i love making ideas circulate the forum...still dragons are !FUN! to keep around, especailly if they set the booze on fire when a mobs in there. instant dynamite!
also taming dragons and making them our warrior/slave caste of the fort means that we wont have to fight as much, and cultivating the "flock" will yeild lots of dragon bones (i wonder how much they can cost?), leather (lots of leather!) and other bits fo food....hey anyone tried dragon meat and organs? might make for a mighty meal...wonder if itll overtime make our dwarves immune to fire if we eat dragons constantly?
probably not...but hey we got carp trainning, the danger room, and all we need now is a fire room so as to make our dwarves immune to fire (melt the fat off their flesh...they'll be pale from it, but hey its better then being burned alive in the future!)
also do we have plans for vampires? wouldnt want any pest comming into the fort and eating our flesh-constructs.
and only we could see magma as fuel, trap defense, ect. ect...also do voidspawn have trap avoid? if not then i suggest planting lots of cage traps mixed with stonefall traps. kinda like this : w=wall, S=stone fall and C=cage
WSSSW
WCCCW
WSSSW
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just keep alternating. if they get past the traps we can then unleash the meatshields to buy time (a cage full of Male War Dogs. we keep the strongest and largest war dog male for breeding purposes while the females are also kept nearby. dog explosion!) (dragons we keep inside the fort in choke points where they can unleash their deadly flame).
also have you found a way to keep all the trolls and goblins caged? or contained at least so we wont have to deal with a siege?
and finally any ideas besides surviving? the thing i want this fort to do is reclaim the main fort, clean up the surface with traps randomized everywhere, make the trade depot a killing ground against the elves. and finally make a sqaud of wrestler dwarves in thier own little hole to train for 5 years max...at least untill they get legendary is fighting, wrestling, biting, ect. (the basic fighting skills without weapons) then put them into carp trainning, and next put them in steel armour and unleash them on the voidspawn. (see how many DIE or Mutilate themselves upon the monsters for our own amusement!)
Next we invade hell, and if Deathgate 3 comes out, do we want voidspawn in it? or no? cause if no voidspawn then we go to the nearest goblin citidael or necromancer tower, and proceed to ruin their lives by killing every damn warrior they have. (and if we can do millitary expidetions...al the better! Slaves labor, goods stolen by our enemies, plenty of captives taken back into the fort, and lots of goblins brought up as dwarbven slave labor...can you imagine having our dwarves use whips on goblins for hauling duties? makes me smile a bit when i imagine deathgate dwavr4es whipping demons in hell to get back to work! Kefka chose well to be one of us...)