Just made my first ever successful cavern fortress. This is my first time playing in around a year, and back then I always played it very safe. I hunkered down behind my walls and built beautiful things, but it got pretty boring eventually.
This isn't boring. I've already had to desperately fight off several forgotten beasts, one of whom gave my whole army a disease that gave them a fever and boils before suffocating them to death (3 survivors), and another one that lit the entire cavern on fire and forced us to cower in the stone mines until my suicidal military could kill him (at least one survivor, the guy who got the kill- he died later of thirst or something because all the thread burnt up). Just when we got the fire under control, a goblin ambush showed up and massacred my hastily reformed army, forcing me to zerg rush them with the militia for a very narrow win. And now, just when things are getting back to normal, another firebreathing megabeast is swimming dangerously close to our shores and a siege just showed up. I am not expecting good things.
We've got no weapon grade metal of any sort, just loads of gold and aluminum and nothing else. My whole army is wearing goblin armor, and I have no idea how we got it since we must have literally pried it away barehanded. Not a single member of the original or even second army iteration is still alive, and I have a feeling the new one isn't long for this world. Forward the light brigade!
I guess my point is that living on the edge just feels right.
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