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[Soadreqm]

A grassfire took my wooden, aboveground trade depot, and the traders with it. The hamlet liaison was hanging around with my broker at the time, so he is fine. This is the first time this has happened. Will the dwarves attack me in their justified anger? Or does that happen at all, or only when the diplomat is killed?

[Wolfking6116]

Your own civilization won't attack you.

[Untelligent]

Even if it was a different civilization, they wouldn't attack you on account of one caravan.

Maybe if the next four to eight caravans were annihilated, but not just one.

[Soadreqm]

Great. A siege or two might be fun later, but right now my fortress is woefully unprepared.

[Skooma]

I killed the Human Liaison with Dwarf Companion because he wouldn't leave.

They sent a platoon sized force to attack me, which was annihilated with no Dwarven causalities.

Year after that they asked for peace.

[BurnedToast]

Dwarves will never attack you, no matter what. This may or may not change in future version, but for now abuse them as much as you want and they will always come back for more.

Humans take quite a bit of caravan loss to prod into attacking you, HOWEVER one diplomat (the guy who pops in, says nice fort, then leaves not the trade rep) loss will almost always make them attack. Trade rep getting killed might cause them to siege, but not usually.

Elves will NOT siege you if you steal from/kill the merchants or say no to a tree cutting limit (though if you keep saying no year after year they might eventually, not tested it extensively). They WILL siege you if you kill the diplomat, or agree to a tree limit then violate it.

Goblins will eventually start sieging you even if you don't start out at war with them. I don't remember the requirements offhand but I think you need to have the baron or something. Goblin sieges are usually alot easier then ambushes, though, because you can see all the enemies right from the start.

[Jake]

From what I can tell the goblin siege trigger is based on wealth and how close you are to a goblin fortress rather than noble-based; I had one fortress besieged three times without getting a single noble, and another get up to a count and countess consort with no more than the odd ambush.

[Marlowe]

Goblins will eventually start sieging you even if you don't start out at war with them. I don't remember the requirements offhand but I think you need to have the baron or something. Goblin sieges are usually alot easier then ambushes, though, because you can see all the enemies right from the start.

That's if you actually see ALL the incoming squads. I've had some nasty surprises.