Parley?

[Honking Capabilities]

So a bunch of goblins (a vile force of darkness according to the notification) have showed up, more than I can reasonably fight given how unprepared I am, but they're demanding a parley. I approved the petition for said parley but then nothing happened. How does this work? I take it they'll try to extort me but I don't know how to actually initiate parley and I'd really rather not let any of them into the fort (got a bridge I can raise to block the only entrance from the surface).

[The Trashman]

I think it's your leader who'll go talk to them, depending how far you are in the game, most likely your expedition leader. Check what that dwarf is up to. If they're sleeping that could explain the wait

[McFuzz]

I'm starting to see this thread a lot. Ya'll should learn military ASAP.

Parley swaps an artifact for a one-time peace. THey won't raid you. But they'll still be at war with you; and Parley is not always an option.

Goblins are pretty low on the threat tier. A small trained force of even copper-armed dwarves can take them out for the first few years until they get quite brazen. But it's okay if you just want to rely on traps for your first few forts.

[Honking Capabilities]

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

I'm starting to see this thread a lot. Ya'll should learn military ASAP.

Parley swaps an artifact for a one-time peace. THey won't raid you. But they'll still be at war with you; and Parley is not always an option.

You are not wrong. I do have a squad in steel armor and steel axes but I'm out of good metal and they haven't been training long. I also was gonna try using a minecart centric defense powered by windmills like in a video from kruggsmash I saw a while ago. But right now all I really have is the one squad and three crossbows I can use to make a tiny ranged squad. Thanks for the info though. I do have a pair of artifact pants I can give them lol.

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by arclightshock37:

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

I'm starting to see this thread a lot. Ya'll should learn military ASAP.

Parley swaps an artifact for a one-time peace. THey won't raid you. But they'll still be at war with you; and Parley is not always an option.

You are not wrong. I do have a squad in steel armor and steel axes but I'm out of good metal and they haven't been training long. I also was gonna try using a minecart centric defense powered by windmills like in a video from kruggsmash I saw a while ago. But right now all I really have is the one squad and three crossbows I can use to make a tiny ranged squad. Thanks for the info though. I do have a pair of artifact pants I can give them lol.

If they're steeled up, I dunno, I'd say go for the jugular lol.

[BbNaB]

I did the parley, they demanded one of my treasures. I agreed, but nothing happened. We didn't give them the amulet, I've even ordered a pedestal be put right outside where the goblins are, put the amulet on the pedestal, removed the amulet from the display and removed the pedestal.
Meanwhile I've got as many dwarves as possible training for a possible fight.

[Endemonadia]

Parley is broken.

When u agree to a Parley your Ambassador guy doesnt go out and meet them so they just hang.

After a few weeks they get bored of waiting and attack.

[AlP]

Some goblins wanted to parley to avoid loss of life. I sent my two axedwarves to parley with them.

The goblins were unable to avoid the loss of their lives, although one of the axedwarves got bruises on his arm.

[briezee]

Originally posted by BbNaB:

I did the parley, they demanded one of my treasures. I agreed, but nothing happened. We didn't give them the amulet, I've even ordered a pedestal be put right outside where the goblins are, put the amulet on the pedestal, removed the amulet from the display and removed the pedestal.
Meanwhile I've got as many dwarves as possible training for a possible fight.

I noticed with my last parley that my mayor took a couple in game weeks after returning to the fortress to actually go back with the requested mitten. He stopped to plant, stopped to talk, to drink, to haul, and to craft before finally getting to the job. It was to the point that I made sure he wasn't burrowed by accident. Nope, he just dawdled.

[briezee]

Originally posted by The Trashman:

I think it's your leader who'll go talk to them, depending how far you are in the game, most likely your expedition leader. Check what that dwarf is up to. If they're sleeping that could explain the wait

Once you have a mayor, it is the mayor (my nobility at this point is queen, duchess, and mayor, along with the manager and various military and medical positions).

[BbNaB]

I noticed with my last parley that my mayor took a couple in game weeks after returning to the fortress to actually go back with the requested mitten. He stopped to plant, stopped to talk, to drink, to haul, and to craft before finally getting to the job. It was to the point that I made sure he wasn't burrowed by accident. Nope, he just dawdled. [/quote]
"Oh great, they're gonna kill us for dawdling." lol

[BbNaB]

Well after a couple weeks of them standing there waiting for me to give them the amulet I put right in front of them they finally attacked.
I think the problem was that I had the amulet on display when I agreed to give it to them, so the prompt to retrieve it might have been cancelled and didn't refresh?

[Stealthkibbler]

Possibly the object being apart of the display made it irretrievable by the job, could be an oversight on toady' part. Which is an odd one since agents and dorfs will retrieve them just fine for other stuff.

[BbNaB]

Next time the opportunity pops up I'll have to remember to save manually right before opening the Diplomacy window

[tonechild]

Originally posted by BbNaB:

Next time the opportunity pops up I'll have to remember to save manually right before opening the Diplomacy window

This.

Sometimes its broken, sometimes it works. I have no idea why.

My last playthrough though, the reason why my mayor would not parley was because I activated a burrow that prevented him from going to the edge of the map. So check that if you haven't.

I saved it too just before I agreed to parley becuase I wanted to try and figure out how to get it to work


previous times, at least 4 or so, parley always seemed bugged to me, but I honestly didn't check the burrow thing so it could've been that maybe.

[BbNaB]

On the plus side, after cleaning up the goblin attack mess I had a cyclops decide to step over my fortress wall for a fight, but landed right in the middle of my war dogs' pens
before my squads could even get to him my livestock had taken him down and bled him to death