Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:14
ive done that before, but i was wondering, will it also not harm traders from other civs?
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Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:18
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.
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:21
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
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:26
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.
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:31
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
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:42
Moats.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
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 19:42
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.
Posted: May 5th, 2010, 20:50
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Fortification wrote: Fortifications allow ranged attacks (including siege weapons),
Re: 5punky Dwarf Fortress guide
Posted: July 2nd, 2012, 16:33
When a game has an O'Reilly book about it then it's truly arrived.
Someone on Giant Bomb is reading and playing. I think he's making a meal of it.
Someone on Giant Bomb is reading and playing. I think he's making a meal of it.
Re: 5punky Dwarf Fortress guide
Posted: July 2nd, 2012, 16:59
Problem is the game will change and the book will become obsolete. Still looks good though.
Re: 5punky Dwarf Fortress guide
Posted: July 2nd, 2012, 17:58
Cripes, this thread started in April....2010.
I actually played DF again the other day - still quite fun actually.
I actually played DF again the other day - still quite fun actually.
Re: 5punky Dwarf Fortress guide
Posted: July 2nd, 2012, 18:25
You can probably say the same for most tech books. But in this case you're probably better off reading wikis or other online guides.Dog Pants wrote:Problem is the game will change and the book will become obsolete.