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[Beardless]

Also, which is better:  A weapon trap moat, or a spike moat?

Is this a trick question?

A Magma moat.

With adamantine ☼spikes☼.

Or better yet, weapon traps with crossbows. (Be sure to keep them loaded.)

[Cromage]

A novice armorsmith made an artifact adamantine buckler! Unfortunately he was possessed, but that's still a sweet buckler.

[Kogut]

Also, which is better:  A weapon trap moat, or a spike moat?

Is this a trick question?

A Magma moat.

fire imps? Magmaproof FB?

[Kogut]

Argh, bugged siege. They are standing and doing nothing. (bug 4552)

I'm starting to think that's what they're supposed to do. Seige warfare is about keeping the enemy inside their fortress, deprived of outside supplies or assistance, until everybody starves, goes mad from the isolation, or makes a futile attempt at a counterattack. That's why the best anti-seige weapons can kill the goblins wherever they are on the map.

But even with crossbow civilians attacking them ("futile attempt at a counterattack") siege is standing and getting slowly killed. "deprived of outside supplies or assistance, until everybody starves" is joke in DF. The only problem was lack of wood in my digless fortress, so construction stopped.

[MasterMorality]

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner reference - the reason you play Dwarf Fortress and not another game.

[MasterMorality]

Stuck into the military to replace some fallen soldiers, a late arrival at the fort, Thrun Esprabegu The Fortuitous Mechanism, was an unknown of little skill. She trained like the rest of the recruits and did her job. When three squads of werewolves turned up at the fortress it was assumed she would either live through the battle unremarkably, like the rest of the new blood, or die.
 
A rookie in battle might earn themselves a couple of kills. Get a few scars, stay alive.  Nothing special. So when she was called to defend the fortress she grabbed a steel sabre, put some miscellaneous armour on and went out to her first battle.

She claimed eleven lives. Her wounds? A torn left arm.

Meanwhile my captan died. Heroically, with a title to his name nd some prestige. But in his several years s Low gore, and multiple battles, he racked up nine kills.

This woman is hardcore.  She has been instantly promoted and I will have the stonemasons begin carving a tomb right this instant, as well as assign her some proper specific armour.
Well done, love.

Special mention to my former, now dead Law Beast. You took a hell of a beating. Seriously, that werewolf was pounding on you for two months! You earned five kills with a shield before passing out from exhaustion. If you hadn't run off, alone, to face and entire pack of Goblins and an entire pack of werewolves, you might have lived longer.

[Vercingetorix]

Finally dealt with the five or so liaisons who accumulated in our fort over the past few years because the duchess never bothered to meet with them...there are going to be six simultaneous trade agreements.  I'm not sure what this will mean for the caravan next year.

[shadenight123]

Finally dealt with the five or so liaisons who accumulated in our fort over the past few years because the duchess never bothered to meet with them...there are going to be six simultaneous trade agreements.  I'm not sure what this will mean for the caravan next year.

a six-headed merchant with six-headed beasts and six-headed loads.

Or maybe just a siege.

[Vercingetorix]

a six-headed merchant with six-headed beasts and six-headed loads.

Or maybe just a siege.

Our civilization IS named The Sizzling Merchant and its emblem is a pair of brine haunts, after all.

[Musashi]

4th artifact crown. Fuck you, guys, we don't even have the queen and her court yet.

[Syrup Roast]

Another FB spawned in the first cavern again, prompting me to swear at the screen, again.

And again, it was flightless and had no way to get to my fort because of those Tower Caps. lol, three of them now on my ignore list along with that lazy vomit blob that just doesn't want to do anything.

Are you a forgotten beast from before time? Flightless? No way to path to the fortress? Join the club!

[Samuel]

Unbelievably, my fortress might survive. We had 3 survivors, locked in two different rooms. Two are resting injuries, the other is in prison. The walls and floors are coated with blood and filled with rotting bodies. The culprits are the two forgotten beasts who teamed up to rip my fortress a new asshole.

But migrants just arrived! And if I move swiftly, they might be able to seal off the fortress entrance, trapping the beasts inside! Then, I'll be able to dig out sections of the earth above the fortress, and crush the beasts to death in cave-ins!

Ya, this will work.

[Ancre]

My legendary engraver died, while making fortifications to let the magma enter. Nooo !!!

And I still don't have any decent military. It is composed of one dwarf wearing copper chain leggings who strangle things to death. She's getting quite good at it. It's fun to watch.

[bucket]

Maybe I shouldn't have dug down to the magma sea before I even had my main fortress started. Now I have a ragtag team of fighters defending a pathetic little hole in the ground from troglodytes and giant cave spiders.

[Syrup Roast]

One of my legend carpenters married a hauler and started a party at the statue garden outside. The usual 80+ idle dwarves were immediately reduced to 10. Party animals.

The guy left the party early to get drunk, though. I wonder what that's about.