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[Zrk2]

Just make a sheer trench and a drawbridge you can raise and then order all dwarves to a burrow inside somewhere safe.

[MijRai]

Oh, I am safe in my dry moat and lava moat. It'd take me less than an hour to start flooding the surface, in my estimation. The problem is, do I want to?

[UnrealJake]

Are you self sustaining? If you are, yes. If you're not, yes.

[omniclasm]

Yeah...my last fort I decided to try to make use of the blue.

2nd year -> 1 ambush...3 dead gobs, 1 dead civilian
3rd year -> 1 siege...6 dead gobs, 3 injured military, 1 dead military
4th year -> 1 siege...51 mounted archer gobs...all dwarves dead

My 10 military dwarves rocking full masterpiece blue armor + axe + shield with legendary status in 2-3 categories only managed to kill a couple before dying.

[MijRai]

I am self sustaining... With the brook. I over-produce so much fish... Anyways, I magma the water, I lose the fish. Bad idea at the moment. I would have to seal my pillbox off as well, but that isn't the biggest problem in the world. I might be able to support with butchery and my farming plots when I bother to plant them, but I might not.
Heh. If I do it, I should open the caverns back up as well, and release the Forgotten Beast leech somewhere down there. Flood the caverns and mine out the obsidian later, I win.

[Sir Crashalot]

I just set up my entrance as a T junction which virtually nullifies their ranged attacks and allows me to trap a number of them inside for my troops to slaughter by closing the outer bridges, then I open up again to let more in and repeat.
Sometimes I have to go out and chase some stubborn ones down but currently the biggest issues I face with sieges are:
 1) War animals joining civilians in the burrow I set to keep them safe during these fights, even though they are assigned to military. and
 2) Cleaning up all the mess afterwards.

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