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[GannonDork]

Share how your first fortress was destroyed.

Here is Mine:
I had a wealth of about 19k wealth and a 14 man army with a small corridor of traps and drawbridge.
A tribe of 10 Goblins raided my fortress about 2 years into the game. They were lead by a goblin hammerer with about 1 or 2 archers.
I sealed of the entrance immediately and left my livestock who were to slow to get in out to die.
Once I counted off the goblins I decided to open up and let them in so my 14-Man army could get some valuable XP.
About 9 dead goblins and 5 dead dwarves later, It was just there leader and my remaining scrubs left.
That one goblin defeated my entire military.

After that I quit the fortress because my embark sucked and I wanted to get a new one started.

[Pencil_Art]

Didn't know you could farm on sand. Abandoned because of food and drink shortage.

[GannonDork]

Didn't know you could farm on sand. Abandoned because of food and drink shortage.

Wait...
You Can?

[maxcat61]

I think that this is where this thread should be:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=11.0

That said, my first fort died to crundles after I accidentally dug into the caverns.

[tonnot98]

My first fortress was for the museum game, it was horribly inefficient, under manned, and had no iron or flux to work with. I ended up just saying fuck it and unleashed the clowns.

[vjmdhzgr]

My first fortress at least that I remember, had probably the best location for a fortress I've ever had. There was lignite, magnetite, and flux stone everywhere, but I had no idea how to play the game back then. As a result I had pretty much no defenses and my fortress was pretty much just a hallway. In the end it was defeated by a necromancer attack that managed to jump into my fortress through the small outdoor farm i had been trying to roof over, but hadn't completed yet and didn't have any doors blocking it from the rest of the fortress.

[Pencil_Art]

Didn't know you could farm on sand. Abandoned because of food and drink shortage.

Wait...
You Can?

Yes.

[SkaiaMechanic]

My first fortress? Followed a tutorial, my only security was plenty of doors. Too bad I didn't know about Hatch Covers, since my fort went straight down.
My first goblin ambush killed all my dwarves, since I didn't know how to equip or train soldiers. Of course, kobolds were stealing artifacts and mastetworks by the dozen before that. I just had my  dwarves try to punch them.

[IndigoFenix]

Originally took an interest in the game because of the possibility of 'digging too deep'.

The first thing I did, upon figuring out how the interface worked, was heading straight for the Circus.

That was quick.

[Meph]

Originally took an interest in the game because of the possibility of 'digging too deep'.

The first thing I did, upon figuring out how the interface worked, was heading straight for the Circus.

That was quick.

We think alike. First fortress fell to the HFS.

Second fortress because I didnt knew that wells existed.

[than402]

Mine fell to goblins. I had no idea how military work, how to set traps, how to use drawbridges and I was far too busy with preventing a starvation to have time to build an infantry.

[Arx]

I trust I am not the only one who lost their first fort to not understanding stairs properly.

...actually, that may have been my second fort. I don't think my first ever fort actually ever fell. I stopped playing it out of boredom and because it was very sub-optimally laid out.

[than402]

Stairs take some time getting used to, you're definitely not the only one

[darokindefender]

My first fortress still exists.  It's in 40d, and I haven't played it in several years, but I still have the save.  IIRC, I ran it from 2008-2011 before I stopped playing it.

[than402]

omg, for how many years does it exist in-game?