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[Herpaderpalerp]

A proper siege has a population requirement of 80.
Also, do you trade with the caravans still?

Whilst i doubt it, it may be that the dark fortress you've embarked next to has insufficient goblins to send an attack.


Personally, i always use a very small embark, this limits things a great deal and generally is quite successful in getting attacked.

Yes, my last fort traded with 3 caravans every year and had a created value of 2.9 million. Its population was 156 and we were upgraded to Duchy status.

Make sure you smooth everything.

Absolutely everything.

No one is going to besiege you if they can't make a big slip and slide down the halls.

All walls were smoothed in my fortress. On top of that, most of the walls were engraved masterpieces.

It's strange, I was at war with 2 Elf civs this time, if I remember correctly. Elves seem extremely reluctant to step near my fort. Not that I really blame them... all this time waiting had given me 25 legendary soldiers.

[Ysyua]

I thought I wasn't going to get any. But after 4 years and nearly 3 million urists of wealth, I started getting them. I embarked next to two goblin civs I was at war with that both had populations of more than 6,000 (according to worldviewer).

I also jack up the allowed population and number of civs in my world gen. And made goblins able to wield a wider variety of weapons. Sieges will come, requires far more patience this time around though.

[paldin]

I embarked reasonably close to a necro tower and managed to get a siege before the first caravan showed up. But it was just one night creature and he left right away. I kind of feel like that zombie was lost, saw my fort, and then realized it wasn't the correct spot after all. I got the siege message, but it lasted shorter than it took for me to read it. Not sure if that helps to understand what the problem, still, is.

[wobbly]

Is there an easy way to tell which dark fortress's are alive & which dead? Some times I'll put the embark right next to a goblin fort & it won't show goblin's as neighbours, but this doesn't really work when it's a dead goblin fort with a couple of live goblin civs with-in reach on the world map.

[vjmdhzgr]

And made goblins able to wield a wider variety of weapons.

Goblins already have access to every weapon in the game. Except blowguns. So, what did I out do then?

[omega_dwarf]

Have you guys seen the "Nobody freaking attacks me anymore in..." thread? It's pretty similar to this. Basically, the concensus was that 0.40.23 fixed the "armies camp forever" bug, which should allow more frequent attacks. Are you all using 0.40.23? I would be interested to hear, before I update myself.

[MDFification]

Just embark near a necromancer tower if you want sieges. Without fail, roughly once a year, a siege force of fully armed and armored zombies will show up. It's a tad hardcore.

[darokindefender]

Yeah, I'm using 0.40.23.  No change.  I have 96 dwarves (I'm a barony), and a load of created wealth.  I finished off one giant that showed up a short while ago, but that required one shot from my legendary marksdwarf.  I've got a hardcore militia trained (5 legendary, 6 elite).  They just need something to fight.

[Badger Storm]

I've heard things to the effect of that if there's a nearby, juicier target, such as a human or elf settlement, they might go after that instead.  I can't vouch for it - and honestly, I'm enjoying the peaceful time to perfect my trapping techniques - but if it's any comfort, know that some elves out there might be dying in your dwarves' stead.

[darokindefender]

Oh well.

That will do for now.

[omega_dwarf]

Things will get much better when we can send dwarves to participate in wars, even if we can't outright order them to go attack some place for us.

But we will be getting a heck of a lot more visitors once the tavern arc goes live. It will be kind of nice, I think: not every settlement is attacked during war, some just see or feel its impact indirectly. I think that could start to happen.

Besides, with the military glitches as they are, do you really want to lose those legendary dwarves?

[MDFification]

Yearly sieges were always a kind of gamey thing that weren't really justified by realism anyway. It's just a pain that it's not fully implemented or understood how someone looking for combat can embark in a place more likely to experience it.