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[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Cheesemakers, vamps, weredwarves, random creatures etc. Also turn walls nearby into fortifications and put marksdorf barracks behind them. Remove cheesemakers when sufficiently skilled in combat.

[slothen]

well, there's lots of ways to be creative.  I've always liked finishing off wounded guys with animals or as training for novice marksdwarfs.  The great thing being if a elite bowgoblin falls down 9 levels, he may not be dead but there's a good chance he'll be incapacitated, so won't be a threat.

And you can go cheap with a ton of wooden spikes.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Too bad that water pumping doesn't work quickly enough to let you drain something so fast that creatures inside it fall several Z-levels.
...
Wait, could that be possible? ˇˇscienceˇˇ is required.

[krenshala]

Spikes at the bottom and a necromancer with a view of the spike bed to revive anything that dies in order to kill anything that lived?

And you can still have your recruit marksdwarves target practice with wood/bone bolts to add to the fun.

[BoredVirulence]

Maybe we can use a werewolf to activate a timing mechanism so that we switch between killing mechanisms every month?
The states so far...

• Spike trap
• Undead
• Minecart loop
• Aquatic monsters
• ...

We can totally engineer this!

[Saiko Kila]

I make every spike trap deadlier by linking it up to a minecart repeater. But that will kill the necromancer. Or make him a ninja.

Problem with mechanised spikes is it can take months to set up, especially if your dwarves are cave adapted (assuming this is open to the sky). Heavy floors are a bit less deadly, but can be done in a few days.

[Dunamisdeos]

Alright, so we have a 9z pit, lead lined at the bottom? I don't see any reason why we can't fill it with mechanized spikes AND fill it with aquatic creatures.

Frankly, a necromancer would only make undead swimming zombies. That is to say, a necromancer would only make it better. For the minecart loop, have it around the lip of the death pool to knock about anyone trying to climb out.

[Broseph Stalin]

Horses. Buy as many horses as you can and put them in the moat so they trample anything that falls in. Horse Moat.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Alright, so we have a 9z pit, lead lined at the bottom? I don't see any reason why we can't fill it with mechanized spikes AND fill it with aquatic creatures.

Frankly, a necromancer would only make undead swimming zombies. That is to say, a necromancer would only make it better. For the minecart loop, have it around the lip of the death pool to knock about anyone trying to climb out.

Excellent. That would also solve the problem of undead climbing out of the moat.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

What about 10x low quality spiked wooden balls to force the occupants to dodge eternally?

[Aslandus]

Fill it with cats. The one true dwarven solution to both overpopulation of cats and invaders. Bonus points if the invaders jump in to attack the cats...

[Cyroth]

Badgers, preferably of the giant kind.
I just find the idea of throwing someone into a moat filled with anger, claws, fur, anger, hate and blood (also anger) way too hilarious.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Badgers, preferably of the giant kind.
I just find the idea of throwing someone into a moat filled with anger, claws, fur, anger, hate and blood (also anger) way too hilarious.

I hope this displays.

++EDIT++
It didn't. It was from Futurama Anthology of interest 1 where there are the maneating anteaters.

[Sefarian]

...Why not carp? Angry zombie carp?

[Atomicdoom]

Giant moat-swamp of death + Castle = Dorf Moat Cailin

Let all your enemies tremble as they are transformed into an arrow porcupine while they wade through your giant water/mud/rat corpse/miasma curtain