Only if you shoot at them. I believe you can target a goat or even section of wall and just lob away. Once I've established this fortress properly I'll do some experiments.
i just intended to stick a couple catapults on fire at will into the main corridor leadeing into the fortress, its also the corridor traders have to go down to get to the depot
Presumably they'll only fire at enemies. I've had a couple of catapults set up and they never got more than one shot off between them anyway before they were overran. You'd have to hold them off with some kind of fortifications and pagger them.
yeah i though about that, can dwarfs climb over fortifications? or do you need a a route into the area? and will a catapult fire through them?, i suppose i should test it and find out, its all on the same z level
shot2bits wrote:yeah i though about that, can dwarfs climb over fortifications? or do you need a a route into the area? and will a catapult fire through them?, i suppose i should test it and find out, its all on the same z level
Nobody can climb over fortifications, they're like walls except they give a penalty to firing past them that increases with distance from it. Catapults could fire over it I assume, but I don't know for sure. I just stuck mine on a terrace and was planning to have a removable bridge spanning across to it, but I got eated before I got chance.
