Woooooot I love Goblins. They just ambushed a human caravan, tore the poor merchants a couple dozen new ones.
Then they were content to just sit on their assess outside my wall, presumably waiting till someone invited them in.
I wouldn't have this. I'd tried waiting out goblin sieges before and let me tell you it is the most boring goddamn thing a man can do. So! Instead, I decided to, for all intents and purposes, open up a tunnel under my wall so my dwarves could crawl out and beat the shit out of the goblins.
The area I opened up from used to be a murky pool. I built a ramp from the bottom level up to the surrounding rim, so my dwarves emerged on a narrow walkway surrounding an open pit which went 1 Z down.
The dumbass miner who dug the ramp decided it would be
fun to go grab some of the remnants of the crap the caravan left behind. As did a nearby carpenter who was probably running dumping duty on the shit from my swordsman prisoners; they were part of a small squad of swordsman who spawned on the opposite side of the map from the main force, which murdered themselves partially on my weapon traps and mainly on my squad of 4 elite marksdwarves. I'd like to mention at this point that, with my fort of 125 dwarves, I have 8 military personnel on defense duty (that is to say, excluding the guard, which I do not equip to fight actual enemies).
The axedwarves of my new main army began pouring up the ramp. First on the scene for the goblins was a macelord, followed shortly by his squad of Goblin Hammer men. Since things were so close quarters, it was impossible to tell who was really doing what to whom... but the gist was that my military commander went out and beat the shit out of some random hammerman, whilst two of my other axedwarves went and dueled with the Macelord and the now-present Axe lord, who had lead a squad of Crossbow goblins.
Early on in the fighting, my least experienced axedwarf was shot in the chest, though fortunately with a silver arrow which only bruised his lung. I thought this might spell ill for him, but immediately after getting shot he smashed a Goblin Hammerman's head in with one fell blow.
Now originally, I set it up so that my axedwarves were waiting right at the site of the opening ramp, and my marksdwarves were a short distance away, prepared for the worst. Since things began going my way, I moved them into the empty pit itself, where they turned the tide of the duels with the goblin Mace and Axe lords. The immense pain caused by their masterwork bolts caused the axedwarves that were fighting the lords to slice them into very brief pieces.
Since this is beginning to get long-winded, here's a picture to summarize the aftermath:
-Redacted due to idiocy and laziness :3-
Watching so many goblins flee at once is just the most awesome sight I can contemplate.
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