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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goobermunch" data-source="post: 1634006" data-attributes="member: 10516">If you're upstream from the buggers and they keep hitting your boats with flaming arrows, turn it around on them.  Load some boats with barrels of pitch (harvested from the handy local trees).  Send them downstream into the elven forest and invite them to blow 'em up.  If you've got problems with chains, vines, and the like, use the same tactics, but make sure there's a lit lantern near those barrels.  When the boat suddenly stops:  KABOOM!  Even if it doesn't get ignited, it'll just jam up the river for your next boat.Make some small catapults.  You've got the resources where you are.Make sawdust, lots of it.  Mix it with pitch and launch big gooey burning balls of sticky awfulness into the forest.  You burn some trees, you burn some elves, you make a nuisance of yourself.Others have said this, but corrupt the river.  Build a dam.  Dig a pit on the other side.  Kill everything you can get your hands on.  If you have to, find a nearby human village and kill them all.  Pile the corpses up and let 'em rot for a few days.  While they're cooking, build another dam on the other side of the pit.  Gradually let the water from the river filter through your new festering pit of putresence.  By regulating the flow through the dams, you should be able to turn the river into a biohazard the like of which your world has never seen.If you're not going to be able to do that, start cutting down trees and sending them down river.  After a few days, start cutting them in half and hollowing them out (include some airholes).  Send platoons of orcs down river in primative submarines.  Set them up on the other side of the enemy fortress and begin a two front war.Take the long view and start building a fence around the outside of the forrest using trees you've cut down.  Dam the river.  Wait a few years.  Then burn the thing down while it's dry!--G</blockquote>

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