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WolfeyS

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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2011, 09:11:54 pm »
Trust me, when the microcline invades, I pave roads of blue.  But all jokes aside dirt is easy to excavate, and I don't have to dispose of rocks.
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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2011, 01:34:06 pm »
Quote from: WolfeyS on December 05, 2011, 09:11:54 pm
when the microcline invades, I pave roads of blue.

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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2011, 03:39:54 pm »
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Quote from: Muttonhawk on December 04, 2011, 06:21:20 pm
Is it possible to use livestock as catapult ammunition (via modding or otherwise?)? I want to taunt my invaders some more!
Unfortunately, no. The closest you could get would be to create a reaction that took a corpse and turned it into some type of corpse ballistae bolt. Overall siege weaponry is fairly well hardcoded at the moment, sadly.

If it fits on a bridge you can bridgeapult it in the general direction of the enemy. This is an overcomplicated way to vent the contents of your mass-pitting system to the front lines, but it can be done.
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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2011, 03:43:04 pm »
Theoretically, a row of catapults could make a long dodge-me trap effective against (non-flying) trapavoid invaders.


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CCC - Catapult (firing east)
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F - Fortification
^ - Weapon trap
+ - Floor
. - Open space
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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2011, 03:44:13 pm »
Good god, that looks awesome...  I'm definitely going to have to construct one of those!
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Re: I Need Catapult Ideas.
« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2011, 08:18:17 pm »
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Don't forget that since Siege Op's are civvies so they'll run if anything gets close.
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