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[Fallenworldful]

The killzone was going to be modified as a super twisty room of doom, based on the forced detour plan on the wiki.

Unfortunately, that bronze colossus I mentioned earlier savaged my fort. That defense won't be completed anytime soon

EDIT: Retrying, this time with magma on the surface via volcano, and much better positioning.

[kaenneth]

I like how almost everyone's fortress entrance looks like a penis before they notice it.

[Lightningfalcon]

Am I the only person who builds his fort in a flat area, with walls fully encircling it? 
I can't see anything wrong with your design, other then that the ballista operators might refuse to fire.  If you build a long twisty entrance, you can also try to use floodgates to channel them more effectively.  Build them every seven spaces, and when you pull the lever, it is possibly to divide up large armies into tiny little squads. 

[Fallenworldful]

Nope, you're not.

Did that the first few times, but go ambitious.

[Triaxx2]

I have a very successful fort in .31, built on a flat spot, with excellent wall>moat defenses.

Pity I forgot entirely that it was on an island...

I tend not to do that now, due to the difficulty of getting walls up in time. Plus I have to deal with trying to get the Caravans in.

[Broseph Stalin]

It's nice but you may be overthinking it. Ballistas are rarely worth the hassle as all siege operators are required by dwarven law to be gutless wussies. It's pretty easy to fill a large room with cage and weapon traps with a chained kitten as bait then station marksdwarves behind fortifications to soften up the siegers and send your melee soldiers in from an airlock. The airlock is important because it prevents your guys from grabbing drinks or changing up their equipment and slowly trickling in. You can throw some war animals into the mix as well but without armor they won't be taking down an entire siege by themselves. A fully armored squad of trained dwarves supported by marksdwarves and warbeasts is a terrifying sight. If everything goes according to plan I'd wager you'd only lose one or two (probably unskilled) soldiers.

[ClkWrkJester]

Siege weapons are more or less useless unless you put serious work/thought into them, and even then its not worth the trouble.
Also, I always put a goblin grinder in a fort. No matter what's going on, how bad my day is, watching a goblin get mulched into his component parts never ceases to make me laugh.

[dbay]

One minor innovation to add to your entrance hallway that I thought of recently:

Code: [Select]

Top Down:
####^|^####
####^|^####
####^|^####

Side View:
   |.#.|
####/|\####
to surface<--->to fortress
#=floor
^=ramp (top down)
/\=ramps (side view)
|=wall
.=open space

The basic idea is that while it preserves the same mobility and still allows wagons to enter, it now blocks line of sight to the killing pit without adding a detour. This way, gobbo archers in the pit can't shoot your civvies, and civvies running around inside won't cancel jobs due to invaders.