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when i breach my pit, (eventually) i hope to be able to A: seal it off quickly without losing too much admantine. B if that fails, have a large "dwarven toliet" (a artificial river with a large water fall...)  if i am lucky, the water will be fast enough to sweep even the non-spirits of fire down the waterfall... where they will hopefully go *splat*. IF that fails... i plan to have a LOONG corridor, with fortifications on either side, and leet archers behind the fortifications and at the end of the tunnel, seige weapons, and spear masters hidden behind blind spots. and if that fails, hopefully by then i will have sealed my mines off from the main fortress.  --[[User:Pbhead|Pbhead]] 02:04, 13 December 2007 (EST)
 
when i breach my pit, (eventually) i hope to be able to A: seal it off quickly without losing too much admantine. B if that fails, have a large "dwarven toliet" (a artificial river with a large water fall...)  if i am lucky, the water will be fast enough to sweep even the non-spirits of fire down the waterfall... where they will hopefully go *splat*. IF that fails... i plan to have a LOONG corridor, with fortifications on either side, and leet archers behind the fortifications and at the end of the tunnel, seige weapons, and spear masters hidden behind blind spots. and if that fails, hopefully by then i will have sealed my mines off from the main fortress.  --[[User:Pbhead|Pbhead]] 02:04, 13 December 2007 (EST)
 
How about this in a passage?
 
 
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W/M: Water and magma, interchangeably<br />
 
F: Floodgate<br />
 
 
If and when the demon destroys the floodgate -he'll be obliged to if he can't get to another building, which can be accomplished by means of a channel and bridge- he'll be encased in forming obsidian. I don't believe there's ANYTHING that can survive this. --[[User:Sensei|Sensei: Last seen somewhere in the Basic Jungle of Terror]] 21:49, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 
 
If a Demon destroys a drawbridge when its crushing them would it be possible to drop demons into a chasm/big hole using this by raisng a bridge into a wall? or would this simply end the demon up on the space where the bridge was anchored to?--Sindain
 
*Demons are [SIZE:16], meaning they will prevent a bridge from operating if they're standing on it (and outright destroy it if it tries to crush them). There's also the minor detail that (regular) Demons can '''fly'''... --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 03:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 
  
 
== Spoiler warning? ==
 
== Spoiler warning? ==
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The spoiler is there for the eerily glowing pits, so I think once more people post success/defeats on the demon page, or specific demon information, such as the different types and abilities, the spoiler should be here as well.
 
The spoiler is there for the eerily glowing pits, so I think once more people post success/defeats on the demon page, or specific demon information, such as the different types and abilities, the spoiler should be here as well.
 
:Spoiler Warning added --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 16:16, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 
:Spoiler Warning added --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 16:16, 16 January 2008 (EST)
 
Just had my encounter with 20+ tentacle demons and 1 Demon. 4 civilian casualties, '''no''' military casualties. And I got a movie of it.  Here's what worked for me, in reverse order:
 
 
1. '''Steel-plated Champions''', about ten. These guys took their wrestling classes for five years before switching to actual weapons, and have occasionally been let loose on straggling goblins. I had prepared a bottleneck the moment I struck Adamantine, and when hell broke loose (heh) 6 different squads were stationed in the antechamber, crossbow-dwarves at the back ready to fire into the melee. Not every squad showed up. When the tentacle-demons broke down the final door, they were pinned, stabbed, shot, and speared.  Only one got a square further than the bottleneck. (My veteran got 5 kills with an iron sword and a maple shield.) And first they had to make it through...
 
 
2. '''Six successive steel spikes''', on repeating mechanisms. Only five of these were operational in time but in a stroke of luck they took out the Fire-breather before he reached the dwarves. The Duke Consort working the lever may have killed one-third or even half of the demons. Once they're wounded or stunned, they can't move quickly out of the way of the next spike, so a stun is nearly always a kill.
 
It also helped that the demons were slowed down by...
 
 
3. '''Spamming them with cows.'''  Livestock overpopulation getting you down?  20-odd cows suddenly released from a single cage into a narrow hallway don't put up much of a fight, but they definitely slowed down the demons and provided useful recon before being turned into hamburger. They were actually released by a melancholy elf stepping on the pressure plate early.
 
 
What I forgot to do, until the mounting casualties reminded me, was to send the triumphant military down into the chamber itself and secure the area. But still, pretty good. Anyone want to buy a dozen caged babbling elves? --[[User:Jellyfishgreen|Jellyfishgreen]] 20:58, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 
  
 
== Cage Traps==
 
== Cage Traps==
has any one caught a demon in a cage trap? if you could catch them that would be the easest way to deal with them. --[[User:Rock_n_rat|Rock n rat]]
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has any one caught a demon in a cage trap? if you could catch them that would be the easest way to deal with them. --[[Rock n rat]]
 
: I'm afraid demons are immune to cage, weapon, and stone-fall traps, although they will trigger pressure plates and the like. --[[User:Shadow archmagi|Shadow archmagi]] 14:00, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
 
: I'm afraid demons are immune to cage, weapon, and stone-fall traps, although they will trigger pressure plates and the like. --[[User:Shadow archmagi|Shadow archmagi]] 14:00, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
:  when i diged to chamber i tried to catch imprisoners and built a lot of cagetraps. After a battle i realised some of them was full of tentacle demons. 0.28.181.40d [[Media:tentacle_caged.jpg]] --[[User:Desperado|Desperado]]
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:  when i diged to chamber i tried to catch imprisoners and built a lot of cagetraps. After a battle i realised some of them was full of tentacle demons. 0.28.181.40d [[Media:tentacle_caged.jpg]]
  
 
== The Little Brother ==
 
== The Little Brother ==
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:::--[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 04:01, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 
:::--[[User:Squirrelloid|Squirrelloid]] 04:01, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 
Similar experience.  Sealed my demon in a tunnel right before he killed my mayor, then watched him stand around in the tunnel for over a year.  Later, he somehow came through the floor of a room over him and went on a rampage across the countryside.  Luckily, my only military dwarf, a champion wrestler in leather armor with a steel cap on his head and in one hand, managed to wrassle it to death without getting hurt.  I haven't figured out either of those mysteries yet. [[User:Odul|Odul]] 06:57, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 
  
 
== Fireball and firebreath against fortification ==
 
== Fireball and firebreath against fortification ==

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