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[Opirian]

Well I had my first ambush, and unfortunately during this ambush my very talented fisherdwarf was outside, the gobbo's between him and the entrance to my fort.

I start this devious little plan I dig a tunnel out to rescue him and successfully do so. Of course now the gobbo pathing picks up on the tunnel to attack me, but before hand I had placed a flood gate in the tunnel and linked it to a lever and opened it of course. So the gobbo's start heading towards my tunnel which the entrance to I just walled off. The gobbo's still go down in the tunnel preferring to be underground, so I close the floodgate behind them trapping them. After this happens I go above ground and extend my moat into this tunnel thereby drowning all the damn gobbo's.

All this done with only 2 dorfs in my military. Post how you dealt with your first ambush.

[Jim Groovester]

Nice thinking. Drowning goblins is a Dwarf Fortress tradition, though I don't think many players improvised their drowning devices like you did.

[Opirian]

Thanks Jim.

The gobbo forces consisted of 3 Marksgobbo's and 2 wrestling gobbos. I couldn't get close to them and I had no marksdorfs my self.

[barny]

My first ever ambush consisted of 2 sqauds. 1 had axes, the other whips. The migrant wave before the ambush, I had drafted 10 imigrants out of my total 30 dwarves (all the immigrants) and had them spar to become legendary wresters. Then, I armed then with masterpiece, or the quality below it- obsidian swords, decent bone armor, and wood shields, and had them spar more. They were at all at the "swordsdwarf rank" when I got the ambush message.

The goblins pushed by fisher into a pool of water he was fishing at. Then, they attacked my woodcutter, who managed to kill 3 and cut the legs off of 2 of the mace goblins.

I quickly mobilized my military and drew up the bridge; as this was my first combat I just thought "hey, set the actions all at once!". Only 1 dwarf from the military crossed the bridge before it was pulled up, and 3 fell into the moat. It was connected to a brook, so they all made it out alive but behind the wall.

I check in, and see my 1 dwarf charge the mace squad to save the woodcutter. By this time, the woodcutter has lost BOTH legs, but he was Superdwarvenly Tough, so he was passed out and not dead. I should note that he and the fisher were both drafed so I could have them run away from the ambush, but it didn't help. So, my legendary wrestler/ swordsdwarf with a masterpiece obsidian swords runs in. He massacres the sqaud without so much as a scratch, and when there was only 1 macegoblin left the whip squad charges in. They proceed to circle my dwarf, but he still beats the shit out of them. He started the battle with the second squad in a "tired" state. He kills all of the whip goblins incuring some moderate damage to his upper body, but he passed out due to extreme pain. I thought they were all dead, I was wrong.

I check the fisher, and it seems that 1 goblin fell into the pool with him, and he killed it somehow. My legendary fisher killed a legendary whip goblin. It must have been stunned in the water, but the entire murky pool was filled with blood. I look up, and notice that same legendary macegoblin that was rescued by the whip sqaurd, limping toward my passed out swordsdwarf; leaving a trail of blood behind it. Then, my drafter fisher runs in; wrestled with it and makes it overexert itself and they both pass out.

My woodcutter was rescued, and so was the fisher and militrary dwarf. All were rewarded with platinum plated engraved rooms to recover in. The woodcutter never woke up, he slept for 5+ years with no sign of recovering. The fisher recoved from his loped off arm and mangled other arm, but was ambushed and killed the next ambush. After that, all the seigers were SLAUGHTERED by the 10 dwarfs; even up to 6 squads could be dispatched by 3 well trained, well armed, moderately armored legendary swordsmen/wrestlers

[Ter13]

My first ambush ended in disaster. Someone fell asleep under an open floodgate, and a half dozen dwarves died due to his idiocy. -_-

[Jim Groovester]

I remember my first ambush. It was really early on, when I just barely began understanding things about Dwarf Fortress. My miner was trying to seal off the magma pipe, since it was overflowing ever so slowly, when a group of goblins ambushed her.

Not thinking to draft her, she was quickly killed. This was way back in the extreme cliff versions of 3D, and I had provided access to higher elevations with a single stairway that went deep into my fortress, and the goblins were headed directly for it.

So I brought my two prospective trainees who had no military experience but were wearing copper plate to the stairwell. They were promptly dispatched. So then I drafted everyone into a militia commanded by the mayor, and attacked. At that moment, I understood the need for a military defense, and at that moment I understood the power of crossbows.

They fought furiously in the stairwell. The goblins were shooting down the stairs, and the dwarves were dying, and they were piling up on the goblins, slowly breaking limbs. They routed the ambush, but at significant cost to my population. I don't remember the exact numbers that were left, but it was a handful. Oddly, the mayor survived somehow.

But man, I didn't realize how good I had it on that map. There was a magma pipe, a giant valley with a brook running through it, the tip of a canyon chasm, and a cave full of kobolds, too, that was absolutely bursting with magnetite, all in a 4x6. I didn't realize the astounding luck I had settling in such a beautiful location, but I abandoned and the save was lost to time.

[Opirian]

Heh, I guess to many people don't remember their first ambush.

[dornbeast]

"Most of my fortress killed because of being unprepared, broke open magma pipe to play spoilsport" doesn't make for good copy.