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[excelsior]

So I had a rather pathetic necromancer ambush hit my fortress (was swarmed by mussel shells).
The two necros were stupid enough to wander into my stone fall traps and died more or less instantly.

I think there is only one necro tower near my fort. Does this mean that I won't have any more undead trouble for the rest of the game?

[Loud Whispers]

Nope. Checking legends mode, it turns out ambushing necroes count as part of an undead siege. They even get their own respective war against your fortress.
If you've gotten and killed two already, it means the precursor of a very friendly neighbourhood war.

[GoombaGeek]

If only they had worked in conjunction with each other they'd be invincible!

(Unless necromancers CAN'T raise other necromancers, who in turn WON'T be able to raise other necromancers? Because that would be no Fun at all!)

[thegoatgod_pan]

Necromancers tend to pile up over the years, those two being the only ones is highly unlikely if your world gen was longer than ten years.

[Loud Whispers]

If only they had worked in conjunction with each other they'd be invincible!

(Unless necromancers CAN'T raise other necromancers, who in turn WON'T be able to raise other necromancers? Because that would be no Fun at all!)

They can raise each other, but the raised body'll only be a regular corpse.

[Replica]

If only they had worked in conjunction with each other they'd be invincible!

(Unless necromancers CAN'T raise other necromancers, who in turn WON'T be able to raise other necromancers? Because that would be no Fun at all!)

Necromancerception

[excelsior]

Huh, so is this line in the wiki a mistake?

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Necromancer#Sieges

The necromancer (or necromancers, if he has an apprentice) himself may or may not arrive with their siege; if they do, and are captured or killed, you can expect to see no more activity from that particular tower

[Loud Whispers]

No that's right. The wiki's talking about the boss necromancer, which'll have an appropriately dashing title to mark its superiority. Get the boss/chief/lord of whatever and his minions, no more sieges.