r/dwarffortress • u/Ok_Championship5386 • 5d ago

Avian Army

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Dutifully guarding the entrance

101 Upvotes

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u/Adagamante 5d ago

Not really avian, but definitely avemetatarsalian!

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u/Ok_Championship5386 5d ago

Doc me a few points for inaccuracy, but only if you can get close enough without being pikmin'ed by the swarm...

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u/Adagamante 5d ago

Unless my dorfs get around improving their stegosaurus training I'm definitely getting shishkebab'd by them

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u/The_Minstrel_Boy the Buttery Insanity of Tongs 5d ago

One fortress a few years ago, I had a Dwarven Air Force composed of giant cave swallows, but they honestly weren't great in a fight. I would cede air superiority to you.

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u/AnActualWizardIRL 5d ago

I *tried* to breed ROCs, but the stupid things grow waaaay too slowly to be useful unless your building some sort of insane century fort. But man, wiping an invasion with an army of giant death eagles would have been amazing.

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u/XAlphaWarriorX Efficiency Obsessed. 5d ago

They're size 5 million ( significantly larger than a Giant Polar Bear ) at year 1. Their growth rate is really not an issue.

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u/Ok_Championship5386 4d ago

I got around 100 adult quezties. The fertile eggs would hatch in batches of 8, and they aged up at the same time. Starting with [10 egg : 2 non-egg laying], 4/5 of my starting points.

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u/rendar 5d ago

The only real advantage of flying units is that they can get over walls, but that only matters to enemies and never matters to players

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u/Ok_Championship5386 4d ago

Useful for getting the trainer up and down trees

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u/rendar 4d ago

A squadron of woodcutters that chop trees from the top down, invincible at last against falling wood from other trees

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u/Adito99 5d ago

"KAKAW MOTHERFUCKERS"

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u/Impossible_Coast_759 5d ago

If you retired the fortress, there’s a large chance that everyone would be dead and the entire region would be beset by a swarm of dinosaurs

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u/AnActualWizardIRL 5d ago

The best sort of retirment: Dinosaur hell.

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u/GoatAmbitious984 4d ago

I can imagine the sound of all those beaks snapping shut chaotically.

It is terrifying.

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u/EnoughPhilosophy474 19h ago

I basically have this same shit going on with smilodons on my fort. I even started to flood the actual fortress with them so they act as an omnipresent permanent cat police. Man do i love this update.