"Oh no, what unlucky dwarf has stumbled across a goblin ambush..." ~but to my suprise, there are none nearby.
Nope, this alert zoomed me halfway across the map, near a goblin Obsidian settlement which I happened to embark next to. No dwarves anywhere near there. Watching the group, I unpause the game. A red "g" prompty flies through the air.
They're only a bunch of Macegoblins and a Lasher, with barely any decent stats. Imagine my suprise, then, as I witnessed them systematically hunt down and murder all of the goblin guards in the area, climb to the top level of the main tower, encounter "Aslot Sadsnamoz" - Legendary Lasher and local Goblin Leader - and utterly destroy him. I mean, he flew back at least five spaces after a very brief scuff. His corpse is mangled. And none of these invaders have yet to suffer a single injury in their assault.
Well, I suppose that solves one of my problems... though I was kind of looking forward to that particular epic showdown with my own army... *grumble*
But now you'll have to excuse me, while I attend to this group of bloodthirsty murderous killing machines currently approaching my fort. I'm only in my second year, all I have are a bunch of novice, naked Wresters for a military... but surely they can't be that tough... right?
/me looks once again at the grisly murder scenes
...Right?... ;_;
Later edit: Heh, they weren't all that bad. I lost one wrestler and about 5 regular dwarves. Two subsequent ambushes have massacred a Dwarven caravan and given my army a couple of brain injuries to deal with, but in the end, my weapon and armour stocks have tripled from all the loot!
[ June 01, 2008: Message edited by: Moogie ]