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[Loud Whispers]

But why? I love having an instant ragnarok button.

[AllThingsLive]

Fortress Defense mod is a good choice if you're bored with gobbos and elves, and don't want to change other aspects of the game. It gives you more enemies to fight, earlier ones, and tougher ones, and that's about all it does.

Ooh that sounds like what I need. Does it increase the difficulty of all hostile creatures (like elephants, crundles, trolls, etc) or does it just introduce tougher enemies?

[C27]

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is using picks as your primary weapon - since they use Mining to attack, it's pretty trivial to get very high skill, and they also seem to deal pretty decent damage. Plus, your military becomes very useful when not training/fighting.

[knutor]

I never squad up miners, hunters, or woodchoppers.  They are too busy, doing what they do.

A squad is setup to weave and another to gatherer wood.  To prevent a soft civilian dwarf from bumping into a nasty critter while outside the fort.  I give these guys layered leather, and all that bone/shell crap to wear.  No metal, cept for cap and bp.

I've found it better to NOT use barracks as a sleeping quarters; I don't even know why its up in there.  My troops are always armored.  I never make marksdwarfs, the AI is stupid.  Or I just haven't figured out the finer details of getting them plush up against the fortifications.. They always appear to shoot from a pisspoor angle.  So no ranged for ol'Knutor.

I prefer obsidian swords.  For their flexibility, while I'm dressing the troops up.  Or silver maces.  Maces hit slightly harder than hammers.  I see many FBs die to a Macelord.  Well indirectly, I wish there was a death msg in alert scroll, stinks having to bring up the dead unit list to find out if a fight is finished.

My danger room has just one spear in ea of its many traps, and I like to have it deep down in there, so I can mass pit into it.  I try to keep water only, for drinking and a well near danger room.  I also like to set some bars up, to prevent flying things from getting out of my pit.

I never go on the offensive, until I have a full squad in full armor.  Hope that helps you.

Sincerely,
Knutor

[krenshala]

I also leave off the sleeping option for my barracks.  However, in line with what others posted about keeping non-training time at a minimum, I always put individual rooms for my militia right next to the barracks they are assigned to (usually with a meeting/dinning hall as the next thing in on the safer side of the hallway.