Elephant Herd Migration - How do I farm it?

[Sola]

I've got 5 charge rifles, and 6 people with shooting of at least 10.
Everyone's wearing devilstrand hat/jacket/shirt/pants and an armor vest.
One frag grenade, three miniguns, an assortment of LMGs/Assault Rifles/Automatic weapons, no animal pulsers, no rocket launchers, six sniper rifles, though I imagine snipers would be useless once they enrage.

Is it even possible to crank out enough DPS to pop the elephants before they run me over?



Also, "TFW it takes too long for a bulk goods trader to show up"

[Dashthechinchilla]

You could hit them with mortars or start fires in their path. I think an animal pulsar would just turn them into an extra large manhunter pack.  At least attacking them just has the normal probability.

[Canute]

Elephans arn't very fast.
Check if you got a pawn which can move faster then them.
Position him closer to the elephans, then start shooting.
The elephans will chase him, so he should run away, around the other which shoot at the elephants.

[DuckBoy]

What do you do with a herd of rampaging elephants?  Oh child, ask the elders about BoatMurdered. 

https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Update%201-11/

[Yoshida Keiji]

I wouldn't try to hunt an entire herd of elephants.

What I did was to tame some instead. I'm currently playing in Tropical Swamp and I had a herd of Dromedaries, which is not from this biome but hell that I would love to get some camelhair for tailoring. So I went to tame as many as possible. Time had passed and now Im full of dromedaries, even with many fallen to raids. It's a good opportunity to get animals that are not natural to your current habitat.

[YokoZar]

I wouldn't try to hunt an entire herd of elephants.

What I did was to tame some instead.

It's not a herd it's the migration event.  They walk from one map exit straight to another -- no time to tame.

[Dargaron]

I don't have any advice for your elephant problem (although fire sounds like a good idea:if you can lure them into a narrow spot, then use a collection of incendiary launchers to maintain a constant stream of fire, they'll run wild instead of attacking you)

Your second point inspired me to meme. Enjoy.

[Sola]

I went with the miniguns.  The spray-and-pray did so much damage before killing any that, when they enraged, they were soft enough to take out.

That run later ended to a doomsday rocket launcher.

[Yoshida Keiji]

I wouldn't try to hunt an entire herd of elephants.

What I did was to tame some instead.

It's not a herd it's the migration event.  They walk from one map exit straight to another -- no time to tame.

Yes, exactly. You can tame moving animals as well. I got my dromedaries from the migration event.

[dkmoo]

I've attacked migrating herds head on.  When you first attack them, the revenge doesn't occur right away. Chances are they will try to escape first and you'll have elephants run amok in diff direction. Use this opportunity to down as many as you can. When they go revenge mode and turn into manhunters retreat back into your base and lock everyone in. You will need two exits, preferably in opposite end of your base, for this to work. It's cheesy but works. I've dealt with 20+ polar bear manhunters this way with 0 casualty. Basically, after you retreat back into your base, the elephants will roam around your building. Go to the door where they are least concentrated, and start taking shots at them, hopefully you'll down a couple before they charge at your door but if not that's ok, just retreat back into your door and have your builder ready to repair it. The elephants will attack the door a few times but will stop shortly so just keep that door healed and they won't break thru. Once the elephants stop attacking, rotate to your exit on the other side of the building and start taking pot shots again. Rinse and repeat as necessary.