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[Splint]

A white tigerman siege came a knocking led by the civ's general, and I'm not sure if they're astoundingly stupid even by DF standards or the ballsiest mother fuckers ever, but they cam in riding boozebelly goats. No matter which it is, I'm counting my blessings as about half way through the siege three of my soldiers decided that the middle of a battle was the perfect time to take a nap and since they couldn't path to their beds, just crashed out in the middle of the battlefield.

Mercifully, the boozebelly mounts are complete cowards, which is probably what saved all their lives, and the only noncowardly mounts in the attack were already dead with their owners and the general, due to a severe case of "crushed head" syndrome. The tigermen however instead died of "Lungs-crushed-with-hammer-or-mace" syndrome. I have also found Tigermen are large enough that helmets make it next to impossible to score a quick kill even with wolfram hammers, so to simply save myself the headache of watching my men waste time on an incapacitated target, I now have to remember to autodump all helmets off of white tigermen. I'd train some swordsmen to deal with such things, but I'm still pants-shittingly terrified of necromancers.

[There Is No Vic]

Human caravan shows up. Dwarves start helping themselves to the cloth and thread on the wagons to fill the hospital as the merchants are moving towards the depot.

[Grimmash]

I'll spoiler some parts of this in case you don't want to know about surprises lurking in MWDF.

So I just started a fort.  My own personal MW fort after a lot of community games.  Such fun was to be mine.  I found a nearly perfect embark.  I had the central stairs started, and I began work on a tunnel to go up into the cliff-side, to prepare for the future bastion and bridge.  I named my only named dwarf after myself, out of the starting seven.

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The I found non-euclidean rock.

I ignored the message, even though I half-noticed it.  Grimmash, my named dwarf, then pops an announcement that he is curled up descending into the Mountains of Madness.  I figure crap, bloodbeast, or something similar.  At the very least he is dead.  Then he wakes up, with a weird message about horrors from the mountains.  Some four Shoggoths spawn.

Some quick thinking and luck later, my bastion tunnel is walled off for now, with no deaths.  I know the mod has ways to deal with this, but so much for laying the interior groundwork of the bastion.  Although I know how to solve this problem, I am thinking of trying to confront it head on.  Anyone actually dealt with this by trying to solve the problem with iron?

[Meph]

If you attack them, your fort will die. No chance.

Build a temple.

[FrisianDude]

Human caravan shows up. Dwarves start helping themselves to the cloth and thread on the wagons to fill the hospital as the merchants are moving towards the depot.

Had that happen too, I just forbade the human gear and we luckily avoided war. In my orc forts so far caravans have been mighty bugged, though I could usually work with it. Only this time There were five caravans at the same time, but only the Ashlanders actually put everything on depot, so when I had what I wanted off them I insulted them () in the hopes I could trade with the gobbos, Frost Giants, Human Bandits or the Chaos Dwarfs, but they took far too long to leave, so I ended up only trading with those Elves and the Dwarfs. I just want to trade with the sweet giants ONCE. 

[jaxy15]

The drows decided to send our glorious orc fort a present during the winter. About 90 ambushers, which is almost like a full blown siege. The only casualty on our side was a bola thrower. Out of our entire 5-orc melee squad, only the 2 swordsorcs didn't get some kind of injury. The other 3 orcs got pretty bad arm injuries. That including our axelord and warchief, but the chief can still use both his arms.

[Meph]

About 90 ambushers, which is almost like a full blown siege.

Drow sieges arrive invisible. It was most likely a siege.

[jaxy15]

About 90 ambushers, which is almost like a full blown siege.

Drow sieges arrive invisible. It was most likely a siege.

Do those have the "An ambush! Curse them!" message and lots of "squads"?

[Meph]

Yep.

[jaxy15]

Oh, good. My first siege after not playing DF for a while and I fought it off with only like 9 orcs.

[jaxy15]

Well, the Drow sent another siege. But this time there weren't just 90 of them, oh no, there were literally hundreds. This time I had more military, but half of those died. The civilians didn't understand how to NOT run outside the burrow. Many orcs died, but eventually we were victorious. The axelord is the new warchief.

EDIT: Nevermind, he died from old age. The remaining swordmaster is the new warchief.

[FrisianDude]

Had some bad luck starting a new fort, so I abandoned that and am doing a new new one. The third migrant to arrive has a pet warpstone landmine. Riiiight, that'll be a hoot.  And I think the starters from the first attempt in this world went here as migrants, but am not entirely sure. Though three miners as I had then, each knowing the other as friend is a bit much of a coincidence. And I think I recognize a name.


First migrant this fortress had, probably from the previous one, Berim, got stunned for no reason in a mine. She was taken to hospital. Got out of rest to dig, still stunned, and has now been starving and dehydrating! I just channeled floor from under her; now she's slightly wounded, starving, dehydrated and stunned. Set to 'drink' but DYING. Either bugged or someone is a sadist.  According to combat log she's regained conciousness about a thousand times

[Arcvasti]

My kobold fort just died to one drow lasher.

         

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I stole from drow and it triggered a siege. I put my bola-throwers on the roof and let them fire down on them. Most of the drow walked away, but one of them just stayed there and got hit. I'd already locked the fort down, so I left the thing as it was and went to go get a drink. When I came back, the bola-throwers had unloaded 100-200 mithral, wolfram, and bloodsteel bolas into that one guy. He had one injury: A cut cheek. I decided that I should let my militia face him head on. My militia consisted of 5 earth-caste kobolds with hexed orichalcum longswords and mostly masterwork lamellar armor. They all had decent skill levels on armor user, shield user, weapon user and dodger. Since I wanted to be cautious, I had them wait behind my trap corridor:  It was 10 tiles long. 7 of the tiles were weapon traps with 10 bloodsteel and mithral fully upgraded trap components. In front were 3 cage traps to capture approaching megabeast. I opened the drawbridge and four drow came in. One of them was the one with the cut cheek. The non-injured ones went straight to the cage traps and got dealt with that way. I stationed my militia behind the weapon traps. Then the cut chek one walked through my trap hallway unscathed except for a severed hand. That hand was his shield hand. He lost it on the 2nd of 7 traps. He endured upwards of 70 attacks from bloodsteel and mithral weapons mounted on high-quality mechanisms with no shield. He just dodged them all like he dodged the bolas earlier. Then he met my militia. At first it went well: One of my militia men cut through his bloodsteel plate with his superior weapon, severing an artery in his chest. About two pages followed of both sides  dodging parrying and blocking every shot. Then the tide turned. The drow bisected a kobold with his flail. He then disabled and killed the rest of them in 2-3 shots each. I sent in my 2-bold strong druid force. They transformed into bears and spent about a page of reports bowling the drow around. Then he one-shotted one of them through he steel-grade aura. He made short work of the other druid bear. He got through the hatch to the fort proper before I could pull the lever to lock it. I couldn't close the door to the dining room/bunker because a fisher gremlin was in the way. He went into my dining room stuffed with 90+ civilian bolds. He killed them all in less then an ingame month.

TLDR: Drow are BADASS

[razorback]

Aren't longswords way too large for kobolds, even 2handed?

[Niveras]

Just got not one, but two guardians of armok from a relic. Haven't even passed a year yet. Guess I should be fine on military/megabeasts/invaders for the time being, as long as I keep dwarves behind them.

Though they'll probably get dead from the first goblin bow ambush.