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Brewster

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Fav. Fortress
« on: June 17, 2013, 08:37:52 pm »
What's your favorite fortress ever and why? Be it yours, found on forums, or one you found on DF Map Archives. Is it from the story that came w/ it? The epic battle? the beautiful layout? cleaver trap design? What was it? What photos do you have of it? SHARE!
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2013, 09:15:24 pm »
HopeBurial was the name of the fort where I learned most of the game. It was founded on a perpetually frozen ocean crawling with giant crabs, ravens and otters. By the end of it's fall I had withstood 2 goblin sieges, 3 civil wars and had enough candy to suit a full squad. (Not that I could get the military to wear it. >.<) At some point I had begun capturing troggs and throwing them into a large labyrinth. (Engraved with hundreds of images of this one time when an elf trader was injured by the giant horseshoe crab "SilentQuick the Disemboweling Blood" and left by his companions to die in the snow.) Trogville had a population of 3 males and 4 females, and I was hoping they'd start breeding enough to make it a suitable place to drop disarmed goblins.

It was so awful that after I fled the fortress, the world was ruined for dwarfkind forever because every other embark ended up getting several emigrants that go berserk and wipe everybody out before the first caravan. I keep trying to recreate it, but I guess it was a one time thing.
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2013, 09:34:32 pm »
Undergrotto.  The architecture is astounding!
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2013, 09:56:22 pm »
Quote from: VerdantSF on June 17, 2013, 09:34:32 pm
Undergrotto.  The architecture is astounding!
So beautiful ... I almost cried.
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2013, 10:21:41 pm »
It's difficult to pick, even though I've only played perhaps 6 or 7 forts since I started playing back in .31.25.  I'd probably have to eventually settle on my community fort Dawnpick, since it was an astounding success completely out of proportion to my expectations and the amount of initial effort I put into it.  I'm hesitant to pick it outright because I had a huge love/hate relationship with it because of player problems and the fact it was fairly boring to actually play (I embarked where there were no goblin equivalents, only thieves).
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 08:08:22 am »
My most obsessive project is by far Silentthunders, but until it's reached mountainous proportions Roadtruss remains my favourite.
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2013, 08:24:29 am »
Boatmurdered. Burning dwarves and elephants sieges. That succession game inured me to try DF.
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2013, 08:56:18 am »
WeatherWires. Never was there a saga of more epic, and tragic, proportions. Dwarves, fled from the surface forever, scorned by their gods, and sufferers of a terrible curse. Truly astounding storytelling from that thread.
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2013, 08:22:14 pm »
These are all great keep them coming!
Undergrotto is amazing, I remember seeing how incredible it was.
Of course Boatmurdered is classic!!
Never seen/heard of WeatherWires, have a link maybe?
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Re: Fav. Fortress
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2013, 05:09:49 pm »
Undergrotto is my favorite, certainly, and has been for some time. Unprecedented in scope and vision, it was the primary inspiration for a string of my own fortresses, each an experiment in excavation, the culmination of which was Weatherwires.

Architecturally speaking, I was attempting a project of similar scope and concept as Undergrotto, but with an aesthetic that was more appealing to my own tastes - while I find Undergrotto amazing, I also find it rather unappealing from a purely visible perspective.

In any case, it's an unprecedented feat of dwarven design, and I'm pleased that my fort was mentioned alongside it in the same thread.
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