I recommend bring something that lays eggs right off the bat, big advantage. I'd like to get some armor for Vlad and just have him train constantly, but that's probably too expensive.
Once Vlad's gained a bit of axe experience (off chopping trees while people mine) can he be switched to a pure axedwarf? I'd rather not fall victim to the 'woodcutters won't wear armor in the militia' thing.
Man, I am going to
enjoy writing Vlad after Emdief. A generally amused, rather dim brute of a character is a big step up from 'I-know-everything-and-also-am-constantly-angry' like I did in the last thread.
Liking this Knights of St. Zane stuff. Not sure if the Faction is coming back as well... while the original died during Steelhold's fall they did manage to send a bunch of manifestos out before the end. If it did come back though I don't think my dwarf would be a part of it, so probably we've seen the last of our glorious revolutionaries.
Journal of Vladimir UristovitchVlad, they say, ve pay you good money if you join fortress. Good fightingk! Good booze! Personalized bedroom! Oceanside real estate! Maybe meet pretty Dwarf lady and settle down, yes? So I take job, yes?.
But the dwarf's in the convoy? Hoity-toity foreign dogs, the lot of them. They look down on Vlad. Especially those toy soldiers with St. Zane's. Just because Vlad gets paid to fight they think he some sort of amateur thug, yes? And they complain about Vlad's smell! Do they see a bath around here? And they never, ever shut up about the righteousness of the cause! Vhy you make so much fuss about one fort, I doubt Vlad'll ever find out about, because Vlad doesn't care, yes? I should have stayed with the company. The pay wasn't great, but I had thrivingk boot business on the side, yes? But it is not all bad. Brenzen is funny dwarf. I just say somethingk and he gets and red and swollen. Maybe he is having the allergies.
Organization is a, how you say, clusterfornicate? At least seven expeditions setting out from different forts, they say. If three get there Vlad vill consider himself lucky, methinks. Hopefully some good ol' boys from back home come too, yes? I get tired of the piss they call beer here real quickly.