I finally ended up moving all the goblins into one cage and pulling a level to spring them out.

I put my militia captain in there and opened a cage with 15 goblins in it, there was much enjoyment in the following fight.

It took him about 5 minutes but he killed all the goblins!, he even latched onto one of them with his teeth and then ripped it's face off with his mouth. excellent.

Oh good he bit one of their heads and essentially ate his brain.

Oh and he shook another one around by the head (which he bit into) and shattered it's nervous system with his teeth.

This guy is hardcore.

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 08 2011 13:37 GMT

#562

Nice, how much training / experience did he get out of that? I'm intersted to know if it's enough to make it an efficient method.

Zocat

Germany2229 Posts

June 08 2011 17:01 GMT

#563

Axedwarf lv9 8634//9.5k
Fighter lv11 11845/12.6k

Killing 1 goblin (armed, didnt bother to strip him):
Axe lv9 8750
Fighter 11 12206

Killing additional 11 goblins (2 at a time):
Axe 10 10393/11000
Fighter 13 14633/16100

Btw - reloaded - somehow couldnt get me to try to survive....
So my dwarves (mayor, militia cpt, 1miner and 5-6 others) opened all entrances - went down to the lowest level, then opened the flood gates.
Now every invader is dead

But also all but 8 dwarves. My miner will dig them out and then abandon this watery tomb!

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

June 08 2011 17:22 GMT

#564

I wish I could micromanage my employees like I could my dwarves in dwarf fortress.

Employee 1 : [] [] [] [] [] x []
Employee 2 : [] [] x [] [] [] []

Would be PERFECT. So easy to focus a task done quickly. :p

Ulfsark

United States958 Posts

June 08 2011 18:40 GMT

#565

On June 08 2011 22:13 ShloobeR wrote:
I'm having some trouble : (

I have about 15 goblin prisoners in my stockpile, I've stripped them of all their weapons and equipment just fine but now I want to let them out to get butchered by my military and no matter what I do (short of assigning a lever to every cage) I just cant seem to get them out of the cage, can anyone run me through how to do this?

You can link 1 lever to multiple cages I am pretty sure of it.

At least in the newest version.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

June 08 2011 20:41 GMT

#566

On June 09 2011 03:40 Ulfsark wrote:

Show nested quote +

You can link 1 lever to multiple cages I am pretty sure of it.

At least in the newest version.

True statement. Just costs you mechanisms to do so.

protoge

United States55 Posts

June 08 2011 21:33 GMT

#567

... So I make a new fortress to try my hand at surviving off of hunting/fishing. My hunter goes after a badger with his 40 copper bolts. He doesn't hit many of them, and so runs out after damaging nearly everything of the badger (broken legs, guts torn out, bleeding, unconscious, winded, etc).

Thinking the badger is nearly dead, I assign him to military and tell him to run up and hit the badger with his crossbow. He does this for a short amount of time. But, while unconscious and being hit with a crossbow, the badger gets up and runs off. I watch him chase her around the map, while still suffering from broken legs, etc.

She then turns around and kills him in three attacks...

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

June 08 2011 22:25 GMT

#568

Sweet jesus vomit EVERYWHERE

Haemonculus

United States6980 Posts

June 08 2011 23:53 GMT

#569

LOL I love when creatures have seemingly infinite vomit.

Also Toren where is the next update of our fortress!?

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

June 09 2011 01:47 GMT

#570

It was gonna be tonight but I have some fucking epic writers block.

this always happens to me qq.

I need to actually sleep tonight, I have stayed up till whatever:30 in the morning watching Proleague every night and I have work at 5am - I haven't slept for like...more than four hours since Sunday.

T_____T Sorryyyy

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 09 2011 15:28 GMT

#571

Hi again all, quick question -

Is platinum good for making weapons / armour? I know it's heavy and that tends to be a good thing....

Iankill

Canada109 Posts

June 09 2011 15:48 GMT

#572

On June 10 2011 00:28 ChinaWhite wrote:
Hi again all, quick question -

Is platinum good for making weapons / armour? I know it's heavy and that tends to be a good thing....

You can't normally forge weapons from it but if you luckliy get a artifact warhammer forged from it, it'll be one of the best weapons ever made same with a gold warhammer.

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 09 2011 15:52 GMT

#573

Ah i shoulkd have know that yeah, thanks dude. Fingers crossed!!!!!!!!!

Razith

Canada431 Posts

June 09 2011 16:09 GMT

#574

On June 09 2011 07:25 Torenhire wrote:

Sweet jesus vomit EVERYWHERE

What tileset is that? It makes things so clear..

Sensator

Australia377 Posts

June 09 2011 16:11 GMT

#575

All I see are crazy symbols everywhere, I don't know wtf to do or what the hell anything is, I'll wait until there's some graphics.

~ava

Canada378 Posts

June 09 2011 16:18 GMT

#576

I installed it, made a concerted effort to play for ~3hrs. I can see the potential, it looks fun, but the curve is just too big for me, I'd rather watch someone else play and pick it up from there. Unless somebody gets me into it I don't think I'll fire it up again.

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 09 2011 16:21 GMT

#577

^^ are you using lazy newb pack? Install ironhand graphics.

Ava - there is a tutorial video earlier in the thread, it makes it all really simple.

~ava

Canada378 Posts

June 09 2011 16:34 GMT

#578

I tried to follow along with the tutorial vid on youtube with lazy newb pack but there's too much going on; can't get my head around it and would rather watch someone else play. I think the game is too complex for me.

On June 10 2011 01:21 ChinaWhite wrote:
^^ are you using lazy newb pack? Install ironhand graphics.

Ava - there is a tutorial video earlier in the thread, it makes it all really simple.

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 09 2011 16:45 GMT

#579

Fair enough, hopefully someone will post the next update soon!

ChinaWhite

United Kingdom239 Posts

June 09 2011 17:15 GMT

#580

F*cking black bears have invaded my new fort, bit of two miners feet! How am i supposed to mine with no feet!!!???