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[ivze]

My last two fortresses were not fun enough, because the goblin neighbors didn't send powerful armies. Just a few ambushes and a siege, consisting of two squads.

How can I make sure I will get interesting attacks with big armies of invaders when embarking?

[thijser]

There are multiple ways first up give the snatchers some childeren in will somewhat increase the attacks. Secondly embark next to a goblin settlement thirdly make shure your fort has a very high value and population it will increase the attacks. Lastly you could limit yourself in what you allow yourself for defenses and make the attacks more interesting that way.

[EmperorJon]

What's your fort's value? I'm on 400k total in my most recent. The siege this year was about 5 squads.

[DoctorMonch]

I'm currently at 8mil dorfbucks in fortress wealth, and I get two season long goblin sieges once a year consisting of five squads mounted on beak dogs.

I'd say it mainly matters what your wealth is.

[Yoink]

Koshid is currently besieged, by four large squads of goblins, each lead by a goblin weaponmaster of some sort.
And the entire army is lead by another squad, of macegoblins, riding olms, rutherers and a jabberer.
And THAT squad is lead by the demonic overlord of the civ. Hooray!
Currently arming marksdwarves to send up onto the wall of the above-ground farms, to hopefully rain bolts across the river onto 'em.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Mod in a reaction to produce some expensive material and/or object for free.
Masterwork cotton candy large, serrated disks work well AND are useful against goblins!

[ivze]

The wealth I have is "9481900☼?". It's this fortress: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=81038.0 .
And surprisingly very weak attacks, no one goblin showed for about two years!

[psychologicalshock]

I think it's not total value - I have been making 2-3 million dwarf bucks a year and it has seriously ramped up the attacks compared to the fortress where I could barely make a million.

[thijser]

Well there are more variables exported wealth is also important as is the total number of goblins in your world. If you want your next embark to be more goblin filled try to let them reproduce a bit more (at a younger age and with large litter each time you can do this by editing the raws). 

[Langdon]

In my latest fort, I removed the [CV_NEW_TAG:CAN_SPEAK] line from the ANIMAL_PERSON entry in c_variation_default.txt. Now all my subterranean civs declare war as soon as I breach the caverns, and I get sieged from both above and below ground.

This also works for the other civs like elves - just add [BABYSNATCHER] (or if you don't want them stealing kids, replace [INTELLIGENT] with [CAN_LEARN]) and they will no longer trade, but attack you on sight.