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[Drakeero]

Would it be overkill to make a retractable bridge over a set of menacing steel wooden spikes and then flood the pit with magma?

Menacing steel wooden spikes?  I think you have to choose between one or the other but honestly if you're going to flood the pit with magma why bother putting spikes down there?  Injured or not they're still burn.  [unless you're worried about magma immune stuff getting in there, in which case I think you want the best non-candy spikes you can get]

[Zidane]

Would it be overkill to make a retractable bridge over a set of menacing steel wooden spikes and then flood the pit with magma?

There is no such thing, Good Sir.

[Wastedlabor]

Obviously, they are wooden spikes that menace with steel. Impaling squad after squad of hopeless enemies is all cool, but that doesn't win the psycological war.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

To answer the question, No. This is dwarf fortress, dropping the sun on an enemy and then dropping all the moons of the world, and then jumping up and down on the pieces before feeding them into a woodchipper isn't overkill.

[Alastar]

I Wanna Be The Dwarf?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Would it be overkill to make a retractable bridge over a set of menacing steel wooden spikes and then flood the pit with magma?

...You're joking, right? In DF, there is no overkill, only "Open Fire" and "OMG my dwarves just all died!"

[Hydra]

Even wooden training spears do take their toll, but the toll is small enough that its a worthwhile training proceedure.

You sure? Could be that I never enabled my training rooms before giving my dwarfs steel armour, but I never had any of them getting wounded from the training spears.

Their pet cats on the other hand...

[Rastaan]

I Wanna Be The Dwarf?

Just as frustrating, but far more Fun.

[NightmareBros]

deflector sheild

That's why I hate Elves so much more.
My marksdwarves always run up to them and try to smash them to death with their crossbow, resulting in 'the silk robe deflected the blow' or 'brusing'.
I used it to train the amr strneght of my marksdwarves as soon as the elf was bashed into a corner and left him there. Most of the marksdwarves collapsed from exhaustion and were taken to hospital as reaaally buff roid-dwarves from smacking and elf into a croner for a whole season.