Erarast, "Leadersabres" - 1064 by furiousfish

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My latest attempt at implementing the long hallway + ballista battery technique of fortress defence. Traps are for pansies, REAL dwarves defend their homes with giant flying bronze arrows of death. My last attempt (see "Bluetongs) suffered from a) a lack of firepower and b) my foolish mistake of putting the trade depot directly in front of the ballistas. This fortress improves on both design flaws, with a quad-ballista emplacement and a nicely tucked-away trade depot.

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2007-07-09 to 1067

"Advanced Weapon Platforms", is this starwars you're playing?

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Δ Four dead already!
One drowned, another went berserk (metalsmith went fey after I found the magma and I couldn't get a magma forge built in time), and killed a marksdwarf, a recruit, and two foals before I could put him down. Got an iron bolt embedded in his head and still wouldn't quit. - furiousfish
Δ Moat in progress
In a little while I'll have an impassable flaming lava moat to funnel invaders into a nice little killing zone. - furiousfish
Δ Quad-damage ballista battery
I've cheated here - I haven't actually built the ballistas yet, I've just inserted them into the image to show how it will look when they're there. The little alcoves above and below the corridor that currently have wood in are where the ammo will be stored. The corridor behind leading to the two doors will be where the military will hang out in reserve, just in case anything manages to get past the barage of death. If I were totally insane, of course, I could stick in another two ballistas, staggered behind the front four, for sextuple-damage spread fire to cover the entire corridor, but I'd run quite a risk of the back ballistas hitting the forward operators. Pity I can't make the corridor any wider or it would collapse. - furiousfish

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Fortress Name: Erarast, "Leadersabres"
Fortress Year: 1064
Map Year: 1064 Early Spring
Author: furiousfish
Submitted by: furiousfish
Date Added: 08/07/2007