(If this double posts, my apologies. I had an error while trying to post.)
So I'm about to embark on my first fort with a point. A vision. My first 7 dwarves will embark onto a good or neutral area on the border of a terrifying biome. These brave 7 will establish a basecamp... my combat engineers, as it were. Food stocks,basic living space, all will be established by these first seven. Every other wave after that, with a few handpicked exceptions, will be made into soldiers. I'll have dwarves for food, weapons creation... LogisticalDwarves as I call them.
The rest will be soldiers. ranged and melee will be mixed with a umber of siege engineers... and from basecamp my dwarves will expand.
You see, this world is in year five. Dwarves have only just now been birthed of the gods, and its time to reclaim the world from evil early, before it evr gets a foothold in areas. Trenchlines, siege weapon pillboxes with crossbow "machinegunners"... fence lines, deconn chambers for dwarves who are caught inside contaminants... I want to recreate World War 1 with dwarves. Once we've paved over, built up, and walled off the surface? The caverns are next. and after that, if it lasts that long?
I want to turn Hell into a roller coaster amusement park.
I dunno how far I'll get. I've never really tried anything this ambitious... but I'll be doing my best to write it as a story, and put updates here and on my blog. Honestly I wish I couldactually issue rifles and machineguns and artillery cannons, but hell... we'll make it work.
We're dorfs.