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[PijanySmok]

A question; would hydra be good target for my archers to train their pewpewing skills? I don't know if I should put hydra into mah dwarf training room, I dunno if it could break fortifications, but I don't care if it can break wall grates because it would die of traps. Any ideas? Unless there's better use for hydra?

[MonkeyHead]

It would be better than average due to its many heads... more shots to kill = more practice for your marksdwarves. Use bone or wood bolts for maximum duration.

It would be fine pitted or "cage released by leve"r behind fortifications - they are indestructible, but things can be forced through them by water pressure.

Better use: disposal pit for captured enemies, or as part of a dodge me trap (or a suprise under a retractable bridge). Rig up pit to release hydra when your fortress starts to fall to set it on invaders/unwelcome geusts from the depths.

[Loud Whispers]

Or just have your Dwarves fire away from 2 z lvls above the hydra!

[Ieb]

Sounds like waste of a perfectly good hydra to me. I figure it'd bleed to death before any significant increase in skill happened for your soldiers.

If you want to know what's a really good target to plink away though, try inorganic FB's that are made of glass or so on. No water, filth or fire, those break away in a few hits, but glass? You'll have either legendary sharpshooters after a while, but just remember to tell 'em to take breaks or they'll start starving while trying to kill the FB.

[Putnam]

Sounds like waste of a perfectly good hydra to me. I figure it'd bleed to death before any significant increase in skill happened for your soldiers.

Hydras have super healing, so any injuries incurred would heal between training sessions.

[Poindexterity]

do they regrow heads?

for that matter, what about trolls?
do they regrow limbs?

[Loud Whispers]

do they regrow heads?

for that matter, what about trolls?
do they regrow limbs?

Nothing regrows limbs.

NOTHING!!!

[Wannazzaki]

do they regrow heads?

for that matter, what about trolls?
do they regrow limbs?

Nothing regrows limbs.

NOTHING!!!

Until Toady adds shoggoths

[Loud Whispers]

But how would you know what's grown back and what's just a new globular mass?

[krenshala]

When facing off against a shoggoth, does it really matter if its a newly grown limb or just another part of its "body"?

[Wannazzaki]

The ultimate showdown! Noodle goblins versus acidic, toothy blob!

[thegoatgod_pan]

Hydra are rather vulnerable to archery--it just takes one arrow to the heart.

[Loud Whispers]

Hydra are rather vulnerable to archery--it just takes one arrow to the heart.

Or one to the knee.

[Wannazzaki]

Hydra are rather vulnerable to archery--it just takes one arrow to the heart.

Or one to the knee.

I used to be a Hydra like you, then i took an arrow to the knee.

[Minnakht]

Hydra are rather vulnerable to archery--it just takes one arrow to the heart.

Or one to the knee.

Then the hydra becomes a city fortress guard.

Hm.

Sounds like a good prospect, actually.

Shame it has to be an arrow. Getting bows and arrows is annoying, and crossbow bolts don't work.