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Loud Whispers

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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2011, 06:47:58 pm »
Quote from: Sphalerite on December 01, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 06:27:33 pm
I have an idea... Have your dwarves train in copper... Fight in steel :D

Not dwarfy enough.  Train all your dwarves with some level of armorsmithing.  Surround the metalsmithing workshops with lead bars.  When the inevitable strange moods occur, you'll get lead armor.  Train in that.

Do you think modding in lead armour would be possible?
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2011, 06:48:28 pm »
Months? Only if they have to walk across the map every time they need to drop off the next item they're taking off. If all the useable equipment in the fortress is in a 15x15 stockpile, then once the dwarf reaches the stockpile then they have to walk a maximum of 15 tiles for every item they need to take off and put on.
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2011, 06:51:58 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 06:47:58 pm
Quote from: Sphalerite on December 01, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 06:27:33 pm
I have an idea... Have your dwarves train in copper... Fight in steel :D

Not dwarfy enough.  Train all your dwarves with some level of armorsmithing.  Surround the metalsmithing workshops with lead bars.  When the inevitable strange moods occur, you'll get lead armor.  Train in that.

Do you think modding in lead armour would be possible?

Yes, but nowhere near as awesome as modding in uranium armor.
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2011, 06:54:18 pm »
Quote from: Sphalerite on December 01, 2011, 06:51:58 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 06:47:58 pm
Quote from: Sphalerite on December 01, 2011, 06:47:00 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 06:27:33 pm
I have an idea... Have your dwarves train in copper... Fight in steel :D

Not dwarfy enough.  Train all your dwarves with some level of armorsmithing.  Surround the metalsmithing workshops with lead bars.  When the inevitable strange moods occur, you'll get lead armor.  Train in that.

Do you think modding in lead armour would be possible?

Yes, but nowhere near as awesome as modding in uranium armor.

Or an Osmium/Rubidium set of armour... And keep its highly reactive qualities >:D
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2011, 07:03:19 pm »
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the rain...
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Quote from: fivex on March 07, 2011, 02:37:19 am
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #20 on: December 01, 2011, 07:10:40 pm »
Quote from: Sutremaine on December 01, 2011, 07:03:19 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the rain...

"Just walking in the ra-BOOM."
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #21 on: December 01, 2011, 09:46:02 pm »
i always use wood for shields as it is light, but still has a BIT of weight for bashing.
with wood shields, you can start training on day 1 without waiting to set up a metal industry first.
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #22 on: December 01, 2011, 11:52:17 pm »
Quote from: Poindexterity on December 01, 2011, 09:46:02 pm
i always use wood for shields as it is light, but still has a BIT of weight for bashing.
with wood shields, you can start training on day 1 without waiting to set up a metal industry first.

Same here.

If I get a large metal industry going due to ample resources though I usually make iron or steel eventually.
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2011, 02:26:34 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 07:10:40 pm
Quote from: Sutremaine on December 01, 2011, 07:03:19 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the rain...

"Just walking in the ra-BOOM."


...and make it insanely valuable...and put it in the stockpile in the noble's room...and then tell him it is rainproof...
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2011, 02:29:50 pm »
Quote from: floundericiousWA on December 02, 2011, 02:26:34 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on December 01, 2011, 07:10:40 pm
Quote from: Sutremaine on December 01, 2011, 07:03:19 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the rain...

"Just walking in the ra-BOOM."


...and make it insanely valuable...and put it in the stockpile in the noble's room...and then tell him it is rainproof...

Mayor demands: Osmium Umbrella
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2011, 06:28:59 pm »
osmium umbrella would be a great name for a dwarf fortress
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Re: What's most important in a shield?
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2011, 06:33:30 pm »
Quote from: floundericiousWA on December 02, 2011, 06:28:59 pm
osmium umbrella would be a great name for a dwarf fortress

So many ideas....
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