Sup guys, long time lurker, first time poster, I got several ideas for the fort from here and thought I would share my experience.
I wanted to do the drunken masters thing, with all the unarmed combat skills, but read that archers would be a problem, so I with went misc. object user instead of wrestling. Embarked with 6 prof. teacher/prof. fighting skill, and a leatherworker/trader. Sold my anvil and bought tons of leather to armor them. I gave my masters names to reflect their starting skills (ex: Master, Way of the Badger for biting) and set them for year-round training. I set my migrants to mining, found tetrahedrite and had an anvil that fall. Things played out pretty well after that, I decided to go with a ~15z drop bridge for sieges (and elf traders), but mostly left the front gate open to train my military on scattered ambushes and snatchers.
The first strange thing I noticed about Bustballs was that the humans didn't show up my second year. I checked the civ screen, they weren't there, and I had a goblin drunk queen. I checked legends and saw that they consistently had goblin nobility for the past ~800 years and most of the art they produced was about dwarves getting maimed and killed by goblins. I vowed then that I would become the Mountain Home and arrange an "unfortunate accident" in the hopes a proper dwarf could take up the mantle. I fought through sieges, forgotten beasts (got lucky on these, only 1 that wasn't made of mud or something stupid), trog rushes, a duke with unreasonable demands (which I refuse to kill, him being the only living dwarven noble) and finally, six years after first striking the earth, the day came when I had only to make an offering to be graced with our Green Highness' presence. I decided to send the best gift I could think of, ~10k urists of the finest goblin bone crafts, harvested from my pit trap, including several figurines of my dwarves killing goblins, goblins slamming objects, and a historical dwarf killing a goblin, the first time I had seen any historical depiction of a dwarf having the upper hand. I knew I was ready.
That Winter was the largest siege yet, and I claimed the life of the goblin Law-Giver. When spring came around I fed more elves to the pit. As Summer began, the Queen appeared. I showed her to her quarters at the top of the 25z tower. I'm sure she was disappointed that it was just a 1x1 room, even though the grate on the floor provided a wonderful view of the open side of my pump stack. My duke then pulled the lever that was installed in his statue garden, sending her from the top of the world, to the magma sea. No matter what kind of !!FUN!! comes (or is unearthed), Bustballs the Savage Abbey of Justice has been a success.
In retrospect I should have brought some copper ore and an anvil, I was forced to use leather shields which suck, like, beating on an incapacitated yak for several months solid before giving up in disgust, suck. But the shield-fu worked pretty well, and it was neat to watch my dwarves charge a line of bow goblins, the first line of dwarves dodging and blocking arrows, and the next leaping ahead to continue the charge. But, I think next time I'd skip misc. object user, they hardly ever demonstrate it and it raises well enough from combat, and probably go with armor user. And anything bigger than a goblin will require metal shields, mighty dwarves, and a LOT of patience or luck.
Also, I still have no idea what happened to the humans, I double checked and they do have a civ there which is friendly, but I haven't seen them. My first two sieges came in the Summer, so maybe they absorbed the human civ? I don't know. But this was the first fort I used a real military for the most part instead of walls of traps. One siege slipped through a hole I forgot to close when I was digging a well, and I lost some recruits and scarred up my masters, I finally feel like I'm no longer a newb hiding behind an unbeatable defense.