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Old comment but yeah, building destroyers dont hit supports. Dont know if they ever did. Use of the building destroyer tag to trigger a trap seems best suited to artifact furniture in combo with lever-linked spikes or the hatch cover over pressurized magma. [[User:Celem|Celem]] 23:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC) | Old comment but yeah, building destroyers dont hit supports. Dont know if they ever did. Use of the building destroyer tag to trigger a trap seems best suited to artifact furniture in combo with lever-linked spikes or the hatch cover over pressurized magma. [[User:Celem|Celem]] 23:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC) | ||
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| + | (Ideas for directly using your Dwarves in traps hope this is the place to put it all!) | ||
| + | == Rain of Beards! (RoB) == | ||
| + | A support attached to a lever being used to collapse of a cavern is nice and all but sometimes those last few goblins will only be stunned or by some miracle dodged it - but take advantage of that stun! Station your <s>stupid useless immigrants/nobles</s> most courageous and longest bearded military drafts on top of the support structure - so when you pull the lever and stun all the goblins below your brave warriors can finish them off... or at least have the added effect of confusing them of why the falling rocks have beards! | ||
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| + | == Flood of Beards! == | ||
| + | Similar effect and idea to the RoB. Station your Military drafts ''whom you should really have taught to be great swimmers earlier if you want this to be effective rather than just funny'' at the entrance to a flood-gate which holds back a tide of water. As soon as the enemy is in position, pull the level and watch your dwarfs <s>drown</s> surf into the enemy in a heroic charge. | ||
| + | This can also be useful for when fighting elite goblin bowmen who would otherwise pick off your charging dwarfs easily, let's see them shoot more than a couple of arrows when they see your brave army swimming towards them on a giant tidal wave! | ||
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Quality
Changed Quality from dwarven to human, as there are some red links. ~JoshBrickstien
Needs Revision?
I'm not sure, but I think the section on cage traps is misleading. It states that cage traps never fail. It's partially true: they never fail to work against things that are vulnerable to them. Aren't some things simply immune to cage traps? (Unless knocked out on top of one.) Forgotten Beasts, (at least some of the ones I encountered,) waltzed right by them.
Suicide Booth
Okay, so I built a glass support with a 5x5 glass floor on top of it, then released a forgotten beast (a guaranteed building destroyer) into the area (it has deadly blood, and I'd rather not deal with that). It walked past the support (even though the same square) several times. Nothing happened. Fortunately, I took the precaution of linking the support to a lever so I could at least manually drop the ceiling on its head, so it's not a total loss. Has this trap design actually been verified to work, or is this yet another instance of guesswork? --Quietust 18:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Old comment but yeah, building destroyers dont hit supports. Dont know if they ever did. Use of the building destroyer tag to trigger a trap seems best suited to artifact furniture in combo with lever-linked spikes or the hatch cover over pressurized magma. Celem 23:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
(Ideas for directly using your Dwarves in traps hope this is the place to put it all!)
Rain of Beards! (RoB)
A support attached to a lever being used to collapse of a cavern is nice and all but sometimes those last few goblins will only be stunned or by some miracle dodged it - but take advantage of that stun! Station your stupid useless immigrants/nobles most courageous and longest bearded military drafts on top of the support structure - so when you pull the lever and stun all the goblins below your brave warriors can finish them off... or at least have the added effect of confusing them of why the falling rocks have beards!
Flood of Beards!
Similar effect and idea to the RoB. Station your Military drafts whom you should really have taught to be great swimmers earlier if you want this to be effective rather than just funny at the entrance to a flood-gate which holds back a tide of water. As soon as the enemy is in position, pull the level and watch your dwarfs drown surf into the enemy in a heroic charge.
This can also be useful for when fighting elite goblin bowmen who would otherwise pick off your charging dwarfs easily, let's see them shoot more than a couple of arrows when they see your brave army swimming towards them on a giant tidal wave!