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In a recent game (40d) I received "A dwarf has sprung from ambush!" when a dwarf-led squad of goblins ambushed one of my fisherdwarves. [[User:dwarfsgalore|dwarfsgalore]] 12:12, 24 October 2008 (EST) | In a recent game (40d) I received "A dwarf has sprung from ambush!" when a dwarf-led squad of goblins ambushed one of my fisherdwarves. [[User:dwarfsgalore|dwarfsgalore]] 12:12, 24 October 2008 (EST) | ||
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:I can verify the part about "to a dwarf" as I've played several isolationist games where migrants are just left outside beyond a channel-trench or what not to fend for themselves, and often get ambushers and/or siegers that slaughter them and then have nothing else to do (until sappers are created by Toady anyways;) ) --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 16:10, 18 April 2008 (EDT) | :I can verify the part about "to a dwarf" as I've played several isolationist games where migrants are just left outside beyond a channel-trench or what not to fend for themselves, and often get ambushers and/or siegers that slaughter them and then have nothing else to do (until sappers are created by Toady anyways;) ) --[[User:N9103|Edward]] 16:10, 18 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
− | Ambushes do NOT have to be an enemy force; it's anybody using the ambusher skill. After abandoning a propserous fortress and reclaiming it, I had several dwarves still there. Periodically I'd get the ambush message; it was almost always a hunter stalking game. --[[User:Propatriamori|Propatriamori]] 00:23, 22 April 2008 (EDT | + | Ambushes do NOT have to be an enemy force; it's anybody using the ambusher skill. After abandoning a propserous fortress and reclaiming it, I had several dwarves still there. Periodically I'd get the ambush message; it was almost always a hunter stalking game. --[[User:Propatriamori|Propatriamori]] 00:23, 22 April 2008 (EDT) |
I can say that wild animals do spot ambushers. I have had it happen twice to me on df_28_181_39f. [[User:Mission0|Mission0]] 09:01, 13 August 2008 (EDT) | I can say that wild animals do spot ambushers. I have had it happen twice to me on df_28_181_39f. [[User:Mission0|Mission0]] 09:01, 13 August 2008 (EDT) | ||
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:OK. It was not a 'wandering' spider after all, if such things even exist, but a map feature as usual which just entered my fort because its web was only <em>fifteen squares from my entrance</em>, yikes! So now we know the message a hidden giant cave spider makes when it finds a cage trap. "Drive <em>them</em> out", that's interesting, seems to imply something more than solitary nearby spiders blundering in on on a lark... --[[User:Corona688|Corona688]] 17:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC) | :OK. It was not a 'wandering' spider after all, if such things even exist, but a map feature as usual which just entered my fort because its web was only <em>fifteen squares from my entrance</em>, yikes! So now we know the message a hidden giant cave spider makes when it finds a cage trap. "Drive <em>them</em> out", that's interesting, seems to imply something more than solitary nearby spiders blundering in on on a lark... --[[User:Corona688|Corona688]] 17:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
::''"An ambush! Drive them out!"'' is just a diff version of the generic message received when any "hidden" unit is revealed when they attack or are bumped into by another unit. That attack can be on a dwarf, a pet, or a wild animal - (and apparently also when encountering a cage trap?) Hidden gobbo's and elves also sometimes trigger this message. GCS's do not "spawn" nor wander onto the map after play starts - what you have is what you have. (Altho' they are invisible until revealed as above, and it's rare but possible you'll find more.)--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 22:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC) | ::''"An ambush! Drive them out!"'' is just a diff version of the generic message received when any "hidden" unit is revealed when they attack or are bumped into by another unit. That attack can be on a dwarf, a pet, or a wild animal - (and apparently also when encountering a cage trap?) Hidden gobbo's and elves also sometimes trigger this message. GCS's do not "spawn" nor wander onto the map after play starts - what you have is what you have. (Altho' they are invisible until revealed as above, and it's rare but possible you'll find more.)--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 22:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
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I'm guessing if they hang around and I keep all my drawbridges closed there won't be any successful caravan visits nor migrants coming my way![[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 10:13, 13 June 2009 (UTC) | I'm guessing if they hang around and I keep all my drawbridges closed there won't be any successful caravan visits nor migrants coming my way![[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 10:13, 13 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
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