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[ChiliFriez]

I noticed that most things dwarfy tend to involve stories of horrible, horrible, misfortune. Which is all well and good, but what about those times where Armok decided to place his blessings upon you for once?
Personally, in my latest fort, I picked a site with an aquifier and managed to dig straight through it without any trouble whatsoever. No flooding, at all. However, I suppose said fortress was slaughtered by a salt beast later, but I digress. So, any lucky moments you guys would like to share?

[Daetrin]

Two forts ago (slaughtered by multiple ambushes combined with poor drowning-chamber plumbing and military bugs), I get a migrant wave that puts me over 20 dwarves. My weaponsmith immediately moods and produces a bronze battle axe. The Lasher of Slayers. But the dwarf wielding it got horribly injured in every fight.

[Terisuke]

I just got a wandering dragon on the edge of my map, so I sent out my dwarven death squads to dice it up before it could get to my z-level and breathe dragonfire, thus immolating all of my cage traps (it happened before, it wasn't fun - except in the Fun sense).  My militia commander charges ahead in full adamantine armor, wielding his artifact adamantine battle axe, reaching the dragon on a hillside.  He and two other dwarves chop off the dragon's feet, and while they're laying into its side, my most accomplished killmeister takes its head off with one swing. 

No dragonfire, no casualties, no wounds, not even so much as a work disruption.  I've had more trouble taking out buzzards.  I'm making its skull into a totem.

[Encased in burning magma]

Troglodyte invasion, military busy elsewere.

Miner killed them all with his bronze pick (mostly by braining them).

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Lost my head mason to a forgotten beast (he got thrown into a wall and exploded), causing the entire fort to go from ecstatic to miserable in a nanosecond. After the goblin ambush and wave of insanity, one of the two dwarves I had sealed away in the workshops survived.

That dwarf, and by extension, the fort, survived.

[TheyTarget]

Large amount of dwarfs outside gathering wood, 3 goblin ambushes at once. A single horse runs out, every single goblin chases it to the other end of the map, all my dwarfs get inside just in time. Traps slaughter goblins. Perfect luck. I wanted to kill the horse anyways. I was getting to many animals, and was lagging.