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[Wannazzaki]

Alright so i had a fortress going as you do. I had reached capital status and a glorious army clad entirely in adamantine! Then ...the traders came. Due to my fortress being airtight i forgot to let the buggers out, understandable as this was midsiege with clowns gnawing away at the roots of my mighty city from an earlier...mishap. One berserk dwarf, one stray crossbowbolt is all it took. 300 good dorfs down to 77, my mighty civilisation. Only a small handful of these individuals are even loyal to me any more. The end. The end looks like this. And ten pages of Underworld and Invader notifications. I suppose all i can do is hope someone survives long enough for some migrants to try and run through the gauntlet of scavengers, werewolves and demons.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Just remember; Losing is Fun

Your fort looks like it had a hell of a party by the way.  Have you locked them all in your stockpile rooms or something?

[Wannazzaki]

No. That just happened to be where the riot happened. My forts are a sprawling mess on the upper layers as i monopolise soil for storage areas (no boulders). The rooms below are well guarded by the former captain of the guard who incidentally went 'rogue' in the cascade, along with his army of war animals (mostly cougars and jaguards, the bears died) so no one wants to go down, above is a berserking spearmaster. So the fun has been confined to the stockpiles, which a mephit has set on fire. Can't get any dorfs to join the milita either. I have been fobbed off.

Edit: Doubling the fun! Come one come all!

[ThatAussieGuy]

War Cougars, Jaguars AND Bears.  A rogue Spearmaster above and a rogue captain of the guard with an army of said animals under you.  Even in death your fort is utterly dwarfy

[Wannazzaki]

Spent most of the game (Been running it around 20 hours) breeding them for the purpose of fending off later game sieges, my trap corridor would slowly break and jam as they went on. All this hard work ruined by one bloody berserk merchant!

Heres the living quarters, you can also see the message of a war bear survivor harassing me still! Edit: Or would if it hadn't been cropped out



And thus ends the fortress. I felt it was worthy of sharing.

[Mitchewawa]

I once had a similar (yet not as awesome) tantrum spiral; the only thing to do is to have your ecstatic dwarves dig a hole in your base, enter it and wall it off. Dig around your base and into the food stockpiles, then wall off the food.

It's slow and tricky depending on your layout, but it saved me once.

[Wannazzaki]

I threw the towel in early on after the hammerlord went on a skullcrushing rampage and hoped it would burn itself out. Im looking at one lonely dwarven child cowering behind a wall of injured war animals keeping that siege i let in at bay...maybe a caravan will save me. HAH!

Well looking at the child and all of the ghosts clustering around him. Many have been anounced to be murderous and violent as they popped up.



The sieges, they broke. They left. All there is, is a child, a charnel house fortress and his loyal companions guarding him as he lives from silent stockpiles in a lonely fortress. I am Legend indeed o_O

[ThatAussieGuy]

All that's left is a child defended by killer ghosts and a horde of tame animals.  Name the kid so you can keep track of him (in case migrants turn up) and see if you can keep the fortress alive.  It'll be a legend in it's own right.

[Wannazzaki]

Migrants just turned up, time for operation Clean The Fuck Up.

[Wannazzaki]

The worst bit about this, is that the child has been branded traitor in the cascade...meaning he is going to get severely hammered as soon as he pisses off one dwarf that bit too much.

[ClkWrkJester]

That you held your ground... as it were... in the face of apparent utter disaster is a testament to you.

I salute you, good sir.

[Wannazzaki]

I have capital status...just waiting for that king to arrive and fix this place...