make an elf army.
Just run the "friendship" utility to make captured elves part of your civ, and perhaps use immigration-thingy so even more elves would come to your fortress with migrant waves.

[Reudh]

I'm planning on releasing Goblins into a pit and when/if I have a Megabeast/semimegabeast attack then i'll release them there.

[Evile]

What about leaving weapons on the ground?

Or (assumed these are elves) release armed goblins, waiting for them to steal something from them. or even dwarfs with specific weapons.

[CapnUrist]

As far as I know, captured sentients will not attempt to arm themselves in any way; their only concern is escape. The only way to have your elves armed is to provoke them into a siege and them capture them without stripping them of their (useless!) wooden weaponry.

[Minority]

If you are cool with using cheat-like utilities, Dfusion in this case, then you can indeed make an elf army.
Just run the "friendship" utility to make captured elves part of your civ, and perhaps use immigration-thingy so even more elves would come to your fortress with migrant waves.

I don't plan on the elves helping willingly. More just keeping them in a dungeon where I can train them until they are needed.
Also I didn't think about them trying to escape the map    That might be a problem. On that note, will they only try and leave from surface level or will they exit from canvas/the circus?

[dwarfhoplite]

If I capture shitload of goblins and release them for clowns will the goblins fight or just panic and get slaughtered?

[Greader]

At first I wanted to say that they will panic, but that might only be true if there is a way out for the goblins. Somebody should at least test this but my gut feeling tells me that the goblins won't try to fight back that much.

[Loud Whispers]

If I capture shitload of goblins and release them for clowns will the goblins fight or just panic and get slaughtered?

Another forum goer and myself are currently training a room full of goblins in a danger room to legendary, in order to invade Hell.

Goblins will fight demons, demons will fight goblins.

[peskyninja]

And Dwarfs fight everything.