dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised

#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised install#
#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised full#

Hunting is far better training than any other kind, I have legendary marksdwarves after only 4-5 years in a savage biome. With marksdwarves make sure everyone is set to hunt. The rate at which they teach other dwarves is dependent on their own skill, so as you make new squads choose their leaders from your first squad each time. I'd recommend everyone choose two of your starting dwarves as military dwarves and have them practicing from day one. One retractable bridge and if someone falls off they just have to walk 5 squares to get back where they were. I prefer building a solid wall around my 'safe zone' and then make ramps and a bridge that lead to another wall with ramps a few squares out. I don't like moats, even dry ones, as my own dwarves are just as prone to fall into them as a goblin. Ranged weapons have very low lethality but a bolt or two will still take an enemy out of a fight, meaning your melee dwarves just have to walk in and take a swipe or two to finish them off.Ĭhoke points are important. Same with ranged squads, have one or two 'cleaners' with melee weapons. This work well to get a few shots to soften up enemy squads before your infantry plow in. Make a melee squad but manually reassign two of them to have ranged skills. With military, I find mixed squads work best. If you use them, only the rare trapavoid enemies are going to require handling. That comes with it own advantages (training your animal trainers, lots of hide/meat/tallow, prisoner goblins for training/FUN), but it ends up being pretty much an all or nothing deal. It requires a lot of work to keep a thorough cage trap defense operating, as every little bit of wildlife that comes around is going to end up in one once you've developed it enough to be effective by itself. Cage traps are a mix of the most effective and most annoying defense possible. There's lots of good strategies, and I find using a bit of each helps. The hostile body count is somewhere around 200 currently. The fortress is currently 4 years old, and we've fended off a handful of sieges, a law-giver, a were-panda, and a Sauropod Savanna Titan with two non-militia casualties so far and zero militia casualties. Titans, forgotten beasts, and fliers are dealt with by the ranged squads, all ground forces are left to the infantry. All fortress defense is on the backs of its legendary soldiers - no traps, no physical defenses.

Any potential (non-flying) invaders are limited to 2-3 access routes. The fort is built into a hillside, and I've carefully controlled all entrances.

#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised full#

I had hero soldiers by the first summer when thieves started showing up, and by the first siege I had two full squads of hero dwarves, with a full squad of marksdwarves training up. Every eligible dwarf who arrives at the fort (males only, no red body attributes) is drafted and begins training. Started my embark immediately by training soldiers. My dwarves are usually so excited by these gladiatorial displays that they lose all semblance of decorum and flee. It has an entrance to the left for dwarves to come in (complete with drawbridge for safety) and a grate-drop to the right to drop in goblin captives and cave dragons. The arena is a pit in the center of my grand dining hall. The dwarves then go through the defensive entrance clearing up, and all captured enemies are brought to the arena to be fought for the entertainment of my other dwarves. Sometimes they're a ragtag group of marksdwarves with spears, sometimes they're legendary fuckdwarves who've spent YEARS in danger rooms just because. On the other side of the O is my fortress guard, of varying strength depending on what i've been doing. I alternate rows of cage traps and weapon traps (10/10, usually serrated glass or silver disks.) After this hallway is an O shape, which serves to keep any survivors from shooting my defensive dwarves. The defensive entrance is a winding 3x3 hallway with 1x1 chokepoints. I then burrow all dwarves to my burrow which includes the entire internal fortress except for the defensive entrance. My main entrance has a draw bridge which i pull up immediately in case of emergency. My fortress defence usually looks like this: Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated)

#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised install#

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